”Police are disproportionately targeting and killing black people”

The word disproportionate has a definition
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/disproportionate

dis·pro·por·tion·ate (dĭs′prə-pôr′shə-nĭt) adj. Out of proportion, as in size, shape, or amount

Now that we have our terminology,

If the behavior was ‘disproportionate,’ then the statistics would show police action as proportional.

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Table 1 Race or ethnicity of the U.S. resident population and of persons arrested for nonfatal violent crimes, 2018
Race population nonfatal violent crimes White 60.4% 45.9% Black 12.5% 33.0% Hispanic 18.3% 17.6%
This shows that black people are committing violent crimes at about 3x their percentage of the population. Even this is skewed though, because the majority of violent offenders are men, not women. If you break men down as 50% of the population, then black men make up 6.25% of the total population. Therefore they are committing violent crimes at a rate of 5.28x their proportion of the population.
If you look at table 8, the lowest rate for black violent offenders is rape/sexual assault at 3.5x (22.1%) the black male population. The highest is robbery at 8.1x (51.1%), which means that about 6.25% of the population commits more than half of all the robberies in the country.
Any way you cut it, black male offenders commit crime at rates vastly disproportionate to their percentage of the population. It is often argued that black people are disproportionately subjected to police action based on their portion of the total population. This is true, but not the correct way to measure.
Similarly, I could say that I put 60 pounds of gasoline in my car, but we all know that 10 gallons is the correct way to measure.
Here, the correct way to measure is if blacks are being targeted disproportionately based on their portion of offenders.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police-shootings-2018/
In 2018, there were 990 police shootings. Of the people who were shot, 456 (46%) were white, 228 (23%) were black, and 165 (16.66%) were Hispanic.
If we look back to Table 1 above, you can see that blacks are in fact being shot disproportionately by the police compared to the rate at which they commit violent offenses.
Based on their portion of violent offenders, police are shooting blacks at a rate of about 30% lower than would be expected. So statistically, police are not shooting enough black people. Surprise!
Additional reading: https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/african-american/article/15098801/study-blacks-less-likely-to-be-shot-by-police-than-whites
https://cas.wsu.edu/news/2016/04/27/this-study-found-race-matters-in-police-shootings-but-the-results-may-surprise-you/
https://cas.wsu.edu/news/2016/08/16/new-ws-study-even-tired-cops-are-more-hesitant-to-shoot-black-suspects/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

A new report exhaustively chronicles the local resistance to renewable energy at play in the U.S. The report, published this week by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, finds at least 100 ordinances have been passed in 31 states that block or constrict construction of new renewable energy facilities. Meanwhile, least 152 proposed projects in 48 states have been opposed or contested by local groups. At a time when the U.S. needs to be stepping up renewables installation, these laws are slowing the transition. https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-wild-ways-local-governments-are-blocking-renewable-1846355479
The mix gives mayonnaise hydrophobic (water-repelling) and hydrophilic (water-loving) properties that allow it to interact with the hydrophobic oily tar inside the turtle's digestive tract. The mayonnaise's oil interacts with the tar making it thinner. The lecithin from egg yolks creates a barrier between the tar and the turtle's digestive tract when its hydrophobic side binds to the tar while its hydrophilic side faces the outside, reports Live Science. This interaction makes the crude oil less sticky, so it can be flushed out, similar to how dish soap works to clean greasy dishes. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/turtles-caught-disastrous-oil-spill-are-treated-mayonnaise-180977102/
In 2018-2019, infants who did not consume peanut until 12 months or later, 4.8 per cent were allergic. Severe reactions to introducing peanut early were uncommon, the data showed. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210225/Changes-to-infant-feeding-guidelines-have-led-to-a-decrease-in-peanut-allergy.aspx
We Finally Know The True Age of These Huge, Mysterious Jars Scattered in Laos https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-jars-scattered-across-laos-are-thousands-of-years-old-scientists-say
In other words, the brain appeared to function differently depending on diet, but it did not look different. So what might be going on?
According to Lona Sandon, a registered dietician nutritionist and professor of nutrition at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, "We could hypothesize that it has something to do with inflammation for one, as well as with other nutrients like magnesium or folate that are found in the leafy greens."
Sandon also acknowledged the important role healthy fats, such as monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, appear to play in keeping the brain and body functioning at their best. These healthy fats, which are found in high amounts in the Mediterranean diet, help reduce inflammation in the body.
"This helps to protect blood vessels, and it's not just blood vessels that lead to the heart, but blood vessels that lead to the brain and everywhere else in the body," said Sandon, who wasn't involved in the new research. https://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20210225/mediterranean-diet-could-keep-aging-brains-sharp?src=RSS_PUBLIC
Plant-based diets improve cardiac function, cognitive health https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/buso-pdi022521.php
Zebra finches choose nest materials based on past experience, new research shows
U of A scientists find that learning and past success play a role in how birds build their nests https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/uoa-zfc022521.php
The finding has implications for the Labrador Sea marine environment, since Arctic water tends to be fresher but also rich in nutrients. This pathway also affects larger oceanic currents, namely a conveyor-belt circulation in the Atlantic Ocean in which colder, heavier water sinks in the North Atlantic and comes back along the surface as the Gulf Stream. Fresher, lighter water entering the Labrador Sea could slow that overturning circulation.
"We know that the Arctic Ocean has one of the biggest climate change signals," said co-author Wei Cheng at the UW-based Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Atmosphere Studies. "Right now this freshwater is still trapped in the Arctic. But once it gets out, it can have a very large impact." https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210224143550.htm
Effective anxiety therapy changes personality https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/nuos-eat022521.php
Study examines what makes people susceptible to fake health news
Source credibility, how info is presented have little influence; tagging unverified content makes difference https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uok-sew030121.php
Walking away from the beat - why police officers are voluntarily leaving in large numbers
Source Newsroom: University of Portsmouth https://www.newswise.com/articles/walking-away-from-the-beat-why-police-officers-are-voluntarily-leaving-in-large-numbers
The study found that the true cost of coal should be more than twice as high as current prices when factoring in the currently unaccounted financial impact of externalities such as climate change, air pollution and land degradation.
The study authors say the research highlights the market failure of the world's energy systems. Factoring in their true costs by including social costs almost equal to production costs, would make many fossil fuelled and nuclear power stations economically unviable, the research published in Energy Research & Social Science found. Even wind, solar, hydro, and other renewable energy systems have their own hidden costs.
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy in the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School, said: "Our research has identified immense hidden costs that are almost never factored into the true expense of driving a car or operating a coal-powered power station. Including these social costs would dramatically change least-cost planning processes and integrated resource portfolios that energy suppliers and others depend upon. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uos-tmt030121.php
The following things contain added or natural iodine https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/patient-education/low-iodine-diet
Sources of Iodine
Food Seaweed (such as kelp, nori, kombu, and wakame) is one of the best food sources of iodine [5]. Other good sources include fish and other seafood, as well as eggs (see Table 2). Iodine is also present in human breast milk [2,5] and infant formulas [8].
Dairy products contain iodine. However, the amount of iodine in dairy products varies by whether the cows received iodine feed supplements and whether iodophor sanitizing agents were used to clean the cows and milk-processing equipment [9]. For example, an analysis of 44 samples of nonfat milk found a range of 38 to 159 mcg per cup (with an average of 85 mcg/cup used for Table 2) [8]. Plant-based beverages used as milk substitutes, such as soy and almond beverages, contain relatively small amounts of iodine.
Most commercially prepared bread contains very little iodine unless the manufacturer has used potassium iodate or calcium iodate as a dough conditioner [10,11]. Manufacturers list dough conditioners as an ingredient on product labels but are not required to include iodine on the Nutrition Facts label [12], even though these conditioners provide a substantial amount of iodine. According to 2019 data from the USDA Branded Food Products Database, approximately 20% of ingredient labels for white bread, whole-wheat bread, hamburger buns, and hot dog buns listed iodate [13]. Pasta is not a source of iodine unless it is prepared in water containing iodized salt because it absorbs some of the iodine [11]. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iodine-HealthProfessional/
Ancient Egyptian manual reveals new details about mummification https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210226103739.htm
Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210226103802.htm
One bad restaurant review, for example, can result in up to 30 customers deciding to dine elsewhere. Though businesses are strongly advised to respond to negative online reviews, most of them don’t know how. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-businesses-can-head-off-social-media-storms
Researchers from the University of Nottingham have discovered a novel antiviral property of a drug that could have major implications in how future epidemics / pandemics - including Covid-19 - are managed.
The study, published in Viruses*, shows that thapsigargin is a promising broad‑spectrum antiviral, highly effective against Covid-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2), a common cold coronavirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and the influenza A virus. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/thapsigargin-covid-19
Different dietary protein sources have varying associations with all‐cause mortality, cardiovascular disease mortality, and dementia mortality. Our findings support the need for consideration of protein sources in future dietary guidelines. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.119.015553
It’s time to give that old TV or refrigerator a second opportunity, at least that’s what officials in the European Union (EU) believe. The bloc has introduced a new rule through which companies that sell some consumer electronic goods will need to ensure that those appliances can be repaired for up to 10 years – seeking to reduce the large amount of electronic waste that’s produced every year. https://www.zmescience.com/science/the-right-to-repair-europe-wants-a-revolution-in-how-electronics-are-produced-and-repaired/
Indonesia and Malaysia plan to mount a joint offensive to shore up the palm oil industry against criticism of the deforestation and conflicts associated with the production of the commodity. https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/indonesia-malaysia-team-palm-oil-black-campaign-european-union/
Study highlights pitfalls associated with 'cybervetting' job candidates https://phys.org/news/2021-03-highlights-pitfalls-cybervetting-job-candidates.html
Regular meat consumption is associated with a range of diseases that researchers had not previously considered, according to a large, population-level study conducted by a team at the University of Oxford. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-03-02-regular-meat-consumption-linked-wide-range-common-diseases
List of countries by food energy intake https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_energy_intake
New, revolutionary theory for understanding brain and memory function https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210301/New-revolutionary-theory-for-understanding-brain-and-memory-function.aspx
This is an important definition, highlighting that intersex people are not disfigured; they are just on the physiological spectrum between male and female. And of course, here we are only considering the physiological sex at birth – not how an individual perceives themselves as they age. https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/20865
Extinction of larger animals led to the human brain doubling in size around 30,000 years ago as people developed necessary cognitive abilities to capture smaller prey https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9314707/Extinction-larger-animals-led-human-brain-doubling-size-30-000-years-ago.html
Slime mold with no brain is able to remember food sources by re-orientating its threadlike appendages toward a meal to recall the location, study reveals https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9314013/Single-celled-slime-mold-no-brain-nervous-remembers-got-meal.html
Mindfulness training and relaxation training offer similar benefits for relationship well-being https://www.psypost.org/2021/03/mindfulness-training-and-relaxation-training-offer-similar-benefits-for-relationship-well-being-59852
Radar additionally provides a more detailed picture on forest disturbance than Landsat imagery, enabling detection at an earlier stage. Weisse notes that Sentinel-1’s resolution is effectively nine times more detailed.
“This means that even tiny changes on the scale of just a few trees are detectable with the RADD alerts,” Weisse writes. “The increased detail of the RADD alerts means that we can now see the impact of that harvesting more clearly, which is critical information for those working to combat illegal logging.” https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/we-can-now-see-through-clouds-to-detect-deforestation-in-near-real-time/
New study gives the most detailed look yet at the neuroscience of placebo effects https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210302075417.htm
Plug-in hybrid cars (PHEVs) could prove a tempting alternative if you can’t yet make the leap to an electric car, particularly as many claim to offer incredible three-figure mpg returns and get around the range anxiety of an all-electric model. However, in our own independent lab fuel economy tests, we found that average fuel economy (over the 22 models we examined) was 61% less than official manufacturer claims. Based on driving 9,000 miles each year, that could add £400 a year to your annual fuel bills.* Read more: https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/03/plug-in-hybrid-cars-use-more-fuel-than-official-figures-claim/ - Which?
The Manchester Museum’s Vivarium team, who are world renowned experts in amphibian husbandry, mimicked the turbulent tropical stream with boulders and rocks, where the toad lays its eggs.
They monitored their amphibians’ native habitat closely to gain baseline data so they could recreate the correct temperatures, water levels, flow, and lighting.
The special lighting allowed a specific species of tropical algae to grow in the museum’s aquarium, a key condition for successfully rearing of the tadpoles
Curator of Herpetology at the museum, Andrew Gray explained: “These rare toads usually live deep in the rainforest and only go to the streams to breed under very specific conditions, so it was vital we were able to recreate them. https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discovenews/toad-breeding-success-is-world-first/
A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children https://www.sciencealert.com/cuttlefish-can-pass-a-cognitive-test-designed-for-children
Is it though? If it's so profitable to grow seaweed as biofuel, there's nothing to stop you from doing so. A new report exhaustively chronicles the local resistance to renewable energy at play in the U.S. The report, published this week by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, finds at least 100 ordinances have been passed in 31 states that block or constrict construction of new renewable energy facilities. Meanwhile, least 152 proposed projects in 48 states have been opposed or contested by local groups. At a time when the U.S. needs to be stepping up renewables installation, these laws are slowing the transition. https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-wild-ways-local-governments-are-blocking-renewable-1846355479
Nearly 10 years have passed since then, and the oil slick has long since dispersed. Yet, despite early predictions, area wildlife are still feeling the effects of that oil, and research published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry has shown that negative health impacts have befallen not only dolphins alive at the time of the spill, but also in their young, born years later. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210302150112.htm
Death Rates Rising Among Middle-Aged and Younger Americans; Report Recommends Urgent National Response https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2021/03/death-rates-rising-among-middle-aged-and-younger-americans-report-recommends-urgent-national-response?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nationalacademies%2Fna+%28News+from+the+National+Academies%29
A pipeline of oil money fuels Texas deregulators Frozen natural-gas equipment led to the state's deadly power outages https://www.salon.com/2021/03/02/a-pipeline-of-oil-money-fuels-texas-deregulators_partne
Deepfakes impersonating Tom Cruise have gone viral on TikTok The account 'deeptomcruise' released three videos of the 'star'One shows the deepfake doing a magic trick and another playing golfThe other shows 'Cruise' reminiscing about meeting Mikhail GorbachevExperts, however, are concerned about how lifelike the technology isDeepfakes are alarming because they can manipulate the pubic https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9318267/Deepfake-Tom-Cruise-takes-TikTok-11-million-views-raises-alarms-experts.html
French journalism advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said in 2018 Vietnam had appointed 10,000 "cyber-troops" to fight online dissent. The journalism group called the deployment an "army of internet trolls" aimed at attacking independent media outlets.
Authorities showed last year they can quickly shutter social media accounts registered in foreign countries. https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/vietnam-tapping-hackers-silence-critics-experts-warn
First Results From California's Universal Basic Income Trial Show Employment Rose https://www.sciencealert.com/residents-in-a-californian-city-received-500-a-month-here-s-what-they-used-it-for
Effect of Incentives for Alcohol Abstinence in Partnership With 3 American Indian and Alaska Native CommunitiesA Randomized Clinical Trial https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2777003?guestAccessKey=914a5c19-3c80-4e9b-9b56-bf7c8601899d&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=030321
have discovered a unique bacterium that lives inside a unicellular eukaryote and provides it with energy. Unlike mitochondria, this so-called endosymbiont derives energy from the respiration of nitrate, not oxygen. "Such partnership is completely new," says Jana Milucka, the senior author on the Nature. "A symbiosis that is based on respiration and transfer of energy is to this date unprecedented". https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/mpif-nfo030221.php
The annual cuts of 0.16 billion tonnes of CO2 are only 10 percent of the 1-2 billion tonnes of CO2 cuts that are needed globally every year to tackle climate change.
While emissions decreased in 64 countries, they increased in 150 countries. Globally, emissions grew by 0.21 billion tonnes of CO2 per year during 2016-2019 compared to 2011-2015.
The scientists' findings, "Fossil CO2 emissions in the post-COVID era," are published today in Nature Climate Change.
In 2020, confinement measures to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic cut global emissions by 2.6 billion tonnes of CO2, about 7 percent below 2019 levels. The researchers say 2020 is a 'pause button' that cannot realistically continue while the world overwhelmingly relies on fossil fuels, and confinement policies are neither a sustainable nor desirable solution to the climate crisis https://phys.org/news/2021-03-tenfold-carbon-dioxide-emissions-stem.html
Green tea supplements modulate facial development of children with Down syndrome https://www.newswise.com/articles/green-tea-supplements-modulate-facial-development-of-children-with-down-syndrome
Scientists examined rock cores taken from the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, site of the asteroid impact that triggered dinosaur extinction, and found iridium, a telltale sign of asteroids. https://earthsky.org/earth/asteroid-dust-iridium-chicxulub-crater-dinosaur-extinction
There are several methods for enhancing the bioactive properties of ginseng. In an earlier study, we had described the conversion of ginsenosides by microwave-thermal processing to improve the bioactive properties of ginseng [19]. Microwave-thermal processing has several advantages over conventional methods, such as autoclaving. Microwave-processed ginseng extract, developed by microwave-assisted processing, contains higher quantities of ginsenosides Rg3, Rk1, and Rg5 [20,21]. Several studies have reported the anticancer properties of Rg3; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1226845320300622?via%3Dihub
How to choose low glycaemic index (GI) foods? A GI "glossary" of Asian foods released https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/afst-htc030321.php
While this study focuses only on the impact of paid advertising, the CLICK monitoring framework also offers additional protocols to monitor indirect marketing, such as advertisements made by celebrities and social media influencers. Indirect advertising of unhealthy products to children by influencers with an immense reach is often difficult to recognize as marketing, which makes it highly problematic. It could mean that the extent to which children are being subjected to advertisements of unhealthy products is even greater than described in the report. https://www.euro.who.int/en/countries/norway/news2/news/2021/3/norway-pilot-study-reveals-staggering-amount-of-unhealthy-food-and-beverage-marketing-to-children-and-adolescents
4 countries that prove money doesn’t always buy happiness
Some places are more content than their GDP per capita would predict. https://www.popsci.com/story/health/charted-wealth-happiness/
“To do something about FoMO, individuals can foster a greater sense of real connectedness to others which will lessen feelings of isolation. You can also try being more in the moment, concentrating on what is in front of you as opposed to focusing on what else is going on out there,” Barry said. https://news.wsu.edu/2020/08/26/fear-missing-impacts-people-ages/
When most consumers use Amazon’s friendly voice-activated assistant, they probably think they’re just dealing with the famous Alexa. It turns out, however, Alexa is just a “middle man” for countless third parties who could put your private information in harm’s way. Researchers from North Carolina State University find that Alexa has a number of vulnerabilities when dealing with the programs users interact with via the popular Amazon device. https://www.studyfinds.org/amazon-alexa-vulnerabilities-data/
"Sadly, this study reminds us that we are in danger of creating a new generation of sedentary children. Increased sedentary time is closely linked to type 2 diabetes, which is increasing in younger age groups.
"The number of young people with type 2 diabetes has gone up by 50% in just five years."
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uol-rii030521.php
A new review of existing evidence proposes eight hallmarks of environmental exposures that chart the biological pathways through which pollutants contribute to disease: oxidative stress and inflammation, genomic alterations and mutations, epigenetic alterations, mitochondrial dysfunction, endocrine disruption, altered intercellular communication, altered microbiome communities, and impaired nervous system function. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/cums-ewc030521.php
THIS ANCIENT GREEK MEMORY TRICK HACKS YOUR BRAIN FOR THE BETTER https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/loci-memory-palace-technique-science-explained
Climate change ‘winners’ may owe financial compensation to polluters
March 4, 2021 Princeton
Climate change is generally portrayed as an environmental and societal threat with entirely negative consequences. However, some sectors of the global economy may actually end up benefiting. https://scienceblog.com/521438/climate-change-winners-may-owe-financial-compensation-to-polluters/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28ScienceBlog.com%29
Eating fruits and vegetables reduces carcinogenic effects of red and processed meats: study https://scienceblog.com/521441/eating-fruits-and-vegetables-reduces-carcinogenic-effects-of-red-and-processed-meats-study/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28ScienceBlog.com%29
Does a vegan diet lead to poorer bone health?
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/bfif-dav030421.php
This Is a Piece of a Lost Protoplanet, And It's Officially Older Than Earth https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-s-oldest-known-volcanic-rock-could-be-a-piece-of-lost-protoplanet
What's interesting about this result is that we are seeing the protein turn the vibronic coupling on and off in response to environmental changes in the cell,” said Jake Higgins, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and the lead author of the paper. “The protein uses the quantum effect to protect the organism from oxidative damage.”
These findings bring about an exciting new revelation about biology; using an explicitly quantum mechanism to protect the system shows an important adaptation and that quantum effects can be important to survival.
This phenomenon is likely not limited to green sulfur bacteria, the scientists said. As Higgins explained, “The simplicity of the mechanism suggests that it might be found in other photosynthetic organisms across the evolutionary landscape. If more organisms are able to dynamically modulate quantum mechanical couplings in their molecules to produce larger changes in physiology, there could be a whole new set of effects selected for by nature that we don’t yet know about.” https://www.newswise.com/articles/bacteria-know-how-to-exploit-quantum-mechanics-uchicago-study-finds
It’s not just doorways that make us forget what we came for in the next room https://theconversation.com/its-not-just-doorways-that-make-us-forget-what-we-came-for-in-the-next-room-156030
Stirred not shaken; critical evaluation of a proposed Archean meteorite impact in West Greenland https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X20306749
Stop Funding Heat is a spinoff of campaign group Stop Funding Hate, which pressures advertisers to withdraw funding from newspapers and media outlets which publish articles it disagrees with. Stop Funding Heat is a mysterious outfit which appeared online in 2019. According to its Facebook page, it aims to ‘defund’ and de-platform its ideological opponents in order to make criticisms of green politics ‘unprofitable’. It has no official website and only a Gmail contact address. Yet it has managed to solicit a swift response from a major newspaper. https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/08/the-dangerous-rise-of-climate-censorship/
This Mass-Produced Solar Car Costs Just $25,900 A solar-powered car could inspire the EVs of the future.
By Kristin Houser 6 Mar, 2021 05:30 PM
This year, a California startup plans to begin mass-producing a car that would never need gas or a charge.
It's called the Aptera, and it's covered in 180 solar cells. https://www.freethink.com/articles/solar-car
For seeds to germinate, they must come together with water and soil nutrients. Our experiment showed how echidna digging helps make that happen.
We tested whether seeds would be trapped in echidna pits after rain. We carefully marked various seeds with different coloured dyes and placed them on the soil surface in a semi-arid woodland near Cobar, New South Wales, where we'd dug pits similar to those echidnas create. We then simulated a rain event.
Most seeds washed into the pits, and those that started in the pits stayed there. The experiment showed how echidna pits encourage seeds, water, and nutrients to meet, giving seeds a better chance to germinate and survive in Australia's poor soils. https://www.sciencealert.com/a-single-echidna-digs-8-trailer-loads-of-soil-a-year-a-true-carbon-farmer
Playing with Power: Humor as Everyday Resistance https://www.spsp.org/news-centeblog/dobai-hopkins-humor
Astronomers Have Found The First Evidence For Tectonic Activity on an Exoplanet https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-have-found-the-first-evidence-for-tectonic-activity-on-an-exoplanet
One size does not fit all. Genomics differentiates among anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge‐eating disorder https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eat.23481
New study links protein causing Alzheimer's disease with common sight loss https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210310122439.htm
The study therefore hypothesised that mindfulness meditation could reduce fatigue, fear of movement and provide a better standard of living for heart attack survivors.
Heart attack patients who practised mindfulness had less fear of movement https://www.gmjournal.co.uk/lives-of-heart-attack-survivors-are-improved-by-practising-mindfulness
New modeling experiment of the long-term effects of reductions in air pollutants known as sulfate aerosols predicts further increases in surface air temperature at current and increased carbon dioxide levels because of loss of an overall cooling effect caused by the light-scattering particles. Such modeling accounting for slow climate responses to changes in the atmosphere indicates the need to reduce air pollution and carbon dioxide simultaneously. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210310122456.htm
Lower risk of brain injury for at-risk infants whose mothers consumed pomegranate juice
Preliminary findings from a randomized controlled trial suggest pomegranate juice may provide neuroprotection in pregnancies with intrauterine growth restriction https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/bawh-lro031121.php
Study suggests healthy ecosystems are vital in reducing risk of future deadly pandemics
Practices recommended to reduce the risk of future pandemics through 'protected and conserved area management' https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/c-ssh031121.php
Modern research has shown that without written records, it takes just about three generations to lose the memory of a disaster. Survivors of an earthquake or tsunami can pass their direct experience to their children, maybe to their grandchildren if they live long enough, but then the memory quickly fades. In Japanese culture, tsunami stones were a way to warn future generations of the potential dangers coming from living and building near the sea. Unfortunately, today many tsunami stones are slowly decaying, covered by vegetation, and forgotten. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2021/03/11/century-old-tsunami-stones-saved-lives-in-the-tohoku-earthquake-of-2011/?sh=178b8aa11fd3
If you want to be able to surf the internet quickly with your browser, with a foreign IP address, and do not need the utmost protection of privacy, you should use a VPN provider that you can trust as much as possible. It is therefore better not to rely on VPN comparison portals that rate any provider well.
These are often not independent, but contain sponsored links of the VPN providers. Instead, it is better to ask trustworthy digital security experts or read current VPN reviews from reputable trade journals. https://m.dw.com/en/bypassing-censorship-with-vpn-is-that-really-safe/a-56836645
Noxious contracts and inequality: The hidden side of pandemic life https://phys.org/news/2021-03-noxious-inequality-hidden-side-pandemic.html
Alcohol'S Damaging Effects on The Brain 2004 https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm
A two-week course of high doses of CBD helps restore the function of two proteins key to reducing the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaque, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, and improves cognition in an experimental model of early onset familial Alzheimer's, investigators report. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/mcog-crp030821.php
Covid-19 has us thinking of viruses as the enemy and yet here was someone excited about getting one. Her story was a reminder that most of the viruses in our midst are actually benign, and some are even lifesaving. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/most-viruses-around-us-are-benign-some-are-even-lifesaving/2021/03/12/cd833cc0-76bc-11eb-948d-19472e683521_story.html
Scientists unlock the 'Cosmos' on the Antikythera Mechanism, the world's first computer https://www.livescience.com/antikythera-mechanism-worlds-first-computer-modeled.html
Dietary switch to Western diet induces hypothalamic adaptation associated with gut microbiota dysbiosis in rats https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-021-00796-4
If you take a close look, you can see two beams emanating from behind a fold in the cloud, towards the top right and bottom left of the image. These are one way we know the star is growing. As material is drawn in towards the star, it starts to interact with the complex magnetic field, producing powerful plasma jets that shoot along the rotational axis.
These jets only last as long as material is falling onto the star, so once the star stops growing, the jets will die down. https://www.sciencealert.com/hubble-s-latest-image-release-is-so-beautiful-it-should-be-illegal
Umbra, a geospatial intelligence data provider, was granted a license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite with 1,200 MHz of bandwidth. This bandwidth allocation will allow them to generate images with as low as 15-centimeter (6 inch) ground sampling distance (GSD). At this resolution, Umbra’s satellites will be able to detect items as small as a soda can from space. http://www.parabolicarc.com/2021/03/13/umbra-hits-regulatory-jackpot-for-its-satellite-constellation-able-to-see-a-soda-can-from-space/
By analyzing carefully infants' eye gaze, the researchers found that listening to the zebra finch song failed to form an object category. Unlike non-human primate vocalizations, birdsong failed to confer a cognitive advantage on infants' object categorization.
"This new evidence brings us closer to identifying which vocalizations initially support infant cognition," https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210311142203.htm
For companies trying to eradicate deforestation from their supply chains, this poses a serious challenge. How, for instance, can Nestlé – which has around 1,400 mills in its palm oil supply chains – identify which of them are “hungry mills,” and potential engines of deforestation, without going on the ground to check each one?
Combining new data to drive action
A new study conducted by Cristina Joss from the Institute of Geography and co-led by Dr. Cornelia Hett from the University of Bern’s Centre for Development and Environment, and Earthworm Foundation, sets out to answer this question, and provides insights which offer a potential path to help end the deforestation that continues to blemish palm oil supply chains. https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/the-hungry-mills-how-palm-oil-mills-drive-deforestation-commentary/
Thousands of barrels of DDT and other substances are believed submerged in the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles, but authorities aren't sure where or how many.
To get an idea, researchers have launched two 'underwater Roombas,' Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS (REMUS) that can operate in waters ranging from 80 feet to about 20,000 feet.
The vehicles take 12 hours to recharge, so while one is scanning the seafloor with its sonar the other is powering up and passing along its findings. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9356983/Underwater-Roombas-searching-ocean-floor-barrels-toxic-chemicals-California.html
Balls of moss commonly found in aquariums are threatening to push the zebra mussel invasion further across the U.S., wildlife officials are warning. Contaminated moss balls have been found in pet stores in 21 states in recent weeks, and both officials and the pet supply industry are scrambling to contain the problem before it’s too late. https://earther.gizmodo.com/wildlife-officials-warn-contaminated-aquarium-moss-ball-1846459701
Doctors from Medical University Hospital, Taichung, studied health data from 140,911 infants in Taiwan and satellite images of their home towns to track pollution levels.
They found that those born in areas with high levels of fine particles of pollution were more likely to develop childhood allergies to pollen - known as allergic rhinitis.
The condition results in inflammation of the membranes lining the nose and typically involves symptoms including sneezing, itching and a runny or blocked nose.
The condition doesn't cause serious health problems, but its symptoms, particularly if severe, can affect social life, school performance, and work life, authors say. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9351835/Air-pollution-increase-risk-HAY-FEVER-study-shows.html
A new study has identified that one of the major factors of age-related brain deterioration is the loss of a substance called myelin. Myelin acts like the protective and insulating plastic casing around the electrical wires of the brain - called axons. Myelin is essential for superfast communication between nerve cells that lie behind the supercomputer power of the human brain. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210309185711.htm
A new study demonstrates that under realistic environmental conditions oil drifting in the ocean after the DWH oil spill photooxidized into persistent compounds within hours to days, instead over long periods of time as was thought during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This is the first model results to support the new paradigm of photooxidation that emerged from laboratory research. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210312181148.htm
A body of previous research has linked AFM to a rare virus called enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), and while it's not yet known how the virus manifests the symptoms of the AFM disease, coinciding outbreaks of the pair have led researchers to think they are almost certainly related.
In the new research, a team led by first author and infectious disease modeler Sang Woo Park from Princeton University tracked patterns of cases of EV-D68 between 2014 and 2019, with the virus staging significant resurgences in even-numbered years – 2014, 2016, and 2018 – which are thought to be attributable to climate-based factors. https://www.sciencealert.com/outbreak-of-mysterious-paralyzing-condition-squashed-by-covid-19-pandemic
The Layers of Narwhal's Tusk Tell The History of Its Life in a Rapidly Changing World https://www.sciencealert.com/a-narwhal-s-tusk-is-basically-a-history-of-its-life-in-a-rapidly-changing-world
By the time Parkinson's disease, one of the most common neurological disorders is diagnosed, the progression of the disease cannot be reversed, leaving doctors with one option: to treat the symptoms.
However, a Hebrew University of Jerusalem research team has discovered a potential way to diagnose the disease up to 20 years prior using what may seem an unusual method: investigating and understanding the physiological process behind constipation. https://m.jpost.com/health-science/parkinsons-disease-can-be-diagnosed-20-years-earlier-thanks-to-hebrew-u-661923
Harvard Researchers Advise Against the Use of Aspirin https://www.gilmorehealth.com/harvard-researchers-advise-against-the-use-of-aspirin/
Taking Aspirin Lowers the Risk of getting COVID-19 by 29% According to an Israeli Study https://www.gilmorehealth.com/taking-aspirin-lowers-the-risk-of-getting-covid-19-by-29-according-to-an-israeli-study/
Why professional wrestlers are more likely to die young Pro wrestlers from the 1980s and 1990s are dying young — and there's a medical reason why https://www.salon.com/2021/03/14/why-professional-wrestlers-are-more-likely-to-die-young/
Religion mitigates feelings of depression by providing a sense of meaning, study suggests https://www.psypost.org/2021/03/religion-mitigates-feelings-of-depression-by-providing-a-sense-of-meaning-study-suggests-60038
The above would all be fine and dandy if the mere process weren’t putting more stress on our planet. See, processing a transaction on a blockchain—most crypto art is being sold on the Ethereum blockchain, which uses ether as its cryptocurrency—requires the work of a lot of computers all around the world. These computers compete against each other to solve complex math problems in order to generate accura…

