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Hunger and obesity: The world of the malnourished

What would you say if I told you that a huge arsenal of nutritious food is needed to help annihilate the great beast in the 21st century: hunger? Today, hunger still condemns the lives of 821.6 million people. One in nine goes to bed without having eaten the minimum calories for their daily activity, as revealed in the latest report “The State of Food Safety and Nutrition in the ...Read full article...

Is youth unemployment really about lack of opportunity?

Day after day more experts confirm that unemployment has a lot to do with lack of skilled labour, and less with lack of job opportunities. The labor market in Latin America is paradoxical: while youth unemployment is rising -it is three times higher than the average rate-, 40% of companies have vacancies that they cannot cover because they do not find profiles with the necessary skillset. More than half ...Read full article...

Google spying is multilingual

Last week, we learned how Google helped Hillary Clinton sway anywhere between 2.6 and 10 million votes. Google’s parent company was Clinton’s strongest financial supporter in 2016. Since his public testimony before a Senate Committee, Dr. Robert Epstein‘s report titled “A Method for Detecting Bias in Search Rankings, with Evidence of Systematic Bias Related to the 2016 Presidential Election” where he explained how Google used search manipulation, suggestion manipulation in ...Read full article...

Ludicrous claim: Eat 40% less meat to fight “global warming”

The great global increase in the consumption of foods based on animal meat is unnecessary and insane, says a new report. A study by the World Studies Institute, a Washington-based organization, says that by 2050, people can only eat 1.5 hamburgers a week and will have to accept eating genetically modified products, which according to the study, improve productivity. All this, says the study, must guarantee the feeding of ...Read full article...

La relación del azúcar con el cáncer que debes conocer

Incluso pequeñas cantidades de esas moléculas de azúcar se pueden conectar al crecimiento del cáncer en nuestros cuerpos.Las personas que no son conscientes de la salud probablemente no consumen azúcar en exceso. Desafortunadamente, incluso pequeñas cantidades de esas moléculas de azúcar se pueden conectar al crecimiento del cáncer en nuestros cuerpos. Con un ojo puesto en la prevención, los científicos están descubriendo más sobre cómo y por qué el ...Read full article...

Leite e laticínios estão deixando você doente

Há dados substanciais que relacionam maior consumo de leite com risco significativamente aumentado de fraturas ósseas. Hoje, as pessoas consomem uma enorme quantidade de laticínios. A ingestão média é estimada em mais de 600 quilos de produtos lácteos por ano. Alimentos lácteos, incluindo leite de vaca, não fizeram parte da dieta das pessoas durante a grande maioria da evolução humana. Nós só consumimos esses alimentos há cerca ...Read full article...

13,000 apps spy on you without permission

The case of FaceApp, the application that uses artificial intelligence to age a face, has put the spotlight on a common trend to which more users are paying attention. When FaceApp is installed, it warns that all user data will be used and even transferred to third parties, so by agreeing to its terms and conditions, users lose control of their privacy. Unfortunately, few users pay attention to the ...Read full article...

A CEO in the White House

When people cannot challenge your argument, they will often attack your character. When someone cannot or does not intend to help you, he or she chooses to block any attempt you make to do your work. This is often called destructive obstructionism, and it is exactly what the Democrats are doing in the United States. The Democratic caucus, the Democratic Party and their allies at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, ...Read full article...

Brain cells help us erase memories

It happens to us all. We are listening to a playlist, watching a movie or our favorite TV show when our mind snaps. Something in that song, movie or show brought a memory, a bad one back to life. What is there to do about a bad memory? Is it even under our conscious control? As it turns out, it is, but we need help from out physical body ...Read full article...

What determines longevity?

A team of researchers has found that there is a very clear relationship between what being lives and the speed at which their telomeres – the structures that protect the genes in the chromosomes – shorten. This is the main conclusion of a study published in the journal PNAS, in which researchers also show that this relationship can be expressed with a mathematical equation, a formula capable of accurately ...Read full article...

The Muslim Brotherhood as auxiliaries of the Pentagon

The Muslim Brotherhood was integrated into the Pentagon. It was attached to the anti-Soviet network constituted with the ex-Nazis during the Cold War. The Islamists controlled by the Pentagon At the beginning of the 1990’s, the Pentagon decided to work with the Islamists, who had hitherto depended only on the CIA. This was operation Gladio B, by reference to the secret services of NATO in Europe (Gladio A ). For ...Read full article...

Should Labour Income be Redistributed?

Who is more productive, someone who works or someone who does not work? Who should get paid for their time and labor, people who work or people who do not work? Who should get paid more, people who work more or who have more merit because of their intellect and contributions to a company or society, or someone who works less and simply does a series of tasks to ...Read full article...

Você está cuidando ou compartilhando seus filhos?

Imagine: você tem apenas 3 anos de idade e mal sabe dizer algumas palavras, mas seu rosto bonito já transformou você em uma sensação na mídia social. Seus parentes e amigos não param de clicar em CURTIR e COMPARTILHAR, expondo você e sua família a uma atenção desnecessária de estranhos que você nunca conhecerá. As redes sociais estão cheias de imagens de crianças fazendo truques e posando com rostos ...Read full article...

Are you sharenting your children?

Imagine: You are just 3 years old. You barely know how to utter a few words but your cute face has already turned you into a social media sensation. Your relatives and their friends can’t help but to click LIKE and SHARE as they expose you and your family to more, unnecessary attention from strangers you will never meet. Social networks are full of images of children doing tricks ...Read full article...

O trabalho é digno, mesmo para crianças?

A felicidade é o resultado de esforço. A ausência de esforço gera complacência, conformidade e frustração. Essa realidade é mais palpável hoje do que nunca. As pessoas querem gratificação instantânea e, quando isso não acontece em um piscar de olhos, gera insatisfação. Tendo em mente que o trabalho árduo é o que produz satisfação e verdadeira felicidade, pode-se argumentar que uma das melhores maneiras de educar as crianças é ...Read full article...