Hard Science May Suggest Skeptics and Debunkers Suffer Brain Deficits, "ODD"

All beings, from microbes to more evolved plants and animals are wittingly or unwittingly in pursuit of both infinity and truthfulness.  Perceiving the Universe as static, and, perhaps, as nothing more than entertainment, and commerce fodder for the pleasure of humans constipates both our personal and collective growth as humans, it also serves as conceptual anchor in the architecture of life's degeneration at the hands of ideologically misguided people whose engagement of selfishness and shallowness presents their involvement as a malignant carcinoma on the body of humanity and the planet at large.  

Human evolution has demonstrated a longing for infinity toward which humans particularly have awakened to subtler realms of being in furthering their journey and unification toward that desideratum, along with cooperation and subtleties of mind bringing about greater gestalts delivering all of humanity to greater plateaus from which to launch even further into the potentialities of human and universal excellencies.  

10 Ways to Protect Children From Pesticides

Education and Youth Development

Today’s children are sicker than children were two generations ago.  

From learning disabilities and autism to childhood cancers and more, a startling number of diseases and disorders are on the rise.  And the science leaves little room for doubt: pesticides and other toxic chemicals are contributing to our kids getting sick, and these chemicals can have cascading effects that last for generations.  

The good news is, this is a problem we can do something about.  From kitchen tables to state capitals, from school districts to family farms, people are finding ways to better protect children's health.  It's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work.  See our Top 10 list below to find out how you can help protect kids from pesticides.  Today.  

Children are in harm's way

Pediatricians have understood for decades that children interact with their environment much differently than adults.  Infants and children have speedier metabolic rates, which means they take in more water, food and air.  Their bodies are also less able to detoxify and expel harmful chemicals.  

In short, a child is absorbing a higher load of pesticides at a time when his or her body is least equipped to protect itself.  

Here are just some of the many pathways of exposure putting our children in harm's way: