Science

Make Your Blog Carbon Neutral for FREE

My blog is Carbon Neutral and it was easy and free. It doesn’t get much better than this. Is your blog CO2 neutral? Follow the easy steps outlined in my post at A Green Eyed View and you can make your blog's carbon footprint neutral.

  • Planted: 8th Jul
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High Fructose Corn Syrup will kill you

High fructose corn syrup is in everything these days. When I was at the grocery looking for applesauce, I picked up the one labeled Original and it contained HFCS. To me there is nothing "original" about HFCS.

A recent study from researchers at Princeton illustrated just how bad HFCS is.

HFCS causes obesity, promotes fat gain around the mid-section and increases triglycerides in the blood.

Am I right to be outraged that foods label "original" contain such a dangerous additive or is HFCS not really all that bad?

  • Planted: 23rd Mar
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Night Owls vs. Early Birds: Who Will Win? Morning or Night People?

A friend of mine and I were talking today.  She was telling me about how her mother thinks she should be getting up at 8 am.  Many people would consider this normal.  Society would probably agree.  Others, might even think 8 am is too late.  From my friend’s perspective, however, this was just way too early to be waking up in the morning.

  • Planted: 16th Mar
  • Buzzed: 6 times in 1 year 46 weeks
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Why I Am Not Enthralled With "Organic"

Do you know where your food comes from?  Do you know how the food you eat is farmed, housed, treated, shipped?  I am talking about more than just the meat on your plate.  I am also talking about the fruits, the vegetables, the grains.

Here are a few links to get you involved with your own most basic needs, one of which is the need to eat, the need to feed your family.

  • Planted: 4th May
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What motivates people to work hard and make a difference?

Forget everything you know about how to motivate people - whether at work, at school, at home. According to Daniel H. Pink, the author of the New York Time's bestselling book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, we've got it all wrong.  

  • Planted: 7th Mar
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"The Vaccination Wars"

Being a critical medical researcher, I give advice to my friends, particularly my friends who are also parents, about vaccination.  I do not do so in a forceful manner, I just ask people to bear in mind what they are putting into their bodies, considering the toxic "non-medicinal ingredients" such as glycine and aluminum hydrochloride, that comprise a good deal of new vaccines.  I became quite passionate about arguing against vaccination during the H1N1 panic, and as new vaccines are being released en masse now - for example the "TwinRix" vaccine recommended for anyone traveling s

  • Planted: 10th Jun
  • Buzzed: 3 times in 1 year 34 weeks

The Apocalypse Draws Nigh

Temperatures on earth have been rising and falling over billions of years, and evidence that man's pre-dominantly responsible is far from conclusive (particularly since our existence only counts for a tiny fraction of the evolutionary timeline). However, the danger of exhausting current energy supply is beyond dispute, and more likely to affect us sooner than the need to seek inspiration from a certain biblical shipwright.

  • Planted: 18th Feb
  • Buzzed: 3 times in 1 year 50 weeks

What is it's Purpose?

 Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac, the mere mention of these names send most people checking their medicine cabinets for calmine lotion....is there a reason this weed exists?  

  • Planted: 21st Sep
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 19 weeks

In the Small, Small Pond

I discovered some mosquito larva in a couple of centimeters of water sitting in a RubberMaid tote in our back yard and ask the question - should they stay or should they go? On the one hand, this is a great chance to observe an insect lifecycle in action. On the other ... they're mosquitoes.

  • Planted: 21st Sep
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 19 weeks

Peak Oil or Peak Water; which deserves more attention?

When it comes to global worries about Peak anything, Water is of the greatest concern to human survival. Peak Oil doesn't even come close; but it sure gets alot more media attention.

  • Planted: 20th Aug
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 24 weeks

We're Not Getting Younger!

In a report put out by the Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, “Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging”, the authors have indicated ways to reduce exposure to some of the toxicants in our every day lives.

  • Planted: 22nd Jul
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Are Aliens Running The Planet?

Is the purpose of Communism just to kill all of the people that can see the alien presence? I figure that this is why disclosure is not forthcoming. The aliens have experienced plenty of human ‘acceptance’ throughout history. That is why real history is hidden and vaulted away in places like the Vatican. Are bluebloods aliens? Are they Khazars or Ashkenazi? Is the Zionist conspiracy to cover up their extraterrestrial origins? Were the Bolsheviks murdering alien whistleblowers?

