According to the Courier Mail, an Australian news website, more than 200,000 practitioners work in unregistered health fields Australia-wide and complementary medicines generate almost $2 billion a year , but little can be done when treatments go wrong. In a assessment of consumer-protection measures, Queensland's health watchdog admitted it was powerless to respond to the misconduct of alternative healers and other unregistered practitioners.

I like to keep track of popular science web sites and which articles collect the most traffic, which are most popular, and which are shared on social networks. I couldn't help but notice that on LiveScience.com , the Popular Posts widget shows five stories, and none of them are based on hard science. Their top stories are often related to sex or the paranormal.

A Berry A Day Beats Apples in UK Review Shoppers find top fruits berry nice indeed - Scotsman.com News All the talk by nutritionists and newspapers about the benefits of 'berry good for you' antioxidants seems to have paid off. Berries have overtaken the apple as the nations favourite fruit based on sales. It's no longer An apple a Day keeps the Doctor away it's a berry a day - more like a punnet of berries.

Below is a an incredible time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet Earth at night. According to the creator, on his YouTube channel, "this movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica

Noted skeptic and magician James "The Amazing" Randi will be giving a talk on September 27th in Toronto. I will be attending and blogging about the event . James Randi exposes popularly accepted fakery by discussing with his audience everything from UFOs to the Bermuda Triangle, from the Von Däniken “ Chariots of the Gods ” fraud to the notion of a lost continent named Atlantis

Vegetarian Vegan omega 3 DHA EPA supplement from Algae v pure vegetarian omega 3 V-Pure the fish free vegetarian vegan omega 3 supplement with DHA and EPA is back in stock and there is currently a 3 for 2 offer at under £30 for 3 pots ( 3 month supply) & a modest charge for postage and packing.

Produced by Randy Halverson and shot in central South Dakota, this is a stunning example of time lapsed photography of our Milky Way galaxy with a backdrop of electrical storms in the background. Tempest Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo . From the Vimeo page: "One of the challenges in making this video, was trying to get good storm with stars shots

For decades, astrophysicists have attempted to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way as realistic as possible. Recently, a groupd of astrophysicists from the University of Zurich demonstrated the world's first realistic simulation of the creation of the Milkey Way galaxy. The simulation was done in collaboration with astronomers from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Mokele-mbembe - Almost Like Nessie In the Lingala language, Mokele-mbembe literally means, "the one who stops the river". Just like Nessie, the Mokele-mbembe is said to be a living dinosaur of the sauropod kind which dwells in the Republic of Congo in the depths of the Likouala swamp region. Loosely, it is analogously comparable to Nessie, or the Loch Ness Monster of the Scottish Highlands.

Patternicity: The tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise. "Why do people see faces in nature, interpret window stains as human figures, hear voices in random sounds generated by electronic devices or find conspiracies in the daily news? A proximate cause is the priming effect, in which our brain and senses are prepared to interpret stimuli according to an expected model