"In 2017, we experienced almost as many flooding events as we did throughout the previous 10 years," said Dr. Justin Bandino. He's an assistant professor of dermatology at San Antonio Military Medical Center, in Texas.
"The health implications for people exposed to floodwaters are staggering and include a wide variety of dermatologic [skin] issues, such as wound infections, contact dermatitis and even electrical injuries from downed power lines," Bandino said in an American Academy of Dermatology news release. https://consumer.healthday.com/infectious-disease-information-21/misc-infections-news-411/major-flooding-can-bring-skin-infection-dangers-743202.html
Researchers from Newcastle University's School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, carried out a study to prove what gardeners around the world have known for generations - marigolds repel tomato whiteflies. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/nu-hth022819.php
During cancer treatment patients may experience compromised immunity. A number of nutrients are important for normal function of the immune system, and foods providing these nutrients may be useful to include in the diet where possible (see table below).7 https://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/diets-people-cancer-%E2%80%93-there-any-evidence-benefit
Smoking has long been linked to an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis, and quitting can reduce this risk. But the new study offers fresh evidence that years of cessation can pay off more than just a brief period without cigarettes. https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-smoking-arthritis/rheumatoid-arthritis-risk-lower-among-smokers-who-quit-idUKKCN1QI5H9?rpc=401&
One of these faces is real, the other was generated by AI. Can you spot the fake? https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/spark-428-1.5032258/new-ai-makes-it-harder-to-detect-what-s-real-online-1.5032311?cmp=rss
Australians are spending millions on "designer" foods they believe will boost their health and make them live longer but actually have limited nutritional value, researchers at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have warned. https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-02/super-foods-do-not-live-up-to-hype-say-qut-researchers/10847842?pfmredir=sm
When it comes to the proper functioning of the brain’s waste removal system, which works to clear out toxic proteins, not all sleep is the same. Deep sleep appears to be a key component in helping reduce one’s chances of developing the disease, while lack of deep sleep may increase the risk. https://www.slashgear.com/lack-of-deep-sleep-linked-to-build-up-of-alzheimers-plaques-in-brain-01568099/
Filled with empty calories and ultra-processed, fast food may increase the risk of obesity and cancer. While fast-food chains have ostensibly been trying to offer more healthful options, a new study finds that the health impact of their menus has not improved — to the contrary, in fact.
Fast food may now be worse for our health, a new study warns. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324589.php
a biology researcher involved in the study, explained that "we used organisms that are already in the soil and bacteria that are beneficial to plants and applied them in the fields to fight against this pest without pesticides or GMOs”. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/science-saturday_swiss-researchers-see-promise-in-natural-pest-control-methods-for-corn/44796424
Customers flag bottled water smelling of 'old socks' and 'urine,' but CFIA says it poses no health risk
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Safeway, Loblaws, Dasani and a host of smaller firms sold stinky water, according to CFIA inspection reports https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-inspections-cfia-smells-1.5015242?cmp=rss
"Our results imply that the tariff revenue the U.S. is now collecting is insufficient to compensate the losses being born by the consumers of imports. We also see similar patterns for foreign countries who have retaliated against the U.S., which indicates that the trade war reduces real income for the global economy as well," the researchers wrote. "Our estimates, while concerning, omit other potentially large costs, as the new heightened uncertainty about trade policy could itself discourage firms from making the long-term investments that are central to international trade in global value chains."
The paper, "The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare," was solicited for the Journal of Economic Perspectives. It appeared on CEPR on March 2 as a working paper and was not peer-reviewed.
Provided by: Princeton University https://phys.org/news/2019-03-war-results-substantial-losses-countries.html
Better to include your better half in social posts, study finds https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/cmu-bti030119.php
Facebook allows people to search for profiles using phone numbers linked to a particular account, even if you’ve chosen to hide this information from the public. Profiles can also be searched by phone number in the Messenger app.
But, it was not previously clear that this also includes numbers provided to the site only for security reasons.
The shocking revelation comes months after Facebook admitted it was using these phone numbers for targeted ads. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6770489/Facebook-profiles-looked-using-phone-number-use-two-factor-authentication.html
Invisible to people but deadly to marine life, ocean heatwaves have damaged ecosystems across the globe and are poised to become even more destructive, according to the first study to measure worldwide impacts with a single yardstick. https://phys.org/news/2019-03-ocean-heatwaves-devastate-wildlife-worse.html
Experts said the findings point to the power of an insidious form of junk food marketing, in which companies pay social media influencers to feature their products.
"Most parents are surprised this exists," said Jennifer Harris, of the University of Connecticut's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. "They often have no idea how targeted their kids are when they're online." https://consumer.healthday.com/kids-health-information-23/misc-kid-s-health-news-435/social-media-influencers-can-get-kids-eating-junk-food-743320.html
Lobbying commissioner should investigate Facebook, says MP Angus
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Leaked e-mails show a pattern of flouting Canadian lobbying laws https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/facebook-lobbying-law-angus-1.5042443?cmp=rss
Ominous Reversal of Health Gains in the United States: Time to Rethink Research Priorities? https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2724339/ominous-reversal-health-gains-united-states-time-rethink-research-priorities
"By sequencing the genomic DNA of the bacteria, we were able to identify Burkholderia's antibiotic-making gene, Cepacin. Further testing demonstrated that Cepacin offered highly effective protection against damping off—a horticultural disease caused by a fungus-like organism." https://phys.org/news/2019-03-sustainable-natural-alternative-man-made-chemical.html
College of Dental Medicine have determined how F. nucleatum -- a common oral bacteria often implicated in tooth decay -- accelerates the growth of colon cancer. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/cuim-hac022719.php
Scientists from Heriot-Watt University have welded glass and metal together using an ultrafast laser system, in a breakthrough for the manufacturing industry. https://phys.org/news/2019-03-welding-breakthrough.html
"Cochlear implants are remarkable in that they enable children to hear the high pitch consonants such as "s". These are the sounds that hearing aids cannot make audible to deaf children. The sooner children are able to hear through an implant, the more likely they will understand when others talk, and learn to speak clearly," https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-kids-cochlear-implants-infancy.html
High levels of harmful bacteria found in many raw meat dog foods may be dangerous for more than just Fido, a new study suggests.
Not only can these foods put a dog at risk, but people who live with that dog, particularly the elderly, young and immunocompromised, are vulnerable https://pets.webmd.com/dogs/news/20190305/study-raw-dog-food-can-be-risky-business-for-pet-family?src=RSS_PUBLIC
Although the behavioral therapy to encourage a healthy dietary behavior and improve diet was not effective at preventing depression overall, there was some evidence that it prevented depressive episodes in those participants who attended a recommended number of sessions. This may suggest the food behavioral therapy only works if the participants get sufficient exposure and are able to sufficiently improve their diet and dietary behavior. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20190305/Daily-consumption-of-nutritional-supplements-does-not-prevent-depression.aspx
Cyber security is about managing risk, so which combination of multi-factor authentication suits your needs depends on the balance you accept between usability and security. http://theconversation.com/receiving-a-login-code-via-sms-and-email-isnt-secure-heres-what-to-use-instead-112767
Young adults at risk of developing addiction problems show key differences in a particular brain region tied to impulse control, https://psychcentral.com/news/2019/03/05/young-adults-at-risk-for-addiction-show-key-differences-in-brain-region/143420.html
According to a new study, pizza, chocolate, chips, cookies and ice cream are the foods most often associated with “addictive-like eating.” https://globalnews.ca/news/5018587/most-addicting-foods-pizza-chocolate-chips/
"But by using these big data approaches we can begin to shortcut some of the more difficult problems, and cut to the core questions in modern conservation: how is the world changing, for which species is it changing the most, and where are the people who care the most and can do the most to help."
The research team feel that there is a lot of potential to apply these methods to conservation policy and actions, such as selecting flagship species or iconic areas. Being able to identify a seasonal peak in interest in a particular species, for example, could help an organization decide when and how to launch a particular fundraising campaign. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uoo-aob030519.php
“The idea of human rights is that people have basic dignity and that it’s the role of the government—yes, the government!—to ensure that no one falls below the decent level,” the U.N.’s Philip Alston said in an interview with Newsweek. “Civilized society doesn’t say for people to go and make it on your own and if you can’t, bad luck.”
Alabama’s section of the Black Belt is where you can clearly see the worst transgressions of slavery and institutionalized racism right now. https://grist.org/article/nearly-all-tornadoes-are-survivable-so-why-are-people-still-dying/
People all know that plants grow taller in wetter places, but what factors set their maximum height? Through previous experiments on tall trees, scientists have revealed that increasing hydraulic resistance associated with increasing plant height limits the distance water can be transported through xylem to top leaves. This hydraulic resistance thus sets the maximum height of a species in a given habitat. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/caos-tsb030519.php
How Did The Universe Expand To 46 Billion Light-Years In Just 13.8 Billion Years? https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-did-the-universe-expand-to-46-billion-light-years-in-just-13-8-billion-years-a52d2648a106?source=collection_home---2------0---------------------
A fungus commonly found in human hair follicles also resides in the gut, where it may worsen intestinal disorders such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in patients with a certain genetic makeup, researchers report March 5 in the journalCell Host & Microbe.
Malassezia yeasts found in oily skin and scalp follicles are linked to skin conditions, including dandruff. These microscopic fungi also end up in the gut, but it's not known how or what they do there.
"We were surprised to find that Malassezia restrica was more common on intestinal tissue surfaces in Crohn's disease patients than in healthy people," https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/cp-afu022619.php
Electrical signals kick off flatworm regeneration https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/cp-esk022619.php
"These findings have practical value in terms of how we share negative information with older adults regarding their health," Hess says. "For example, it may be useful for a health care provider to say 'here's what looks good' before talking to a patient about recommendations regarding diet or exercise." https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/ncsu-aah030519.php
Hope for the rising number of people with IBD: Scientists say eating only vegan food for four days a month drastically reduces inflammation and boosts healthy bacteria in the gut https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6773379/Eating-vegan-food-four-days-months-reduces-inflammation-IBD.html
"We know one cannot be well without an adequate amount of NO circulating throughout the body. Yet, the very first thing over 200 million Americans do each day is use an antiseptic mouthwash, which destroys the 'good bacteria' that helps to create the NO. These once thought good habits may be doing more harm than good."
Nathan Bryan, Ph.D. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324621.php
Indebtedness really stood out from all the rest of the possibilities. Interestingly, collaboration even had a borderline negative effect on saying you were motivated by a desire to do something nice for your partner -- in other words, there's a slight indication that collaboration made you less likely to be motivated by a sense of goodwill toward the other person."
Though an impulse to repay a collaborator may be pro-social in many scenarios, McGrath noted that giving preferential treatment to those who have contributed to your cause could have problematic implications for ethical behavior. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/nu-wm030519.php
Hyperbolic headlines can be like catnip for newspaper editors. So when a local fisher hauls in what looks like a record-breaking catch, it often makes news. But a recent study has found that the size of some these noteworthy fish has diminished over time, even as reporters continue to tag them with superlatives such as the “largest” and “mammoth.” “[T]he fact that the media use similar adjectives to describe fish that are increasingly small is worrisome because people’s opinions are often shaped by what they read in the media,” http://www.envirolink.org/2019/03/05/youre-gonna-need-a-smaller-boat-media-obscures-shrinking-newsworthy-fish/
IMAGE: POOLS OF HOT WATER LIKE THIS ARE THE HOME TO BACTERIA THAT CAN EAT AND BREATHE ELECTRICITY https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/wsu-cbt030519.php
Japanese startup unveils creepy Minority Report-style AI that can spot shoplifters BEFORE they steal https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6774313/Japanese-startup-unveils-Minority-Report-style-AI-spot-shoplifters-steal.html
Calyxt’s “healthier” soybean oil, the industry’s first true gene-edited food, could make its way into products such as chips, salad dressings and baked goods as soon as the end of this year.
Unlike older genetic modification methods, the new techniques are precise, fast and inexpensive, and companies hope they will avoid the negative reputation and regulatory hurdles that hobbled the first generation of genetically modified foods.
But the speed of change has startledconsumer and environmental groups, who say the new technology has not been adequately vetted, and they have petitioned regulators to add further safety reviews. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/08/11/feature/the-future-of-food-scientists-have-found-a-fast-and-cheap-way-to-edit-your-edibles-dna/?noredirect=on
comment # 2 today . For this study, the researchers took a look at two compounds, EGCG, or epigallocatechin-3-gallate, a key ingredient in green tea, and FA, or ferulic acid, which is found in carrots, tomatoes, rice, wheat and oats.
The researchers randomly assigned 32 mice with Alzheimer’s-like symptoms to one of four groups with an equal number of males and females. For comparison, each group also included an equal number of healthy mice. For three months, the mice consumed a combination of EGCG and FA, or EGCG or FA only, or a placebo. The dosage was 30 milligrams per kilogram of body weight — a dosage well-tolerated by humans and easily consumed as part of a healthy diet.
Diet and Alzheimer’s: Testing results https://news.usc.edu/154890/alzheimers-like-symptoms-in-mice-reversed-with-special-diet/
A solar tracking system for photovoltaic cells was built and tested in sub-Saharan Africa. The cell was suspended from a mount, and weights were hung on the two ends. One of the weights was a water bucket with a controllable leak. The water bucket was hung from the east end of the cell, and the weights were adjusted so it was heavier in the morning. Over the course of the day, as it lost water, the cell rotated to track the sun. The system was tested for 20 days, and collected 32% more energy than would have been collected by a horizontal solar cell in the same location. The cost of the frame is less than the savings in purchasing a smaller PV cell, so it has the potential to make solar energy more affordable to households and small businesses in the developing world. *This project was supported by the Fulbright Scholar program. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/aps-isc022219.php
2of physicist Beth Parks described a new way to wring even more energy from a solar panel — a major development for people with no access to reliable power, such as those in developing countries or folks who live off-the-grid. Rather than install the panel in a stationary position, Parks helped come up with a rotating frame that allows the panel to follow the sun as it traverses the sky. Here’s where that high-tech equipment comes in. Rather than use motorized components, Parks’s solar panel rig moves thanks to the power of gravity, using a bucket of rocks and a bucket of water. The former, a stationary weight, hangs off the west side of the rig. Counterbalancing it, on the east side, is the water — but, this bucket has a leak in it. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/03/06/better-solar-panels-through-buckets-of-water-rocks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20DiscoverTechnology%20%28Discover%20Technology%29
Cancer most frequently spreads to the liver; here's why https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-cancer-frequently-liver.html
Rain is important for how carbon dioxide affects grasslands
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uog-rii030619.php
Study urges seniors to get moving to live longer https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-urges-seniors-longer.html
While walking a dog provides older Americans with a valuable outlet for regular, physical activity, a Penn Medicine study has shown that fractures related to these walks have more than doubled between 2004 and 2017 in patients 65 and older. In this population, 78 percent of the fractures occurred in women, with hip and upper extremity breaks being the most common. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-bone-fractures-seniors-dogs.html
Gut microbiota helps to maintain core body temperature under cold exposure https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-gut-microbiota-core-body-temperature.html
The team hopes the work will help explain the workings of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), noting that people who suffer from it “report a complete lack of control of both the content and strength of their mental imagery.” https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-can-read-your-mind-before-you-know-youve-made-a-decision/
Therefore, it seems that sleep gives our neurons a chance to fix damaged DNA very efficiently, something that can’t be achieved while we’re awake as our brains are too active.
"It's like potholes in the road," Appelbaum explained in a statement. "Roads accumulate wear and tear, especially during daytime rush hours, and it is most convenient and efficient to fix them at night, when there is light traffic." https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-good-nights-sleep-helps-your-brain-fix-damaged-dna/
"Show me the bodies!" someone demanded at the end of my lecture a few years ago.
As a scholar of public health ethics, law and policy, I had just warned an audience of professors and university administrators about the perils of partnering with, or taking money from, corporations – a common practice in public health research and policymaking.
It's not always possible to prove harm like that, I said. But there are other reasons for government, the academy and public health organizations to maintain arm's length relationships with corporations. Among them, preserving integrity and public trust. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-opioid-crisis-partnering-industry-bad.html
"Key problems faced by people with knee osteoarthritis include pain and inactivity. Pain management must be a treatment priority—but it is also crucial that we purposefully encourage physical activity to promote health and well-being for those living with this disease," said senior author Dr. Monica Maly https://www.news-medical.net/news/20190306/Knee-pain-not-associated-with-daily-walking-levels-in-people-with-knee-osteoarthritis.aspx
Although burnout shares traits with depression, such as social withdrawal and decreased performance, how the conditions are related is not well understood. https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-07/the-real-signs-of-workplace-burnout/10850070?pfmredir=sm
The American Heart Association recommends providing all students with 150 minutes per week of physical education in elementary schools and 225 minutes per week in middle schools and high schools. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-physical-strongly-linked-absenteeism-york.html
A stunning series of images released this week has captured the moment two supersonic planes break the speed of sound to produce simultaneous sonic booms with interacting shockwaves. The tests used a pair of T-38 aircraft from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base flying just 30 feet apart, with an altitude difference of just 10 feet https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6779707/Jaw-dropping-images-reveal-moment-TWO-supersonic-planes-send-shockwaves-ripping-sky.html
If you go to Netflix’s online subscription platform, you are quickly invited to “Choose the plan you like best. The first month is free”.
But which subscription should you go for?
With this question, the budding psychologist in you has just tapped into prospect theory (PT), one of the most discussed psychological theories of this century. http://www.brainblogger.com/2018/02/19/how-netflix-takes-your-money/
By surveying 17 naturally occurring populations of narrowleaf cottonwood trees (Populus angustifolia), the researchers discovered that tree populations in warmer places have less genetic variation. This difference, in turn, has consequences for their soil microbial communities and soil chemical composition.
"Future climate change could reduce the potential for adaptation in plants, especially in less genetically varied populations. In order to cope with these stressful conditions, plants may be developing a stronger relationship with their soil microbiome and nutrients. It may be a mechanism for persistence in a changing world https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uota-cei030619.php
Fake warnings on e-cigarette ads distract kids from truth https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/osu-fwo030619.php
Eating healthy on a limited budget is possible ..op..kinda..: study https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-healthy-limited.html
researchers said the risk of a-fib was raised no matter what types of protein or fat were used to replace carbohydrates.
"Extremes of anything aren't good. Too much carbohydrate is bad and too little is also bad," explained Dr. Laurence Epstein, system director of electrophysiology at Northwell Health in Manhasset, N.Y. Epstein wasn't involved with the new study.
Atrial fibrillation is a heart rhythm disorder. Instead of the usual heartbeat, the heart sometimes quivers in people with a-fib. Because the heart isn't pumping properly, blood pools in the heart and can form clots. https://consumer.healthday.com/cardiovascular-health-information-20/atrial-fibrillation-959/low-carb-diets-linked-to-higher-odds-for-a-fib-743468.html
Claire's has refused to recall the three products that tested positive for asbestos.
Those products are: Claire's Eye Shadows, Batch No/Lot No: 08/17; Claire's Compact Powder, Batch No/Lot No: 07/15; and Claire's Contour Palette, Batch No/Lot No: 04/17. (gave the headsup to makeup mods) https://consumer.healthday.com/women-s-health-information-34/cosmetic-news-158/fda-issues-asbestos-warning-about-some-claire-s-cosmetic-products-743500.html
comment #2 today . these were not the driving force behind the reduction in violent crime, but rather one part of a broader approach. The most successful parts of the strategy saw bereaved relatives talking about the impact of violence as part of a wider education campaign, a range of community activities organised for young people, and support for young people to move forward, including advice on housing, employment and training. https://phys.org/news/2019-03-violent-crime-decades-risky-young.html
A study of more than 17,000 U.S. adults shows that moderate alcohol consumption—seven to 13 drinks per week—substantially raises one's risk of high blood pressure, or hypertension, according to research being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 68th Annual Scientific Session.
The findings contrast with some previous studies that have associated moderate drinking with a lower risk of some forms of heart disease. Most previous studies, however, have not assessed high blood pressure among moderate drinkers. Since hypertension is a leading risk factor for heart attack and stroke, the new study calls into question the notion that moderate alcohol consumption benefits heart health. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-moderate-alcohol-consumption-linked-high.html
"Midday sleep appears to lower bloodpressure levels at the same magnitude as other lifestyle changes. For example, salt and alcohol reduction can bring blood pressure levels down by 3 to 5 mm Hg," https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-nap-day-high-blood-pressure.html
Pesticides affect bumblebee genes; scientists call for stricter regulations https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/03/07/1101551965604/?sl=1
The ship-based data show that deep ocean temperatures rose an average rate of 1-thousandth of a degree Celsius per year between the 1990s and the 2000s and that rate doubled to 2-thousandths of a degree per year between the 2000s and the 2010s. The Deep Argo floats reveal a tripling of the initial warming rate to 3-thousandths of a degree per year over the past four-plus years.
This warming rate of near-bottom temperatures is only a fraction of that of the surface ocean, but is striking for an area of the ocean long considered more stable. https://phys.org/news/2019-03-deep-robots-south-pacific-ocean.html
When it comes to success on a crowdfunding site, race matters. https://phys.org/news/2019-03-racial-bias-crowdfunding-sites-indiegogo.html
People who started and had a high adherence to the Mediterranean diet at age 25 were 46 percent less likely to have poor thinking skills by the time they turned 55, according to research publishedWednesday in Neurology. People in the same age group who had a high adherence to the CARDIA a priori Diet Quality Score, or APDQS diet, were 52 percent less likely to have poor thinking skills at 55.
"Our findings indicate that maintaining good dietary practices throughout adulthood can help to preserve brain health at midlife" https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/03/07/1211551965244/?sl=1
People with polycystic kidney disease (PKD) could benefit from a moderate increase in water intake, according to new research.
A study from The Westmead Institute for Medical Research found that a moderate increase in water intake in rats with PKD led to a long-term reduction in kidney cyst growth and fibrosis.
This latest findings add to the growing body of evidence that supports water as a safe and effective treatment for PKD. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-evidence-potential-treatment-inherited-kidney.html
Depending on the type of flower, some species of wild bees perform this task more efficiently than their "domesticated" counterpart or even exclusively. Bumble bees, for example, visit three to five times more flowers than honeybees do. The German Association for Environmental Protection and Conservation (BUND) has estimated that the economic value of the pollination services provided annually by insects in Europe amounts to more than 14 billion euros. But insect populations worldwide are declining at alarming rates, as recent studies have shown - and bees are no exception to this trend. "Generally speaking, bee diversity appears to be diminishing as a result of intensive agriculture and the increased use of pesticides, https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/lm-iid030719.php
The researchers also found shared genetic links between both short and long sleep duration and factors such as higher levels of body fat, depression symptoms and fewer years of schooling, implying negative effects from both too little and too much sleep. In addition, short sleep duration was genetically linked with traits such as insomnia and smoking, while long-duration variants were linked with schizophrenia, type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/mgh-lsi030719.php
Proof of pimple: Mouse model validates how 'good' and 'bad' bacteria affect acne https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-proof-pimple-mouse-validates-good.html
Weightlifting could improve cognition, according to new study https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-weightlifting-cognition.html
Millennials lead the mass Facebook exodus: More than 15 MILLION users in the US have quit the site in the last two years over privacy concerns https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6781593/More-15-MILLION-Facebook-users-quit-site.html
Research shows that expressing gratitude improves physical and mental health https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-gratitude-physical-mental-health.html
Researchers develop 'acoustic metamaterial' that cancels sound https://phys.org/news/2019-03-acoustic-metamaterial-cancels.html
In the case of YouTube, for example, if you follow the automatic suggestions, 'there is a sort of dissonance created between the user's initial aim' of watching a certain video and 'what is introduced to try and keep him or her on the platform,' he says.
Ultimately the aim is to expose the user to partner advertisements and better understand his tastes and habits.
UX designer Harry Brignull describes such interactions as 'dark patterns', defining them as interfaces that have been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things they may not have wanted to do.
'It describes this kind of design pattern -- kind of evil, manipulative and deceptive,' he told AFP, saying the aim was to 'make you do what the developers want you to do.' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6782767/Experts-warn-impossible-escape-persuasive-technology.html
Vitamin B3 analogue boosts production of blood cells https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/epfd-vba030619.php
The researchers estimated that nearly a third of the total runoff they observed was due to rainfall. Professor Marco Tedesco of Columbia University in New York said the increased rainfall also has important implications.
He points out that even if it does rain on the ice sheet during the winter - and then refreezes - the rain changes the characteristics of the ice sheet surface. It becomes smoother and darker, pre-conditioning the ice to melt quicker during the summer months.
Remember, the darker the ice, the more solar radiation it absorbs. This, in turn, causes the ice to melt faster. http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/science/it-s-not-supposed-to-rain-on-greenland-s-ice-sheet-in-wintearticle/544765
The authors add, "Our study demonstrates that a host protein made in the intestine following exposure to the microbiotaaffects innate immune cell populations, both in the gut and other tissues. Microbially responsive secretion of host factors from the intestine can therefore serve as a molecular rheostat which controls the development and function of the host innate immune system." https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-microbiota-neutrophil.html
Men with a genetic predisposition to high testosterone levels have a nearly eightfold increased risk of heart failure and twice the risk of thromboembolism (blood clots that can block veins or arteries leading to the brain or lungs), researchers found.
Although the study focuses on men with naturally high testosterone, it has implications for aging men who are taking testosteronesupplements to boost their energy levels and improve their sex drive, experts said.
Testosterone sales increased 12-fold globally between 2000 and 2011, particularly in the United States, the researchers said in background notes. https://www.webmd.com/men/news/20190307/high-testosterone-levels-bad-news-for-the-heart?src=RSS_PUBLIC
"We're seeing a crackdown on free speech and organizing around the world, particularly on individuals and groups defending women's human rights. The Expanded Global Gag Rule is feeding that trend," says Terry McGovern, JD, director of GHJG, chair of the Columbia Mailman Department of Population and Family Health, ...A similar policy known as the Domestic Gag Rule is expected to go into effect by the end of April. https://phys.org/news/2019-03-global-gag-stifles-free-speech.html
Zinc could help as non-antibiotic treatment for UTIs https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uoq-zch030819.php
The knowledge that a plastic called polypropylene is used to heat-seal teabags was not widely known until 2017, when Mike Armitage, a gardener from Wrexham, noticed they left white residue behind when put on a compost heap. Following his campaign, tea-makers PG Tips and Yorkshire Tea switched away from using plastic. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6784471/Prince-Charles-avoids-teabags-contain-plastic.html
Inspired by such examples, my colleagueProf Allen Lee and I recently set out to explore the deeper effects of algorithmic technology in a paper in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. Our exploration led us to the conclusion that, over time, the roles of information technology and humans have been reversed. In the past, we humans used technology as a tool. Now, technology has advanced to the point where it is using and even controlling us. http://theconversation.com/algorithms-have-already-taken-over-human-decision-making-111436
Nadia Hansel, M.D., director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins, added "Another important take home point is how the complex environment comes together to contribute to extra burden of asthma in these low-income, urban communities. Our results suggest that improving the asthma burden in the community may require a multi-faceted approach." Vitamin D may protect against pollution-associated asthma symptoms in obese children https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/nioe-vdm030819.php
"When we expose isolated inner ears to loud noise in the lab, the level of calcium in the tectorial membrane falls, and the sensory cells cease to function. After a while, however, the calcium ion concentration returns to its previous level, and the sensory cells start to function again", https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/lu-wyl030819.php
Zero-emission diesel combustion using a non-equilibrium-plasma-assisted MnO2 filter https://phys.org/news/2019-03-zero-emission-diesel-combustion-non-equilibrium-plasma-assisted-mno2.html
Just use less of it to limit the saturated fat. Even in small amounts, full-fat mozzarella tastes richer and helps you feel full. Try to find a freshly made ball of mozzarella. The pre-shredded bagged varieties have unwanted ingredients used to keep the shreds from clumping. (If you need to cut calories for weight loss, you can substitute ricotta cheese.)
Healthy Homemade Pizza https://consumer.healthday.com/vitamins-and-nutrition-information-27/cooking-recipes-156/try-this-healthy-makeover-for-a-favorite-fast-food-742680.html
"Our results demonstrate an evolutionarily conserved function for thyroid hormone in regulating heart cell proliferation and suggest that loss of regenerative potential was a trade-off that allowed mammals to become warm-blooded," Huang said. "For early mammals, endothermy was more advantageous than retention of regenerative potential. But now, with medical improvements allowing us to live much longer, this loss of cardiac regeneration becomes more problematic and is a fundamental cause of heart disease." https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uoc--thh030719.php
Copepods, the world's most common animal, release unique substances into the oceans. Concentrations of these substances are high enough to affect the marine food web, according to new research from the University of Gothenburg. The studies also show that phytoplankton in the oceans detect the special scent of copepods and do their utmost to avoid being eaten. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uog-saw030819.php

