The Hard Thing About Crypto Purgatory
Jack SoloweyOn Thursday, September 15, 2022, the Senate Agriculture Committee will hold a hearing on the bipartisan Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act of 2022 (the Stabenow ‐Boozman bill). Thebill seeks to answer one of the most frequent questions in crypto policy: who will oversee crypto marketplaces and what will that look like? While the bill makes important strides – appropriately giving the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), as opposed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), exclusive jurisdiction over “digital commodity” trades – it sidesteps the hard question of what exa...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 12, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jack Solowey Source Type: blogs
10 Natural Remedies to Defeat Seasonal Allergies
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The roses are in bloom and gardens scintillating. But you cannot stop to smell and enjoy the lovely scent because you are already on Claritin allergy medication. When spring beckons, allergic sneezes, skin peeling, flaking, and itching become the order of the day. But allergies are not just common in springs. Some people experience allergic reactions even in summer, falls, and winter.
Though the common rem...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dispick Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement allergies natural remedies Source Type: blogs
Lakenheath Revisited
We visited RSPB Lakenheath for the first time back in snowy February. They were just setting up a photography hide with naturalistic perches and feeders and a reed bed for Bunts, Tits, Kingfishers, and the like. In fact, first shot I got there was of a beautiful Kingfisher who popped in stared at the camera and disappeared within the space of about ten seconds. This visit, we had numerous Tits (Great, Blue, and Marsh), Reed Bunts, Goldfinches, and a few others, and a male Great Spotted Woodpecker, but did no spotted Kingfisher at this site this time.
Below Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) fishing
Great Tits (Parus major) ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 25, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
RSPB Lakenheath Redux
We visited RSPB Lakenheath for the first time back in snowy February. They were just setting up a photography hide with naturalistic perches and feeders and a reed bed for Bunts, Tits, Kingfishers, and the like. In fact, first shot I got there was of a beautiful Kingfisher who popped in stared at the camera and disappeared within the space of about ten seconds. This visit, we had numerous Tits (Great, Blue, and Marsh), Reed Bunts, Goldfinches, and a few others, and a male Great Spotted Woodpecker, but did no spotted Kingfisher at this site this time.
Below Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) fishing
Great Tits (Parus major) ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 25, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Arachnodetour
A slight detour from the mothematics and the feathered aviators. If you’re an arachnophobe now is the time to look away or if you’re trying aversion therapy, start staring at the screen and scrolling now!
The first three photos are of a Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi) which had spun its orb web on the edge of the footpath leading from the Visitors’ Centre to the Photography Station:
The two archno photos below are of a Cross Spider, or more formally a Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus). In the lower of the two one spider is about to drag the more prominent one up and under the nettle leaves (not ent...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 25, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
More on being dead
The definition of human life is a profound cultural and political fault line. One end, of course, is when human life begins. This surfaces as a largely emotional debate, and facts don ' t enter into it very much. For example,here is Zack Beauchamp in Vox, discussing why white evangelical Christians find such an unlikely hero in the Resident. It turns out it ' s because they ' re racists, but we already knew that. However, he concludes with this:Typically, you expect evangelical ideas to flow from religion to politics: They have a deep belief that the Bible prohibits abortion, for example, and support bans on legal abortion...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 25, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Speckled brown butterfly
Snapped a speckly brown butterfly in the local woodland, went to my book…misread the page pictures, thought it was a woodland brown (Lopinga achine), but 1 AND 2 were of the same speckled brown species, the woodland brown is absent from British shores. Turns out to be a female speckled brown (Pararge aegeria). A lot less timid and flitty than many of the butterflies around, sunning itself on a nettle patch while I walked around it to get a couple of closeups. I was using a 600mm lens from about 3 metres away, but had to walk closer to it along the path to get to the other side for the open-wings view.
Thanks to L...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 27, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
European peacock butterfly (Aglais io)
Although slightly slower-moving than the orange tip I photographed and blogged recently, the European peacock (Aglais io) is just as tough to catch on a pitstop, luckily there are so many dandelions in bloom in the set aside fields and elsewhere that it’s now quite hard not to get a photo!
If I remember rightly, this species lays its eggs only on nettles (Urtica urens) and hops (Humulus lupulus), so definitely a reason to cultivate a nettle patch and grow some hops (perfect for nettle wine and beer after the season too). (Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science)
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 21, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Corruption of clinical trials reports: a proposal
CORRUPTION OF CLINICAL TRIALS REPORTS:A PROPOSALThere is a disconnection between the FDA’s drug approval process and the reports we see in medical journals. Pharmaceutical corporations exploit this gap through adulterated, self-serving analyses, and the FDA sits on its hands. I suggest we need a new mechanism to fix the problem – by independent analyses of clinical trials data.When they analyze and publish their clinical trials in medical journals, pharmaceutical corporations have free rein to shape the analyses. The FDA conducts independent analyses of the data submitted by the corporations, and it may deny or delay a...
