There is a superhighway between the brain and GI system that holds great sway over humans. A primal connection exists between our brain and our gut. We often talk about a “gut feeling” when we meet someone for the first … Continue reading Gut Feelings–the “Second Brain” in Our Gastrointestinal Systems
Missing an hour of sleep turns a sixth grader’s brain into that of a fourth grader. The performance gap caused by an hour’s difference in sleep was bigger than the gap between a normal fourth-grader and a normal sixth-grader. Which … Continue reading This Common Activity Is Reducing Your IQ, According to Research
The big players in the GMO and agrochemical industry – Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, Syngenta, DuPont – are engaging in an extensive public relations, advertising, lobbying and political campaigning to make sure that genetically engineered crops (GMOs), and the chemical pesticides they … Continue reading Do You Trust Snopes? You Won’t After Reading This (long-form investigation)
James Barry started out life as Margaret Ann Bulkley, born to a very poor family in Ireland in the 1789. When Barry was a child it is believed she was raped by an uncle and gave birth to a child. … Continue reading Margaret Ann Bulkley Posed as a Man for 56 Years and Served as an Army Surgeon
Eighteen years after it was published, “Dark Alliance,” the San Jose Mercury News’s bombshell investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua’s Contra rebels, and African American neighborhoods in California, remains one of the most explosive and controversial exposés in American … Continue reading How The CIA Watched Over The Destruction Of Gary Webb
After surviving all three disasters, Violet Jessop would become known as “Miss Unsinkable.” From the moment Violet Jessop was born, it was clear that she was a survivor. Of her parents nine children, only six of them survived infancy, Violet … Continue reading This Woman Survived The Sinking Of The Titanic — And Its Two Sister Ships
Police had stopped the investigation of Nicole van den Hurk’s murder, so her stepbrother falsely confessed in order to get her body reexamined for DNA testing. After Nicole van den Hurk’s 1995 murder case went largely ignored for more than … Continue reading Nicole van den Hurk’s Murder Case Went Cold – So Her Stepbrother Falsely Confessed
