Almost three decades after “the pill” was approved, the FDA allowed another pill to enter the pharmaceutical product arena – the “morning after pill”, which is outright an abortion pill. Reliable numbers of how many pills are sold worldwide are hard to come by, but according to a New York Times article from the about 850.000 annual in-clinc-abortions in the US about 40% (2017) are meanwhile medically induced. In more legislated countries these pills have to be administered by health care professionals; whereas in many other countries, e.g. Mexico, these drugs are apparently even sold over the counter. The company Roussel-Uclaf that developed the Mifegyne (mifepristone) in the 1980 was a subsidiary of the Hoechst AG, the former infamous IG-Farben. Despite being part of the list of the WHO essential medicines, “the pill” had strong political …
Surveys report that about 30% of the population is checking their daily horoscope, some even state up to 60%. I can see a third of the population being drawn to this subject, two thirds seem exaggerated, but who really knows. For myself, I’ve never felt attracted by the daily short phrased offerings of fortune telling. I give them credit for filling a highly entertaining niche on different media platforms and, to some degree, even acknowledge their shallow value of helping to reflect on oneself. I guess most of the readers are aware of the odds of these daily or weekly zodiac garnished listicles, but still feel drawn to them. The attraction to those tidbits of perceived connection to the universe seems to be unwavering, the astro-market place is ….
It is hard to escape the word INFORMATION these days. The word, as we all know, is not a new addition to the English language. It is derived from the Latin verb “informare” (to inform), to “give form to the mind”, to “discipline”.It is omnipresent in our daily lives, words like: information age, information technology, information systems, information management, information architecture, …. the list goes on and on. The word is hip and perceived to be trendy and sophisticated. Even different media outlets jump on the “information” bandwagon, trying to differentiate themselves from their competitors by claiming that they do the best job of “in-form-ing” you…..
If you follow to some degree astrological content it will be of no surprise to you that this year is deemed to be a year of change. A powerful constellation is on the way, it is the conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Saturn – called the ….