  • Planted: 9th Mar
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 47 weeks

The 'Picture Painting' Gene

The 'Picture Painting' Gene


Artwork: Claude Monet, Bathing at La Grenouillère (left), Chuck Close, Self Portrait (right)

  • Planted: 7th Feb
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 51 weeks

Do you believe in miracles?

Have you experienced a miracle – large or small?  Have you seen an angel? Have you had a near-death experience?

If you experienced one of these events, would you share it with others? Why or why not?

What's your explanation for these events? Scientific reason, hallucinations, or do you believe they are real and religious in nature?

  • Planted: 8th Aug
  • Buzzed: 1 time in 25 weeks 5 days

This is Your Brain on Drugs

"I can stop whenever I want, I'm just doing it for fun..for now," "I don't have a problem," "Try it, it's not going to hurt you.

  • Planted: 26th Mar
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Cuddly Cat Logo design

Cats are one of the most adorable animals that most people in the world love to keep as pets. Cats can be trained with ease due to their unusual ability of understanding & learning. They are one of the most loyal animals. Without any doubt, cats are wining the hearts of people from the day civilization.....

  • Planted: 24th Mar
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Guest Blogging Opportunities

I am opening up the U.S. Common Sense blog to Guest Bloggers.  If you have a political issue that you wish to address, please feel free to accept the Guest Blogging offer below.

Note the following requirements:

- No swearing
- No slander
- Article needs to be politically-based
- Article needs to be at least 250 words long
- Article needs to contain the name and link of your site at the end of the article

  • Planted: 31st Jan
  • Buzzed: 1 time in 1 year 4 days
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Could You Go One Week Without Soap?

The debate rages on, in our hyper-clean society, is all that chemical-laden soap really necessary? Do you use soap daily? Do you bathe daily? What are your thoughts on the controversial issues of SOAP?

I took a challenge and used no soap for one week. The blog post reveals the results of the no soap experiment, and invites you to join (best soap-free stories win a prize!)

  • Planted: 20th Jan
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Weight Loss Green

There may be more to losing weight than just what we eat and how much we move. In fact, many of the chemicals surrounding our food and how it's packaged can interfere with our hormones and endocrine functions, causing weight gain. In order to lose weight, a greener approach to our food and environment may be needed to really get our bodies on track and functioning properly. Read more in the post!

  • Planted: 1st Jan
  • Buzzed: 1 time in 1 year 4 weeks

How To Create A Unit Study

How To Create A Unit Study is about how to study a subject in detail using several modalities.  The same subject can be viewed from several angels.  

It shows you how to take a subject and look at it from different perspectives such as science, history, geography, poetry, music, art, religion, technology, etc.

  • Planted: 27th Oct
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Follow Ten ways to Keep Our Planet Green

The most hpertension ever falling buzz is that the effects of Global Warming we are facing now.It's not about how global warming occur because we know tat we are responsible for it..!! The only debate among the wrld countries is that How to Stop it or reduce its effect over Oue Green Environment..!!

  • Planted: 4th Oct
  • Buzzed: 1 time in 1 year 17 weeks

Tales fron Here and There

Ayahuasca: Believers call the Amazonian plant a sacrament; the state calls it illegal Comments (8)

Posted by René Volpi
 

  • Planted: 6th Jul
  • Buzzed: 1 time in 1 year 30 weeks

Have a cup of Joe

My memories have smells- the differentiated effusions of coffee. As a child it was the smell of all things right with the world.  Apparently, researchers have found that it is also the smell of all things healthy with the world.

  • Planted: 3rd Jul
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If iPods were Books

I'm almost attached to my iPod!...almost.Every other teen or young ault is. It's like once it's in the ear they're automatically in a trance and the music brings them places that can only be dreamed of or imagined... Have you seen them? these kids...on the train, on the bus, crossing the STREET?? They're attached! fixated. Then it leads to me wondering...what if these iPods, the same gadgets that people spend tonnes on, the same gadget that you actually have to BUY music for aka iTunes, the same gadget that we are all so hooked on, what if - just what if they were books?? Read on...

  • Planted: 6th Jun
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