Rickets used to be a fairly common childhood disease due to vitamin-D deficiency and lack of sunlight exposure. It led to bone deformity, including bowed legs that are seen in some older people today. Fortifying […]

Two out of three people in the United States are overweight. Lately, there is a lot of focus on reducing belly fat—and with good reason, as accumulated fat around the hips and abdomen points to […]

Did you know that the United States has over 26 million senior volunteers? These volunteers give an average of 4.4 hours per week for a total of 5.5 billion hours each year! The work they […]

A new temporary art exhibition, Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet, is now on display at Santa Monica’s Airport Park. Each of the three globes portrays a different theme about what each of […]

For four months now the Santa Monica-Malibu School District’s Board of Education has been discussing California’s budget crisis and its consequences locally. Last Thursday, the discussions ended and deep cuts were made to the District’s […]

I knew her first as that white-haired woman who sat in the front row at Beyond Baroque’s poetry readings. She did not sit there knitting like Madame DeFarge. She rocked back and forth, gently, in […]

Finally emerging from the shadows of the gas guzzling Los Angeles lifestyle, the first legitimate electric vehicle was unveiled in Santa Monica last Wednesday. Headquartered in Santa Monica, Coda Automotive is a new manufacturer and […]

There are some men, thinkers, sages, saints (perhaps), prophets (perhaps), whose insights are so profound and even revolutionary that they offer us that rarest of commodities – pure truth. Generally speaking, they travel so beyond […]

There’s a slowdown all along the Mexican border. Border Patrol agents caught fully 27 percent fewer illegal immigrants trying to sneak into the United States between November 1 and April 30 than during the same […]

Last Thursday, June 4th, the government of China and the city of Beijing noted the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen uprising and the subsequent brutal army crackdown on protesting citizens by doing what China does […]