When Modern Antidepressants Fail To Treat Depression: Treatments based on serotonin may be based on flawed logic
"Today, psychiatrists overwhelmingly prescribe drugs that," writes Gary L. Wenk, Ohio State University (Jan. 15th, 2020)
5 things you can do to make yourself healthier: having a healthy gut
"It’s common for people to focus on their health at the start of the year. But few consider the well being of the microbes that live inside the human gut – the microbiome – which are vital to an individual’s good health," write Connie Rogers, Pennsylvania State University and Darrell Cockburn, Pennsylvania State University (Jan. 15th, 2020)
VIDEO: Harvard Author of #1 Best Seller “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” tells us what it means (3 minute video)
Because we are living in an age of unprecedented surveillance, here's a quick video where Shoshana Zuboff defines "Surveillance Capitalism" (Jan. 15th, 2020)
Review: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
"Zuboff, a professor emerita from Harvard Business School known for her research on information technology in the workplace, set a monumental task for herself," writes Sam DiBella, London School of Economics (Jan. 15th, 2020)
Elizabeth Warren stands to gain from Julian Castro’s endorsement (some important numbers)
"In addition to sharing so many donors, Castro and Warren have two of the highest ratios of women donors," writes Brian Johnson, Center for Responsive Politics (Jan. 15th, 2020)
UPDATED: After Iran retaliates, US-Iran tensions ease, and Trump remains isolated
This article was written by the same distinguished scholar whose piece we initially featured (found below) on the topic of Iran. However, this article has been written after the Iranian response, and both pieces are worth reading (Jan. 8th, 2019)
While the US and Iran risk a major war, Trump continues his ignorant recklessness
"President Donald Trump’s policy toward Iran is in deep crisis. The president’s approach has the support neither of America’s allies nor of its strategic rivals, China and Russia. And his policy – made even more confrontational by the shooting of a high-ranking Iranian official – has boxed him into a situation where, short of dramatic reversal, Washington and Tehran are edging close to war," writes Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Jan. 8th, 2020)
VIDEO: I was involved in selling the fake reasons for the Iraq War. I’m seeing the same thing with Iran (6 minutes)
"I watched as the intelligence was cooked, as principals in the George W. Bush government were sold by that intelligence or helped to warp that intelligence... I’m watching the same thing again," says Lawrence Wilkerson, retired United States Army colonel, who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff from 2002 to 2005 (Jan. 8th, 2020)
Andrew Bacevich – The last three decades of American foreign policy have been a colossal failure (Essay)
"Thirty years later, perhaps it’s time to assess just how well the United States has fulfilled the expectations President Bush articulated in 1990. Personally, I would rate the results somewhere between deeply disappointing and flat-out abysmal," writes Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (Jan. 8th, 2020)