If you’re in a lot of pain and you have a dog, the best relief of all may be to let your dog sleep with you, a new study suggests. According to Science News, the feeling of content you get from the physical contact with your pet gives you a sense of well-being that can lessen the pain and help you sleep better, too.

What is water fasting? What are its benefits? Intermittent fasting is gaining huge popularity as a dietary option, but what actually happens to your body when you fast? When I first heard about water fasting, I thought, “No way am I doing this!” But after doing some research and finding out about the benefits of this process, I changed my mind. And now I’m going to tell you what I experienced during my 20-day water fast. If you wanna know the whole story, watch the video!

You can benefit from the same cannabinoids that give the cannabis plant its medicinal properties, without consuming cannabis. Following are several foods rich in cannabinoids that benefit the body’s endocannabinoid system. This system is responsible for helping the body maintain internal balance, also called homeostasis.

Researchers have shown that treatment of aged mice with the natural product Fisetin, found in many fruits and vegetables, has significant positive effects on health and lifespan.

Granting human rights to a computer would degrade human dignity. For instance, when Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to a robot called Sophia, human women, including feminist scholars, objected, noting that the robot was given more rights than many Saudi women have.

The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) in Antarctic detected never before seen “upward-pointing cosmic-ray-like events.” Last week, a group of researchers posted a new theory about the rays measured by ANITA. The group, led by Pennsylvania State University physicist Derek Fox, suggests ANITA may have found evidence of a particle that lies completely outside of the Standard Model of physics.

Earlier this year, scientists from New York and Sweden published the results of their sweeping study of 5 million DNA barcodes from about 100,000 different animal species. As reported by phys.org, the results are “sure to jostle, if not overturn, more than one settled idea about how evolution unfolds.” In addition to a shocking absence of genetic diversity, the authors were stunned to conclude that about 9 out of every 10 species on Earth appear to have come into being at about the same time, apparently sometime between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago. Study co-author David Thaler said of the findings, “This conclusion is very surprising, and I fought against it as hard as I could.” One unavoidable possibility these results raise is articulated in the phys.org report, which asks, “Was there some catastrophic event 200,000 years ago that nearly wiped the slate clean?”

 New research sheds light on how people decide whether behavior is good or bad, moral or immoral. The findings could serve as a framework for informing the development of artificial intelligence and other technologies.

How can we experience enlightenment, oneness, and our divine identity? Find out what coaches, educators and entrepreneurs say in this fabulous, new documentary called Enlightenment.

By Jake Johnson | Common Dreams The massive shutdown affected many sites devoted to covering war, police brutality, and other issues neglected by the corporate media. After Facebook announced on Thursday that it shut down and removed hundreds of pages and accounts that it vaguely accused of spreading “spam” and engaging in “inauthentic behavior,” some of the […]

The Press For Truth Facebook page with over 300,000 followers, and the Anti-Media page of over two million Facebook followers were unpublished on October 11 without warning, as well as hundreds of other indy/alternative news Facebook pages.

John Lennon never shied away from telling it like it is, and neither should we. In honor of what would have been Lennon’s 78th birthday, here are some uncomfortable truths about life in the American police state..

In this video, Mike Maloney shows us a recent discovery that helps explain why the cracks in the financial system are growing larger every day, and why the next market crash will be far more devastating than anyone has anticipated.

Warnings from the mainstream media of a new crisis on Wall Street continue to become even more dramatic.  For example, the following comes from a Bloomberg article entitled “The Next Financial Crisis Is Staring Us in the Face”…

What does it look and sound like when thousands of Amazon workers learn that CEO and world’s richest man Jeff Bezos has finally relented to widespread grassroots pressure and raised the company’s minimum wage to $15 an hour? In a video posted to Twitter on Tuesday, Dave Clark—Amazon’s senior vice president for worldwide operations and customer service—captured the moment he announced to California warehouse workers early Tuesday that Amazon has decided, in the face of intensifying political scrutiny, to raise its entry-level wage to $15 an hour for all of its 350,000 U.S. workers.

After months of intense public pressure from lawmakers like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and company employees who shared their harrowing stories of low pay, long hours, and brutal warehouse conditions, Amazon announced on Tuesday that it is raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all of its U.S. workers by next month.