A University of St. Andrews-led research team has proposed that the red wavelengths of flickering light emitted by early human ancestors’ campfires helped reprogram the human brain to boost social and verbal communication, leading to modern language and storytelling behaviors found only in humans. The team, which included researchers from Dartmouth College, said the study…
While many are undergoing a mass awakening of class politics, opposition to the coercive control of statism must remain the central focus of any successful revolution. In recent days conversations about working class struggles and the state of the economy, particularly in regard to the affordability crisis, have been occurring with increasing regularity. This has…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM An impressive $14.7 million from the city. $1.3 billion in economic investment returned. $1.4 billion in energy savings. 11,000 jobs created. Those are the results of the Philadelphia Energy Campaign’s first decade, according to a 10-year economic impact report released last month. The financing model that made this possible…
The only thing more explosive than a Looney Tunes movie, is when the cast plays Choose Your Squad. The stars of Coyote vs. Acme, Will Forte, John Cena, and Lana Condor, joined Mashable Executive Producer, Mark Stetson to compete in a game of ultimate Looney Tunes domination. Mimicking the plot of the film, the three…
Donna Quesada: That’s a beautiful story. Something I have notice in researching you and your work… You’ve had such a beautiful career and that is because you want to heal people. And you understand that healing involves not just the body, but the body, mind and the spirit, and especially, they heart. Bernie Siegle M.D: What…
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The MAHA movement ought to celebrate that the harms associated with fluoride are finally being debated, but it should not turn a blind eye to the EPA’s efforts to sidestep the 2024 federal ruling that ordered the agency to take regulatory action. On Thursday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans for an “accelerated review” of…
BRICS — a significant economic bloc of emerging nations comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — is fast shifting its reliance on the US Dollar to gold through the accumulation of the precious metal. Although officially BRICS nations hold around 20% of the global gold reserves, they, along with their strategically allied states…
Story at-a-glance Early smartphone ownership at age 12 is linked to higher risks of depression, obesity, and insufficient sleep, placing your child on a riskier long-term developmental path Each year earlier a child receives a smartphone increases the odds of obesity and insufficient sleep, showing just how much the timing of that first phone shapes…
Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, said that West Jerusalem needs to be prepared to resume attacks on Iran. This announcement comes as media reports claiming that the head of US Central Command, Brad Cooper, has briefed US President Donald Trump on a plan for the potential renewal of military action against Iran in a bid to…
