Increased Risks with Marijuana Edibles The use of marijuana for both medicinal and recreational purposes has been increasingly legalized in many states. Eating marijuana is considered a better alternative to smoking or vaping it, but there are still downsides. Marijuana edibles pose increased risks to children and pets because of the ease of overdosing. While […]

Street Evangelism Right Upheld—For Now The city of Chicago has settled with Wheaton College students who were prohibited from evangelizing in the city’s Millennium Park in 2018. The case pushed the city to change park regulations to allow evangelizing and other public speech. City rules prohibited “the making of speeches” and passing out of literature […]

Short Spurts of Vigorous Activity Lowers Mortality New research has found that in addition to regular moderate exercise, small bouts of vigorous activity can have substantial benefits on our health as well. These can be as short as 1- to 2-minute windows of time that easily fit into our busy schedules. This vigorous activity could […]

Holiday Storms Create Havoc The timing of Winter Storm Elliott couldn’t have been worse. One of the coldest Christmas storms in modern memory, it formed in the Pacific Northwest and intensified in the Great Lakes, bringing blizzard conditions to several states. By Christmas Eve, Elliott’s strong winds and brutally cold temperatures were affecting the entire […]

Even One Drink May Be Harmful It's no secret that heavy drinking is linked to potential health problems, but now a British study suggests even one drink a day is linked to detectable changes in the brain. Researchers examined fMRI brain scans from 36,678 healthy adults and compared those findings to participants' alcohol consumption. In line […]

China’s Developing Social Credit System For most people outside China, the words “social credit system” conjure up an image of a web of technologies that automatically score all Chinese citizens according to what they did right and wrong. But according to MIT’s China Report, there’s no central social credit score for individuals or algorithms for doing […]

Want Smarter, Healthier Kids? Decrease Screen Time Research shows that active kids grow up healthier and do better in school; but in recent years there’s been a decline in children’s physical activity levels. Is more screen time to blame? A Danish university put this to the test with the help of 89 families.  One group […]

Caught without Cash Cashless societies and digital banking are the trend in many countries around the world. But are we really ready to abandon cash? Canadians may say, No! In Canada, three communications monopolies control 90 percent of the country's telecoms market. In July, customers of one of them, Rogers Communications, lost service for 19 […]

WHO Says More Pandemics Ahead Outbreaks of animal-to-human diseases such as monkeypox and Lassa fever are becoming more persistent and frequent and are spreading, the World Health Organization's (WHO) emergencies director, Mike Ryan, warned recently. By June 1, the WHO had received reports of more than 550 confirmed cases of monkeypox from 30 countries since […]

Eat Your Fill and Still Lose Weight? A recent study by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has shown that a plant-based diet can be an important key to weight loss. The 64 women who participated each changed nothing more than the content of their diet – with great results! Reducing fat intake by replacing […]