Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 423 If the placebo can do a great deal of good, it can also do a great deal of harm. The cerebral cortex stimulates negative biochemical changes just as it does positive changes. Beecher stressed as long ago as 1955, in the Journal of American Medical Association, that placebos can have serious … Read more
Number of words: 992 Over long centuries, doctors have been educated by their patients to observe the prescription ritual. Most people seem to feel their complaints are not taken seriously unless they are in possession of a little slip of paper with indecipherable but magic markings. To the patient, a prescription is a certificate of … Read more
Number of words: 358 Even before we had completed arrangements for moving out of the hospital we began the part of the program calling for the full exercise of the affirmative emotions as a factor in enhancing body chemistry. It was easy enough to hope and love and have faith, but what about laughter? Nothing … Read more
Number of words: 242 I remembered having read, ten years or so earlier, Hans Selye’s classic book, The Stress of Life. With great clarity, Selye showed that adrenal exhaustion could be caused by emotional tension, such as frustration or suppressed rage. He detailed the negative effects of the negative emotions on body chemistry. The inevitable … Read more
Number of words: 352 There were other tests, some of which seemed to me to be more an assertion of the clinical capability of the hospital than of concern for the well-being of the patient. I was astounded when four technicians from four different departments took four separate and substantial blood samples on the same … Read more
Number of words: 702 Much has been made about the tension between fuel crops and food crops and that the growing of biofuels, especially ethanol, is leading to food price inflation. But there are good Biofuels and bad biofuels. In the United States, most ethanol is made from corn and, in 2007, US farmers grew … Read more
Number of words: 369 Canada is seen as the great saviour by oil enthusiasts. Canada has the world’s most extensive oil sands, estimated by some to be capable of producing 2.5 trillion barrels of oil! Sound too good to be true? It is. Oil (or tar) sands are a mix of asphalt (bitumen), earth, sand and … Read more
Number of words: 217 Decomposing organic matter over millions of years produced oil when underground heat of up to 150°C kick-started the process of changing it into hydrocarbons, which come in different degrees of complexity from the simple mixture of one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms to make methane – CH – to the … Read more
Number of words: 210 Civilisations have fallen because of an inability to acquire sufficient quantities of energy, food and metals. Societies that have managed to control access to natural resources have survived and those that have failed have become extinct. The Spanish conquistadores’ pillage of Peru and Mexico, destroying both the Aztec and Inca cultures, … Read more
Number of words: 235 Whatever product or service you look at, its pricing is based on fossil fuels. Infrastructure and construction are reliant on metals mined all over the world, from Canada to Australia, but those metals not only need to be mined, they need to be processed and transported by ships and trucks to … Read more
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