During an online question-and- answer session on Facebook this past Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden added a level of complexity to the nation’s already extraordinarily muddled gun control debate. Although spearheading recent gun control proposals, Biden stated, and then reiterated, his advice for individuals to protect themselves and their property: “Buy a shotgun”. Biden’s defense [...]
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At the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Psychiatry Chair Ned H. Kalin, M.D. is removing newborn rhesus monkeys from their mothers and putting them in isolation for the first seven weeks of their lives. He plans to expose the infant monkeys to numerous frightening experiences, including being in close [...]
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The United States has the highest civilian gun ownership in the world. Statistics dictate that with as many firearms available, technically one American each can hold a gun. However, the reality is that most civilians who do own firearms tend to own two or more, as wrote Jill Lepore in The New Yorker. In 2011, [...]
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It seems like it was just yesterday that I was penning an article about the Aurora, Colorado shooting this past July. Sadly, five months later, another tragedy lies in our wake. Gunman Adam Lanza first shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, in her home before driving to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where she [...]
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This November voters in California will have an opportunity to pass a bill requiring the labeling GMO foods. This legislation, California Proposition 37, will be the first of its kind as currently no U.S. state or federal law requires genetically engineered food to be labeled. The basis of Prop 37 seems simple enough. If passed, [...]
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Listen to the audio here: Dr. Michael Greger Interview Vanessa Douglas and William Scott Williams interview Dr. Michael Greger (also known as Vegan MD). Michael Greger, M.D., is an American physician, author, vegan and professional speaker. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine. [...]
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UK officials identified a second case of a new virus similar to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) in England this past Monday. The World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement on Sunday saying identifying the new virus, the first case arising in Saudi Arabia previously this year. According to the BBC, another man with the [...]
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Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement that gave birth to an international movement; it sparked the national dialogue when it came to income inequality and it organized a large group of politically-aware youth that had not been so vocal in the political arena in such a way in recent years. [...]
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In life-altering news, life-altering that is if you live in India, McDonald’s (the worldwide king of fast food establishments best known for its artery-clogging, all-meat patties) is opening its first all-vegetarian outlets in two northern Indian cities. McDonald’s has chosen Amritsar and Katra, major pilgrimage sites for Sikhs and Hindus respectively, to host the new [...]
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