BACKGROUND Prevention strategies to reduce alcohol use/consumption among young people are crucial to reducing alcohol-related deaths and preventing disease. This paper focuses on the effectiveness of a social networking site (SNS) alcohol prevention program targeted toward young people. OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that the program would diminish the relation made by participants between alcohol...

In the pursuit of scientific truth, even widely held medical beliefs require examination or re-examination. Both physicians and non-physicians sometimes believe things about our bodies that just are not true. As a reminder of the need to apply scientific investigation to conventional wisdom, we previously discussed the evidence disputing seven commonly held medical myths. The holiday season pre...

Drawing on immersive ethnographic fieldwork at three events in Scotland, all grounded ecological sensibilities and focusing respectively alternative medicine, music reviving seasonal celebrations, this article illuminates aspects of what we call ‘festive commoning’. We ask: how, to extent, were commons ‘against beyond’ capital produced these gatherings? re-read a history resistance festive auto...