Want Good Posture? You’re Better Off Wearing Sneakers Than Other Types Of Shoes http://www.medicaldaily.com/good-posture-stance-types-shoes-372844
Damage From Air Pollution Exposure Doesn’t Fade Over Time http://www.medicaldaily.com/air-pollution-mortality-rate-black-smoke-372826
Furthermore, Collins points out that "our bodies have an excess of nutrients and cannot store them, they will essentially go to waste. Or, more worryingly, if certain nutrients can't be excreted in sufficient levels, they could cause serious cellular damage. Overloading our bodies is not a healthy or natural thing to do." http://mic.com/articles/134706/the-truth-about-superfoods-can-they-really-keep-you-healthy-and-cure-disease
Find a partner who marches to the beat of your own drumGroup coordination is optimized between people with similar movement rates http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160209121726.htm
Barley can help improve blood sugar levels and reduce appetite http://scienceblog.com/482823/barley-can-help-improve-blood-sugar-levels-reduce-appetite/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28ScienceBlog.com%29
Ice cream lovers, look away now. Studies on a simulated human gut have added further evidence that emulsifiers, found in most processed foods, might be linked to obesity, diabetes and inflammatory bowel disorders. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2076906-surge-in-obesity-and-diabetes-could-be-linked-to-food-additives/
While this study was carried out in rats, there is plenty of evidence for the positive effects of exercise on neurogenesis (growing new brain cells).
Interval training only had a small effect and lifting weights had no effect on growing new brain cells. http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/regular-exercise-changes-brain-improve-memory-thinking-skills-201404097110
A team of Iowa State researchers found diabetic rats fed an egg-based diet had higher concentrations of vitamin D, improved blood glucose levels and gained less weight. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160209090438.htm
a relatively high intake of dietary cholesterol, or eating one egg every day, are not associated with an elevated risk of incident coronary heart disease http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoef-hde021116.php
skipthepie.org Nutrition search engine http://skipthepie.org/
Could the food we eat affect our genes? Study in yeast suggests this may be the case http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoc-ctf021116.php
a small, short-term experimentin mice indicates that prunes may protect our bones from the damaging effects of space radiation. That's not only good news for astronauts, but also for chemotherapy patients and radiation workers here on Earth. http://www.popsci.com/future-astronauts-may-need-to-eat-lot-prunes
Why can some people stay slim without even trying? http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/why-can-some-people-stay-slim-without-even-trying-they-dont-diet-1543241
Ice Vs Heat For Treating Pain: Which One Is Best For Arthritis, Headaches, And Sprains? http://www.medicaldaily.com/ice-heat-pain-treatment-arthritis-373156
Researchers release open source code for powerful image detection algorithm http://phys.org/news/2016-02-source-code-powerful-image-algorithm.html
However, those who still have concerns about possible health woes may try to reduce the levels of formaldehyde via the following methods: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/132560/20160211/lumber-liquidators-chinese-made-flooring-causes-health-woes-but-poses-low-cancer-risk-cdc.htm
Aussie scientists create "ground breaking" diet to effectively combat type 2 diabetes http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-02/11/c_135089659.htm
The Surprising Benefits of Yoga That Go Far Beyond a Flexible Frame http://mic.com/articles/134818/the-surprising-benefits-of-yoga-that-go-far-beyond-a-flexible-frame
A U.S. intelligence chief has said for the first time that household devices connected to the Internet, such as smart fridges, light bulbs and thermostats, could be used as surveillance tools. http://www.newsweek.com/us-spy-chief-we-could-use-your-fridge-spy-you-424994?piano_t=1
This study investigated the preventive effects of vinegar and acetic acid (the active component of vinegar) on ulcerative colitis (UC) in mice. http://phys.org/news/2016-02-vinegar-potentially-ulcerative-colitis.html
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Scientist have discovered a way to make neurons respond to a placebo (a medically ineffective treatment), in the same way as they would to medically effective treatment, according to a new study. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160209221142.htm
9 scientifically verified ways to appear more attractive http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/9-scientifically-verified-ways-to-appear-more-attractive-a6870296.html
show how attracted you are to someone with these 3 easy-to-read cues. http://www.medicaldaily.com/valentines-day-date-3-easy-read-body-language-signs-display-attraction-373416
??? Best Free YouTube Workout Videos You Can Watch to Get Fit http://mic.com/articles/135174/best-free-you-tube-workout-videos-you-can-watch-to-get-fit
Study Ties Parents' Criticism to Persistent ADHD in Kids http://consumer.healthday.com/kids-health-information-23/parenting-health-news-525/adhd-critical-parents-jap-release-batch-2526-707866.html
Here Are the Best Teas to Help You Fall Asleep http://mic.com/articles/135155/here-are-the-best-teas-to-help-you-fall-asleep
People think when they see a privacy policy that ‘Oh good, I have privacy on this site,’” Hill said. “But privacy policies actually tell you every way that [companies are] going to violate your privacy. Once you agree to one, the company is basically legally protected http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/not-all-privacy-policies-are-created-equal/
Cruz app data collection helps campaign read minds of voters http://phys.org/news/2016-02-cruz-app-campaign-minds-voters.html
Vaping linked to host of new health risks https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vaping-linked-host-new-health-risks
There are really only two things to remember with proper sunscreen usage. The first is to apply it 30 minutes before exposing yourself to the sun and the second is to reapply every two hours http://www.techtimes.com/articles/132219/20160210/how-to-correctly-use-sunscreen-to-avoid-skin-cancer.htm
Science AMA Series: We study how intelligent machines can help us (think of a car that could park itself after dropping you off) while at the same time they threaten to radically disrupt our economic lives (truckers, bus drivers, and even airline pilots who may be out of a job)...(((other jobs mentioned in the thread by the way))). Ask us anything! (((tl:dr?... according to them we're in serious trouble)))https://www.reddit.com/science/comments/45k2pv/science_ama_series_we_study_how_intelligent/?
In the future, vitamin B6 could be used to ascertain the nitrogen status of plants and eventually prevent the overuse of nitrogen-containing fertilizers http://phys.org/news/2016-02-role-vitamin-b6.html
After a while, you’re avoiding the discomfort of the fear itself, rather than the thing you fear. When you avoid the things you fear you feel safe and comfortable and you don’t want to do anything that will shake this safe cocoon of comfort. http://www.spring.org.uk/2016/02/reassuring-thing-can-say-someone-experiencing-fear-anxiety.php
Larvicide Manufactured By Monsanto Partner, Not Zika Virus, True Cause Of Brazil's Microcephaly Outbreak: Doctors http://www.techtimes.com/articles/133548/20160214/monsanto-larvicide-not-zika-virus-true-cause-of-brazils-microcephaly-outbreak-doctors.htm
Is Coconut Oil Good for You? Here Are Its Health and Beauty Benefits http://mic.com/articles/135134/is-coconut-oil-good-for-you-here-are-its-health-and-beauty-benefits
The Benefits of Ginger and What Science Says About the Ancient Medicinal Root http://mic.com/articles/135143/the-benefits-of-ginger-and-what-science-says-about-the-ancient-medicinal-root
All in the mind? How research is proving the true healing power of the placebo https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/15/jo-marchant-mind-body-health-medicine-science
Insect Attraction to Various Types of Residential Lights http://www.aaas.org/abstract/light-pollution-and-insects-insect-attraction-various-types-residential-lights
So the next time someone tells you that you’re acting stupid because you’re in love, tell them you just might be the smartest person in the room. http://nautil.us/blog/love-can-make-you-smarter?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
No, Monsanto Is Not to Blame for Microcephaly http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/02/16/a_pesticide_in_brazil_s_drinking_water_is_not_behind_microcephaly.html
The finding suggests that leafy greens are essential for feeding good gut bacteria, limiting the ability of bad bacteria to colonize the gut by shutting them out of the prime 'real estate.' http://www.techtimes.com/articles/133715/20160216/broccoli-compound-may-slow-growth-of-breast-cancer-cells.htm
Broccoli Compound May Slow Growth Of Breast Cancer Cells http://www.techtimes.com/articles/133715/20160216/broccoli-compound-may-slow-growth-of-breast-cancer-cells.htm
High-flavonoid foods associated with the smallest weight gain included apples, pears, blueberries, strawberries and peppers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/best-way-to-keep-the-weight-off-as-you-age-heres-what-one-study-says/2016/02/12/587c9b14-d0f0-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html
New study finds clear differences between organic and non-organic milk and meat https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160215210707.htm
Freezing steak improves tenderness of some cuts https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160215143324.htm
“Although previous research has supported the individual beneficial effects of aerobic exercise and meditation for depression,” the researchers wrote, “these findings indicate that a combination of the two may be particularly effective.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/this-no-meds-approach-to-fighting-depression-may-work/2016/02/12/03222bdc-d0d4-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html
Standardized test scores decline with each passing hour of school http://phys.org/news/2016-02-standardized-scores-decline-hour-school.html
Tailored acupuncture lessens pain intensity in chronic pain (fibromyalgia) And improves functional capacity and quality of life; effects still evident a year later http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/b-tal021116.php
many gardeners have left plants in their gardens over the winter. This is actually a good thing…and something everyone should consider on a yearly basis! https://soilsmatter.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/what-is-the-effect-of-leaving-some-of-the-vegetable-crops-up-over-the-winter-how-does-that-improve-soil-conditions/
Evaluation and Definition of Potentially Hazardous Foods - Chapter 3. Factors that Influence Microbial Growth http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodScienceResearch/SafePracticesforFoodProcesses/ucm094145.htm
You might want to think twice about sprinkling Parmesan on your penne.
A new report has found that what you thought was 100 per cent Parmesan cheese may in fact be wood. Even worse, some brands may not have any cheese in their product at all. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3450137/The-Parmesan-putting-pasta-WOOD-Report-finds-products-contain-NO-cheese.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Compound in green tea found to block rheumatoid arthritis https://news.wsu.edu/2016/02/16/145706/
temp This activation is also dependent upon sugars (a measure of CO2 capture) that also travel through the phloem from shoot to root. Thus, movement of HY5 and sugars from shoot to root increases nitrate uptake by the root. http://phys.org/news/2016-02-benefit.html
temp Cosmology from quantum potential. http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html
Genetic Ancestry Is Basically a Horoscope http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/02/your_ancestry_is_about_as_informative_as_your_horoscope.html
2? A Clever Way To Avoid Toxic Chemicals In Everyday ProductsYikes: Tens of thousands of untested chemicals lurk in household items. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/app-helps-avoid-toxic-chemicals_us_56bdfddbe4b08ffac124c653?m=false
2? You Can Now 3D Print the Ancient Artifacts That ISIS Destroyed http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/you-can-now-3d-print-the-ancient-artifacts-that-isis-destroyed
Regular exercise slows down the growth of cancer in mice http://www.sciencealert.com/regular-exercise-slows-down-the-growth-of-cancer-in-mice
Humanoids are being trained to work on aircraft and may replace cabin crew http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3452674/Would-fly-plane-built-entirely-robots-Humanoids-trained-work-aircraft-replace-cabin-crew.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
The study hypothesizes that pesticide mixtures may increase the possibility of gene mutations and decrease the body’s ability to repair damaged DNA. http://m.phys.org/news/2016-02-pesticide-mixtures-health-unregulated-california.html
Perceptions Of Perfection Part II: What The ‘Ideal’ Male Body Looks Like Across 19 Countries http://www.medicaldaily.com/ideal-male-body-perceptions-perfection-373961
Robotic stockbrokers are starting to predict changes in share prices better than humans http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3452805/Will-AI-stock-market-Robotic-stockbrokers-starting-predict-changes-share-prices-better-humans.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
With stories of falsified results making headlines, it's known that some scientists not only fail to achieve these ideals but directly violate them. Has that become more common? It's hard to know. It may be that like self-selection bias and politicization of science, insiders may not wish to see it. http://www.science20.com/news_articles/what_makes_a_true_scientist-165758
2? "What we have found is that if you eat an identical meal in the morning or evening, the glucose response is relatively impaired in the evening compared to the morning," http://www.vox.com/2016/2/17/11034546/eating-late-night-bad-diet
The Ultimate Guide To Great Posture http://www.medicaldaily.com/ultimate-guide-great-posture-374161
Lactate is produced in the brain and in muscles after intense exercise as a waste product of glucose metabolism. Nonetheless, how lactate protects neurons has eluded scientists until now.
The researchers tested the effects of glutamate on the mouse neurons with and without lactate. The results were revealing: glutamate killed 65% of the neurons, but when with lactate, that number dropped to 32%. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/epfd-haw021816.php
Want to Form a New Habit? Don't Overthink http://m.livescience.com/53779-form-new-habit-dont-overthink.html
COMPANIES ARE USING BIG DATA TO TRACK EMPLOYEE HEALTH AND PREGNANCIES
WITH THE HELP OF OUTSIDE FIRMS http://www.popsci.com/companies-use-big-data-to-track-employee-health-and-pregnancies
5 Beginner Yoga Poses For The Everyday Learner Help You Breathe, Meditate, And Balance http://www.medicaldaily.com/5-beginner-yoga-poses-everyday-learner-help-you-breathe-meditate-and-balance-335528
temp Plants can be forgetful too! Long-term 'memories' passed to seedlings can be deleted to help… http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3458387/Plants-forgetful-Long-term-memories-passed-seedlings-deleted-help-cope-future.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
After 30 Years of Cryosleep, Water Bears Wake Up, Stretch, and Have Babies http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/water-bears-survive-30-years-on-ice
However, for Camilla Stice, a food and nutrition analyst at Lux Research, the fact that 'many unknowns still remain within the nanotechnology landscape', means that such a high threshold for what constitutes a food-based nanomaterial 'could backfire' should adequate safety tests not be performed. ‘Also, this leaves a lot of wiggle room for developers to incorporate nanomaterials into their products while flying under the radar of this new regulation,’ she adds. http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2016/02/european-regulation-nano-materials-food
a sensor that clips onto your phone can give you Superman's X-ray vision.
Called Wallabot, the device lets people look through solid objects like a wall, to show the pipes hidden beneath on a phone's screen - or even reveal treasure concealed by sand, for example. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3455990/The-phone-X-RAY-VISION-149-Walabot-sensor-lets-people-peer-walls-objects-hiding-ground.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Hackers Distributed a Backdoored Version of Linux Through an Official Site http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/linux-mint-was-hacked
If persuasion is most at risk of backfire when identity is threatened, we may wish to frame arguments so they don’t strongly activate that identity concept, but rather others. And if, as this research suggests, the identity threat causes problems through agitating emotion, we may want to put off this disruption until later: http://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/02/why-is-it-so-hard-to-persuade-people.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+BpsResearchDigest+(BPS+Research+Digest)&m=1
Ads that ask the user to download a program are the most dangerous, containing malicious software about 50 percent of the time. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/nu-dhm022216.php
temp Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes actually capture. http://www.vox.com/2016/2/23/11095624/what-does-a-black-hole-actually-look-like
Previous research already warned that common preservatives in shampoos, sunscreens, and other common personal care products and cosmetics may increase the risk for breast cancer. These estrogen-mimicking chemicals known as parabens are even deemed riskier at lower levels than previously thought.
Worse, current safety tests likely undermine the pernicious effects of such ingredients. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/135750/20160223/french-consumer-group-warns-of-potential-harmful-substances-in-popular-beauty-products.htm
Research finds that difficult-to-read fonts can positively affect buying habits http://m.phys.org/news/2016-02-difficult-to-read-fonts-positively-affect-habits.html
Researchers in the US say that losing just 5 percent of your body weight is all it takes to see major health benefits in obese people. Hitting that smaller and more achievable-seeming target provides significant improvements to metabolic health and opens up the possibility of continued weight loss to boot. http://www.sciencealert.com/the-first-5-of-weight-loss-offers-the-greatest-health-benefits-in-obese-people-study-finds
Some herbicides are more effective when applied at noon compared to early morning or late evening https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160222155723.htm
some laminate flooring can cause irritation and cancer? On 10 February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning stating that the levels of formaldehyde present in one brand (not pictured above) could do just that. Now, Retraction Watch reports that the actual risk may be three times greater—because CDC forgot to convert feet to meters. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/siftecdc-underestimated-risk-formaldehyde-filled-floors-because-they-forgot-convert-metric
Beware downloading some apps or risk "being spied on" A security firm found that between 75 and 80 percent of the top free apps on Android phones or iPhones were breached. The number jumps as high as 97 percent among the top paid apps on those devices. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mobile-phone-apps-malware-risks-how-to-prevent-hacking-breach/
There is a disagreement about how much fish pregnant women should consume. TheMayo Clinic recommends that women who are pregnant avoid eating any fish, while the FDA and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommend 12 ounces (340 g) per week. http://www.livescience.com/53837-mercury-poisoning.html
2 Economics: Current climate models are grossly misleading http://www.nature.com/news/economics-current-climate-models-are-grossly-misleading-1.19416
Vaping Emits Less Formaldehyde than Previously Thought http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/vaping-emits-less-formaldehyde-than-previously-thought-health-smoking-ecigarettes-vape-news
Robot-Installed Solar Panels Cut Costs by 50% while being constructed in eight times faster with only three human workers instead of 35. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/robotinstalled-solar-panels-cut-costs-by-50
Forgotten crops may hold key to nutritional security http://phys.org/news/2016-02-forgotten-crops-key-nutritional.html
"The thing to keep in mind about the USDA Pyramid is that it comes from the [U.S.] Department of Agriculture, the agency responsible for promoting American agriculture, not from agencies established to monitor and protect our health, like the Department of Health and Human Services, or the National Institutes of Health, or the Institute of Medicine," Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the Nutrition Department at Harvard University, wrote in his book http://mic.com/articles/136136/why-that-food-pyramid-you-were-taught-in-elementary-school-may-have-been-wrong
according to her findings, if you want to avoid repeating history, it’s best not to try to learn from it. Instead, think about the future and what you can achieve if you avoid pitfalls http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/why-mistakes-are-often-repeated/470778/
Tests show no specific gastrointestinal abnormalities in children with autism http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/wkh-tsn022516.php
Glyphosate: Germany's most popular beers contain Monsanto-produced pesticide http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/glyphosate-germanys-most-popular-beers-contain-monsanto-produced-pesticide-linked-cancer-1546061
In a surprise win for humanity, Mercedes Benz has announced that it's ditching the robots used on its assembly line in favor of human workers because they can cope with the job better. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/25/mercedes_deautomates_production_lines/
Here's how you can keep YouTube playing on your phone after you close the window http://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-how-you-can-keep-youtube-streaming-on-your-phone-after-you-close-the-window
1-US food and drug agency finally gets new head http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2016/02/fda-us-food-drug-administration-director-robert-califf
2-Why critics are worried about the new FDA boss http://www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9364847/califf-fda
1-Lipid-derived metabolites, such as coprostanol and fatty acids, were predominant in the colonic ecosystem of the BaAka, possibly reflecting a tendency to incorporate in their diet significant amounts of animal prey or even lipid-rich nuts, such as peanuts and Irvingia nuts (Remis and Jost Robinson, 2014). Consumption of meat and nuts by the BaAka could also reflect the prevalence of amino-acid-derived metabolites http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(16)30099-7
2-“The study supports the idea that diet is the most important driver of microbiome composition in humans,” http://www.archaeology.org/news/4217-160226-hunter-gatherer-microbiome
Bell tells staff to downplay new $25 basic TV package ordered by CRTC
Company is trying to make new, cheap TV package unattractive, Bell employee believes http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/bell-skinny-tv-package-crtc-1.3465674
The idea of a basic income for everyone, provided by the government regardless of employment status, is coming back to Canada http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-ontario-government-is-investigating-giving-everyone-free-money-2016-budget-canada
the store will be selling only food that's past its sell-by date — a date that doesn’t indicate food safety but rather food quality, according to Consumer Reports. WeFood will take advantage of expired but still-safe foods by offering them at prices up to 50 percent lower than any other grocery store http://www.medicaldaily.com/food-waste-expired-food-denmark-375475
Do we really crave the foods our bodies need?
What do your weird cravings reallymean? http://www.sciencealert.com/do-we-really-crave-the-foods-our-bodies-need
examined what enabled disadvantaged children born in 1970 to succeed in education later in life. It concluded that parental engagement, particularly in the first few years of life, is more crucial than anything else. For example, children whose parents had read to them when they were five and showed an interest in their education at age 10 were significantly less likely to be in poverty at age 30. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/27/the-life-project-what-makes-some-people-happy-healthy-successful-and-others-not
Aside from high blood pressure, some experts suggest that eating too much salt may also damage the liver. True enough, this study was able to point that one out. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/137066/20160227/high-salt-diet-can-cause-damage-to-your-liver.htm
the whole system is under the tutelage of the suprachiasmatic nucleus—a pair of nuclei in the brain that regulate the circadian rhythm through light analysis.
Light isn't the only factor though. Eating or working out at weird times can confuse your body. http://mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=76102
One weird trick that might help you poop better http://www.vox.com/2016/2/27/11122496/how-to-poop-better
E-cigarettes Are Estimated To Have Helped 16,000-22,000 Smokers In England To Quit In 2014 http://www.science20.com/news_articles/ecigarettes_are_estimated_to_have_helped_1600022000_smokers_in_england_to_quit_in_2014-166895
tmp Nicky is backing Cancer Research UK’s Big Tobacco Cough Up campaign, which is calling on the public to help make the tobacco industry pay for the damage it causes and use their profits to keep Stop Smoking Services open. The petition demands the government impose a £500 million levy on the tobacco industry’s market share in the UK. Join Nicky and sign our petition http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2016/03/01/im-so-upset-that-stop-smoking-services-are-being-closed-down-nickys-story/
Scientists discover how lack of sleep makes us overeat http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/scientists-discover-how-lack-sleep-makes-us-overeat-1546892
temp Researchers discover monsoon-forecasting abilities in Tibetan plants http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-03/01/c_135145048.htm
Opposites Attract Is A Myth, Study Finds http://www.techtimes.com/articles/137333/20160301/opposites-attract-is-a-myth-study-finds.htm
Savvier home hunters spot these scams immediately, but others fall through the cracks, making popular rental listing sites like Craigslist a highly lucrative spot for fraud. http://phys.org/news/2016-03-craigslist-scam-rental.html
When the BlackBerry Priv was launched in the US in December, retailers Walmart and Best Buy sold out completely within a week. At the time of writing, Australian Priv reseller Optus was similarly out of stock.
The Priv is one of the new handsets where security is a major selling point. http://www.watoday.com.au/technology/technology-news/phone-security-how-safe-are-your-selfies-20160222-gn0tkm.html
Pace Yourself And Avoid Alcohol Poisoning: How To Drink And Not Get Too Drunk http://www.medicaldaily.com/drinking-alcohol-safety-tips-376031
Alcohol may prevent the body's natural cleansing process. Alcohol, specifically brownish liquors like rum and whisky, contain congeners, frequently toxic substances that occur naturally due to the fermentation process, or are added during the production of the liquors, http://mic.com/articles/136568/how-to-cleanse-your-body-of-toxins-it-s-easy-don-t-drink-alcohol
in the mobile networks, smartphones pulled ahead of Windows-based computers and laptops, now accounting for 60% of the malware activity observed in the mobile space. The Nokia Threat Intelligence Report also reveals an increase in iOS-based malware, growing sophistication of Android malware and the rising threat of mobile ransomware. http://phys.org/news/2016-03-nokia-malware-smartphones-account-infections.html
The obesity paradox: Why Coke is promoting a theory that being fat won’t hurt your health http://www.vox.com/2015/10/20/9572295/coca-cola-obesity-paradox
Study substituted peanuts for unhealth snacks, resulted in reduced BMI
The snack was administered after school as students were boarding the school bus to go home. Peanuts were chosen because nuts are nutrient-dense snacks that promote a feeling of being full. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/uoh-ppb030316.php
High-fat diets may spur cancer by activating tumor-prone stem cellsMouse study may explain well-known link between obesity and cancer in humans. http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/03/high-fat-diets-may-spur-cancer-by-activating-tumor-prone-stem-cells/
How much diesel pollution am I breathing in? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35717927
Air Purifiers for Chemical Pollutants http://www.air-purifier-power.com/chemical-air-purifiers.html
Food companies distort nutrition science. Here's how to stop them.
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/3/11148422/food-science-nutrition-research-bias-conflict-interest
Since the stomach takes about 3 hours to empty itself, waiting at least this amount of time before laying down or sleeping is a good idea. http://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-why-you-should-never-eat-right-before-bed
Depression affects your whole body, not just your mind, new evidence confirms It's not just a mental health issue. http://www.sciencealert.com/study-says-depression-affects-your-whole-body-not-just-your-mind
How Free Are USDA Scientists To Speak Their Mind? http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/04/469186025/how-free-are-usda-scientists-to-speak-their-mind
5 Sneaky Tricks Grocery Stores Use to Make You Spend More Money In this study the average gross sales increased from $12,112.35 for the fast tempo music to $16,740.23 for the slow tempo music. http://mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=76469
Facebook promises changes after paying just $8,211 in U.K. taxes last yearhttp://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/facebook-tax-britain-1.3476027
Teen girls see big drop in chemical exposure with switch in cosmetics http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/uoc--tgs030416.php
Peroxide from a bottle, though, can't differentiate between wounded and healthy cells together. As an alternative, parents should consider a simple soapand water cleanse. http://www.medicaldaily.com/hydrogen-peroxide-wound-care-376743
Consumption of animals helped hominins to grow bigger brains. But in a world rich with food, how necessary is meat? http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7592_supp/full/531S12a.html?WT.mc_id=FBK_OUTLOOK_COGNITIVEHEALTH
Despite harping on the latent dangers in emerging virtual reality technologies, Madary and Metzinger are far from Luddites. As they mention in their paper, they “fully support research into VR,” and argue that there are ethical demands for more research in this area. Their main concern is that this research is conducted in an ethically responsible way “with the goal of mitigating harm to the general public.” http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/vr-code-of-ethics
He reports that there are more drug company lobbyists than members of Congress. Even before Gilead’s $1000-a-pill hepatitis drug, the result of this unsavory lobbying is a $50 billion annual taxpayer gift to the drug industry–a fact that should outrage every taxpayer. http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/how-an-army-of-pharma-lobbyists-in-dc-have-locked-in-one-of-the-biggest-ripoff-schemes-in-america/
How Many Nights of Mediocre Sleep Are the Same as No Sleep At All? http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/03/how-many-nights-of-mediocre-sleep-are-the-same-as-no-sleep-at-all/
Fish mercury levels actually declined during the 1970s and 1980s, but mercury levels in walleye and pike increased between 1995 and 2011," Professor George Arhonditsis says. http://phys.org/news/2016-03-mercury-ontario-fish-severe-health.html
It's not the marketing message that counts - it's disrupting people's habits http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2016/ma08/marketing-psychology-brand-message-disrupting-habits
A 35-Inch Waist and Your Health: What's the Link? http://livescience.com/53971-35-inch-waist-health-risks.html
Nitric oxide gas has now been found to act as a switch during developmental remodelling of axonal projections from neurons: high gas levels promote the degeneration of unwanted axons and low levels support subsequent regrowth. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7593/full/nature17308.html
Serotonin deficiency implicated in rheumatoid arthritis https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160309140034.htm
Should You Try Yoga or Pilates? Here Are the Differences Between the Two http://mic.com/articles/137255/should-you-try-yoga-or-pilates-here-are-the-differences-between-the-two
Children Diagnosed With ADHD May Just Be Immature Compared To Their School Classmates: Study http://www.techtimes.com/articles/139898/20160310/children-diagnosed-with-adhd-may-just-be-immature-compared-to-their-school-classmates-study.htm
And evidence suggests that kids who drink large amounts of caffeine at a young age lose sleep, hindering their brain development http://www.medicaldaily.com/too-much-caffeine-limit-caffeine-consumption-377104
?? Flashback Friday: Got gas? Before you blame your diet, read this. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2016/03/11/flashback-friday-got-gas-blame-diet-read/
Is the Keto Diet the Same as the Atkins Diet? Here's What You Need to Know http://mic.com/articles/137376/is-the-keto-diet-the-same-as-the-atkins-diet-here-s-what-you-need-to-know
?? What’s the Science Behind the Blood Type Diet, and Is It Legit? http://mic.com/articles/137555/what-s-the-science-behind-the-blood-type-diet-and-is-it-legit
Nearly Half Of California Adults Have Prediabetes: Study http://www.techtimes.com/articles/140172/20160311/nearly-half-of-california-adults-have-prediabetes-study.htm
Iron-Rich Foods, Like Red Meat And Kale, May Hamper Green Tea's Health Benefits (and vice versa ...Op's.)http://www.medicaldaily.com/iron-rich-foods-red-meat-kale-green-tea-health-benefits-377472
8 awesome science resources that you can access for free online Including ALL of Feynman’s lectures. http://www.sciencealert.com/8-awesome-science-resources-that-you-can-access-online-for-free
Watch six tiny robo-ants weighing 100g in total pull a 1,769-kg family carhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/15/robot_ants_pull_ca
The oldest human genome ever has been sequenced, and it could rewrite our history http://www.sciencealert.com/the-oldest-human-genome-ever-has-been-sequenced-and-it-could-rewrite-human-history
Reduction in dietary diversity impacts richness of human gut microbiota Dietary diversity necessary for a healthy gastrointestinal microbiome https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160315104210.htm
Maple Syrup May Protect Brain From Alzheimer’s And Other Neurodegenerative Disease http://www.medicaldaily.com/maple-syrup-alzheimers-disease-brain-health-377846
Complex Learning Dismantles Barriers In The Brain http://www.science20.com/news_articles/complex_learning_dismantles_barriers_in_the_brain-168048
8 awesome science resources that you can access for free online Including ALL of Feynman’s lectures. http://www.sciencealert.com/8-awesome-science-resources-that-you-can-access-online-for-free
Study finds faces look MORE attractive when you pay attention http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3495957/Love-really-grow-Study-finds-faces-look-attractive-pay-attention.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
One In Five Children Receive Cough And Cold Medicines Despite Warning Against Their Use http://www.techtimes.com/articles/141706/20160317/one-in-five-children-receive-cough-and-cold-medicines-despite-warning-against-their-use.htm
found that believing that intelligence is fixed makes people more likely to overestimate their own intelligence and therefore less likely to develop their own intellectual capacity. http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/think-intelligence-is-fixed-youre-more-likely-to-overestimate-your-own/
A common drug for ulcers could prevent alcohol abuseA substance derived from licorice root could stop cravings for alcohol. http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/03/a-common-drug-for-ulcers-could-prevent-alcohol-abuse/
Supplementation with the molecule pyruvate increases the energy reserves in the brain of aging mice, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160316194205.htm
This Graceful Posture Boosts Self-Esteem, Improves Mood, Reduces Self-Consciousness… http://www.spring.org.uk/2016/03/graceful-posture-boosts-self-esteem-improves-mood-reduces-self-consciousness.php
Plant-based alternative protein options emerge from the sea https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160317190038.htm
Learning New Facts Really Does Push Out Old Ones: Our Brains Only Have a 'limited Amount Of… http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3498469/Learning-new-facts-really-DOES-push-old-ones-Study-discovers-brain-limited-space.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Scientists wanted to understand how particle size affects the mechanics of drying paint and other coatings. They found that coatings with differently sized particles solidify spontaneously into 2 layers.The research has implications for a variety of industries,from beauty products to pharmaceuticals http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/03/18/Researchers-study-the-mechanics-of-drying-paint/6531458327182/?spt=sec&or=sn
"It was most surprising that a single day of greater fat intake and lower fiber could influence sleep parameters," she added. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/124664/20160116/what-you-eat-can-affect-your-sleep-less-fiber-more-sugar-linked-to-disrupted-night-rest.htm
The Smell Of Alcohol Makes It Harder To Practice Self Control And Resist Drinking http://www.medicaldaily.com/smell-alcohol-drinking-self-control-378492
Dark Triad Personalities Aren't As Good At Manipulation From Behind A Computer Screen http://www.medicaldaily.com/dark-triad-manipulation-online-effectiveness-378471
“We found that some of these nutrients, which can have implications in neurologic disorders, anemia, bone strength and other health concerns, can be deficient in poorly planned vegan diets,” http://www.techtimes.com/articles/142455/20160320/vegan-diet-may-lack-vital-nutrient-intake.htm
More Evidence Omega-3s Benefit Those With Depression http://www.medicaldaily.com/omega-3-fatty-acids-major-depressive-disorder-antidepressants-378588
"The more we tend to vicariously experience the states of others, the more we appear to be inclined to treat them as we would ourselves." http://www.medicaldaily.com/human-brain-hard-wired-altruistic-behavior-kind-and-generous-378606