Source: Health Care Renewal - June 22, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Bernard Carroll citalopram clinical trials Eric Topol escitalopram FDA Forest Pharmaceuticals Jay Amsterdam Jon Jureidini Leemon McHenry Lisa Cosgrove Lundbeck Underwriters Laboratory vortioxetine Source Type: blogs
Africa’s Best No Lye Relaxer – Look at the label
Africa’s Best Dual Conditioning No-Lye Relaxer System is a top seller on Amazon.com. Is its “No Lye” claim truthful? Let’s look at the label to find out.
I worked with the chemist who developed Motions and other world class relaxers. If you want to support the Beauty Brains please use our link below to shop for No-lye Relaxer or ANY product that you want from Amazon. Perry & I really appreciate your support!
Is Africa’s Best Relaxer really no lye?
Lye, in case you didn’t know, is another name for sodium hydroxide which is the most effective ingredient used in modern relaxers. Unfort...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - August 2, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Claims Source Type: blogs
Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones
I’m sure that you remember the phrase ‘Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never harm me” from childhood, I know I certainly do.
But is it true?
Or is it one of those pieces of old-time nonsense that appears to be wise at first glance, but when you dig a bit deeper possess all the wisdom of a Paris Hilton led think tank on Quantum Mechanics.
I got into a lively debate recently with somebody who had posted, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can also hurt me” when I ventured to disagree.
I even went as far as to post it to my ‘Terrible Quotes On Pinterest’ board.
The woman in ques...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - March 3, 2014 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
Africa’s Best Dual Conditioning No-Lye Relaxer: Look at the label
Africa’s Best Dual Conditioning No-Lye Relaxer System is a top seller on Amazon.com. Is its “No Lye” claim truthful? Let’s look at the label to find out.
I worked with the chemist who developed Motions and other world class relaxers. If you want to support the Beauty Brains please use our link below to shop for No-lye Relaxer or ANY product that you want from Amazon. Randy & I really appreciate your support!
Is Africa’s Best Relaxer really no lye?
Lye, in case you didn’t know, is another name for sodium hydroxide which is the most effective ingredient used in modern relaxers. Unfort...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - November 9, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs
Pura d’or Hair Loss Prevention Premium Organic Shampoo: Look at the label
Believe it or not this hair loss prevention shampoo is a top beauty seller on Amazon.com. Let’s look at the label to see if it has a chance in hell of actually preventing hair loss.
The good news is the shampoo uses one of the mildest cleansing ingredients you can buy – sodium cocoyl isethionate. The bad news is it costs $22 for 16 ounces which is expensive. There are other shampoos based on the same ingredient which you can get for much cheaper.
More good news: if you read the claims carefully you’ll see that it really is just a shampoo and not a drug product. More bad news: they throw in all sorts o...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - August 31, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs
Is Desert Essence shampoo actually organic?
Herbvynll has something to say…I recently bought this but yet to use it. It was around $7. I got it because I like light to no scents in my shampoo’s. I went on Amazon.com and read some reviews and there were an equal amount of 1/5 reviews and 5/5 reviews. It’s like going cross eyed trying to figure out if I should use it or not. I’ve been using Suave and V05 for years and grew up on Johnson’s and Loreal Kids. My hair and scalp are normal. Meaning not dry or oily. However, my hair is thick. I was wondering if Desert Essence line is actually organic and not false leading like Organix line. And ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - June 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs
Does taking supplements help IVF patients ?
Practically all women doing IVF are taking supplements of one sort or
another ! These are supposed to improve egg yield, egg quality and
embryo implantation , thus helping to improve IVF pregnancy rates. I
have come across women who take over 10 different supplements daily –
and I wonder how they manage to swallow so many different tablets,
syrups and capsules in a day ! On second thoughts thought, it is not
surprising , because the craving for a baby can make a woman move heaven
and earth; which means taking umpteen supplements is not such a
difficult task to accomplish. I have heard the following qu...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - January 14, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Food and Drug Administration Vitamin B In vitro fertilisation Aspirin Polycystic ovary syndrome Vitamin C Antioxidant Vitamin D Source Type: blogs
