Two women collect food waste beside an industrial dumpster at the main food market in Madrid.
Today, cleaning your plate may not help feed starving children, but the time-worn advice of mothers everywhere may help reduce food waste from the farm to the fork, help the environment and make it easier to feed the world’s growing population.
Continue reading… “30 to 50 percent of food produced in the world is thrown away”
A new study has found that a chemical found in large quantities in fast food and margarine causes aggression.
Trans fat can actually make you angry – and should not be fed to school pupils, a new study has warned. A chemical called ‘trans fatty acids’ – found in large quantities in margarine, and also in other fast foods – makes people aggressive and irritable.
Continue reading… “Eating trans fat linked to increased aggression: Study”
If your answer was Monsanto, you were correct.
It’s been an interesting week for genetically engineered crops and farming in the U.S….
Continue reading… “USDA speeds approval for new herbicide-tolerant crops despite Superweed problem”
A significant number of pilots say that sleepiness has caused safety problems on the job.
A major study conducted by the National Sleep Foundation has found that airline pilots are some of the sleepiest transportation workers in the country, along with train operators.
Continue reading… “1 in 4 pilots and train operators admits sleepiness on the job: Study”
The processors in smart phones and tablets leak radio signals that betray the encryption keys used to protect sensitive data.
Gary Kenworthy of Cryptography Research held up an iPod Touch on stage and looked over to a TV antenna three meters away at the RSA computer security conference last week. The signal picked up by the antenna, routed through an amplifier and computer software, revealed the secret key being used by an app running on the device to encrypt data. An attacker with access to this key could use it to perfectly impersonate the device he stole it from—to access e-mail on a company server, for example.
Continue reading… “Antenna’s can steal your smartphone’s secrets”
Soaring rates of 2 to 5 year olds with tooth decay.
There has been “a huge increase” in little kids who need general anesthesia for dental procedures, including tooth extractions, crowns and even root canals as dentists are seeing so many preschoolers with cavities and severe tooth decay (6 to 10 cavities or more), according to a report from The New York Times.
Continue reading… “Tooth decay in preschoolers on the rise”
Lower-income people struggled the most with medical debt.
One in 5 Americans say their families are having trouble paying their medical bills, according to a new survey. Worse, half of those who are struggling say they are unable to pay a single dime toward those debts.
Continue reading… “1 in 5 American families struggle with medical debt”
Russia has the third-highest teenage suicide rate in the world.
Life for children in Russia is hard, and Yelizaveta Petsylya and Anastasia Korolyova finally decided, at the age of 14, to do what thousands of other Russian teenagers have done. There was one way to assert control over their lives, and that was to end them.
The lines represent the price in a given year, as a percent of the price in 1985.
This graph from the New York Times shows how much tuition has gone up, way more than other costs. College tuition and fees today are 559 percent of their cost in 1985. In other words, they have nearly sextupled (while consumer prices have roughly doubled)…
Continue reading… “Tuition costs compared to other prices”
Do you think Facebook and Twitter account privacy settings guarantee future employers or schools can’t see your private posts? You need to think again.
Continue reading… “Employers and colleges demand Facebook passwords from applicants”
Last week’s news cycles were dominated in part by rising gas prices, and the political parties’ response to costs at the pump inching closer to $4 per gallon. The GOP is outraged, rather, is feigning to be outraged, and is disingenuously blaming Obama’s energy policies for the spike.
But all this political football obscures one important fact…
Continue reading… “The true cost of gasoline is closer to $15 a gallon”
Top internet firms are spying on smartphone users.
An investigation revealed on Sunday shows internet giant Facebook is accessing smartphone users’ personal text messages .
Continue reading… “Facebook spies on smartphone users’ text messages”
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