David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Updated: The Secrets of Sleep and Dreams: What Lions Teach Us
Awake, we believe we’re in the prime spaces of life. Sleep and dreams happen only when we’re forced to rest up. That’s what we’ve been told all out lifes, but what if the opposite is true? What if the hours…
Herbal Medicine – Definition, Overview and Safety Concerns
What is herbal medicine? It is simply the use of plants for their therapeutic or medicinal value. And it has been around much longer than modern, Western medicine. In fact, all cultures have some form of herbalism – the study…
How Practical Exercise Leads to Lasting Benefits in Health and Beauty
We all know that exercise is good for us. It’s been drilled into our heads since we were children. However, sometimes it’s hard to find the motivation to get up and move when we don’t see immediate results. It can…
Coping with Illness by Connecting with a Higher Power
Coping with illness is a challenge that all of us face at some point in our lives. It might be your own health or the health of someone close to you, either a loved one or a friend. Most people…
The Secret to Living a Healthy and Balanced Life
Is living a healthy and balanced life easy for everyone? No. We encounter many things every day that threaten our health or knock us off balance. Here are some tips for overcoming those threats. by Sammy Lamb for Assorted Ideas,…
Consequences Beyond Cancer: Unmasking the Social Ramifications of Smoking
Worst effects of cigarette smoking? Cancer? Emphysema? Horrible, but there’s one horror no smokers gets away from. Some never really learn about it or its consequences. For twenty or so years counted in Winstons and Marlboros, I didn’t. Then, one…
This Startup Is Growing Sushi-Grade Salmon From Cells in a Lab
As the ills of factory farming become more pronounced, people are increasingly gravitating towards vegetarian or pescatarian diets. Besides producing a large percentage of our total greenhouse gas emissions, raising livestock uses up a third of the world’s arable land…
Is the Placebo Effect the Magic Key To Hidden Wisdom’s Door?
Who does the placebo effect worry most? Doctors or the pharmaceutical industry? Hard to say. But whoever it is, scrambling to explain it away is common. By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small The Subversive Placebo Effect Both have…
Can Phages Save Us…? Are There Life Saving Secrets?
Can phages save us? Really? From what? First, what are phages anyway and how do their near-magical powers work? Ready for the good viruses? About Bacteriophages… By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Their full title is a mouthful….
A Personal Cancer Cure? The Possibilities May Surprise You
A personal cure for cancer, a natural, non-invasive one, silently protects you? Maybe it saved your life, a miracle you knew nothing about. The idea’s not as strange as you think. By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Introduction:…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor