The Latest Case Of Toxic Shock Syndrome: What Menstrual Cup Users Need To Know
The DivaCup. Lunette. Mooncup. If you are a menstrual cup user, you know these names well. Marketed as a greener, more natural alternative to tampons, menstrual cups have been growing in popularity over the past few years. A number of dedicated blogs and marketing campaigns attempt to convert women from tampons, often touting the ease of use and cost...
How To Run For Office The Lazy Modern Way
Today presidential hopefuls have private jets, free media opportunities online and access to social media technologies. Before all these tools, campaigns were quite different. Long travel slogs, slow communications, you name it. They had it tough! Here are the differences between then and now: The Campaign Trail Then: Face-to-face campaigns, whistle-stops and stump speeches Now: Jet powered travel and impersonal speeches While campaigning from...
Is Raw Milk Actually Bad for You?
A few months ago, raw milk once again made the headlines when a group of West Virginia lawmakers reportedly became sick after consuming raw milk during a party to celebrate the passing of a bill to legalize its consumption. A spokesman from the party asserted that there was no link between the revelers drinking the raw milk and becoming...
Are You Boring Yourself To Death?
"Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.” — Anonymous Hey, there's nothing wrong with routine — from Monday to Friday, my life revolves around work, family, and the daily tasks of life. Once the weekend rolls around, however, all bets are off — I head up north to camp, go to my cottage, hike, and anything else that...
Election 2016: 13 Things You Might Not Know
There has been a lot of coverage of key contenders Clinton, Sanders, and Trump, but few know about their forays into music, sport and entertainment. Clinton won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word in 1997 and Sanders released a folk album, “We will overcome.” Sanders called it "the worst album ever recorded." Meanwhile, Trump has been involved financially in...
8 Real-Life Women Spies That Make James Bond Look Like A Wimp
Fictional British secret agent James Bond has access to some neat gadgets, but he has also been accused of misogyny, racism and consumerism. Women, for him, are the trophies he gets after he completes his mission, and his enemies tend to be Russians and Cubans with cheesy evilness and unrealistic accents. The real world however, runs a gamut of...
Climate Change “Greening” Earth, But Wait, It’s Not Good News
Everyone loves a green, lush environment, right? Sure, but the fact that the earth is getting progressively greener is actually bad news. Extra green expanses across various parts of the globe are actually a result of increased carbon dioxide emissions and signal trouble in the environment. A recent study, “Greening of the Earth and its Drivers,” written by 32 authors...
7 Signs That Big Brother Is Watching You
You’re being watched, listened to and monitored through your computer, phone and even TV. And it doesn’t stop there. You’re being told what to eat and what to buy. Whether you know it or not, Big Brother is watching — and here are seven signs that tell you how. Surveillance cameras: they’re watching you They’re out there watching you. The...
Kentucky Fried Nail Polish? It’s Finger-Lickin’ Gross!
Germaphobes everywhere are heaving in disgust, thanks to the KFC applying its secret recipe to something other than its fried chicken — nail polish. Like many women, I love my nail polish. And I have lots of brands and colors: plum, pastel blue, burgundy — heck, I even have mojito green. But what I don’t have, or necessarily want,...
April Smashes Heat Records: Warmest Spring Month Ever Recorded
April just smashed a bunch of heat records, marking the warmest for that spring month ever recorded. The global temperature last month was 1.11 degrees Celsius above the 1951-1980 average and well above the previous April record, set in 2010, of 0.24 degrees Celsius above average. Going by the NASA data, April was the seventh month in a row...
