Tag Archives: Modern

Modern Agriculture Drives Hunger, Obesity and Disease While Simultaneously Threatening Food Chain

Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published April 25, 2017. “Regenerative food, farming and land use can provide a solution to the health crisis, the water crisis, environmental degradation, climate change, rural poverty, hunger and war.” ~ Ronnie Cummins, Founding Meeting of Regeneration International, June 9, 2015, Finca Luna Nueva, Costa… Read More »

Parisian chic and modern alpine minimalism

Taking conceptual cues from Parisian Chic and Modern Alpine interior aesthetics, the Winter collection sees more than 120 new additions. Available online from April 1 with the collections landing in store throughout the month, the new Winter lines return to timeless elegance and contemporary form synonymous with European style but made for the quintessential Australian… Read More »

Making sense of the Modern movement

‘Modern’ and ‘designer’ homes make up more than half of new build detached properties, but do we really understand what the term means? While popular home trends such as The Hamptons, Country and French Colonial have clear definitions, Modern is used to describe a number of styles that share common elements, but require specific considerations.… Read More »

Mesmerising Science: The Franklin Commission and the Modern Clinical Trial

— By Urte Laukaityte Benjamin Franklin, magnetic trees, and erotically-charged séances — Urte Laukaityte on how a craze for sessions of “animal magnetism” in late 18th-century Paris led to the randomised placebo-controlled and double-blind clinical trials we know and love today. Patients, mostly women, are sitting around a large wooden tub filled with magnetic water,… Read More »

Most modern hip and knee replacements will last for 25 YEARS or more, finds huge study

Most modern hip and knee replacements will last for 25 YEARS or more, finds study of more than 200,000 people Surgeons have been unable to tell patients the procedure’s long-term success Many procedures are repeated due to infection or wear and tear, costing money  Study found 80% of knee and 60% of hip replacements last… Read More »