There’s no question cannabis can ease the pain and suffering of cancer patients, especially those undergoing a punishing regime of chemo and/or radiation. Even the medical establishment admits as much. But the Internet is bubbling over with testimonials that take the claim much further: Not only is the green goddess Mary Jane a powerful medicine in her own right, but there may be no better treatment for the world’s most effective killer.

Colorful charity donation bins – you might’ve seen them pop up overnight on a block near you. They are unattended, Redbox-sized depositories placed in parking lots, by fill stations, outside strip malls. You can drive up in your car and load your second-hand clothes and shoes into a large steel drawer on the front of the bin. Presumably, someone will pick the stuff up later. Painted bright green, yellow, blue, or red, the donation boxes are printed with information about the numerous causes and projects your donation will supposedly benefit.

Do you have unfulfilled aromatherapy needs? Do you suffer from aches and pains that defy conventional pharmaceuticals? Are you looking for creative solutions to forehead wrinkles? Tuberculosis? Boring breakfasts and unresponsive politicians? Well you are in luck, my friend. Thanks to a budding partnership between high technology, primitivist nostalgia, and old-fashioned greed, now anyone can access the immense therapeutic potential of Essential Oils. “EOs” are the perfect all-natural panacea for the nature-challenged citizen of the modern world.

Does déjà vu hint at parallel universes? Is it evidence of reincarnation from a past life? Or is it simply a curious mental error, a telltale glitch in our brain that hints at the architecture of the mind? It depends on who you ask. Déjà vu invokes a sudden sensation of familiarity, most commonly in response to a scene, but the stimulus could also be a person, place, or even just a passing thought.

Are you feeling under the weather? Why not feed a cold and starve a fever…or is it starve a cold feed a fever? Somewhere along the line, the phrasing of this popular dictum got switched around to ‘feed a fever starve a cold,’ adding more puzzlement to an already befuddled issue. ‘Starve a fever feed a cold’ is the original logic, dating back to the pre-scientific Dark Ages. Although the precise origin of the advice is not known, we do know of a dictionary author named John Withals who included a snippet in his 1574 reference manual.

In science, objective observation is the gold standard - at least, that’s what most undergrads hear in every science class. But what exactly is the difference between objective vs. subjective? Since concepts are much easier to explain in context, let’s start with some definitions and then look at an example of how they migjht apply in real life. Definition of Subjective The Merriam-Webster dictionary, defines subjective as: “characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather than as independent of mind.

For the past decade, the internet has been swirling with rumors and anecdotes linking routine vaccinations with devastating illnesses, especially autism. Some have even claimed that routine vaccinations are responsible for HIV. The National Committee on Quality Assurance – a nonprofit that tracks the quality of health care – has reported that the number of children being properly immunized while on private healthcare plans declined by 3.5% from 2010-2011. Amongst those on Medicaid, the rate of decline is even greater.