No, there's still no evidence e-cigarettes are as harmful as smoking In only one small part of the article, not covered in the press release and not picked up by the media, do the authors mention that they also exposed some cells to tobacco smoke, using media from Marlboro Red filter cigarettes. Yet the authors could not directly compare the cigarette and e-cigarette treated cells, because the cigarette treated samples all died within 24 hours. Cigarette smoke was so toxic that the cells did not survive beyond this short period, whereas the e-cigarette cell lines were topped up with e-liquid every three days, and the testing continued for several weeks. http://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2015/dec/31/no-theres-still-no-evidence-e-cigarettes-are-as-harmful-as-smoking
This restrictive feeding schedule boosted the ghrelin hormone in the rats, encouraging them day-by-day to eat more, until they eventually learned to double their usual food intake. http://www.sciencealert.com/study-suggests-restricted-meal-times-might-not-be-the-best-idea-for-dieters
Habitual late-night snacking could damage a type of memory and learning, a new study suggests. http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/12/the-widespread-habit-that-may-damage-memory.php
Let hunger be your guide The results of the study showed that individuals who were moderately hungry before the meal tended to have lower blood glucose levels after consuming the meal than individuals who were not particularly hungry before consuming the meal. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151230043603.htm
Anxiety Acts Like A Sixth Sense That Can Save Your Life http://www.techtimes.com/articles/120443/20151231/anxiety-acts-like-a-sixth-sense-that-can-save-your-life.htm
Music therapy increases effectiveness of pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD patients http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151223221648.htm
http://ideas.ted.com/the-strange-healing-properties-of-water-zapped-by-lightning/ http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/hack-into-a-linux-computer-by-hitting-the-backspace-28-times
How to procrastinate like an expert
http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2016/jan/04/how-to-procrastinate-like-an-expert
Procrastination is more than simply “not doing something” – it’s “not doing something and feeling bad about it”, typically through a mixture of guilt, fear and laziness. As soon as you realise you’re procrastinating, it’s important to diagnose why and take action.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/03/put-off-procrastinating-forever-tips-on-being-more-productive
Watch: The nearsighted epidemic is real
Up to 50 percent of young people in the US are nearsighted.
http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-the-nearsightedness-epidemic-is-real
People are four times as likely to order dessert when their waiter is overweight.http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2016/01/04/people-four-times-likely-order-dessert-waiter-overweight/
According to Elizabeth Loftus you could start with “covert sensitization”. This is the process whereby you repeatedly picture getting ill from the food you want to eat less of.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/the-strawberry-ice-cream-diet-hacking-your-memories-for-a-skinnier-you/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fmind-and-brain+%28Topic%3A+Mind+%26+Brain%29
"Willfully ignorant consumers put ethical shoppers down because of the threat they feel for not having done the right thing themselves," she said. "They feel bad and striking back at the ethical consumers makes themselves feel better."
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/osu-tuc123115.php
What one man learned from obsessively tracking his vital signs for 48 years
http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/1/3/10693820/ultimate-quantified-self
Important Basics Food Charts -
4: PROTEIN:
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Banana peel is just as nutritious as the flesh http://www.sciencealert.com/banana-peel-surprisingly-just-as-nutritious-as-banana
Manure Elevates Nitrogen Accumulation And Loss http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/asfh-mae010416.php
Health Issue Brewing? 'Kefir Beer' May Someday Help http://livescience.com/53246-kefir-beer-health-inflammation.html
Going booze-free? The effects of a month without alcohol (spoi... na) http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2016/jan/05/alcohol-abstain-dryathlon-dry-january-health-science-spoof
Your relationships are just as important to your health as eating well and exercise https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/01/05/your-relationships-are-just-as-important-to-your-health-as-exercising-and-eating-well/
At the functional level, time-of-day-dependent high fat meal feeding tended to influence cardiac function to a greater extent in WT versus CCM mice. Collectively, these data suggest that CLOCK (a circadian clock component) is important for metabolic adaption of the heart to prolonged elevations in fatty acid availability. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1388198115002346
The man who studies the spread of ignorance How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge? Georgina Kenyon finds there is a term which defines this phenomenon. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160105-the-man-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance
They found a tone of precisely 484 Hertz, the frequency of a female Aedes aegypti’s wings, brought 95 per cent of male mosquitoes to the trap. https://www.jcu.edu.au/news/releases/2015/decembelove-hertz
Countries far from equator at higher risk of leukaemia due to lower sunlight exposure, vitamin D deficiency http://www.ibtimes.com.au/countries-far-equator-higher-risk-leukaemia-due-lower-sunlight-exposure-vitamin-d-deficiency-1498232
Exercise to Boost Spine Muscles Can Ease Back Pain, Study Suggests http://consumer.healthday.com/bone-and-joint-information-4/backache-news-53/exercise-to-boost-spine-muscles-can-ease-back-pain-study-says-706761.html
CES Attendees Get Crash Course in What’s Worth Being Paranoid About http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/ces-attendees-get-crash-course-in-whats-worth-being-paranoid-about
The Company You Keep: Other's Perception Of You Is Influenced By Who You're Standing Next To http://www.medicaldaily.com/company-you-keep-others-perception-you-influenced-who-youre-standing-next-368298
It makes no sense to have your teeth bleached if you are not willing to change your habits that cause discoloration. This only creates more demand for bleaching and leads to overuse of bleaching products http://www.techtimes.com/articles/122847/20160109/over-the-counter-teeth-whitening-products-may-cause-permanent-damage-how-to-whiten-teeth-naturally.htm
Romantic break up..Dweck noted, "To them, a rejection reveals that it is fixed at a deficient level. On the other hand, people who believe in their ability to grow and develop, while of course hurt by rejections, can more readily bounce back and envision a brighter future." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-01-people-difficulty-recovering-romantic-breakups.html
The warning signs that YOUR pet is unwell: From dogs constantly shaking their heads to white spots on goldfish and hunched hamsters, we reveal the key symptoms you should be looking for http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3390200/The-warning-signs-pet-unwell-dogs-constantly-shaking-heads-white-spots-goldfish-hunched-hamsters-reveal-key-symptoms-looking-for.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
scientists shows that two specific metallic elements in the right kinds of clay can kill disease-causing bacteria that infect humans and animals. http://phys.org/news/2016-01-scientists-blue-green-clays-bacteria.html
Britons Warned To Cut Alcohol Consumption To Less Than One Drink A Day http://www.techtimes.com/articles/122861/20160108/britons-warned-to-cut-alcohol-consumption-to-less-than-one-drink-a-day.htm
Recovering From Food Poisoning? Here’s What You Should Eat http://www.techtimes.com/articles/123114/20160110/recovering-from-food-poisoning-here-s-what-you-should-eat.htm
This research suggests that exposure to different types of light (both artificial and natural) at different times now needs to be part of the conversation about the weight of children." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160107104820.htm
This finding raises the important issue that, for exercise to remain protective against future LBP, it is likely that ongoing exercise is required," the study concludes. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/tjnj-eaw010716.php
Regular practice of Transcendental Meditation enables some active duty service members battling post-traumatic stress disorder to reduce or even eliminate their psychotropic medication and get better control of their often-debilitating symptoms, researchers report in the journal Military Medicine. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/mcog-tmm011116.php
Close to one in every 15 American homes is estimated to have radon levels at or above the EPA's designated action level. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/123388/20160112/radon-is-a-cancer-causing-odorless-gas-and-heres-what-you-should-know-about-it.htm
It's all in your VOICE: Altering the tone you use when talking drastically changes your mood http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3395340/The-secret-feeling-happy-s-VOICE-Altering-tone-use-talking-drastically-changes-mood.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Food preservative kills cancer cells, superbugs "The application of nisin has advanced beyond its role as a food biopreservative," Kapila said. "Current findings and other published data support nisin's potential use to treat antibiotic resistant infections, periodontal disease and cancer." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160111135429.htm
Low-fiber diet may cause irreversible depletion of gut bacteria over generations http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160113160657.htm
This research shows that eating a flavonoid-rich diet is as good for erectile function as briskly walking for up to five hours a week. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160113160654.htm
Why (almost) everything you know about food is wrong http://www.vox.com/2016/1/14/10760622/nutrition-science-complicated
Lab study sheds light on how chronic stress may make it harder to burn off body fat http://consumer.healthday.com/mental-health-information-25/stress-health-news-640/stress-may-make-it-harder-to-lose-weight-706796.html
To Resist Cravings, Tell Yourself You'll Indulge "Some Other Time" http://mic.com/articles/132541/to-resist-cravings-tell-yourself-you-ll-indulge-some-other-time
A team of researchers from Yale University have some pretty good news for humanity: Most people are inherently good and kind-hearted, and it’s the mean girls and guys who deviate from the norm. http://www.medicaldaily.com/pay-it-forward-being-nice-part-human-nature-369376
“It is not always bad that parents separate,” Hansson noted. “But there are 'unnecessary divorces' that are a result of communication problems or a temporary downturn in the relationship, which could be avoided with more support.” http://www.medicaldaily.com/how-save-your-marriage-swedish-researchers-offer-relationship-advice-parents-small-369380
How builder bots are taking construction work out of human hands https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22930562-900-how-builder-bots-are-taking-construction-work-out-of-human-hands/
WEF Founder: World Unprepared to Deal with 'Fourth Industrial Revolution' http://m.voanews.com/a/wef-founder-world-unprepared-to-deal-with-fourth-industrial-revolution/3143406.html
Scientists pinpoint one way nanoparticles damage immune cells http://www.nanomagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3013:scientists-pinpoint-one-way-nanoparticles-damage-immune-cells&catid=38&Itemid=159
When a product features a strong claim, consumers are more likely to make a purchase if they see the claim presented on a package versus in an ad. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-consumer-psychology/forthcoming-articles/where-you-say-it-matters-why-packages-are-a-more-believable/
Therefore washing fruits and vegetables using clean water at home – including pre-washed products – before consumption may help minimise the risk of foodborne infections. http://www.science20.com/the_conversation/do_you_need_to_wash_fruit_and_vegetables-163558
If you're a breakfast eater, carry on; just make sure to choose healthy foods. If you're not, don't fret. The best science we have suggests you're fine either way. http://www.vox.com/2016/1/15/10771626/is-it-bad-to-skip-breakfast
In the future, we may clean our produce with cavitation in order to better wash away harmful substances like salmonella and pesticides. http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/watch-how-bubbles-in-water-can-be-a-powerful-cleaner
Tea or coffee: Which drink is better for you? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160115-tea-vs-coffee-which-drink-is-better-for-you
A new study found that eating less fiber, more saturated fat and more sugar is associated with lighter, less restorative, and more disrupted sleep. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160114213443.htm
Low Bicarbonate Levels May Be a Danger for Seniors Fruits and vegetables are a source of bicarbonate. http://consumer.healthday.com/senior-citizen-information-31/misc-aging-news-10/low-bicarbonate-levels-a-danger-for-seniors-706876.html
Liver recovery difficult even with improved diet, but faster if sugar intake is low http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160113195100.htm
Continuing debate regarding the validity of the evidence used to create the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Presented in Mayo Clinic Proceedings http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/ehs-cdr011416.php
Want to sleep better? Then lay off the chips and chocolate http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/want-sleep-better-lay-chips-7188245
Scented candles and other air freshener products used in homes contain limonene. When this chemical reacts with the ozone, it produces formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/124930/20160116/scented-candles-other-perfumed-products-contain-ingredient-that-could-give-you-cancer.htm
Elevated Indoor Carbon Dioxide Impairs Decision-Making Performance http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2012/10/17/elevated-indoor-carbon-dioxide-impairs-decision-making-performance/
This is the First Flower Grown in Space http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/01/this-is-the-first-flower-grown-in-space/
With the help of tactics like these, you’ll catch poor decisions before they happen, and learn something useful about yourself when you do slip up. You don’t have to be a saint or a guru to make wise decisions, but you do need a send of awareness of your own mental foibles, and a willingness to be honest with yourself, about yourself. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/01/15/decision-hacks-making-smarter-choices/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20discovercrux%20%28The%20Crux%29
Diet Can Make A Difference In Your Sleep: Foods That Insomnia Sufferers Should Eat http://www.techtimes.com/articles/125138/20160118/diet-can-make-a-difference-in-your-sleep-foods-that-insomnia-sufferers-should-eat.htm
Industry groups including PepsiCo and Coca-Cola helped fund scientific research that claims diet drinks are better than water at helping individuals lose weight. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/125235/20160118/coca-cola-pepsi-helped-fund-research-touting-benefits-of-diet-drinks-on-weight-loss.htm
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Forget yellow snow, you shouldn't eat any of it! The white stuff acts as a sponge for pollutants emitted by car exhausts http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3401578/Forget-yellow-snow-shouldn-t-eat-white-stuff-acts-sponge-pollutants-emitted-car-exhausts.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
How to Avoid Getting Pummeled by a Cold http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/10/common-cold-treatment.html
About two million human jobs are expected to be gained in smaller job fields, but about 7.1 million jobs will be lost to AI workers, for a net replacement of about five million jobs by 2020.
The 150-plus page report is full of charts and graphs looking at all fields of employment. The report is in preparation for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum starting tomorrow in Switzerland. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/165948-Millions-of-Administrative-and-Office-Jobs-Expected-to-Be-Automated-By-2020?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tags
Marketers have a stake in studies like this, as they could benefit from pitching brands in a servant way to regions and groups shown to be more materialistic than others. These populations include younger consumers as well as urban dwellers.
Older consumers and those living in rural and suburban areas, on the other hand, could be better lured by brands acting as partners. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/125608/20160119/materialist-consumers-with-poor-personal-relationships-use-servant-brands-to-gain-sense-of-power-study.htm
While research has already established that B vitamin supplements can help slow mental decline in older people with memory problems, an international team have now found that having higher levels of Omega-3 fatty acids in your body could boost the B vitamins' effect. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/uoo-ola011916.php
The Science of Healing Thoughts Journalist Jo Marchant explores surprising new research into curing the body with the mind http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-of-healing-thoughts/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fmind-and-brain+%28Topic%3A+Mind+%26+Brain%29
What Happens to the Data Collected On Us While We Sleep http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/what-happens-to-the-data-collected-on-us-while-we-sleep
experts agree that the best course of action is to avoid honey produced mostly from plants such as Paterson's curse, which is often sold at specialty markets.
"There is unlikely to be a significant human health risk from consuming normal amounts of Australian honey," said Andrew Bartholomaeus from the University of Canberra, who wasn't involved in the research. "Those consuming high levels of honey may wish to seek honey produced from other plants." http://www.sciencealert.com/study-finds-cancer-causing-toxins-in-significant-portion-of-our-honey
Between 1997 and 2013, an average of 2,813 kg of saffron was produced annually in Spain. However, Spain exported 35,978 kg of this product on average each year. Where did those remaining 33,165 kg come from? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160120113714.htm
The link between the “lazy” variant of the ADH1B gene and a greater alcohol consumption has long been proven by science within Asian populations. This study is one of the first to offer conclusive proof of this also being the case in the West. http://www.science20.com/news_articles/alcohol_consumption_in_the_west_has_a_genetic_component-163922
frying in Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) is the cooking method that increases the phenolic fraction present in raw vegetables used in Mediterranean diet (potato, pumpkin, tomato and eggplant) the most. (vs steam?)http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/uog-vfw012016.php
Yo-yoing between eating well during the week and bingeing on junk food over the weekend is likely to be just as bad for your gut health as a consistent diet of junk, new UNSW research suggests. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/uons-wbj011916.php
"Our results indicate that strong performance brands can cause an effect that is akin to a placebo effect," Germann said. "Our results also suggest that the use of a strong performance brand causes participants to feel better about themselves when undertaking a task -- that is, to have greater task-specific self-esteem. This higher self-esteem lowers their performance anxiety which, in turn, leads to the better performance outcomes." http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/uond-cpb012016.php
Are intelligent agents the beginning of the end for journalism as we know it? http://phys.org/news/2016-01-intelligent-agents-journalism.html
Voice analytics software helps customer service reps build better rapport with customers http://phys.org/news/2016-01-voice-analytics-software-customer-reps.html
Swap statins for a daily apple to improve heart health, say health experts http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/12115433/.html
New study shows aged garlic extract can reduce dangerous plaque buildup in arteries
Supplement can help prevent progression of heart disease http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/labr-nss012116.php
Maths Hack: 12 Useful Math Hacks That They Didn't Teach You In School http://www.earthcribs.cf/2016/01/maths-hack-12-useful-math-hacks-that.html?m=1
Spaced repetition: a hack to make your brain store information http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jan/23/spaced-repetition-a-hack-to-make-your-brain-store-information
Based on the new findings, the researchers suggested that visualizing a successful performance as well as a positive audience reaction may help ease anxiety if you tend to tense up under pressure. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/pressure-performance-anxiety_us_56a0e3b0e4b0d8cc1098cf6b
What is ‘bad science’ and how to spot it? http://www.digitaljournal.com/science/why-some-science-is-actually-bad-science/article/455538
Weed blasting offers new control method for organic farmers http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160121130658.htm
That genetic information shared between plants isn’t DNA—the two grafted plants keep their original genomes—but epigenetic information is being communicated within the plant. http://www.salk.edu/news-release/grafted-plants-genomes-can-communicate-with-each-othe
Thanks to big data, US parties know all about voters http://phys.org/news/2016-01-big-parties-voters.html
"This means that the impact of environmental events, such as being bullied or losing a job, is of limited duration. The effect of the events that cause social anxiety at one point will pass. The fact that social anxiety disorder is so unstable should give hope for those who are struggling with it," he adds. http://www.science20.com/news_articles/social_anxiety_is_highly_heritable_but_is_affected_by_environment-163844
Toxic algae may cause dementia as scientists find higher rates of brain disease near contaminated lakes http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/toxic-algae-cause-dementia-scientists-7238137
How to avoid ‘bad science’ and promote 'good science' http://www.digitaljournal.com/science/how-to-avoid-bad-science-and-promote-good-science/article/455716
The science of magic tricks: From misdirection to 'pausing' time, experts reveal how illusions… http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3412382/The-science-magic-tricks-misdirection-pausing-time-experts-reveal-illusions-mess-minds.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Warning: dietary supplements could seriously mess with your medication http://theconversation.com/warning-dietary-supplements-could-seriously-mess-with-your-medication-52352
Toxic chemicals found in most outdoor gear: Greenpeace http://m.phys.org/news/2016-01-toxic-chemicals-outdoor-gear-greenpeace.html
Paints Used In Playgrounds Contain 40 Times Recommended Lead http://www.techtimes.com/articles/127366/20160125/paints-used-in-playgrounds-contain-40-times-recommended-lead.htm
On the other hand, those who did not link the rejection to their own self-image fared better emotionally. These types of participants thought of the breakup instead as a more unpredictable event, an indication of incompatibility, or something inevitable ("It happens to everyone at some point or another"). http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/romantic-rejection-breakups-study_us_56a64e47e4b076aadcc73f84
What to check to make sure the phone you're buying works well and isn't stolen http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/buying-smartphones-1.3420867
Pepper the robot is going to staff an entire phone store http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/26/pepper-the-robot-staffs-a-whole-phone-store/
E-cigarette Vapor Boosts Superbugs And Dampens Immune System http://www.science20.com/news_articles/ecigarette_vapor_boosts_superbugs_and_dampens_immune_system-164276
Using cardboard, Teflon tape, and a pencil to generate energy, a postdoctoral student from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne discovered the device that works as well as two AA batteries.
The system is inexpensive and environmentally friendly, the researchers say, and relies on static electricity to produce more than three volts of power – enough to power a tiny LCD screen. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3418029/The-power-plant-build-home-Researchers-reveal-cardboard-tape-pencil-produce-electricity.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
The Right Way to Stretch Before Exercise http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2016/01/21/stretching-back-to-the-past/?_r=0&referer=
We show that while the Mozart K.448 has positive cognitive effects, the retrograde version has a negative effect http://www.nature.com/articles/srep18744
Kisameet Clay Exhibits Potent Antibacterial Activity against the ESKAPE Pathogens http://mbio.asm.org/lens/mbio/7/1/e01842-15#figures
Higher compared with lower dietary protein during an energy deficit combined with intense exercise promotes greater lean mass gain and fat mass loss: a randomized trial http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2016/01/26/ajcn.115.119339
“Earthworms used for bait should never be released in the forest,” Lapointe said. “Anglers who use them for fishing should pack them back out afterwards, or if that’s not possible, throw them into the lake,” she added. http://www.financialexpress.com/article/lifestyle/science/earthworms-could-threaten-plant-diversity-study/203448/
According to the authors, these results suggest that the global community has responded to the calls-to-action, such as in the Stockholm Convention, to limit the release of potentially harmful chemicals into the environment.
The authors caution that although pollutant concentrations in marine fish are steadily declining, they still remain quite high, and that understanding the cumulative effects of numerous exposures to pollutants in seafood is necessary to determine the specific risk to consumers. http://www.science20.com/news_articles/study_finds_toxic_pollutants_in_fish_across_the_worlds_oceans-164424
How to Cultivate Your Creativity http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-cultivate-your-creativity-book-excerpt/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Ffeature-articles+%28Content%3A+Feature+Articles%29
it's only when we exercise beyond a moderate activity level that our bodies seem to stop burning extra calories. And secondly, the benefits of exercise go far, far beyond weight loss. http://www.sciencealert.com/exercise-on-its-own-won-t-make-you-lose-weight-and-scientists-have-finally-shown-why
Gut microbiota lipopolysaccharide accelerates inflamm-aging in mice http://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12866-016-0625-7
A compound found in the natural food additive annatto prevents the formation of cancer cells and skin damage from UV radiation in mice, new research shows. In the future the compound, bixin, may be valuable in the prevention and treatment of human skin cancers. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160128155109.htm
Here's what to do if you wake up before your alarm and don't want to feel like crap http://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-to-do-if-you-wake-up-before-your-alarm-and-don-t-want-to-feel-like-crap
WATCH: What would happen if you only drank soda?
Even sugar-free won't save you.
http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-only-drink-soda
Researchers Are One Step Closer to Mind Reading in Real Time http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/researchers-are-one-step-closer-to-mind-reading-in-real-time
So with all this lead around—in workplaces, supplements, food, toys, dust, house paint, and water systems—what’s the best way to reduce exposure? http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examine2016/01/the_lead_pipes_in_flint_are_a_tiny_part_of_a_huge_problem.html
The biggest myth about warming up your car in winter is doing your engine more harm than good http://www.sciencealert.com/the-biggest-myth-about-warming-up-your-car-in-winter-is-doing-your-engine-more-harm-than-good
This old maths study aid turns out to have a scientific basisStudy shows simply tracing over what you're learning about makes it easier to remember. http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/01/this-old-study-aid-for-math-turns-out-to-have-a-scientific-basis/
People who eat more nuts, fish, poultry and certain fruits and vegetables have a lower risk of Alzheimer’s, research finds.
Set against this, those who eat more red meats, organ meats, butter and high-fat dairy products have a higher risk of Alzheimer’s. http://www.spring.org.uk/2016/01/food-types-alzheimers-disease.php
Don’t Go Hollow: How 'Dark Souls' Is Defeating Depression http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/dont-go-hollow-how-dark-souls-is-defeating-depression
'BPA-free' plastic accelerates embryonic development, disrupts reproductive system http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoc--pa012816.php
Here's How To Avoid The Gout, Ebenezer http://www.science20.com/the_conversation/heres_how_to_avoid_the_gout_ebenezer-164635
3D printing ready to reshape home building http://m.scidev.net/global/design/opinion/3d-printing-reshape-home-building.html
The findings suggest that even a short rest without actually sleeping could help boost memory. https://www.braindecoder.com/a-15-minute-rest-might-boost-memory-no-sleep-needed-1582823376.html
Regardless of which explanation fits best (or even if more than one does), the authors believe the “association of declining weight and BMI with MCI may have implications for preventative strategies for MCI.” http://www.medicaldaily.com/weight-loss-brain-health-golden-years-371752
By training in front of a supportive audience, people could strengthen the connections in their brains, Harrison said. For example, before an actual public performance, a musician could perform in front of family and close friends and receive a lot of applause. This might re-train the neural network, and it's something the researchers are planning to study next, Harrison added. http://livescience.com/53544-why-anxiety-makes-you-stumble.html
Increasingly, young people are being warned that future employers, college admissions departments and even banks will use their social media profiles to form assessments. In response, many of them seem to be using social media more strategically. http://theconversation.com/so-long-social-media-the-kids-are-opting-out-of-the-online-public-square-53274
How to tell if someone is lying to you by watching their face http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-to-tell-if-someone-is-lying-to-you-by-watching-their-face-a6846611.html
"It took weeks to really understand what Windows 10 does under the hood," he said. Zimmerman says that even if users opt out of all of Microsoft's data collection during the Windows 10 setup, there are still hidden data-sharing features that only those who buy the Enterprise version of the operating system — or use his software — can disable. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/windows-10-1.3223168
A College Is Telling Students To Wear Mandatory Fitbit Activity Trackers 24/7 Christian University Requiring Students to Use Fitbits Says It Won’t Track Sex http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/christian-university-requiring-students-to-use-fitbits-says-it-wont-track-sex
Scientist creates AI algorithm to monitor machinery health http://m.phys.org/news/2016-02-scientist-ai-algorithm-machinery-health.html
If the “lamestream” media had bothered to take even 10 minutes to investigate who was behind this latest attack on organic food, it would have realized that corporate food giant Cargill, the Monsanto-aligned Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, British Petroleum (BP), and Goldman Sachs are among the many corporate donors that made the study possible. And since both Cargill and Monsanto have a vested interest in seeing organics fail, it is no surprise that the study came to the ridiculous conclusions that it did. http://www.prisonplanet.com/agricultural-giant-cargill-and-others-behind-anti-organic-stanford-study.html
Organic agriculture key to feeding the world sustainably It is the first such study to analyze 40 years of science comparing organic and conventional agriculture across the four goals of sustainability identified by the National Academy of Sciences: productivity, economics, environment, and community well being.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/wsu-oak020116.php
A New Advocacy Group Is Lobbying for the Right to Repair Everything http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/a-new-advocacy-group-is-lobbying-for-the-right-to-repair-everything
The level of seafood intake in the study population was moderate, and therefore the findings cannot be generalized to populations with higher seafood consumption or to populations with high mercury exposure. Further, the protective association of seafood was only observed among individuals with a common genotype (APOE-ε4) that increases the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160202124013.htm
If you struggle with feeling stressed, powerless or under-confidence in your everyday life, Dr Cuddy advises you work power poses into your daily routine – and this begins as soon as your alarm goes off. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/a-harvard-psychologist-says-everyone-should-do-this-as-soon-as-they-wake-up-a6848271.html
Hunger Hormone Slows Aging in Mice Signs of getting older are less common among rodents with ramped-up ghrelin production. http://mobile.the-scientist.com/article/45238/hunger-hormone-slows-aging-in-mice
People Eat Fewer Calories After A Straightforward Change To Home Environment http://www.spring.org.uk/2016/02/eat-fewer-calories-after-this-change.php
Children Who Eat High-Protein Breakfast Consume Fewer Calories At Lunch http://www.techtimes.com/articles/130649/20160204/children-who-eat-high-protein-breakfast-consume-fewer-calories-at-lunch.htm
for men to eat their lima beans--If research in male fruit flies holds up, it might help extends lifespan, increases fitness levels, and improves their glucose balance. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/foas-ppl020516.php
Better Sleep Habits Connected To These Everyday Kinds of Exercise http://www.spring.org.uk/2016/02/better-sleep-habits-connected-everyday-kinds-exercise.php
Neurobiological changes explain how mindfulness meditation improves health http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/cmu-nce020416.php
“The moral concern of purity, out of all the moral values, was the best predictor of distance between two people,” said Morteza Dehghani, lead author of the paper. http://www.medicaldaily.com/twitter-purity-morals-relationships-372342
How to make your car green http://www.euronews.com/2016/02/04/how-to-make-your-car-green/
The researchers believe that the protein, collagen 17A1, could provide a future target for hair loss. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3433247/So-s-causes-bald-spots-Hair-follicle-cells-confused-older-turn-SKIN-instead.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Online shopping might not be as green as we thought http://phys.org/news/2016-02-online-green-thought.html
Get the most out of your broccoli by steaming it "The total content of glucosinolates of fresh broccoli increased by steaming methods," http://www.sciencealert.com/this-common-way-of-cooking-broccoli-is-leeching-important-compounds-from-it-study-finds
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Will artificial intelligence mean the rich get even richer? Superwealthy are ALREADY using robo advisors to manage their stocks http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3434161/Will-artificial-intelligence-mean-end-traders-Claims-superwealthy-using-robo-advisors-manage-stocks.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
5-MINUTE PROJECT: HAND WARMERS MAKE YOUR OWN PORTABLE HOT PACKS http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2012-02/5-minute-project-hand-warmers
"Through my research I wanted to show the potential for honey as a healing agent to break through these biofilms and in doing so increase the process of healing. What I found amazing is that honey actually works better than some antifungals." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160205112639.htm
Advice for fish eaters http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-fish-toxins-box-20160208-story.html
Teens who eat slowly control their weight better than those who don’t, a new study finds https://student.societyforscience.org/article/control-overeating-slow-down
When bananas age they become covered in black spots caused by the enzyme tyrosinase. It is a natural browning process common among certain organisms, including food. This same enzyme also plays a role in the type of skin cancer known as melanoma. http://phys.org/news/2016-02-banana-stages-melanoma.html
There's no cost and pure benefit from adhering to simple rules: Don't talk on your mobile while it's charging and never use it within 50cm of your groin. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/science/1.702087
Meet the ‘rented white coats’ who defend toxic chemicals
How corporate-funded research is corrupting America’s courts and regulatory agencies http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/02/08/19223/meet-rented-white-coats-who-defend-toxic-chemicals
ABM is a computer-assisted intervention aimed at improving a threat-detecting cognitive bias that characterizes SAD.48 In concordance with previous studies, the ABM was delivered twice a week over 4 weeks. ABM has been described in detail elsewhere.27, 42,49 While ABM has shown promise,50, 51 it has been found to be less effective when delivered through the Internet49and we used ABM as a control in the present trial. http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v6/n2/full/tp2015218a.html
The good news is going back on a low-fat diet for just two months, at least in mice, reverses this trend of shrinking cognitive ability as weight begins to normalize, http://www.thebiph.org/blog/high-fat-diet-prompts-immune-cells-to-start-eating-connections-between-neurons
the findings highlight the natural resistance of wild plant varieties and suggests we need to "breed some of that wildness back in" instead of continuously looking for new methods of pest control. "By selecting for certain characteristics we have inadvertently lost some really useful ones," http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/nu-bwb020816.php
Me Against The World: 6 Ways To Make It Through A Bad Day, Based On Science http://www.medicaldaily.com/how-survive-bad-day-make-it-through-science-372900
Acrobatic Workouts Are More Popular Than Ever — Here's Why They're So Good for You http://mic.com/articles/134499/acroyoga-is-bigger-than-ever-heres-why-its-so-good-for-you

