Tag Archives: amazon

Top tech gear for your Fourth of July bash

07/02/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
SunBriteTV (©drewhadley.com) The Fourth of July weekend doesn’t have to involve an underwhelming fireworks display and too many ants at your picnic. This techie gear lets you watch a fireworks display in living color (even if it is happening in…

Confederacy purge builds steam, while last century’s worst villains spared

06/28/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
The battle flag of the Confederate army has long been controversial, but now it is being banned online and in stores. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File) All symbols of the Confederacy are rapidly disappearing from stores, websites and the public…

An herb may help fight Ebola

05/19/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
While the Ebola virus was previously in the news daily for months, that story has died down, and the situation with the virus is slowly improving in West Africa. Still, 150 new cases of Ebola were reported just this past…

Rhodiola shows antidepressant benefits in new study

04/15/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Rhodiola rosea, an herb deriving from Siberia and China, has shown benefits as an antidepressant agent in a recent study. Published in the March 15 edition of the journal Phytomedicine, Rhodiola was tested among 57 subjects suffering from mild to…

African plant outlawed in US may offer treatment for addicts

04/01/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
(iStock) When news surfaced that Scott Disick, the father of Kourtney Kardashian’s children, was in Costa Rica reportedly undergoing treatment for his hard-partying ways, iboga, an African plant used to treat addictions, was thrown into the spotlight. It’s not the…

Quillaja: Coming to your beer, soda and shampoo

03/25/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Sustainable quillaja harvesting in Chile (Chris Kilham) Two men with chain saws stand in the warm Chilean sun, cutting branches from trees. There are plenty of bees here buzzing around in the central valley, especially in this part where pesticides…

Cyclone Pam takes heavy toll on remote island of Vanuatu

03/18/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, whose name means “land eternal.” (Chris Kilham) In 1995, I made the first of dozens of trips to the remote South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, whose name means “land eternal.” At the time,…

Psychedelics not linked to mental disorders, study finds

03/11/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
(Chris Kilham) In the ever-changing health landscape, sometimes methods and medicines are vilified for a time, only to emerge anew, bolstered by science. Such is the case with psychedelics, those potent mind-manifesting drugs that caused a furor in the 1960s…

Olive oil may prevent cancer, study finds

02/25/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Olive oil, a staple of the Mediterranean diet and long hailed as a cardiovascular health enhancer, is now showing promise as a cancer preventive. That’s the exciting news from a recently published study in the scientific journal Molecular & Cellular…

Psychoactive Amazonian medicine gaining popularity, may treat health disorders

02/18/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
In the great Amazon rainforest, native people have long used a large array of psychoactive medicinal agents, from frog secretions to potent snuffs, to various items that can be smoked, applied to skin, or otherwise ingested. ; Among these agents,…