…as we’ll find out what Daylight Saving Time starts on Sunday – It may only be a single hour of lost time, but “springing forward” for Daylight Saving Time, as we will do on Sunday, March 8, can pack a punch for some people. Many experience sleepiness, mood changes and sleep disturbances as they attempt to adjust to the time change.
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And how to fix it – If you don’t understand how we got into our current financial mess or?more important?how to fix it, this is the journalyou need! Whitley Strieber writes: “When economists talk about the crash, they usually blame subprime mortgages and profligate lending by the banks. However, our financial problems are only a side-effect of the real issue, which is that, last summer, we experienced our first taste of what it is like to butt up against the limits of the earth’s ability to sustain our growth.” This is an important addition to the recent series of financial journals that Whitley has written and, like the others, it is ESSENTIAL reading for those of us who are trying to figure out what’s really going on in the world!
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?just not TOO MUCH – Scientists think that a little sadness can be useful, but clinical depression is NOT. This is yet another reason why teenagers shouldn’t smoke: They could be setting themselves up for depression later in life.
Unlike some other psychologists, Ian Hickie does not think depression is over diagnosed, although many of them don’t know exactly where to draw the line between people who are sad for a reason and those who have a problem that needs serious medication. And he thinks that borderline depression may be the most dangerous condition of all.
In New Scientist, Jessica Marshall quotes Hickie as saying “Most of the suicides do not occur in the most severely depressed.”
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Some of the same species are living on BOTH ENDS of the earth?how in the world did this happen?
In BBC News, Mark Kinver quotes researcher Ron O’Dor as saying, “Some of the more obvious species like birds and whales migrate between the poles on an annual basis.” It’s the small, non-migrating species, like sea cucumbers and snails, that are found in both the Arctic and Antarctic that baffle scientists. Did they hitch a ride on a whale?
Kinver quotes O’Dor as saying, “The oceans are a mixing ground. There are all kinds of currents that allow things to move around.” Scientists call these “conveyor belt” currents.
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