Most research spending is wasted on bad studies. These billionaires want to change that. http://www.vox.com/2015/10/4/9440931/arnold-foundation-meta-research
Over 50 days of monitoring, researchers found 2,625 different plant species for sale on eBay. 510 were known to be invasive in at least one region somewhere in the world. And out of that group, 35 are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's list of the 100 worst invasive species. http://phys.org/news/2015-10-invasive-blossoming.html
Mindfulness Meditation For Stress Relief: Why Cleaning Can Be So Relaxing (When Done Correctly) http://www.medicaldaily.com/mindfulness-meditation-stress-relief-why-cleaning-can-be-so-relaxing-when-done-355348
Researchers discover evidence that lead exposure in mothers can affect future generation http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/wsu--rde100215.php
Scientists discover biological markers for bipolar disorder In the end, they discovered that psychological disorders are linked to problems in the thyroid gland and a hormonal imbalance. http://rbth.co.uk/science_and_tech/2015/10/02/siberian_scientists_discover_biological_markers_for_bipolar_49737.html
Extending a battery's lifetime with heat http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151001131948.htm
Sodium bicarbonate ingestion augments the increase in PGC-1α mRNA expression during recovery from intense interval exercise in human skeletal muscle. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26384407
“But consumers need to look at their diets as a whole. If you are eating a lot of contaminated rice, organic brown rice syrup, seafood, wine, apple juice — all those heavy contributors to arsenic poisoning — you should be concerned, especially pregnant women, kids and the elderly.” http://scienceblog.com/80482/arsenic-found-in-many-u-s-red-wines-but-health-risks-depend-on-total-diet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28ScienceBlog.com%29
This Wearable Device Translates Sign Language To English http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/wearable-device-translates-sign-language-english-180956827/
"We're not saying that altering gut bacteria will be the magic bullet for people with anorexia nervosa," Carroll said. "Other important factors are at play, obviously. But the gut microbiota is clearly important for a variety of health and brain-related issues in humans. And it could be important for people with anorexia nervosa. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anorexia-gut-bacteria-linked-psychological-symptoms-eating-disorder-1522687
New Study Finds a Little Encouragement From Friends and Family Goes a Long Way http://mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=69441
Watch: Man gives up added sugar and alcohol for 1 month http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-man-gives-up-added-sugar-and-alcohol-for-1-month
They use Facebook to identify social clusters and opinion leaders and mathematically determine the best way to spread information, using health information as the subject. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151006132031.htm
Verizon Has Quietly Made Its Tracking 'Supercookies' a Lot More Powerful http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/verizon-has-quietly-made-its-tracking-supercookies-a-lot-more-powerful
"Our results suggest that it may be important to take genetics into account when thinking about timing of food consumption and melatonin administration." The team notes that further, large-scale studies will be needed in vulnerable populations before clinical recommendations can be made. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151006123754.htm
found that the time of day of exposure to UV radiation is a “contributing factor” to skin cancer development in mice and “possibly in humans.” http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/less-risk-of-skin-cancer-if-exposed-to-uv-radiation-in-the-morning-nobel-laureate-aziz-sancaarticle7734758.ece
Apple, Microsoft, Google and other corporate giants avoid paying hundreds of billions in US taxes every year by stashing mountains of cash in offshore tax shelters, according to the latest study to document widespread tax avoidance by corporate America.
The 500 largest US companies are sitting on more than $2.1 trillion in overseas cash hoards, allowing them to avoid paying an estimated $620 billion in US taxes if the funds were repatriated, according to a new report by the progressive Center for Tax Justice and the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund. http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/apple-avoids-60-billion-in-taxes-by-keeping-money-overseas-report-says
Do you think we run the risk of "technological unemployment" where machines take all of our jobs?
HAWKING: The outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/10/08/highlights-from-stephen-hawkings-reddit-ama-women-are-the-most-intriguing-mystery/
Speech recognition AI identifies you by voice wherever you are https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22830423-100-speech-recognition-ai-identifies-you-by-voice-wherever-you-are/
Scientists can draw very different meanings from the same data, study shows http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/7/9469845/different-meanings-from-same-data-research-science
Popular Antioxidant Seems to Spread Skin Cancer Cells in Mouse Research http://consumer.healthday.com/vitamins-and-nutrition-information-27/antioxidants-news-32/popular-antioxidant-spreads-cancer-cells-in-mouse-researchy-704024.html
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined New York based pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) over $14 million (£9 million) over alleged bribes made to Chinese state owned hospitals to boost prescription sales, violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2015/10/bristol-myers-squibb-fined-alleged-chinese-bribes
found that walking at varying speeds can burn up to 20 percent more calories compared to maintaining a steady pace. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/osu-nss100715.php
A natural compound found in each of the four foods could make a person's body less prone to age-related diseases, according to experts http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/scientists-reveal-4-foods-could-6597330
Researchers found that telephone calls and emails had little protective effect against the risk of developing depression. Face-to-face contact was the key. http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/10/this-way-of-socialising-cuts-depression-risk-in-half.php?PageSpeed=noscript
Eye study creates intrigue: Do other body areas sense light? http://hsnewsbeat.uw.edu/story/eye-study-creates-intrigue-do-other-body-areas-sense-light
Best way to remember someone's name revealed http://digitaljournal.com/science/what-was-your-name-again-how-to-recall-explained/article/446185
The human body isn't made to operate at high altitude, but drinking beet juice may help the body acclimatize. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/nuos-ha100915.php
The natural assumption is that inhalation is the primary route by which air pollutants invade the body. Each breath delivers those chemicals to the blood, which courses through the lungs’ tiniest airways. But the body’s biggest organ is the skin, and recent studies show “that we’re big sponges for these chemicals,” https://www.sciencenews.org/article/air-pollutants-enter-body-through-skin
Facebook Is Draining Your iPhone Battery Because It’s Tracking Your Location http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/facebook-is-draining-your-iphone-battery-because-its-tracking-your-location
How reward and daytime sleep boost learning http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/e-hra101615.php
What your father did before you were born could influence your future health http://www.sciencealert.com/what-your-father-did-before-you-were-born-could-influence-your-future
Metabolism may keep cancer cells in check http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/uoia-mmk101615.php
KOKO THE GORILLA’S 44TH BIRTHDAY PRESENT IS TWO NEW KITTENS http://nerdist.com/koko-the-gorillas-44th-birthday-present-is-two-new-kittens/
Taking probiotics could make you less stressed and boost your memory, study suggests http://www.sciencealert.com/taking-probiotics-could-make-you-less-stressed-and-boost-your-memory
Scientists discover that sniffing, gasping can prevent faints http://www.ibtimes.com.au/scientists-discover-sniffing-gasping-can-prevent-faints-1475867
Whether it's a pear or Blood Mary, these fruits are capable of combating the slew of common symptoms that come with a hangover. http://www.medicaldaily.com/hangover-cure-eating-asian-pear-drinking-alcohol-may-lessen-next-day-symptoms-357746
Study reveals a key role your gut bacteria play in body's self-defense http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=157450&CultureCode=en
they say the present system ignores the difference between raw and cooked food. Harvard University researchers assert, based on mouse studies, that processed food is easier for the body to absorb, so it provides more calories. That goes for baked or blended food. Even a handful of chopped peanuts gives you more energy than whole ones.http://www.popsci.com/how-accurate-are-calorie-counts
5 ways to get anyone to tell you the truth (plus find out who the most likely liars are) http://sciencefocus.com/feature/james-bond/5-ways-get-anyone-tell-you-truth-plus-find-out-who-most-likely-liars-are
The More Severe-Burn Patients Eat, the Faster They Heal (Op-Ed) http://livescience.com/52525-severe-burn-patients-benefit-from-extreme-calorie-overload.html
Male and female hearts don't grow old the same way http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/jhm-maf101515.php
If you need more vitamin A for the day, go with the sweet potato. Want more protein and potassium? Go with the regular spuds. http://www.medicaldaily.com/sweet-potato-vs-regular-potato-which-better-your-health-357898
The new Cornell study found that women who had breakfast cereal sitting on their counters weighed 20-lbs more than their neighbors who didn't, and those with soft drinks sitting out weighed 24 to 26-lbs more. The good news? Those who had a fruit bowl weighed about 13-lbs less. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151019130759.htm
When junk-food-loving microbes take over your intestines, they also change the architecture of your bone marrow, according to a recent study in Cell Metabolism. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/junk-food-can-alter-your-immune-system/
Many Antidepressant Studies Found Tainted by Pharma Company Influence
A review of studies that assess clinical antidepressants shows hidden conflicts of interest and financial ties to corporate drugmakers http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/many-antidepressant-studies-found-tainted-by-pharma-company-influence/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScientificAmerican-News+%28Content%3A+News%29
"There are only two pages of federal law that exist to govern a $2 billion cosmetic industry," she said. "Kids' Halloween makeup is really just the tip of the iceberg of the problem when it comes to toxic chemicals in cosmetics." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/10/21/why-chuck-schumer-is-worried-about-your-kids-halloween-makeup/
Survey Reveals What Americans Fear the Most http://mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=70199
Canada...In 2013, a survey of more than 4000 federal scientists found that 90 per cent felt they were not allowed to speak freely to the media, and 24 per cent said they had been directly asked to exclude or alter information. In a modern democracy, that’s a disgrace.
The incoming prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has already promised to end the media gag. Let us hope he rapidly reverses Harper’s regressive policies on science and the environment and restores Canada’s position as an enlightened force for good. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22830443-000-canada-sees-reason-time-for-others-to-follow/
she was amused that several audience members were sporting thefitness trackers during her talk. The Fortinet security researcher demonstrated how, within a matter of just 10 seconds, a Fitbit could be infected with malware that could then be passed on to the wearer's computer. The hack takes advantage of the wearable's open Bluetooth connection. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fitbit-tracker-hacked-in-10-seconds/
8 Ingredient Swaps To Help You Prepare Healthier, Delicious Food http://www.medicaldaily.com/celebrate-your-health-national-food-day-8-ingredient-swaps-help-you-prepare-healthier-358370
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25692302
study reveals cheese is addictive http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/shock-study-reveals-cheese-addictive-6686437
Facebook now lets you search everyone’s old posts – here’s how to stop it including yours http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2015/10/facebook-now-lets-you-search-everyone-s-old-posts-here-s-how-stop
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Insomnia http://annals.org/mobile/article.aspx?articleid=2301405
2 http://mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=70238
Microplastic pollution in table salts from China http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.5b03163
News digest – incorrect HRT headlines, red meat and cancer, aspirin trial and…rhubarb? http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2015/10/24/news-digest-incorrect-hrt-headlines-red-meat-and-cancer-aspirin-trial-and-rhubarb/
Early bedtime more important for kids than having long sleep, says new study http://www.ibtimes.com.au/early-bedtime-more-important-kids-having-long-sleep-says-new-study-1477501
Some Toxins Remain In Your Clothes, Finds Study http://www.science20.com/news_articles/some_toxins_remain_in_your_clothes_finds_study-158208
Why Does Strength Training Build Muscle But Endurance Training Doesn't? http://www.medicaldaily.com/why-does-strength-training-build-muscle-endurance-training-doesnt-358724
“Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some [positivity promoting] object other than their own happiness” ~John Stewart Mill, autobiography (1873) http://brainblogger.com/2015/09/04/pursuing-happiness-doesnt-have-to-promote-depression-in-others/
But gratitude helps, Dr Futris said: “Importantly, we found that when couples are engaging in a negative conflict pattern like demand/withdrawal, expressions of gratitude and appreciation can counteract or buffer the negative effects of this type of interaction on marital stability.” http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/10/marriage-this-protects-couples-against-divorce.php?PageSpeed=noscript
This clever new refrigerator keeps food cold without electricity http://www.sciencealert.com/this-clever-new-refrigerator-keeps-food-cold-without-electricity
A picture of eyes unconsciously discourages people from lying, study finds http://www.psypost.org/2015/10/a-picture-of-eyes-unconsciously-discourages-people-from-lying-study-finds-38743
"This study definitively shows that sugar is metabolically harmful not because of its calories or its effects on weight; rather sugar is metabolically harmful because it's sugar." http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/making-simple-change-can-dramatically-6713081
But previous studies looked at just the parabens by themselves, Leitman said. "The real problem when you do studies in the laboratory is that you study one compound at a time, but in the body, that's not the case. What you're seeing in the body is really a combination" of the effects of many compounds, http://livescience.com/52593-parabens-breast-cancer-risk.html
In particular, one area of increasing concern is how exposure to multiple chemicals during critical periods of development including puberty and pregnancy increases a person's susceptibility to breast cancer later in life. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/ssi-ldo102115.php
“I think it’s really messed up thatProcter & Gamble’s putting chemicals in feminine products and not letting anyone know about it,” Ms. Phillips said. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/business/under-pressure-feminine-product-makers-disclose-ingredients.html
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Rock-A-Bye Baby: Singing Keeps Infants Calmer Than Talking, Even If It's In A Foreign Language http://www.medicaldaily.com/rock-bye-baby-singing-keeps-infants-calmer-talking-even-if-its-foreign-language-359476
showed that the addition of the second anti-inflammatory, Celecoxib, before or along with curcumin treatment, actually decreased the level of cell death. It seems to have prevented the pile-up of cells at a point in the cycle when curcumin could act on them. https://lbmcc.mysciencework.com/news/12226/for-cancer-a-natural-or-synthetic-anti-inflammatory-but-not-both
Some commercial coffees contain high levels of mycotoxins http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/f-sf-scc102815.php
You're most likely to find mycotoxin on mould growing on grains, nuts, celery and apples. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/safe-remove-mould-eat-rest-6721631
Vitamin D pill a day may improve exercise performance and lower risk of heart disease http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/sfe-vdp102915.php
"These results suggest that in modern diets, eating 'everything in moderation' is actually worse than eating a smaller number of healthy foods." http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/uoth-im103015.php
The secret math behind feel-good music https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/10/30/the-mathematical-formula-behind-feel-good-songs/
...primer2 on this topic was recently published and the major take away was: “muscle memory”/motor-control is set during rest through a “mental replaying” of the training-activity. In other words, if you want you final kick in a 5k or marathon to feel natural, make sure you get plenty of sleep after workouts! http://www.practicallyscience.com/why-sleep-is-important-for-training/
"So, when the situation makes us feel like we are an 'expert,' it activates these role expectations in our mind, and we feel more entitled to think in a dogmatic manner -- in other words, we feel more entitled to dismiss, ignore, or disparage opinions and viewpoints that differ from our own opinion." The findings suggest that the best way to be an expert is to work towards achieving mastery while reminding ourselves of how much we still don't know. http://huffpost.com/us/entry/563369bbe4b00aa54a4db53a
“Often people will turn their lights down at night which helps to get the body ready for sleep, but then they will go and brush their teeth and turn their bathroom light on. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11966259/.html
One thing is certain: in June 1988, when NASA scientist James Hansen told a congressional hearing that the planet was already warming, Exxon remained publicly convinced that the science was still controversial. Furthermore, experts agree that Exxon became a leader in campaigns of confusion. By 1989 the company had helped create the Global Climate Coalition(disbanded in 2002) to question the scientific basis for concern about climate change. It also helped to prevent the U.S. from signing the international treaty on climate known as the Kyoto Protocol in 1998 to control greenhouse gases. Exxon’s tactic not only worked on the U.S. but also stopped other countries, such as China and India, from signing the treaty. At that point, “a lot of things unraveled,” Oreskes says.http://www.salon.com/2015/10/28/exxon_sealed_our_fate_the_campaign_of_misinformation_and_outright_lies_that_ensured_planetary_disaster_partne?
For healthy postmenopausal women with sufficient calcium absorption and physical activity, a serum concentration of around 40 micrograms of vitamin D per litre of serum has the optimum effect on bone calcium absorption. "That the figure was so high was surprising," says Zimmermann, "as previously I had tended to believe that a low dose of vitamin D was sufficient." http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/ez-ivd110215.php
Alternative Medicine: Acupuncture Is Effective for Neck Pain http://time.com/4097083/acupuncture-neck-pain/
Manipulation or democracy?
Beauchamp said his project's goal was to pull back the curtain on how to make ideas and messages resonate more with an audience. But he acknowledged—and has heard the skeptics say—that his algorithm could be used as a manipulative tool for politicians to pander and increase the impact of their messages using rhetoric rather than substance. http://phys.org/news/2015-11-professor-science-art-persuasion.html
How to Do Nothing http://wikihow.com/Do-Nothing
183 scientists sign letter asking BMJ to retract its bogus nutrition investigation http://www.theverge.com/science/2015/11/5/9675598/bmj-183-scientists-sign-letter-retract-nutrition-investigation-teicholz
Rep...Science and Pseudoscience in Adult Nutrition Research and Practice http://www.csicop.org/si/show/science_and_pseudoscience_in_adult_nutrition_research_and_practice/#notes
If you think your own logic came from someone else, you might not believe it http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/11/if-you-think-your-own-logic-came-from-someone-else-you-might-not-believe-it/
PDF..6 principles of persuasion...Six different strategies, they all work on most average people. PDF..http://www.influenceatwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/E_Brand_principles.pdf
Here's a great meditation for you.(some profanity) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92i5m3tV5XY
Tai chi, a lifestyle intervention that targets stress that can lead to insomnia, was also found to reduce inflammation, and did so by reducing the expression of inflammation at the cellular level and by reversing activation of inflammatory signaling pathways. The reduction of cellular inflammation was also maintained during the 16-month follow-up.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151105103039.htm
“Many people, including myself, are excited about 3D printing,” Grover said. “But, we really need to take a step back and ask how safe are these materials?” http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/32964
...malware that is IMPOSSIBLE to remove: Malicious bug can be found in more than 20,000 apps. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3306142/Hackers-reveal-Android-malware-IMPOSSIBLE-remove-Malicious-bug-20-000-apps.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Composting Methods http://m.extension.illinois.edu/homecompost/methods.cfm
There's been good research from Sarah Bowen in Seattle [on Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention] showing that mindfulness practices can have a significant impact on people, even on people who are deeply addicted to opiates. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/563b63f1e4b0411d306fc5d7?cps=gravity_2425_-9125964268775523147&kvcommref=mostpopular
New Study Shows Benefits of Reducing Nicotine in Cigarettes http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8493780?utm_hp_ref=science&ir=Science
Sudoku and Crossword Puzzles to Manage Drug Addiction http://brainblogger.com/2015/10/21/sudoku-and-crossword-puzzles-to-manage-drug-addiction/
Studies Explore Link Between Diet, Rheumatoid Arthritis Healthy eating might help prevent debilitating joint disorder, researchers say http://consumer.healthday.com/senior-citizen-information-31/arthritis-diet-38/healthy-diet-may-help-guard-against-rheumatoid-arthritis-705028.html
Both Tai Chi and physical therapy positively impact pain, function and other symptoms of knee osteoarthritis – making Tai Chi a viable treatment alternative for people suffering with the degenerative disease, according to new research. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151107172939.htm
Canadian scientists working under the employ of Stephen Harper and the Conservative government in effect had a muzzle placed upon them. Under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals that will not be the case. http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/politics/muzzled-canadian-scientists-now-free-to-speak-to-media-ministearticle/448684
15 ways to stay focused http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/15-ways-to-stay-focused-according-to-scientists-a6727001.html
Our web history reveals what we think and do. Shouldn't that remain private? http://theconversation.com/our-web-history-reveals-what-we-think-and-do-shouldnt-that-remain-private-50289
Hunger Makes You Crave More Than Food http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hunger-makes-you-crave-more-than-food/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fmind-and-brain+%28Topic%3A+Mind+%26+Brain%29
The “datr” cookie has long been the cause of controversy because of its use as a tracker of people who aren’t logged in or even a Facebook user http://theconversation.com/as-belgium-threatens-fines-facebooks-defence-of-tracking-visitors-rings-hollow-50468
Nutritional Breakdown For 6 Types Of Fish To Eat, From Farmed To Wild http://www.medicaldaily.com/nutritional-breakdown-6-types-fish-eat-farmed-wild-360956
Your guts play host to Bacterial Hunger Games http://sciencefocus.com/news/your-guts-play-host-bacterial-hunger-games
the eucalyptus has already been tested against fungi from the raspberry, and oregano has been evaluated in papaya, cucumber, squash, mango and tomato, and the results for both have been optimal. http://phys.org/news/2015-11-fungi-oregano-eucalyptus-oil.html
So if you want to keep mosquitoes away, wear DEET – or really fruity, flowery perfume like Bombshell. http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/11/scientific-study-victorias-secret-perfume-is-great-mosquito-repellent/
"While we thought that there would be some overlap in brain regions between meditation and placebo, the findings from this study provide novel and objective evidence that mindfulness meditation reduces pain in a unique fashion." http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/wfbm-mmt111015.php
Everything You Need to Know about Seasonal Affective Disorder: http://www.cell.com/crosstalk/everything-you-need-to-know-about-SAD
“If we wait to the point where we are beyond a shadow of a doubt, with double-blind studies translated to regulations, we’re going to be waiting decades,” Sonnenburg told me. “But right now, all the arrows are pointing in the same direction, toward fiber.” http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/how-the-western-diet-has-derailed-our-evolution?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
How Edward Snowden Changed Everything
ACLU Attorney Ben Wizner discusses the “Snowden effect” and why courts are taking privacy claims seriously now. http://www.thenation.com/article/how-edward-snowden-changed-everything/
Sneezes Spreading The Common Cold? If You Think Your Immune System Can Handle It, Chances Are It Can http://www.medicaldaily.com/sneezes-spreading-common-cold-if-you-think-your-immune-system-can-handle-it-chances-361310
"Get away from the short cuts," he says. "I know everybody wants it, we've got a crazy busy life. But you eat real food and regularly. You'll do better." http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/health/marketplace-protein-powders-1.3313084
Sunlight causes genetic mutations that turn moles malignant http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sunlight-causes-genetic-mutations-that-turn-moles-malignant-1528520
But when we eat fructose without the fibre of fruit, which we often do when we consume sugary snacks or fruit juice, the pathway gets all messed up and your brain doesn't get the message that you're full, so you just keep on eating. http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-this-is-what-happens-to-your-body-after-you-eat-sugar
“Using our brain scanning techniques we found that connections in the front part of the brains of apathetic people are less effective.” So the brain wiring of those who couldn’t be bothered might be that bit looser than in the office heros. They are not lazy, it is just their biology. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/study-suggests-reason-for-your-apathy-at-work-1.2427971
new research showed the need for roast potatoes and chips to be cooked to only “a light golden colour” and that bread should be toasted to “the lightest colour acceptable”. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11996554/.html
The test group (45yo+) had a problem increasing how much they ate as they exercised more. http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/11/older-people-may-have-trouble-staying-athletic-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think/
"This represents a real paradigm shift in sports nutrition, and I don't use that term lightly," he said. "Maybe we've got it all backwards and we need to re-examine everything we've been telling athletes for the last 40 years about loading up on carbs. Clearly it's not as straightforward as we used to think." http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/osu-eaw111615.php
For instance, among trials that were funded by or had other financial ties to the food industry, 83 percent concluded that there was a lack of data to link sugar-sweetened beverages to risks of weight gain. On the other hand, of studies with no financial conflicts of interest, 83 percent found that there was a link between sweetened beverages and risk of weight gain. http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/11/high-fructose-corn-syrup-goes-to-court-scientific-verdict-partly-in/
Once people reach a conclusion, they aren’t likely to change their minds, even when new information shows their initial belief is likely wrong and clinging to that belief costs real money, new research shows. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151116143602.htm
ReCon, alone among app surveillance tools, takes control out of advertisers hands and gives it back to you. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151116141743.htm
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Our smartwatches already know a great deal about us, from our heart rate to our location, but they could soon identify what we are touching.
Disney researchers have created a wearable that recognises the unique electromagnetic signatures produced by everyday objects, from door handles to laptops to buttons on the stove. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3321757/Disney-creates-smartwatch-knows-object-touching.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Charges Filed Against Makers of Nutritional Supplements
One company in nationwide sweep sold products with ingredient that caused liver damage, FDA says http://consumer.healthday.com/public-health-information-30/poisons-health-news-537/charges-filed-against-makers-of-nutritional-supplements-705390.html
Finally, the Department of Justice and FDA go after unsafe supplements in a big way http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/11/18/finally-the-department-of-justice-and-fda-go-after-unsafe-supplements-in-a-big-way/
Strip tillage and cover crops enhance soil quality in the southeast in the face of climate change http://m.phys.org/news/2015-11-tillage-crops-soil-quality-southeast.html
Fish oil supplements in New Zealand are highly oxidised and do not meet label content of n-3 PUFA http://www.nature.com/articles/srep07928
Automation Is Eating Jobs, But These Skills Will Always Be Valued In the Workplace http://singularityhub.com/2015/11/19/automation-is-eating-jobs-but-these-skills-will-always-be-valued-in-the-workplace/
Your fridge may leak your data! 3 tips to stop it http://www.cbsnews.com/media/how-to-stop-your-fridge-from-leaking-your-data/
Universal diets don’t work because ‘healthy’ foods differ by individual, study finds http://www.sciencealert.com/universal-diets-don-t-work-because-healthy-foods-differ-by-individual-study-finds
??DNews: Self-Esteem: What Builds It Up or Tears It Down? http://news.discovery.com/human/videos/self-esteem-what-builds-it-up-or-tears-it-down-video-151119.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1
video looks at hypnosis using the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibilty http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/asapscience-video-looks-at-hypnosis-using-the-harvard-group-scale-of-hypnotic-susceptibilty-a6740836.html
"Sleeping in on weekends linked to health problems" http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/sleeping-in-on-weekends-linked-to-health-problems/
Senators Voting to Block EPA Rules Received 17 Times as Much Money from the Coal Mining Industry http://maplight.org/content/senators-voting-to-block-epa-rules-received-17-times-as-much-money-from-the-coal-mining-indu
Is YOUR phone spying on your habits? Ad firm under fire for silent audio system that can tell them what TV ads you watch and which websites you visit
In 10ms we identify what is going on in the television using Artificial intelligence and deep machine intelligence http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3326334/Is-phone-spying-habits-Ad-firm-fire-silent-audio-tell-TV-ads-watch-websites-visit.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Powering The Next Billion Devices With Wi-Fi http://www.science20.com/news_articles/powering_the_next_billion_devices_with_wifi-160148
The study reveals several molecules that are almost completely new to researchers, created by cooking with chloraminated tap water and iodized table salt.
...and use table salt fortified with potassium iodate instead of potassium iodide. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/e-cwc112415.php
High-fat diet prompts immune cells to start eating connections between neurons http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/mcog-hdp112315.php
There is a brand new treatment available which can increase your concentration, boost your social life and increase your happiness. It’s totally free. http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/11/this-is-why-you-should-quit-facebook-for-one-week.php
How to Choose Your First Telescope http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-equipment/types-of-telescopes/
Australian kids must leave devices and step out, or risk permanent blindness http://www.ibtimes.com.au/australian-kids-must-leave-devices-step-out-or-risk-permanent-blindness-1485327
Dosakaya . Tiwari cautioned against consuming juice when the fruit tastes bitter as it could be toxic. He said diabetics should consult their physicians before consuming as its cumulative effect might lead to hypoglycaemia. http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/drinking-pie-melon-juice-may-counter-diabetes/article7903808.ece
We should all be eating seaweed every day, say food experts http://www.sciencealert.com/we-should-all-be-eating-seaweed-every-day-say-food-experts
Gut microbes signal to the brain when they're full http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151124143330.htm
WHY DOES EATING FOOD MAKE YOU SLEEPY? http://daily.jstor.org/eating-food-make-sleepy/
Up to 90 percent of drinking water contaminants in ultrasonic humidifier aerosols are inhalable http://phys.org/news/2015-11-percent-contaminants-ultrasonic-humidifier-aerosols.html
Does it pay to be kind to strangers? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151125-why-are-we-so-suspicious-of-being-kind
Teaching Kids to Code Has Never Been So Easy http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/teaching-kids-to-code-has-never-been-so-easy
Raspberry Pi Zero $5 computer unveiled http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/raspberry-pi-zero-1.3338011
EPA nixes approval of new weed killer for engineered crops http://phys.org/news/2015-11-epa-nixes-weed-killer-crops.html
“We found that the exercise felt easier, and the gut comfort of the cyclists was better, when they ingested sucrose compared to glucose. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/28/sugary-water-performance-sports-drinks-study-cyclists
The (Q)SAR database is available from today via (Q)SAR's website: http://qsar.food.dtu.dk. Main http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151123103053.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fmatter_energy%2Fchemistry+%28Chemistry+News+--+ScienceDaily%29
Is eating fat really bad for you? Here's what the science says. http://www.vox.com/2015/11/24/9782098/dietary-fat-saturated-fat-good-or-bad
Never have the embarrassment of forgetting a name again http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151113-how-to-never-forget-a-name-again
That being said the book does contain some very valid points. Throughout, Blythman hints at the intimate relationship between regulatory bodies and lobby organisations, the suspect use of ‘experts’ and the total lack of industry transparency. That’s important stuff.http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2015/11/joanna-blythman-swallow-review
Less than 1% of the chemicals currently registered for commercial use in the US have undergone testing by government agencies, according to the Center for Effective Government (CEG). http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2015/12/us-government-agencies-chemicals-testing
Top 10: What are the top foods high in iron? http://sciencefocus.com/qa/top-10-what-are-top-foods-high-iron
Type 2 diabetes reversed by losing fat from pancreas December 1, 2015http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151201141231.htm
Parenting Hacks: Pediatrician Shows 'The Hold' Technique To Calm Any Crying Baby http://www.medicaldaily.com/pulse/parenting-hacks-pediatrician-shows-hold-technique-calm-any-crying-baby-363766
Eating dark-green vegetables can change genes and stop tumour growth http://www.ibtimes.com.au/eating-dark-green-vegetables-can-change-genes-stop-tumour-growth-1489251
Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Play Role in Bipolar Disorder: Study Researchers hope to learn whether they can benefit patients with the mental illness http://consumer.healthday.com/mental-health-information-25/bipolar-affective-disorder-news-60/omega-3-fatty-acids-may-play-role-in-bipolar-disorder-study-705610.html
Epigenetics: What Your Father Ate Before You Were Born Influenced Your Health http://www.science20.com/news_articles/epigenetics_what_your_father_ate_before_you_were_born_influenced_your_health-161214
