Tuesday, December 24, 2019

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Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Research in rats suggests that empathy may be an important element in the rodents’ remarkable ability to survive in difficult environments.
  • A new study focuses on DNA change to investigate why aspirin use is linked to different outcomes in different individuals after a breast cancer diagnosis...

    • There are many types of probiotic, and each has a different set of health benefits. In this article, learn about the best probiotics for various situations...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetThe sky is falling! The sky is falling! That was the reaction when the PISA results were announced – the global ranking of 15-year-olds. But scholar Oren Pizmony-Levy tells...

  •   Chicago Boyz



  • I’ve always liked this passage from Thomas Pynchon’s great novel Gravity’s Rainbow. The setting: it is the grim winter of 1944, just before Christmas. The military situation...
  • Happy Holidays, and the best of New Years to all the Chicagoboyz and our readers!

    • An MRI-based study looked at the effects of: –simply reading a story to a child –telling the story with the kind of animation that might be presented on a tablet or a TV screen –telling...

      Centinel2012



  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 24, 2019by stella I love this version of O Holy Night, because it reminds me of my sister who had a beautiful soprano voice...
  • Re-Posted on December 23, 2019by stella
  • Uncle Sam-a-clause!

    6 hours ago

    • Merry Christmas and Higher Taxes From The Democrats! During a recent Democratic Debate, the candidates were asked to raise their hand if they favored free health care for undocumented...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • On today's BradCast, with your trusty guest host NICOLE SANDLER filling in again, we take a break from the seriousness of it all and have some holiday musical fun! My guest is LAUREN...
  • On today's BradCast, it's guest host NICOLE SANDLER with a new take on a holiday tradition. December 23 is the holiday known as Festivus. One of the ways of celebrating Festivus is with...

    • * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie...

      bluebird of bitterness




  • When you’re on the road to nowhere And there’s no one by your side When you feel like you are utterly alone When you see the path before you And your confidence is tried And you need...
  • Monday chuckles

    a day ago

    • (See more of John Atkinson’s cartoons here.)

  • Maryland.govOn December 17, 2019, Maryland’s Republican Governor Larry Hogan trumpeted his plan for a “Clean And Renewable Energy Standard” (CARES) which carves out state...
  • "The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed the $738 billion military policy bill that gives Trump his sought-for Space Force as he moves for what he terms 'American dominance...

    • Michigan.govControversy continues to brew following revelations of repeated shoreline collapses into the Detroit River of a property contaminated with uranium, PCBs and other...

  • A crisis is engulfing the Mekong River, its banks are collapsing and half a million people are at risk of losing their homes.
  • Despite a 100% vaccination rate, a Texas school closes early for winter break due to a whooping cough outbreak. Clearly the vaccine is failing to work as advertised...

    • MIT researchers have struck on a novel, and for many surely unsettling, method of keeping track of who has and hasn’t had a particular vaccination – creating an ink that can be safely...

      Research Digest



  • The Research Digest posts most popular with our readers this year.
  • By Emily Reynolds. People who reflected on the sacrifices of past generations felt more obligation to future ones.

    • By Emma Young. The results “point to a neural mechanism underlying accuracy in interpersonal perception,” the authors write.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • Emperor Norton was born Joshua Abraham Norton in England, 1818. He eventually made his way to California like so many other optimistic settlers during the Gold Rush of the mid-19th...
  • Originally constructed in 1852, the Presa de San Renovato (San Renovate Dam) was a pragmatic structure meant to reinforce the water-holding capabilities of the older Presa de la...

    • Gävle is an old fishing town over the Gavleån river. The current city is about 500 years old, but the site was home to much earlier settlements, including some Viking ones. But due...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • Cats amidst chaos.
  • This and that for your Tuesday reading.- The Canadian Press reports on the Libs' desire to approve massive tar sands expansions no matter how the resulting production - to say nothing...

    • Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Stephen Buranyi laments the reality that the public's increased awareness and concern about our ongoing climate breakdown isn't being...

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