World News
French Gay Marriage Approval Highlights Fever of Debate
Tuesday, April 23, the French Parliament voted to approve marriage equality nation-wide. This vote officially makes France the 14th nation worldwide to legalize gay marriage. France is the third nation to approve marriage equality this year. The vote in France was a little more divisive than in Uruguay or New Zealand—the two nations preceding France [...]
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U.S. News
Affordable Care Act Information Website Now Open
Americans can now get information on health insurance coverage available through the new Health Insurance Marketplace, due to start up in October. They can also register for updates regarding the Affordable Care Act via email and mobile phone. Registration and healthcare information is located for people from all states at healthcare.gov — coveredca.com for California [...]
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Ocala News
Florida Issues New Vaccine Requirements
OCALA, Fla. — New health requirements mean children may need an additional polio vaccination before they can enter kindergarten. Students entering seventh grade need the tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis, or Tdap vaccine. Students in higher grades may also need the Tdap vaccine. Some other vaccination requirements include: Kindergarten through the fifth grade: two doses of the varicella vaccine. [...]
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Politics
CISPA Suggests Internet Privacy May End
While many Americans were pre-occupied by the Boston Marathon bombings, the U.S. House passed a controversial bill last Thursday, H.R. 624, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The original bill, H.R. 3523, was defeated in the Senate in the 112th Congress. Senators and the president alike expressed concerns that the bill did not [...]
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Science
New Medical Strategies Emerge to Inhibit Dementia
In April, the National Institutes of Health announced new treatments to inhibit the advancement of Alzheimer’s disease. These have made possible blocking a regular protein called CD33, and therefore allowing support cells in the brain to clear away toxic plaques. Post-mortem human brain research shows that CD33 protein is overactive in cases of Alzheimer’s disease, [...]
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Technology
3D Printer Gun-Making Is Now a Reality
Cody Wilson is widely known as a free-market anarchist and as the founder and director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization that develops and publishes open-source gun designs. Friday, he claimed success in his goal of building a gun with a 3D printer. 3D printing has caused a stir in tech communities in recent months. [...]
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Arts & Entertainment
III Bones Organic Band Excites Ocala Music Scene
Word is spreading fast about III Bones, a new spirit-breathing, organic band launched this year in Ocala, Fla. Call III Bone’s music “Jivanmukta”—an enlightened state: assimilation of self-knowledge and liberation of spirit while living in human physical form. III Bones is performing gigs from Gainesville to Orlando, as well as Marion County venues. We tuned [...]
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Health & Lifestyle
A Minute for Health
A big part of the upcoming changes to healthcare is understanding and practicing preventative health measures, in which we take a good look at ourselves and determine if we are destined to become a heavy user of the healthcare system based on lifestyle patterns. The problem at hand in implementing this though is that a [...]
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