Results indicated consumers considered companies with blue logos to be more eco-friendly, compared to those with red logos. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3346790/Having-red-logo-makes-firms-green-Study-finds-color-influences-way-make-ethical-judgments.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Why science is not enough for good policy http://scidev.net/global/policy/opinion/science-good-policy-knowledge-sussex.html
Review Claims Link Between Wireless Devices And Cancer http://www.science20.com/news_articles/review_claims_link_between_wireless_devices_and_cancer-156670
The optimal angle of 17 degrees between the wings increases temperature by around 7 degree C as compared when held flat.
Gut microbes affect circadian rhythms in mice, study says http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/dnl-gma080315.php
Windows 10 is not really free—you are paying for it with your privacy http://phys.org/news/2015-08-windows-freeyou-privacy.html
Scientists unearth earthworm’s ability to digest plant toxins. Researchers say earthworms produce special compounds in their gut to counteract plant toxins created precisely to repel hungry herbivores http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_4-8-2015-13-36-15
Answer to earthworm's ability to digest poisons unearthed by scientists http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/04/earthworms-ability-digest-poisons-unearthed-molecules-drilodefensins
turns out that there is a booming market for handcrafted furniture made from salvaged factory beams ,hand built headphones, gourmet small-batch foods ranging from marshmallows to mayonnaise – and much more http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150805-will-machines-eventually-take-on-every-job
"But on the other hand, that also means that there might be multiple ways of enhancing self-control or preventing self-control problems. Those are exciting possibilities for future research." http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/08/06/4287546.htm
Brain Scans Show Why Reading to Kids Is Good for Them http://consumer.healthday.com/cognitive-health-information-26/brain-health-news-80/brain-scans-show-why-reading-to-kids-is-good-for-them-701897.html
Here's how long your food actually keeps for ..Turns out, the vast majority of expiration dates are completely bogus. http://www.sciencealert.com/the-vast-majority-of-expiration-dates-are-completely-bogus-here-s-how-long-your-food-really-keeps-for
White bread and pasta have been linked to an increased risk of depression..High GI foods might not just be bad for your body... http://www.sciencealert.com/white-bread-and-pasta-have-been-linked-to-an-increased-risk-of-depression
Bagels. .. should slice the snack along the 'Mobius Strip' to add more filling http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3189917/The-best-way-cut-bagel-revealed-Scientists-say-slice-snack-Mobius-Strip-add-filling.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
In other words, a study about butter, funded by the butter industry, finds that butter is bad for you. This scenario is rare, http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/future/science/216093-study-funded-by-butter-industry-says-butter-is-bad
The Real Paleo Diet May Have Included Starches http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/the-real-paleo-diet-may-have-included-starches Copy.. 5 Ways Physical Gestures Influence Your Thinking http://mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=67083
Sharing economy' surge creates labor conundrum http://phys.org/news/2015-08-economy-surge-labor-conundrum.html
Universal iodine supplementation during pregnancy could offer huge cost savings http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/tl-tld080615.php
Neuroscientists Uncover More Evidence Linking Epileptic Seizures and Music http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/neuroscientists-uncover-more-evidence-linking-epileptic-seizures-and-music
...more than being a marketing company, Rantic is a social media bot farm—like, the bot farm. Buy any “likes” or “followers” or “retweets” or even YouTube video views from any of the countless online vendors hawking these services, and overwhelmingly, you’ll end up using the bot accounts made by these guys. http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/inside-an-instagram-bot-farm
Seed Diversity Critical for Agriculture’s Future but Inadequate Funding Threatens Potential http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/seed-diversity-critical-for-agriculture-future-0520
Coca-Cola buying off scientists who downplay role of sugar in weight gain http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/coca-cola-buying-off-scientists-who-downplay-role-of-sugar-in-weight-gain/
Aging http://hplusmagazine.com/2015/08/10/the-mystery-of-aging-solved-at-last/
Getting too personal? Marketeers trade in our personal data http://www.theneweconomy.com/strategy/getting-too-personal-marketeers-trade-in-our-personal-data
The Teflon Toxin: DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-deception/
Physicists have discovered that gravity is constant across the Universe. http://www.labnews.co.uk/news/universal-gravity-constant-confirmed-14-08-2015/
Beautiful Corals in Home Aquariums Can Poison Youhttp://livescience.com/51853-corals-toxin-hazard-aquariums.html
Getting a Tiny Bit of This Element on Your Skin Will Make You Reek of Garlic for Weekshttp://io9.com/getting-a-tiny-bit-of-this-element-on-your-skin-will-ma-1723949124
Scientists discover what controls waking up and going to sleep Simple 2-cycle mechanism turns key brain neurons on or off during 24-hour day http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150813142719.htm
Wikipedia Isn't All that Reliable, Information Sabotage Can Happen http://news.softpedia.com/news/wikipedia-isn-t-all-that-reliable-information-sabotage-can-happen-489306.shtml
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Is Microsoft snooping on your computer? Analysts claim Windows 10 sends identifiable information to tech giant EVEN when told not to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3198273/Is-Microsoft-snooping-computer-Analysts-claim-Windows-10-sends-identifiable-information-tech-giant-told-not-to.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490On
Wikipedia, politically controversial science topics vulnerable to information sabotage http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/cioe-owp081415.php
Biotechnologist achieves larger, stronger fruits with plant hormone crystals http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150814122900.htm
Company eliminates pests from stored grain with ozone and reduce costs http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150814075746.htm
Modern Life Could Be Making Dementia More Common http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-are-getting-dementia-more-and-earlier-ever-180956281/
Statistical advances help unlock mysteries of the human microbiome http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2015/08/13/statistical_advances_help_unlock_mysteries_of_the_human_microbiome.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+biologynews%2Fheadlines+%28Biology+News+Net%29
Antonio Regalado, reporting at MIT Technology Review, explains RNA interference further: gmo http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/rna-spray-could-make-gmos-obsolete/
Ocean floor interactive map http://portal.gplates.org/#SEAFLOOR
In one test, distilled sweetgrass oil even matched the repellent potency of DEET, the current gold standard for anti-mosquito effectiveness. http://phys.org/news/2015-08-mosquito-repelling-chemicals-traditional-sweetgrass.html?
The ABC’s of CCD Imaging http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-resources/astrophotography-tips/the-abcs-of-ccd-imaging/
Powdered cranberry combats colon cancer in mice http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/acs-pcc071715.php
Science Reveals the Advantage Writers Have Over the Rest of Us http://mic.com/articles/123990/science-reveals-writing-helps-well-being-thinking-about-the-future-and-coping-with-trauma
How do perceptions of beauty vary across the globe? https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/perceptions-of-perfection/#tab
This is What Happens to Your Body When You Stop Exercising http://io9.com/this-is-what-happens-to-your-body-when-you-stop-exercis-1724581507
how to make tomatoes taste better. http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-figure-out-how-to-make-supermarket-tomatoes-taste-like-actual-tomatoes
Hundreds of field interviews guided her to the European chestnut tree, Castanea sativa. "Local people and healers repeatedly told us how they would make a tea from the leaves of the chestnut tree and wash their skin with it to treat skin infections and inflammations," Quave says. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150821164150.htm
However, it’s interesting to think that a small amount of radiation could be good for us, and that radiation isn’t always the enemy. http://io9.com/this-experiment-suggests-a-small-amount-of-radiation-co-1725683500
Research has found that spinach could contain bacteria like E. coli and Salmonella, even if you hand wash it yourself. http://www.medicaldaily.com/dirty-greens-if-you-dont-wash-your-spinach-you-may-be-eating-salmonella-or-e-coli-348944
Anti-aging tricks from dietary supplement seen in mice Alpha-lipoic acid stimulates telomerase in vascular smooth muscle.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150821111051.htm
Organic food starts to prove its worth.https://student.societyforscience.org/article/organic-food-starts-prove-its-worth
When's the best time to go to bed, according to science? http://www.sciencealert.com/when-s-the-best-time-to-go-to-bed-according-to-science
Scientists have found that a widespread and potentially harmful class of industrial chemicals accumulates easily in human breast milk and can build up to worrying levels in infants who are breast-fed.noted that there are ways for mothers to limit their exposure to PFASs http://m.livescience.com/51939-breast-feeding-babies-chemicals-pfas.html.
High-Tech Vegetable Factories: The Future of Urban Farminghttp://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/high-tech-vegetable-factories-the-future-of-urban-farming
New data challenges whether the FDA is still the world’s toughest regulator http://www.vox.com/2015/8/20/9182663/fda-rate-drug-approvals
What Paleo diets get wrong: We're not evolved for meat, and our ancestors ate carbs http://www.vox.com/2015/8/20/9179217/paleo-diet-jeb-bush-weight-loss
10 misleading food product labels in Canada Marketplace investigation reveals dubious health and nutrition claims http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/10-misleading-food-product-labels-in-canada-1.1142301
Healthy Eating in Traditional Chinese Medicine http://www.dw.com/en/healthy-eating-in-traditional-chinese-medicine/a-18619239
The Human Body Suffers When It's Stressed Out; How To Handle Adverse Health Effects http://www.medicaldaily.com/pulse/human-body-suffers-when-its-stressed-out-how-handle-adverse-health-effects-349100
Why a 5% beer can make you TWICE as drunk as a 4% version: Calculations reveal why a tiny increase in strength has a big impact on intoxicationhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3209119/Why-5-beer-make-TWICE-drunk-4-version-Calculations-reveal-tiny-increase-strength-big-impact-intoxication.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
The burning of incense might need to come with a health warning. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150825083844.htm
Lemon juice and human norovirus http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/gcrc-lja082515.php
The report notes that several high-profile websites, including the Forbes, Huffington Post, and LA Weekly, served malware via their ads in that time frame. http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/another-reason-to-use-an-ad-blocker-malvertising-has-tripled-this-year
To help keep people alert, without also damaging their night-time routine, a group of chemists has revealed how to stay awake without caffeine. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3210219/Forget-coffee-CAT-VIDEOS-best-way-body-boost-Chemists-reveal-stay-alert-without-caffeine.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Compounds in Flax & Sesame Seeds May Prevent Weight GainBut these lignans are similar in structure to the hormone estrogen, and may be able to influence body weight by binding to the receptors for estrogen, http://livescience.com/51952-lignans-weight-gain-prevention-flax-sesame.html
The Widening World of Hand-PickedTruths http://nytimes.com/2015/08/25/science/the-widening-world-of-hand-picked-truths.html?_r=0&referrer=
2# Scientists have discovered that ultrasound treatment can accelerate the healing process of skin wounds. http://www.labnews.co.uk/news/ultrasound-speeds-skin-recovery-26-08-2015/
In lab experiments, an hour of nighttime light exposure suppressed their production of the sleep-timing hormone melatonin significantly more than the same light exposure did for teens aged 11 to 16 who were farther into puberty. https://news.brown.edu/articles/2015/08/sleep
High protein foods boost cardiovascular health, as much as quitting smoking or getting exercise http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150827083651.htm
The superfood from South America now available here is packed with antioxidants which kill off tumours. In tests on mice the potatoes, usually the size of a golf ball, halted the growth of bowel cancers by targeting their “master” stem cells. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/eating-purple-potatoes-could-help-6333301
Here’s why it’s damned near impossible to know what food is actually healthy http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/heres-why-its-damned-near-impossible-to-know-what-food-is-actually-healthy/
Only one-third of published psychology research is reliable – now what? http://phys.org/news/2015-08-one-third-published-psychology-reliable.html
Like ATS, ad blockers can enhance user security at the expense of advertisers, by blocking malvertising. Both content blocking in Safari and ATS places Apple on a collision course with Google, whose business model is reliant on adtech. http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/google-is-undermining-apples-new-security-protections
Lettuces Now, What Next - Could Astronauts Get All Their Oxygen And Food From Algae Or Plants? http://www.science20.com/robert_inventocould_astronauts_in_the_iss_get_all_their_oxygen_and_food_from_algae_or_plants-156990
Study links air pollution to children’s low GPAs http://scienceblog.com/79999/study-links-air-pollution-childrens-gpas/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28ScienceBlog.com%29
2# Strawberries, Basil and Beans Thrive in Underwater Greenhouses http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strawberries-basil-and-beans-thrive-in-underwater-greenhouses/?mobileFormat=false
Also, boiling the shellfish is not actually deactivating the virus," Hansman warns. "I would definitely be using a lot of lemon juice on some oysters or shellfish from some countries." http://www.dw.com/en/using-lemon-juice-against-vomiting-and-diarrhea/a-18679701
The studies suggest that eating out of our normal rhythm, like late at night, may prompt weight gain” and higher levels of blood sugar, which can raise the risk of chronic disease http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-eating-late-at-night-may-be-particularly-bad-for-you-and-your-diet/2015/08/24/ad8b85ac-2583-11e5-b77f-eb13a215f593_story.html
You Can Actually Poison Yourself If You Eat Undercooked Beans http://io9.com/you-can-actually-poison-yourself-if-you-eat-undercooked-1727656009
"So it would seem that the way reporters frame scientific opinion can sway an audience one way or the other." http://m.phys.org/news/2015-08-news-stories-perceptions-emerging-technologies.html
Early human diet explains our eating habits http://phys.org/news/2015-08-early-human-diet-habits.html
PubPeer founders reveal themselves, create foundation http://retractionwatch.com/2015/08/31/pubpeer-founders-reveal-themselves-create-foundation/
The findings in our study support the idea that the reward processing following food stimuli in obesity is associated with neural changes similar to those found in substance addiction. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150831001121.htm
“The risk is that while parents may think commercial baby foods are introducing their children to healthy vegetable tastes, actually, they are mainly reinforcing preferences for sweet foods. http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_418227_en.html
Scientists show how magnetic pulses change the brain in treatment for depressed... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150830152603.htm
Study Suggests a Serious Benefit to Being Around Happy People http://mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=67944
Midday naps associated with reduced blood pressure and fewer medications http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150829123659.htm
Processed foods, which have many added ingredients such as fat and sugar to make them palatable, make it harder for the body’s automatic weight-management system to do its job. That’s because diets high in fat, or high in fat and sugar, change the balance of natural chemicals in the brain that control this system. http://www.science20.com/the_conversation/how_much_food_should_you_eat-152804
The timing of sleep just as important as quantity http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/wsu-tto083115.php
Shifting Focus From Calories To Nutritional Value: New Fad Or Sound Science? http://www.science20.com/news_articles/shifting_focus_from_calories_to_nutritional_value_new_fad_or_sound_science-156976
CLIMATE CHANGE MEANS ONE WORLD’S DEATH AND ANOTHER’S BIRTH http://www.wired.com/2015/09/climate-change-means-one-worlds-death-anothers-birth/
says some phones by manufacturers such as Huawei and Xiaomi contain modified apps designed to spy on users or display advertising. http://phys.org/news/2015-09-malware-android-smartphones.html
What Is Okra (Lady's Finger) And 6 Benefits Of Adding The Medicinal Vegetable To Your Diet http://www.medicaldaily.com/what-okra-ladys-finger-and-6-benefits-adding-medicinal-vegetable-your-diet-350750
These 6 healthy foods are very unhealthy in high doses http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/these-6-healthy-foods-are-very-unhealthy-in-high-doses/
Study uncovers how seeds are kept in dormancy until the appearance of... http://phys.org/news/2015-09-uncovers-seeds-dormancy-favorable-conditions.html
Research Spots Link Between Agent Orange, Blood Cancer in Vietnam Vets http://consumer.healthday.com/general-health-information-16/military-health-news-763/agent-orange-exposure-linked-to-blood-disease-in-vietnam-vets-702949.html
How to Build Your Personal Brand Without Acting Insufferable http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/how-to-build-your-personal-brand-without-acting-insufferable
Increased False-Memory Susceptibility After Mindfulness Meditation http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/09/03/0956797615593705.abstract
Arsenic attaches to water that’s ‘too clean’, study finds http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113408510/arsenic-attaches-to-water-thats-too-clean-study-finds-090415/
According to Science, Discuss these 5 Things on a First Date http://thedirty.us/?p=155
Snack Bar Sleuthing: 5 Rules To Remember When Reading Snack Bar Nutrition Labels http://www.medicaldaily.com/snack-bar-sleuthing-5-rules-remember-when-reading-snack-bar-nutrition-labels-351342
" tomatidine " for two months. The scientists found that both compounds increased muscle mass by 10 percent, and more importantly, increased muscle quality, or strength, by 30 percent. http://scienceblog.com/80072/keeping-older-muscles-strong/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28ScienceBlog.com%29
You Can Now Block Ads on Your Phone http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/you-can-now-block-ads-on-your-phone
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About half of American adults have either diabetes or prediabetes, a new study says. http://livescience.com/52111-diabetes-prediabetes-united-states.html
Your stomach bacteria determines which diet is best for weight reduction http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/cuot-ysb091015.php
she spoke out though all the powers of government, business, and science were lined up against her. “Rachel Carson was legitimately heroic,” he added. “You can say that loudly.” The bottom line, sadly, is that Rachel was right. http://e360.yale.edu/feature/rachel_carsons_critics_keep_on_but_she_told_truth_about_ddt/2908/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29
Glyphosate to be labelled a carcinogen in California http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2015/09/glyphosate-roundup-labelled-carcinogen
French court upholds poisoning case against Monsanto http://phys.org/news/2015-09-french-court-poisoning-case-monsanto.html
Researchers find physiological basis for laziness http://www.examiner.com/article/researchers-find-physiological-basis-for-laziness
A Smartwatch Could Reveal What You're Typing by How Your Hand Moves http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/a-smartwatch-could-reveal-what-youre-typing-by-how-your-hand-moves
This Is The Best Time To Workout, Based On Your Fitness Goals http://www.medicaldaily.com/time-day-and-fitness-goals-why-working-out-morning-best-stress-not-muscle-size-351936
Keeping gut bacteria in balance could help delay age-related diseases, UCLA study finds http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/uoc--kgb091015.php
adds that organic farming can help improve soil structure, and that unlike chemical fertilisers which are popular in the country, organic manure is not prone to nutrient losses through leeching. http://phys.org/news/2015-09-earthworms-smallholders-crop-yields.html
A UK study found regular hopping increased bone density in older men. http://www.nhs.uk/news/2015/09SeptembePages/How-hopping-may-help-with-osteoporosis-risk-in-older-people.aspx
There’s a place for profit, but there’s also a place for philanthropy. Now more than ever, we need at least some media outlets that are not heavily reliant on commercial interests with their own political agendas — especially when it comes to science. http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/09/national-geographic-is-now-owned-by-a-climate-change-denie
The nudge theory and beyond: how people can play with your mind http://www.theguardian.com/theobserve2015/sep/12/nudge-theory-mental-manipulation-wrong
The British Library Puts Over 1,000,000 Images in the Public Domain: A Deeper Dive Into the Collection http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/the-british-library-puts-over-1000000-images-in-the-public-domain-a-deeper-dive-into-the-collection.html
Researchers report tissue cysts of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, long thought to be dormant, are quite active http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-researchers-find-%E2%80%9Cdormant%E2%80%9D-parasite-cysts-are-actually-quite-active
"Alternatives to DIDP and DINP include wax paper and aluminum wrap; indeed, a dietary intervention that introduced fresh foods that were not canned or packaged in plastic reduced phthalate metabolites substantially," Trasande said.
"Our study adds further concern for the need to test chemicals for toxicity prior to their broad and widespread use, which is not required under current federal law," he added. http://consumer.healthday.com/cancer-information-5/chemotherapy-news-122/study-questions-safety-of-chemicals-used-in-plastic-701205.html
World 'facing flood of new toxins' http://phys.org/news/2015-09-world-toxins.html
Mediterranean diet plus olive oil associated with reduced breast cancer risk http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/tjnj-mdp091015.php
Researchers find major gaps in understanding risks, benefits of eating fish http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/dc-rfm091415.php
Guilt helps sell self-improvement products, new study finds http://phys.org/news/2015-09-guilt-self-improvement-products.html
Do estrogen levels affect the willingness to share? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150917091303.htm
Not so long ago, the idea that technology would destroy jobs and leave us unemployed was considered a fallacy. Economists believed technology always creates new opportunities, and hence new jobs. Today, with the rise of machine-learning algorithms and advanced robotics, many of them have changed their view. It’s possible that within 20 years almost half of all jobs will be lost to machines forever, and nobody really knows how we are going to cope with that. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28186-as-tech-threatens-jobs-we-must-test-a-universal-basic-income/
Social media's hazards include phoney likes and opportunistic malware http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/technology/social-media-s-hazards-include-phoney-likes-and-opportunistic-malware-1.3230946
From redditor...Anybody want to get into the business of selling social media followers and likes? https://www.reddit.com/Entrepreneucomments/3kf0s5/anybody_want_to_get_into_the_business_of_selling/
Not only do these results reinforce the common advice to avoid caffeine in the evening, but they also raise the intriguing possibility that caffeine may be useful for resetting the circadian clock to treat jet lag induced by international time zone travel. http://www.onenewspage.com/n/Business/75589c717/Drinking-coffee-actually-slows-down-your-body-clock.htm
Antidepressant was misrepresented as safe for adolescents Our re-analysis has implications beyond Study 329; it has repercussions for all of evidence-based medicine. First, we identified ten strategies used by researchers in this clinical trial to minimise apparent harms. This included inconsistent classification of adverse events and ignoring their severity. Several of these strategies can be readily identified in reports of other trials. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/study-329-antidepressant-trials-upended-results-show-need-sharing-all-data-1520081
The research suggests that eliminating larger-sized portions from the diet completely could reduce energy intake by up to 16% among UK adults or 29% among US adults. http://www.science20.com/news_articles/you_knew_this_larger_portions_lead_to_higher_consumption_of_food_and_drink-157185
A large study of 15,093 people suggests depression could be linked with nutrient deficits. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/bc-fav091415.php
“Reversal of type 2 diabetes in children is possible by early screening of obese children, early diagnosis, appropriate therapy and lifestyle modification,“ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11869249/.html
Not All Seaweeds Are Superfoods http://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/not-all-seaweeds-are-superfoods
"Several studies have demonstrated the beneficial effects of taking short naps less than 30 minutes in duration, which help to increase alertness and motor skills. "A short nap finishes before the onset of deep slow-wave sleep. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11872199/.html
Tai Chi linked to improved physical capacity in certain common long term conditions http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/b-tcl091515.php
Diabetics could find regulating their sugar levels easier by incorporating more protein. http://www.medicaldaily.com/high-protein-foods-make-people-type-2-diabetes-manage-blood-sugar-353198
Ginger Ale Has Been Known To Soothe A Stomach Ache, But Is It An Old Wives' Tale? http://www.medicaldaily.com/pulse/ginger-ale-has-been-known-soothe-stomach-ache-it-old-wives-tale-353210
SWISS INSURANCE COMPANY WILL CHARGE HIGHER PREMIUMS FOR LAZY PEOPLE TRACKING CUSTOMERS’ SEDENTARY LIFESTYLES WITH FITBIT MEANS MONEY http://www.popsci.com/swiss-insurance-company-will-charge-higher-premiums-for-lazy-people
A study in mice has shown that two common antibiotic-resistant bacteria can be reduced to a safe level via fecal transplantation of ‘healthy’ gut bacteria from a donor. http://digitaljournal.com/science/fecal-transplant-success-against-pathogenic-bacteria/article/444112
Considering how vital vitamins sound, it's easy to see why everyone seems to think we need so much of them. But, in reality, you don't need nearly as much as your box of Fruity Pebbles leads you to believe. http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/09/the_biggest_myth_about_vitamins.html
“We realize now that different human populations have adapted to different diets, so what’s healthy for one person might not be healthy for other people,” Nielsen says. “We need to have personalized diet choices based on genetics.” http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/09/fish-oil-good-you-depends-your-dna
Researchers said a popular antidepressant was safe for teens. It was actually deadly. http://www.vox.com/2015/9/19/9355121/paxil-research-fraud
Watch: Why avocados are the most awesome fruit, according to science http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-why-avocados-are-the-most-awesome-fruit-according-to-science
Microbeads Entering Our Water Daily Could Cover 300 Tennis CourtsAnd that's what the researchers call a "conservative estimate." http://huffpost.com/us/entry/55fc7771e4b00310edf70fc7
Types of athletic training affect how brain communicates with muscles http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150918132022.htm
The findings of this study support the idea that plant-based proteins with high fiber may offer similar appetite regulation as animal protein. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/ioft-bvb091815.php
Workday Breaks Help Employees Reboot, Researchers Say http://consumer.healthday.com/public-health-information-30/occupational-health-news-507/workday-breaks-help-employees-reboot-703353.html
A high fat diet leads to overeating because of faulty brain signaling http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/e-ahf091615.php
According to new meta-analysis study, consumption of whole-grain diets lowers LDL cholesterol and TC, but not HDL cholesterol or triglycerides, compared with consumption of non-whole-grain control diets. Also, whole-grain oat appears to be the most effective whole grain for lowering cholesterol. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26269373
The Effects Of Fast Food On The Body: Eating A Big Mac May Increase Blood Sugar Levels, Hunger Pangs http://www.medicaldaily.com/pulse/effects-fast-food-body-eating-big-mac-may-increase-blood-sugar-levels-hunger-pangs-353778
The timing of this expose is interesting because it comes at about the same moment as a call to use US RICO laws to investigate and possibly prosecute those who seem to have been conspiring for a long time muddy the waters about the science of climate change in order to put off taking action that might financially hurt Big Petrol. (See also this.) http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2015/09/22/what-exxon-knew-then-is-what-we-know-now/
“Our results support the suggestion that it's best to avoid sitting still for long periods of time, and even fidgeting may offer enough of a break to make a difference.” http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3758/if_youre_sitting_down_dont_sit_still_new_research_suggests
argues that it’s important for people who feel lonely to be aware that their brains are making them more alert to threats, and take control of their behaviour. He has created the 'Ease method' which involves accepting social invitations and getting an action plan for socialising with more people. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3245458/How-deal-loneliness-People-lonely-alert-social-threats-knowing-help-overcome-it.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
'Natural' Supplements Often Contain High And Synthetic Doses Of Yohimbine http://www.medicaldaily.com/natural-supplements-often-contain-high-and-synthetic-doses-yohimbine-353868
Depression: This Tiny Change to Diet Has Protective Effect http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/09/depression-this-tiny-change-to-diet-has-protective-effect.php?PageSpeed=noscript
THE ULTIMATE BOOK FOR SCIENCE NERDS WHO COOK http://www.wired.com/2015/09/ultimate-book-science-nerds-cook/
For most people, moderate exercise is the sweet spot. http://livescience.com/52280-is-too-much-exercise-harmful.html
Adding muscles helps to shape out the body giving it a more fit appearance, while cardio only makes your unfit body smaller. For example, if you have a plum-shaped body, cardio will only turn you into a smaller plum. http://www.medicaldaily.com/pulse/lift-weights-lose-weight-strength-training-boosts-metabolic-rate-mobility-women-354110
The scientists emphasize that the plastic and fibers are found in the fishes' guts. That means humans are likely to ingest thedebris only if the fish is eaten whole, as it is in Indonesia, or such as with sardines and anchovies, rather than filleted. However, researchers are still studying whether chemicals in plastic can transfer into the meat. http://phys.org/news/2015-09-quarter-fish-sold-man-made-debris.html
For years, she's been tracking how American eating practices are shaped by the invisible forces of industry and powerful lobbying groups http://www.vox.com/2015/9/25/9396859/soda-politics-nestle
How Hormones Make You Feel Hungry and Full http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/09/how-hormones-make-you-feel-hungry-and-full/
Concern over hidden diesel pollutant http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34347873
Fructose therefore rarely gets delivered to other parts of the body and is instead stored as fat. http://www.medicaldaily.com/pulse/your-body-sugar-while-glucose-provides-energy-high-fructose-diet-leads-metabolic-354468
A diet containing dried plums can positively affect microbiota, also referred to as gut bacteria, throughout the colon, helping reduce the risk of colon cancer, researchers report. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150925131420.htm
Root microbiome engineering improves plant growth http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/cp-rme091815.php
This Outlook On Life Lowers Anxiety And Expands The Brain
“If you can train people’s responses, the theory is that over longer periods, their ability to control their responses on a moment-by-moment basis will eventually be embedded in their brain structure.” http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/09/this-outlook-lowers-anxiety.php?PageSpeed=noscript
When Less Is More: The Challenges Of The Caloric Restriction Diet http://www.medicaldaily.com/when-less-more-challenges-caloric-restriction-diet-354482
Physics of falling says professional athletes are running wrong https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28246-physics-of-falling-says-professional-athletes-are-running-wrong/
The β-glucan-enriched pasta made from a mixture of 75 percent durum wheat flour and 25 percent whole grain barley flour. The daily dose of pasta, 100 grams, contained 3 grams of barley β-glucans, the recommended daily dose http://www.science20.com/news_articles/bglucanenriched_pasta_boosts_good_gut_bacteria_reduces_bad_cholesterol-157222
It might be beneficial to think through why something bores you. You will get a whole new angle on things. Hold on to your boredom; you won’t notice how quickly time goes by once you start thinking about the things that bore you. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/28/boredom-cures-privilege-free-mind
that are rich in either fats or carbohydrates – are associated with feeling sleepy. But this is not the case when nutrients are balanced or the meal is rich in protein. http://watoday.com.au/technology/sci-tech/food-comas-why-food-sometimes-makes-you-sleepy-20150928-gjwi4m.html
New and expectant mothers surprisingly were not motivated to adopt greater protective actions against the chemicals most often covered in the news, according to a new study whose results fly in the face of research and common sense that suggest greater media coverage of environmental risks will lead to a more robust precautionary response by mothers. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150928103207.htm
How might contact with nature promote human health? Promising mechanisms and a possible central pathwayhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01093/full
Plant pest reprograms the roots http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/uob-ppr092915.php
"Because of differences in content exposure for low- and high-income students in this country, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer," said Schmidt. "The belief that schools are the great equalizer, helping students overcome the inequalities of poverty, is a myth." http://phys.org/news/2015-09-american-schools-inequality-worse.html
Calcium Not as Great for Bones as Once Thought http://livescience.com/52339-calcium-not-recommended-bone-health.html
Hear that? Everybody is suffering and we don't have to. I guess until the rest of the world catches up with Sweden - which btw is also making moves to become the world's first fossil fuel-free nation - we'll all just have to move there. http://www.sciencealert.com/sweden-is-shifting-to-a-6-hour-workday
Instead the committee has abandoned standard methodology, leaving us with the same dietary advice as before - low fat, high carbs.
Growing evidence suggests that this advice is driving rather than solving the current epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/new_us_dietary_guidelines_questioned-157269
Many experts in the medical and science fields question the ethics of any large financial transactions between academics and big businesses that could potentially influence the direction of research and public health, including much-needed funding for research. The beverage industry has recently come under fire for funding scientific research that argues drinking soda isn't bad for you. And earlier in September, BMJ reported that a number of committee memberstasked with drawing up new U.S. dietary guidelines had received large sums of money from food and health companies. http://europe.newsweek.com/are-scientific-researchers-too-influenced-corporations-333901?piano_t=1

