One remedy: white paint! – Twelve pathogens could spread into new regions of the world, as a result of global warming. The “Deadly Dozen” list?including such diseases as malaria, bird flu, Ebola, cholera, and tuberculosis?show the broad range of diseases that threaten both humans and animals as the world gets warmer.
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David Foster Wallace, the talented young author who recently committed suicide, battled depression for 20 years. And people who take many days of sick leave for psychiatric reasons are twice as likely to die from cancer as healthier employees. Finally, since so many anti-depression medicines have turned out to be placebos, researchers have discovered that an old herbal remedy really DOES work: but only if you speak German!
In CNN.com, Elizabeth Landau quotes psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi as saying, “The arts are more dangerous [than other professions] because they require sensitivity to a large extent. If you go too far you can pay a price?you can be too sensitive to live in this world.”
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In a new Insight, we talk more about the Japanese probe into 911? where Japanese citizens were killed, as well as Americans.
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What kinds of meals did Neanderthals eat? It turns out theyate a wider variety of foods than scientists used to thinkthey did?including an early version of SUSHI.
Caves in Gibraltar that they once lived in reveal that theyate seals, dolphins and mussels.
In BBC News, Jonathan Amos quotes researcher Chris Stringeras saying, “These Neanderthals were skinning anddismembering seals. What’s interesting is that they didn’talways cook them; they often ate them raw…”
Researchers now know the Neanderthals were right: fish iseven BETTER for you than they thought!
Amid concerns about thesafety ofeating fish is the fact that the omega-3 fatty acids foundin fish may help lower the risk of cognitive decline andstroke in healthy older adults. read more