China and the Butterfly Effect

China and the Butterfly Effect

Sometimes small victories or positive actions are almost as important as major international ones as they can give a new quality of impulse to many related developments, what physicists call the “butterfly effect.” To be more precise, a butterfly effect says that “a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result…

Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything it Really Knows About Them

Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything it Really Knows About Them

Facebook has long let users see all sorts of things the site knows about them, like whether they enjoy soccer, have recently moved, or like Melania Trump. But the tech giant gives users little indication that it buys far more sensitive data about them, including their income, the types of restaurants they frequent and even…

MIT Scientist Explains Why Modern Wheat is Causing So Many Health Problems

MIT Scientist Explains Why Modern Wheat is Causing So Many Health Problems

The use of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide has increased substantially over the last 40 years. Many researchers are starting to believe that increased use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, correlates to the rise in many modern diseases. According to Dr. Stephanie Seneff, a senior research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), glyphosate…