Master the Basics of Spelling and Grammar:

• Misspellings in the title and body of posts asking for help with writing, combined with obvious grammar issues are indicators that refreshers in the basics should occur soon
  • 30 On-Line Dictionaries and Thesauri: including specialist focus websites
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: very, very helpful Writing Center for fundamentals
  • George Mason University: Writing Center with lots of technical help for basic writing
  • Washington State University: Common Errors in English Usage
  • Colorado Community Colleges Online: Grammar Writing Toolkit; lots of links
• It is fairly clear that a decent percentage of redditors are not yet done with their secondary education, and another percentage come from regions where English is not a primary language:
  • while learning how to craft novels, do not neglect the basic fundamentals of written English
  • readerships will almost always appreciate attention to basic grammar and formatting that makes reading easier on the eyes; if it can't be read, odds are that it won't be read...
  • "traction" of readers or conversion of lurkers-to-readers is more likely to occur if they can understand what is written; I routinely discard stories with very poor grammar regardless of how much I might like the premise of the fanfiction
  • perfection is typically not expected by most people, but when the reader has to constantly translate very poor grammar, "immersion" is impossible to achieve
• Open Textbooks are a thing these days, freely-available textbooks often written by university-level instructors and professors; below are some Open Textbooks focused on writing
  • About Writing, A Guide
  • Effective Professional Communication
  • Intermediate College Writing
  • Mindful Technical Writing
  • Prose Fiction
  • The Simple Math of Writing Well
  • Writing For Success
  • Writing Handbook With Guide

