The Nocebo Effect: Fake News Is Contagious
A new study at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, has found that daily exposure to bad news about disease, viruses or pathologies can lead a person to perceive or…
A new study at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, has found that daily exposure to bad news about disease, viruses or pathologies can lead a person to perceive or…
Nicole Dron was a French woman who had a profound near-death experience in 1968 when she was twenty-six years old. It took ten years before she spoke out in 1978, at the risk of being mocked and derided. As time went by, she managed to overcome her apprehension and told her story on television, radio, and at conferences that she organised.
“There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it.…
After petrol, it's the world's most traded good. And it's a drug. Can you guess what it is?
Researchers from the University of Buffalo have made an important discovery which puts the ever-growing convergence between science and information passed on to us over millennia back into the limelight. According to the studies conducted, sound vibrations are of primary importance to proteins, allowing them to more rapidly bind to other proteins. (more…)
Josè Mujica. His imprisonment, the importance of self-development, the legalization of marijuana, his relationship with the Church and with the U.S.A. (more…)
People, not production chains. Farms, not factories. From the ice expanses of northern Sweden to the depths of the Amazon rainforest, the following stories speak of men, women and families who supply 70% of the world’s food. They challenge the myth that we need industrial agriculture to feed an increasing population…
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The curious story of Li Ching-Yun: the man who lived to be 256 years old.
According to what is reported in the necrologies of the issues of New York Times and Time Magazine dating May the 6th 1933, mr. Li Ching-Yun died after raising 180 descendents and burying 23 wives at the incredible age of 256. (more…)