Smart Fruit Flies Choose Organic

Smart Fruit Flies Choose Organic Produce A 16 year old student designed a research study to answer the question, “Which is better for you, organic food or industrially grown food?” Using fruit flies, Ria Chhabra has proven that a diet of organic fare led to measurably improved health over that of flies fed conventional fare. This comes as good news to those of us who were upset with the Stanford University research reported several months ago: “Organic Food Is Not Healthier than Conventional Produce – A Study” as reported in the Huffington Post.

Ria’s research, which was published in a scientific journal, has placed her at the top in a national science competition, and accorded her university laboratory privileges normally reserved for graduate students. Her paper, titled, “ Organically Grown Food Provides Health Benefits to Drosophila melanogaster ,” measured fertility, stress resistance, longevity and other biological effects. Speaking to the New York Times, Ria said, “I had no idea what publishing my research meant,” said Ria, who last week was juggling high school exams, a swim meet and a sweet-16 party. “My mom told me, ‘This is a pretty big deal.’” Ria, still in 10th grade, is about to finish her latest research project studying Type II diabetes and fruit flies.


Celebrate Earth Day With a Meteor Light Show!

Celebrate Earth Day With a Meteor Light Show! Monday, April 22nd, is Earth Day and it coincides this year with the Lyrid Meteor showers, one of the most impressive displays in the sky. The Lyrid showers can feature as many as 20-100 meteors per hour, with higher bursts of activity, called “meteor storms,” and viewings of the rarer, large “Fireballs” possible.

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Check Out Spirit Science 22

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Spirit Science 22 Check out the video by Jordan David Pearce and featuring Teal Scott, from www.thespiritscience.net. This wonderful short video features universal concepts taught in the simplest and most engaging way. The characters are adorable and the photography just stunning.

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Advocates Still Push for GMO Labeling

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Advocates Won’t let Up on the GMO Labeling Issue from www.theepochtimes.com by Conan Milner California’s Proposition 37, the nation’s most promising measure to date in the effort to label genetically modified organisms (GMOs), ended in defeat in November. But labeling advocates say the fight is far from over.

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Improving Your Brain Health

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Jim Kwik is the founder of Kwik Learning. He’s taught memory improvement, speed-reading, and accelerated learning skills for almost two decades. He recently spoke with Shawn Stevenson at www.bewellbuzz.com about how to improve one’s ability to remember or locate anything.

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The Need for GMO Labeling

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According to Jeffrey Smith, founder of the Institute for Responsible Technology and one of the leading advocates of GMO labeling, bioengineered food may have the FDA’s blessing, but it’s not a decision based in solid science. He says that since 1991, regulators have been instructed to promote biotechnology, and it’s a mandate they’ve dutifully observed ever since. From www.theepochtimes.com

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Are You Singing “Blue Moon” Yet?

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Get ready for the Blue Moon tomorrow, Friday, August 31st. Despite what our mothers taught us, it’s not blue, and it may not be as rare as you think! Of course, a “blue moon” is still used colloquially to mean “a rare event”, as in the phrase “once in a blue moon”. The Farmer’s Almanac defines a Blue Moon as an extra full moon that occurs in a season.

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Finding the God Particle

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The Higgs Bosun is also known as the “God particle” as it may play a fundamental role in the making of matter. The discovery has been much anticipated, and is the culmination of a worldwide effort and funding from several countries. The study of how the particle behaves, how and what it decays into will offer a new field of practice for researchers.

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The Lost Secrets of Maya Technology by James O’Kon

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“In 1995, James O’Kon shocked the archaeological world with the discovery of a massive, lost landmark of Maya engineering, the long span suspension bridge at the ancient city of Yaxchilan in Mexico…In his new book, The Lost Secrets of Maya Technology, O’Kon recounts the thrilling realization of his discovery and how he used modern methods to examine and prove the existence of the spectacular bridge…”

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Beyond The Human Eye: Everything Is Energy by Vaishali

| by Vaishali, Author, "Wisdom Rising"

“Everything is energy. Atoms vibrating at different frequencies form matter. In the physical world, the only thing separating a chair from a rock is their rate of vibration. Even non-physical entities such as thoughts, memories, feelings, love and fear are forms of energy with their own frequencies and magnetic signatures as well.”

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