Humans have been smoking pot to get high since the first millennium B.C. Archaeologists have found early evidence of cannabis use from wooden bowls exhumed from ancient tombs in western China.
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Article: From alkaline diets to turmeric, eight of the biggest nutrition lies
From alkaline diets to turmeric, eight of the biggest nutrition lies
Facebook bans health and conspiracy site Natural News
Beth Mole
Facebook on Sunday removed the prominent health and conspiracy site Natural News from its platform and banned its incendiary founder from posting content.
Though Facebook did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment on the suspension, Facebook’s move comes just a day after The Daily Beast published a report into the wild, far-right conspiracy theories that have become staples on Natural News.
CRISPR gene-edited babies may be at increased risk of early death, study finds
By Susan Scutti, CNN
(CNN) — Our genomes contain two copies of the CCR5 gene. It is known that people who carry two defective copies of this gene are highly resistant to HIV. But this double mutation of the CCR5 gene, which a Chinese scientist intentionally edited into human embryos last year, is also associated with a 21% increased risk of dying early, a new study showed.
The Reason Why We Pour Milk Over Cereal | Mental Floss
Jake Rossen
“The state of our cereal bowls can be traced to the origins of cereal itself. Back in the mid-1800s…”