First actionable clock that predicts immunological health and chronic diseases of aging | Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 12, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- Researchers from the Buck Institute and Stanford University have created an inflammatory clock of aging (iAge) that measures inflammatory lo ...

A fermented-food diet increases microbiome diversity and lowers inflammation | Stanford University Medical Center

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain July 12, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- A diet rich in fermented foods enhances the diversity of gut microbes and decreases molecular signs of inflammation, according to r ...

Alexa, Artificial Intimacy, and Living Lives of Quiet Desperation — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust July 12, 2021 More than 100 million Amazon Echoes have already been sold across the globe. Researchers believe many consumers purchase the artificial intelligence device ...

Are your illusions blocking your power? — Mickey Z.

Still photo and quote from Harold and Maude (1971) Mickey Z. — World News Trust July 5, 2021 We awaken each morning after a couple or many hours in the astral and, in a flash, we must recall who we a ...

Terror Birds? Stop Letting ‘Scientists’ Name Things! — Mickey Z.

Titanis walleri (credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust July 2, 2021 I recently learned about Titanis walleri — a huge, flightless, carnivorous bird that lived in the early Pliocene to early Pl ...

Observing A Prethermal Discrete Time Crystal | Thamarasee Jeewandara

Experimental setup and protocol. (A) Schematic of the 25-ion chain. Single-site addressing (top), global Raman beams (middle), and statedependent fluorescence (bottom) enable the preparation, evoluti ...

Biden, Brain Damage...and Reagan’s Example? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 23, 2021 “One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace, one nevertheless tells the truth.” (Nietzsche) There has been plenty of talk lately about th ...

Will you volunteer to join the Internet of Bodies? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 18, 2021 It was at my first-ever gym job. The clientele was obscenely wealthy yet they yearned for what we trainers had: muscular physiques. One of my co-workers, Wa ...

In Medicine We Trust? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 14, 2021 Watching the once-skeptical Left become cheerleaders for Big Pharma is reminding me of two anecdotes from the mid-2000s. The first took place when my wife a ...

Toward the Breaking Point | John Michael Greer

June 2, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- The great changes, the changes that matter, don’t always announce themselves with the blare of amplified voices or the distant thunder of cannons and bombs. As often a ...

Fake News + Bad Journalism = The New Normal — Mickey Z.

(Media Burn) Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 9, 2021 I’ve been interviewed dozens and dozens of times. Those experiences have sometimes left me shaking my head when I’d find factual errors in the e ...