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Green is good: We know that asparagus can help you get over a hangover. Now it turns out that other green vegetables can help protect you from heart disease.

Heart attacks are often caused by fatty plaques that build up in the arteries the reduce the blood flow to the heart. However, arties don’t all get clogged up in the same way: Just like your kitchen sink, places where the arteries curve or bend are likely to get clogged up with plague before other areas. A protein in green vegetables called Nrf2 can help reduce these clogs, and even clear them out (kind of like Roto Rooter for the body).
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People from different cultures often do not always read each other right. One example of this is the distance that they stand apart when talking face to face to strangers or acquaintances. In some cultures, people stand much closer to each other than we do, meaning that the American keeps backing up when talking with someone he doesn’t know well.

Now neuroscientists have found the brain structure that is responsible for our sense of personal space. Since different cultures express it differently, are our BRAINS different as well? The brain structure that controls this is the amygdale, a pair of almond-shaped regions located in the medial temporal lobes in the front of the brain. It is also considered the source of emotion in the brain.
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desperate measures? – One way of defeating climate change may be through geo-engineering. Suggestions include sending giant mirrors into space to reflect sunlight away from our plant to building gigantic “scrubbers” that would clean CO2 out of the air. Are these ideas gimmicks or real possibilities? If they won’t work (or won’t work well), we don’t want to waste a lot of time and talent on them.

Some of them could be downright dangerous, such as putting iron filings into the ocean to encourage the growth of algae, which would absorb CO2 (as all plans do) and “breathe out” oxygen. But this could also cause substantial damage to marine life.
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In Whitley’s dynamic new Journal, he returns to the subject of the recession and what can (and should be done) to fix the mortgage crisis. He writes, “Unfortunately, the financial crisis may not be over, and it is to be hoped that, this time, it can be handled correctly. The bailouts did not fail, but the cost was enormous and unnecessary. It was probably the least efficient possible means of correcting the situation.” What would have worked better? Read his new Journal, and find out. And come meet Whitley in person at our Joshua Tree conference in October!

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