How The Sackler family made billions from deaths due to OxyContin overdose.
How The Sackler family made billions from deaths due to OxyContin overdose. How government regulators were paid off and doctors looked the other way
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Grains That Extend Life – Einkorn
The History Of Einkorn, Nature’s First And Oldest Wheat Einkorn is the oldest wheat known to scientists, and is considered man’s first wheat. The term einkorn is derived from the German language and interpreted to mean “single grain”. Einkorn wheat is known in taxonomy as either Triticum boeoticum (wild wheat), or Triticum monococcum (domesticated species). Domesticated and wild forms of wheat may […]
Why Scammers Use Gift Cards to Steal Your Money
As hard as we try to stop it, there will always be a scammer out there inventing novel ways to steal our money. We have all received a wide variety of scam phone calls, and most of them end with demands for immediate payment, often using what may seem to most of us as strange […]
First Edition: March 20, 2020
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. More than half the counties in America have no intensive care beds, posing a particular danger for more than 7 million people who are age 60 and up ― older patients who face the highest risk of serious illness or […] Click here to view original […]
First Edition: March 19, 2020
Everything is changing so fast. Here is the latest. Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. As COVID-19 cases spread across the nation, disrupting daily routines for theliving,growingnumbers of U.S. businesses and families are changing how they deal with the dead.Funeral homes — already well-versed in ways to prevent disease — are implementing […]
‘A Socio-Economic Tsunami’: How The World Is Dealing With Pandemic
Volunteers clean as a precaution against the new coronavirus at Wat Traimit temple in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday. Thailand’s government has enacted stronger measures to combat the spread of COVID-19. The U.S. and Canada were reportedly working out an agreement to limit non-essential travel across their mutual border, as […] Click here to view original […]
3D Housing Homeless And Needy Seniors
There will be a time when providing affordable homes for seniors and homeless will be so simple, the only barrier is finding available land. Icon’s Vulcan II 3D printer for homes on a job site in Austin, Texas where it was 3D printing a series of six homes for formerly homeless individuals. (Courtesy of Icon) […]
Drinking Fresh-Pressed Juice
Unless your tummy tells you otherwise, what’s not to like about drinking fresh juice. It’s all good right? That’s what intrigued my about this story. It’s going to be warm again before we know it, and you can find us channeling our inner Lizzo with a nice, tall glass of freshly pressed juice all summer. […]
Find a real relationship for $0 on these non-corny free dating sites
If you use a dating site they can get a little pricey. Before you jump into using a premium dating site like Match or Eharmony try these free destinations. Remember your soulmate is priceless. Sure. But do you have to use a paid site to find a real relationship? Does a monthly fee really weed […]
Self-published authors are actually making a living. Here’s how.
Bloomer Boomer interviews many authors and book publishers because some many people in our community are writing books. For authors hoping to make extra income, there is good news. If you google the words “self-publishing stigma,” you’ll find enough material to fill a book. The search results for this phrase are packed with articles and […]
Our Oscars Algorithm Predicted the Best Picture Winner. Tell Us Your Guesses, Too
Predicting the winners for the Academy Awards is very risky based on past winners for Best Picture. Even after more than a half-century of make predictions, your chances of being right are very low. We’re still not over it. Last year, we used high-octane statistics to predict the winner of the Academy Award for Best […]
Fiasco Tries to Make Iran-Contra a Teachable Moment
Left to right: Oliver North, Ted Koppel in front of the White House in 1985. (Getty) Subscribe These are boom times for multitasking, boom times for alienation, and, thus, boom times for content . Audiences need entertainment (give me more to do with my phone!) and capital has made […] Click here to view original […]
The 4 big challenges to Netflix’s grand plan for world domination
In January, Netflix made the bombshell announcement that it had expanded to over 130 new countries in a single day, bringing it into every major international market except China. Since then, the results have been mixed. At its last quarterly earnings, Netflix reported good international growth results in the first three months of 2016. But […]
Fifty Shades of Moby-Dick
Think of Herman Melville and you don’t think lothario. But in 1847, after the publication of his first two novels, Typee and Omoo, Melville was considered something of a venereal adventurer by the antsy prudes who controlled literary comment. The erotic episodes he’d had with girls on the Marquesas Islands as a young sailor helped […]
