#health


# space    

what space exploration can do for medicine

Want a longer, healthier, more exciting life with many quality years in your old age? Support space exploration.
what space exploration can do for medicine

# science    

why you should keep your head where it is

Of all the things you could get transplanted, your head should not make the list. The risks are far too great and better methods are on the horizon.
why you should keep your head where it is

# tech    

why health insurance and big data are a good fit

The American healthcare system today is a mess of paperwork and confusion. More data and smarter, fact-based decision making could improve its highly mixed outcomes.
why health insurance and big data are a good fit

# science    

wait, you get your science news from where?

A longform article on GMOs in Elle demonstrates why you really shouldn't be getting your scientific advice from fashion magazines.
wait, you get your science news from where?

# science    

why chemophobia is not the future of food

A lot of food sold as natural and wholesome is really just expensive and its sustainability is highly dubious. And its popularity is quickly becoming highly politicized.
why chemophobia is not the future of food

# science    

why trying to sweat out your toxins is a bad idea

If you're exercising in searing heat and soaking humidity, that weird feeling isn't toxins leaving your body, it's the beginning of a heat stroke.
why trying to sweat out your toxins is a bad idea

# health    

why are there no resurrections in the modern world? it's the eggheads' fault!

Pat Robertson perfectly demonstrates the bad arguments faith healers use to trick people into believing they can be cured with a miracle.
why are there no resurrections in the modern world? it's the eggheads' fault!

# oddities    

how to blame big pharma for mass murder

Alt med ghoul Mike Adams has a perfect culprit behind school shootings and as per usual, gets every detail absolutely wrong.
how to blame big pharma for mass murder

# health    

pay no attention to the man behind the curtain?

Medical experts are appalled with Dr. Oz for making a career out of giving simplistic, scientifically unverifiable and unproven questions to complicated questions about people's health.
pay no attention to the man behind the curtain?

# science    

an age extension drug too good to be true?

A new potential life-extension drug is performing extremely well in mice. Will these results translate well to humans?
an age extension drug too good to be true?

# tech    

how to weave machinery into biology

A new experiment is trying to marry the best of health monitoring technology and organs grown from stem cells.
how to weave machinery into biology

# tech    

running for the gold at the olympics? don't bother with legs…

Advanced prosthetics are making an appearance at the Olympics and showing how inhuman form can restore human function.
running for the gold at the olympics? don't bother with legs…

# health    

human biology vs. the modern work environment

Today's white collar jobs could not have an unhealthier culture and worse setup for our joints and midsections. And they're shaving years off our lives...
human biology vs. the modern work environment

# politics    

why our healthcare is perpetually broken

A healthcare system based on arbitrary networks and prices, and who everyone avoids fixing under sociopathic pretenses is bound to be perpetually broken.
why our healthcare is perpetually broken

# health    

the superpower that's eating itself to death

Sprawling suburbs, roadways instead of parks and avenues, and portions far beyond anything sane or healthy is taking its toll on Americans.
the superpower that's eating itself to death

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