‘Terrified by what I saw, Covid was genetically engineered’, says American scientist who worked at Wuhan lab
An American scientist who worked at a research laboratory in Wuhan, China, has claimed that the novel coronavirus was a “genetically engineered agent” that leaked from the US-funded facility. It was reportedly exposed by Dr Andrew Huff, an epidemiologist and former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance, in The Truth About...
Hate or love it, processed food is here to stay if the world is going to feed 8 billion people
The stigma against processed food is growing, but there’s no way to sustainably feed eight billion people without it. Say “processed food” and most of us picture unhealthy, cheap junk. Fresh food straight from the garden or the field is good. Once we’ve put it through a processing plant or...
US Centre for Food Safety challenges GMO in court to shield consumers and the earth from harmful agriculture
Centre for Food Safety (CFS) and a coalition of food labelling non-profits and retailers filed an appeal earlier this month with the 9thCircuit Court of Appeals, challenging a previous ruling that allows the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to continue using the misleading terminology “bioengineered” and avoid labelling the majority...
Doctors highly optimistic new drug OMO-103 can treat pancreatic, bowel, lung… more cancers
Doctors in the United States and Spain have expressed optimism that they will soon be able to cure cancer after a drug they have developed and tested on 22 patients showed strong signs of eliminating deassed cells. However, the results show the drug OMO-103 can cure or manage pancreatic, bowel...
Revealed: ‘World’s dirtiest man’ dies after forced shower for the first time in 60years, aged 94
A man known as the “dirtiest in the world,” has died after being washed for the first time in 60 years. Amou Haji, 94, died on Sunday (local time), in the village of Dejagh in Iran, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported. People in Haji’s village were fed up with...
US pop icon Kanye West’s antisemitism knocks him off billionaire club as his music, fashion businesses tumble
Adidas ended a partnership that helped make the artist formerly known as Kanye West a billionaire and lent the German sportswear an edgy appeal, but ultimately couldn’t survive a mounting outcry over the rapper’s offensive and antisemitic remarks. The split will leave Adidas searching for another transcendent celebrity to help...
Uproot cobwebs: Women consultants should bear in mind that when you focus on struggle, you grow it
Women consultants, I want to share a piece of advice I often share with my clients. The subject of the advice is: What I focus on expands. And it is in the mind – the longer it dwells in the mind, it becomes etched into it and also deeply rooted...
Opportunity gain: With a wiki you can get you can fix any problem in record time, at low cost
Seeing someone’s face while talking with them is nice, and all, but the best part about a video phone call is that I can see whether the person I’m talking with is checking their email during the call instead of paying attention to our conversation. Oh, admit it, we all...
Bringing a knife to a gunfight: How tech-inspired wikis created an ‘organic’ global village, plus satellites
In early December last year, I attended a conference called the Programme for the Future in honour of Doug Engelbart – best known as the inventor of the computer mouse, but more accurately described as a champion of technology and tools that increase our collective intelligence. Years in the corporate...
New minimum wage law throws America’s gig industry into chaos, dance clubs scramble to curb sin taxes
For six years, Teddy earned what she considers good money as a self-employed dancer working in California’s strip clubs. Yes, there were slow nights when wages slumped, says Teddy, who asks to use a pseudonym because not everyone in her life knows she is a sex worker. But the slow...
