Leather has been used for many thousands of years to make just about every kind of cloth and upholstery you can imagine. It has long been preferred for certain tasks; not just out of its easy accessibility but also for it’s durability. Nowadays, people tend to prefer to have the availability of many different options.

The first reported use of artificial leather was by the Chinese around the 1400’s and is believed to have been discovered by tampering with silk. The most common artificial leather in the world today is most certainly PU leather aka Polyurethane or ‘Pleather’.

While Polyurethane is more animal friendly, washable, cheaper and doesn’t require as much care as normal leather, it tends to crack after being exposed to prolonged sunlight.

It’s also not breathable, it’s not environmentally friendly and it’s not biodegradable. It actually takes over 500 years for poly-leathers to decompose, like most other oil-based plastics do. Continue reading →

Worldwide, nicotine is the substance most people are addicted to. Tobacco use is the cause of six million deaths annually. In other words, every five seconds someone dies from diseases that are the result of smoking cigarettes.

If this trend continues, this number will rise to eight million deaths annually by the year 2030.
Every single person that was or still is addicted to cigarettes, knows how difficult it is to quit smoking.

The desire to quit could be present, but the actual method to do it gets many people stuck. Nicotine plasters, gum, acupuncture, E-cigarettes and self motivation books, can often result in spent money, and not much more.

Saying no to cigarettes is so much easier said than done. Sometimes it even feels  as if the salesmen who are promoting their quitting smoking products want you to fail and keep smoking because selling products and making money is their priority over health. Continue reading →

Yoga truly has no age limits, and 97 year old Tao-Porchon Lynch is the ultimate proof!

Tao was born to an Indian father and French Mother, she grew up in India and started practicing Yoga when she was 8 years old. She now lives in New York, where she wakes up at 5am every morning to teach Yoga to her students of all ages.

“When I was eight, I saw a group of boys performing crazy postures on a beach in India. My aunt told me that being a girl, yoga was not for me. But, I wanted to do it and I said, “If boys can do it, so can I.” Continue reading →

Have you eaten at the same restaurant for the last three years, but the wait staff doesn’t even know your name? Prefer to read a book in a corner rather than sit around your friends, generally being terrified of people yet so intrigued by them at the same time? Craving to sit at a table with a crowd, yet so unsure about how long you can hold a smile among others. You’re most likely an anxious extrovert!

There are a few rules which may help you come out of your shell in a comfortable manner.

Rule One: Have an awesome disguise!

This wouldn’t apply to a wig, shades or a fake mustache, seek more along the lines of  confidence. The type you may not naturally possess. This simple prop may be enough to give you the feeling of security you may need to get by. A bit like acting can trigger an Adrenalin rush, being the BEST you may have the same effect! Continue reading →

If you still don’t believe in psychic ability, you have to watch this video.

For many of us, it’s no secret that we all hold the abilities that some would consider “paranormal” or psychic, when it is really just an innate form of understanding we are all born with. These children are all part of a small alternative school in Essex. They are taught mainly with blindfolds which teaches them how to activate their third eye and see through their blindfolds.

These children are able to do pretty much anything while completely blind folded. They can read books, play games, draw identical pictures beside ones the interviewer drew, and it even gets more phenomenal than that.

This one girl they interviewed in that video named Lucy seems to possess a stronger sense of psychic ability than some of the others. While the interviewer is drawing different pictures for her while she’s blindfolded, she is able to tell exactly what he is drawing even before he turns the paper to face her.

She is literally able to see through her blindfold, and through the paper itself with her third eye. This right here is proof of the incredible potential of humans.

The problem is that many people will jump to an array of reasons to discredit this, and many similar videos and studies. Many people will claim that they can see through the blindfold, even though a suspicious crew member filming the interview tried it on themselves to verify that it was indeed not see-through.  Continue reading →

Cannabis, aka ‘Marijuana’ or ‘Hemp’ has been at the forefront of many political discussions for decades. It becomes an even larger debate when you put the word ‘Medicinal’ in front of it. Many people believe doctors and scientists are the only ones who should have any real say in whether or not Cannabis is effective as a medicine. Problem is, the only people who have any real say in that area right now, are politicians.

Since 1972, many people have been fighting against the system to get Cannabis reclassified. You see, the US Government has Cannabis listed as a Schedule 1 Narcotic, under the Controlled Substances Act that was implemented under Nixon’s ‘War on Drugs’. Many American politicians claim that all drugs under the Schedule 1 classification have one important thing in common. They have no known medicinal use, whatsoever. These same people claim that Cannabis cannot be used as a medicine and has no business being considered a medicine. How true is that claim?

Well, for starters lets not forget about Marinol, which is approved by the FDA. Marinol is just synthesized THC, the active ingredient in Cannabis that produces the ‘high’.

Millions of people are sitting in jail for using Cannabis raw, but it’s ‘perfectly fine’ to use the plant if the Government and the corporations they support (in lieu of bribes) take most of the medicine out of it and charge you an arm and a leg for it.

Also keep in mind: The US Government also holds a patent on Cannabis and it’s medicinal properties. US Patent 6630507 states unequivocally, that cannabinoids are useful in the prevention and treatment of a wide variety of diseases including: autoimmune disorders, stroke, trauma, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and HIV dementia. The patent, awarded in 2003, is based on research done by the National Institute of Health, and is assigned to the US Dept. of Health and Human Services.

Do you fully understand how insane that is? How can they hold patents claiming it works as a medicine,  while claiming it has no medicinal value? This is the issue. We have mountains of evidence that it works as a medicine for a myriad of health problems. Continue reading →