Home  »  Headline News

On:

Chimps can read each other’s minds, but in order for US to do it, we may need a machine. They’re building one for Stephen Hawking, the UK quantum physicist who has ELS.

In the April 3rd edition of the New York Times, David Ewing Duncan writes: "Called the iBrain, this simple-looking contraption is part of an experiment that aims to allow Dr. Hawking–long paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease–to communicate by merely thinking." It looks like a black headband attached to a tiny, lightweight box.
read more

On:

Monsanto’s Bt and Roundup insecticides are not only killing weeds– new findings show that they are also killing human kidney cells, even in low doses.

Roundup, designed to be used on GM crops, is also linked to infertility, killing testicular cells in rats within 1 to 48 hours of exposure. Roundup is also decreasing the population of monarch butterflies in North America by killing the milkweed plants that the butterflies rely on for food.

On the Nation of Change website, Anthony Gucciardi reports that "The evidence that Monsanto’s biopesticide and Roundup alike are disrupting both nature and human safety is clear, yet little is being done about it."
read more

On:

We told you where white folks come from–now we’re going to explain why some white people have blue eyes. People with blue eyes all have a genetic mutation that reduces that amount of melanin (color) in the eye, meaning they have a single, common ancestor. This mutation occurred between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago.

In LiveScience.com, Jeanna Bryner quotes geneticist Hans Eiberg as saying, "Originally, we all had brown eyes. A genetic mutation affecting (this) gene in our chromosomes resulted in the creation of a ‘switch,’ which literally ‘turned off’ the ability to produce brown eyes."

But the gene has not been COMPLETEY switched off, or else we would all be albinos. read more

On:

March was an example of what some people call "weather weirding"–searing hot weather one week, then cold weather the next. This was a predicted result of climate change.

In the March 29th edition of the New York Times, Justin Gillis and Joanna M. Foster write: "Lurching from one weather extreme to another seems to have become routine across the Northern Hemisphere. Parts of the United States may be shivering now, but Scotland is setting heat records. Across Europe, people died by the hundreds during a severe cold wave in the first half of February, but a week later revelers in Paris were strolling down the Champs-Élysées in their shirt-sleeves." read more