Category Archives: Health

Walking and Other Aerobic Exercise May Aid the Aging Brain – The New York Times

Older people with mild cognitive impairment showed improvements in brain blood flow and memory after a yearlong aerobic exercise program. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/well/move/seniors-memory-walking.html

Opinion: Bill Gates and Warren Buffett should thank American taxpayers for their profitable farmland investments – MarketWatch

Congress has reduced risk by using taxpayer funds to underwrite crop prices and cash revenues. — Read on www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-gates-and-warren-buffet-should-thank-american-taxpayers-for-their-profitable-farmland-investments-11615382905

‘Farms are going to need different kinds of robots’

Cattle on a farm in Australia wear smart sensors on their ears. The sensors stream data about their locations and health conditions to the farmer. The farming industry appears to have stagnated over the decades, however, it is currently undergoing an amazing transformation with new agri-technologies. Read more about it below. — Read on www.yahoo.com/finance/news/farms-going-different-kinds-robots-000715037.html

The pandemic border policy that will leave a scar on Japan’s foreign community | The Japan Times

Border restrictions imposed on non-Japanese residents to stop the spread of COVID-19 were seen as discriminatory by many, but they’re not likely to prevent travel here in the future. Source: The pandemic border policy that will leave a scar on Japan’s foreign community | The Japan Times

Garlic as Medicine | MOTHER EARTH NEWS

Learn how to take garlic as medicine — garlic is a potent natural antibiotic and immune-booster that luckily tastes great to boot. — Read on www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/garlic-as-medicine-zbcz1403

What if Local and Diverse Is Better Than Networked and Global? – The New York Times

Helena Norberg-Hodge has been arguing for localism since the 1970s, but the pandemic is making the Australian activist-scholar’s ideas more relevant than ever. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/world/australia/norberg-hodge-local-organic-australia.html

‘Three little pigs’: Musk’s Neuralink puts computer chips in animal brains – Reuters

Elon Musk proposes bringing another sci-fi product to a location near you, to your brain as a matter of fact. Cyborgs are no longer limited to one’s imagination or the big screen. According to Musk, we could see them roaming the streets within a matter of years. He suggests that computer chip brain implants could […]

Megacities Are Not the Future. They Are Inhumane and Unsustainable

The Covid-19 pandemic has added yet another item to the growing list of weaknesses of megacities. Is this the beginning of a global “back to the land” movement? Read more about the future of megacities at the below link. — Read on www.yahoo.com/news/megacities-not-future-inhumane-unsustainable-045410089.html

Aging Gracefully on the Homestead – Mother Earth News

If you live in the country, or want to, but are worried about aging there, this 2017 article from Mother Earth News is for you. Readers submitted their ideas on how to simplify and downsize in order to spend as many of one’s retirement years as possible on a country homestead. Click on the below […]

Did Rampant Disinformation and Flat-out Dishonesty in the Health Insurance Industry Make the U.S. Woefully Unprepared for SARS-CoV-2? 

Health insurance whistleblower: I lied to Americans about Canadian medicine – The Washington Post A former insurance insider claims that a coordinated disinformation campaign by the insurance industry successfully swayed popular opinion against reforms in US healthcare, which he believes has left the country totally unprepared for the SARS-CoV-2 medical emergency we now face. Follow […]