Using 150 genes from human muscle, brain and skin, researchers at Kings College London have developed a benchmark score that can predict healthy aging years — or perhaps even decades. The genes analyzed were taken from 70-year-olds, born about the same month and year, whose health then was tracked for up to 20 years. Typically, the subjects who had a greater number...

Leonie Muller, a German college student, quit living in an apartment and bought a pass that allows her to take any train, any time. She sleeps, washes her hair and works every day on the train, according to a recent Washington Post article.   There’s a growing worldwide fascination with train travel, especially as European markets begin launching high-speed service...

NBCUniversal recently invested $200 million in BuzzFeed and plunked another $200 million into Vox Media. These moves are part of a major effort by parent company Comcast to expand its reach among millennials, in hopes that the cable giant can hop on the media-distribution curve.   That curve is paced by digital-streaming services like Netflix and Amazon, which have been stealing the coveted generation of mostly...

During his wide-ranging speech at the Occupy Peace rally September 20, Ralph Nader invoked the name of a hero of his, someone whose name he suspected the crowd might not recognize.  “Does anybody remember the name of the great reformer Eugene V. Debs?” he asked. A thin cheer went up in response. Nader explained his interest in talking about Debs,...

For months, global forecaster Gerald Celente has promised that his Occupy Peace rally would be the start of something big and unprecedented. On Sunday, September 20, he made good on that promise. Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute, stood at the historic intersection of John and Crown streets in Kingston NY and made a further promise: “This is going...

Global forecaster Gerald Celente’s vision for creating a new kind of peace movement became a super-charged reality when his Occupy Peace rally took over the streets of historic Kingston, NY, on Sept. 20, 2015, to the beat of many different drums and the words of some of the country’s most provocative and thoughtful challengers of the status quo. Motioning toward...

During his wide-ranging speech at the Occupy Peace rally September 20, Ralph Nader invoked the name of a hero of his, someone whose name he suspected the crowd might not recognize.  “Does anybody remember the name of the great reformer Eugene V. Debs?” he asked. A thin cheer went up in response. Nader explained his interest in talking about Debs,...

For months, global forecaster Gerald Celente has promised anyone willing to listen that his Occupy Peace rally would be the start of something big and unprecedented. On Sunday, he made good on that promise. Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute, stood at the historic intersection of John and Crown streets in Kingston NY and made a further promise: “This...

Our future is being robbed from us by murderous thieves. Their wet dream of a never ending War on Terror has created a living nightmare. Not only have these psychopaths hijacked our nation’s wealth as our economy declines, their “destroy and degrade” mentality is depriving us of joy, beauty, peace, and freedom that are our inalienable and god-given rights.  Millions...

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts pulled no punches at the first session of the Trends Research Institute’s Peace and Prosperity Conference Sept. 18.   Unless we find a way to wage peace, he said, the country will continue on its path toward a war that could culminate in nuclear Armageddon.   Roberts, a former assistant secretary of the treasury in the...