UN Envoy to Yemen Expects Truce Soon as “Non-Existent” Hospital Infrastructure Braces for Coronavirus
PICTURED: Damage to a cholera treatment center in Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders after an airstrike by the…
Author: Andy Corbley
Irreversible No-Longer – Blind Mice See Again Thanks To New and Better Method for Synthesizing Lost Cells
Age-related macular degeneration (MD) is a variety of ocular disease that affects so many millions of people that it’s…
Buona Pasqua – Spending Another Holiday Like a Character in a Jane Austen Book
Italy is where I have spent yet another major holiday, passing as I did Christmas and New Years in…
Banning the Wildlife Trade Could be Good News for Certain Animals, and a Death Sentence for Millions of Humans
Kenya. January 2019. PICTURED: Black rhino in Masai Mara’s green season. Photo credit: Kandukuru Nagarjun. CC 2.0 After research…
Afghanistan Peace Seems to have Collapsed: Fighting Resumes and Pompeo Threatens to Leave the Country
PICTURED: Taliban fighters. Photo credit: Tolo News. KABUL, Afghanistan. March 23rd 2020. Sec. of State Mike Pompeo arrived for…
These Colors Don’t Run – The Face of the Military During the COVID-19 Pandemic
JAPAN, September 16th, 2018. PICTURED: Captain Brett Crozier tours the 7th fleet flagship the USS Blue Ridge with Lt.…
The Last Major Roadblock to Peace in Afghanistan Seems to be Out of the Way as Ghani Government Agrees to Prisoner Exchange
PICTURED: Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, who contested the prisoner exchange as being not something his government had agreed to.…
The Empire of U.S. Bases Could be the Most High Profile Case of a Coronavirus Casualty
PICTURED: A sandstorm rolls into the Al-Asad air base, Iraq. WASHINGTON. March 31st, 2019. With over 200 military bases…
3 Months in Italy and How Being a Digital Nomad Sometimes Requires Settling Down
I don’t think anyone needs anymore details about COVID-19. I want to take this blog post to start talking…
On Feb. 10th, the New USAID Budget Got $2 Billion to Try and Eradicate Tuberculosis in Central Asia
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan. March 14, 2020, PICTURED: USAID received its personal protective equipment (PPE) shipment in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, as part…
Food Allergies in Children Seem Heavily-Determined by Mother’s Microbiome and Fiber Intake
The human microbiome – the cultures of microscopic lifeforms which live inside us, is proven to have all manner…
New National Forest Initiative Spanning the Length and Breadth of Wales Will Link Fragmented Forests Across the Country
PICTURED: Ceunant Llennyrch Woodland Trail, near Coed Felinrhyd rainforest, Wales. Photo credit: Barry Hunter. CC 2.0 Reprinted with permission…
Maximum Pressure Campaign on Iran Intensifies as Fresh U.S. Sanctions Join Coronavirus in Impacting the Country
TEHRAN, Iran. March 16th, 2020. PICTURED: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a press conference addressing the upcoming holidays and…
In 2013 Researchers Created Mutant Worms that Live 500% Longer – Now They Know How,
PICTURED: C. elegans under a microscope. Photo credit: Zeiss Microscopy. CC 2.0 Back in 2013, researchers at the Buck…
A Few Tweaks to Ensure the Best of a Classic Ghanaian Itinerary to Cape Coast
PICTURED: The bustling fishing industry off the Atlantic coast of Cape Coast, Ghana. 2019 brought swathes of enthusiastic, warm-hearted…
What if There Were a Drug that Tricked Your Body into Thinking it was Fasting?
PICTURED: Researcher Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, and his colleague Concepcion Rodriguez Esteban. Medical science is now becoming very comfortable…
Life Under Quarantine
Life under quarantine is an interesting new challenge for a world-traveler/digital nomad. It takes a moment to set in,…
House Democrats Move to Prevent the Removal of Any U.S. Troops From 53 African Countries
WASHINGTON D.C. March 4th, 2020. Early reports of a bill slated to be introduced in the House that would…
Who’s Done What to Achieve the Pre-Peace Deal in Afghanistan?
Doha, Qatar. February 29th, 2020. As the Taliban delegation joined in representatives from the United States, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and…
New Study Finds Two Proteins Which Seem to Prevent Healthy Aging in Worms, Mice, and Humans
Over the 20th and 21st centuries the average lifespan of human beings across the world has been getting longer…