By Heather Callaghan, Editor Bosses call it “work flexibility,” but the expectation to be accessible during non-work hours through our smart devices is really a chaotic (and unpaid) lack of boundaries that hurts the other parts of our lives. You probably aren’t surprised. Getting work emails 24/7…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Cherries for gout, cherries for gut health. While Montmorency tart cherries have a reputation as both a gout and sleep remedy – it turns out they can actually play a major role in improving gut health. An international team of scientists has discovered…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Recently, we wrote a report revealing that chemical company BASF was a member of the Organic Trade Association. It turns out, Cargill is, too! How is this allowed to be? That would be like a massive animal rights organization allowing trophy hunters and…
by Heather Callaghan, Editor BREAKING NEWS! It is with great relief that we announce the following: Monsanto corporation – now a part of Bayer – lost the trial of the century against a man dying of cancer, his cancer alleged to be caused by Roundup herbicide….
by Heather Callaghan, Editor Our addiction to screens isn’t just hurting our social lives or nature – it’s making us physically blind. Molecules that we need to be able to see, called retinal, turn into cell killers when they interact with blue light, researchers have just discovered….
By Heather Callaghan, Editor We’re fairly certain that Winston Smith of 1984 had more freedom to curl up with a good book than the kids at Point Pleasant Boro, New Jersey. Nothing says freedom like having police show up to swat the sharing of ideas and banish the written…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor The Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. has witnessed a new explosion of a foreign species of tick. Somehow, the tick landed here from Eastern Asia and, to listen to the media, one would think it should be called for its horrifying description. So…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Previously, Italian law mandated that children must have received vaccines slated for 10 different diseases in order to attend preschool and kindergarten. Yet, a shift in political winds has reversed the government mandate. Mandatory vaccination is expected to be halted in Italy…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Mexico’s newly elected President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will step into office on December 1. His first order of business as the leader of Mexico is the immediate ban of hydraulic fracturing – aka fracking. Obrador is already gaining a reputation as “the…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor When I launched my personal work productivity journey, I had to break all the rules. I had to forget Steven Covey’s Highly Effective Habits and think about what my true end goals are and how they fit within the modern, autonomous-work-life. Times are…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze Portugal is getting by with a little help from … goats! The U.S. is not the only nation with drought-ridden regions that are extremely susceptible to wildfires. And while the U.S. has quietly employed goats for about a decade to help stall…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze What is your dog trying to tell you? It turns out, dogs are trying to get our attention, but they use more than just a few signals. In fact, we don’t follow their commands they will try harder to elaborate the gesture….
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Yesterday a report by Living Maxwell revealed that the often overlooked GMO/chemical giant, BASF, is actually a member of the U.S. Organic Trade Association. This realization sent waves of ire throughout the worldwide community of organic advocates. As a result of this revelation,…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Most bees are colonial collectivists. Heck – a bee hive is the quintessential metaphor for a collective group. If someone is behaving from a “hive mind” – well that image says a lot! But one species of bee stands out as a renegade…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Helping others inadvertently helps us. Expressing appreciation – and being able to receive it – is a beneficial mood boost that shouldn’t be taken for granted. Are you ever worried how your acts of appreciation will be received? Researchers want you to scrap…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor The state of Virginia wants to encourage bee populations. After all, bees are said to be responsible for one out of every three bites of food. To get beekeepers started, Virginia is going to give away up to three hives and other equipment…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Recent news of two toddlers dying after receiving vaccines in Samoa absolutely rocked the Internet – especially the non-vax communities. But even more recently is the news that Samoa has responded to the incident by immediately seizing all MMR vaccines. In addition, it…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor As research into EMF sensitivity and social media addiction continues to surface, it’s no surprise that some institutions are trying their own little happiness experiments. After all, schools are supposed to be for focused education, and the added distractions and social pressures of…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor 30 million extra trees now grace the world thanks to these Web searches What is the least amount of effort one could exert to make the world a better place? Tooling around the Web, right? In other words, almost nothing. Seriously – unless you can…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor “Our results indicate that long term opioid therapy does not effectively manage patient pain intensity any more effectively than not receiving long-term opioid therapy.” Washington State University researchers have found out that chronic opioid pain relief users can take hope that stopping opioid…
