Amazon.com is, of course, a behemoth. Accounting for half of all e-commerce transactions last year, Amazon is a major creator of shipping packaging – and waste of those shipping packages – after delivery! Last year, Amazon switched from a lot of cardboard boxes to a lot of plastic mailers. It’s been good for Amazon, but […]

What started as videos on VCR’s moved to DVD’s, then online, then sex tapes, revenge porn and now the latest – forget airbrushing and photoshopping – artificial intelligence allows very real-looking fake videos to be created. And, the creators are targeting women and humiliating them by making them appear to be in porn videos when […]

The Earth’s crust is missing big chunks. This can be seen in the Grand Canyon, and elsewhere, where layers of ancient rock are exposed. There seems to be a layer or layers missing. About one-fifth of the Earth’s crust seems to have vanished! There are various theories for this but a coalescing of theories is […]

It may sound odd at first blush, but there appears to be a strong association between dental health – specifically gum and teeth disease – and other serious illnesses, like heart attacks and Alzheimer’s. How these interact is still somewhat of a mystery but there are theories and there is evidence that caring for our […]

When we are at the supermarket, a cafeteria, a cafe, in a restaurant, or any other place where we eat or get food to eat later, we make choices about that food. Traditionally, we have counted calories, looked at fat and sugar content, whether there is a lot of salt, and so forth. What we […]

If you want to search for your relatives via DNA databases, you have options. There are match possibilities available online, through free, open-source databases, and paying services. Private people can search, but what if the FBI was using these databases to search for criminals? What if you paid a company to do your DNA test […]

Facebook did an ad campaign recently, where they reminded us of the early days of the Internet, before bots, trolls, angry flamethrowers, etc. and now we know the online experience can be very rough. Bullying, doxxing, and Putin showed how bad it can get! Well, a new study shows that when people gave up Facebook […]

When I was born, America’s diet was heavy with meat and potatoes. Three meals a day was the thing and now that has changed dramatically. Grazing is the thing but the issue is WHAT is being eaten when the grazing happens? And, how much are we eating, as opposed to decades ago? America’s changing diet, […]

There is a cartoon character who has amazing healing and regenerative powers. Well, it turns out there is a fish like that, too! in reality! It’s a salamander and a big scientific breakthrough just happened with it that may help us, one day, with OUR healing and regenerative powers! This is our topic today, when […]

Medical science has known for a long time that lack of sleep is bad for our health. There are many manifestations of this but now a new study shows yet another bad side effect of sleep deprivation- sensitivity to pain increases quickly and dramatically. Today, when we go Beyond The Norm, getting a regular good […]