As often is the case when government either can’t control, or can’t understand something, the current drafting of ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is more about ensuring citizens have no right to privacy, than it is about addressing counterfeiting in any significant way.
Unchallenged, this could spell trouble for the movement to data portability and open [...]
There is significant research available pointing to the success of InSite, the Vancouver Downtown Eastside supervised injection site, run by Vancouver Coastal Health. The conservative government has been tepidly extending its life in bits and pieces while they continue to fish for red herrings, allowing them to justify closing it down, as they have [...]
The biggest problem with the current food crisis is not that it exists, but that it never should have happened in the first place and can definitely be reversed. And it’s not just the wrong-headed rush to create biofuels, but the products our food system produces the most of (and how it produces them), [...]
I saw the following tidbits from Dr. Mirkin, about healthy eating and thought the information warranted a repeat here. The two key issues are those of eating organic and taking vitamins. There is no empirical evidence to support either notion and, in fact, one study suggests large doses of antioxidants may actually shorten [...]
Do a continual cycle of aches and pains affect your training? Do you get treatment for one thing just to have another rear its ugly head? Do you treat the worst thing you’re dealing with, only to allow smaller, niggling issues to continue? And, do you still train through it and try [...]