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Learn to use "The Google" to locate resources: (reference to Continuum)

• Operators can be deployed to narrow search results: (more exist than I'm sharing below)
  • + : forces all results to include the term specified
  • - : forces all results to exclude the term specified
    • open textbooks english ; open textbooks +english ; open textbooks -english
    • fanfiction +steve +rogers +maria +hill +captainhill
  • "life in two dimensions is a mass production scheme": searches for exact term matches, handy for things like quotes from book, song lyrics, etc.
  • site:fanfiction.net "captainhill": forces search restriction to site specified, plus quotes force only hits with that specific term
  • site:fanfiction.net "captainhill" "shieldshock": the pipe character, , is used as OR and gets the same results as OR; in this case, the site specified and results are either captainhill or shieldshock
  • fanfiction captainhill before:2015-01-01: "before:YYYYMMDD" restricts results to those dated prior to YYYYMMDD, Year-Month-Date as a sequence of 8 digits; can modify by specifying website restriction site:fanfiction.net captainhill before:2015-01-01
  • fanfiction captainhill after:2015-01-01: restricts results to those dated after YYYYMMDD; site:fanfiction.net captainhill after:2015-01-01
• There are many sources for writing out there, and yes, quite a few of them want to sell you books or entry to specialized training seminars or courses:
  • reading their web materials does not obligate you to purchase their wares; Scout makes no testimonials/endorsements about any services or resources that require monetary transactions
  • just because it's a commercial venture doesn't mean their advice is not useful or appropriate... some commercial vendors offer very, very useful advice
• Being a critical consumer of digital offerings is a good skill to develop:
  • lots of these resources can be discarded because they contain very little truly useful information, and quite a few of them simply copy and paste information from similar websites, which becomes clear if you scan through a decent sample size of these websites
  • there are also very good sources available that have decent guidance and good tips about various aspects of the writing process; they are worth searching for
• At the time of this writing, I've been on reddit for just barely over a month (092622); some posts inspired me to look into various things and I've done a bit of digital resource exploration:
  • listed a number of good resources in my Fanfic Guide for different aspects of writing, both for fundamentals and things oriented toward fanfiction in particular; see Appendix C
  • they weren't terribly difficult to find, but they did take an investment of time to locate, read, and judge which offered at least some decent guidance toward improving writing

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Categories of Fiction Writing by Word Count, Regardless of Genre:

• Many different classifications of category breakdowns by word counts are out there
  • many just pull the numbers out of thin air without any references to sources
  • others seem to have copied a particular website that posted a list years ago (link below)
• Scout explored this territory and came up with his own classification based on terms that made sense in light of his background and preferences for word counts and fiction types
• Lots of folks use the terms "one shot", "longfic", and "book" without really knowing what defines them as potentially separate concepts or potentially the same concept
  • just an FYI if you see folks debating those terms in posts & comments
  • a folder in this storage space contains contains a PDF on a very basic exploration of word counts using definitions and categories provided by various sources in cyberspace

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Rating the Content of Fanfiction: what do those letters and symbols mean?

• Fanlore: a comparative list of ratings by different media types, including fanfiction
• Graphical Symbols on ao3: a quick and dirty key to the colored symbols on ao3
• Prudishness of Fanfiction[dot]net: an exploration of FFN's rating system
• Quotev's Community Guidelines: focus on "Mature" content rating
• Wattpad's Content Guidelines: focus on what is "Mature" or not

After a discussion yesterday where people were curious about what would happen, I went ahead and added a candy thermometer to today's sun tea to see how hot it actually gets.
tl;dr A couple of online magazines and blogs recently published warnings against sun brewed iced tea. The problem is none of them had any reliable reference other than a general purpose FDA warning about foods in the 40-140°F range. These blogs claim sun tea can't reach temperatures greater than 105-130°F but they provided nothing to back up those assertions.
Those temperature claims looked suspicious because other things do heat up more than that. Official daily high temperatures are measured in the shade six feet above the ground under controlled conditions, and as we all know direct sunlight can be considerably hotter, particularly on pavement surfaces and inside of vehicles.
According to the University of Georgia when the official daily high temperature is 91 F, the surface temperature of blacktop can reach 140 F. That's published as a caution to dog owners taking their pets for a walk.
A network affiliate news program has warned viewers,

When temperatures outside climb range from 80 degrees to 100 degrees, the internal temperature of your car can reach a scorching 130 to 172.

In a separate report, another network news report explains the science behind why cars get so hot.
Washington State University notes that backyard composting can reach internal temperatures of 135 F to 150 F at middle north latitudes. It even advises gardeners to be cautious and keep their compost below 170 F.
So why would sun tea be unable to reach those temperatures?
Today's experiment consisted of loose leaf Assam tea inside a steel infuser, put into a glass carafe of water. A candy thermometer was used to measure temperature. The carafe was left outdoors on a red brick surface on a sunny 101 F (38 C) day, and retrieved at half past two in the afternoon. The tea temperature was 150 F when I used kitchen tongs to get the thermometer and take a reading.
For comparison, the University of Georgia reports that a red brick pavement reaches 135 F on a 91 F day.
It surprised me a little the tea wasn't hotter because it had both the brick surface temperature and internal re-radiation to warm it up. As the tea darkens it could also be expected to retain increasing amounts of heat. It may or may not make a difference that the surface of the glass carafe had curves that could have a magnifying effect. Yet 150 is still comfortably above the upper limit of the FDA's warning range.
If your local temperature doesn't rise to triple digits, then extrapolating from the U of Georgia's findings you'd probably reach a safe temperature by placing a black mat beneath your tea on a sunny day in the mid-nineties.
If you'd like to try a similar experiment and add your results in the comments, then we can compare notes.
Here's hoping this helps.
And u/rage242 who started yesterday's discussion you're probably OK doing this in Arizona.
edit
To clarify the context, here are quotes from yesterday's lead-up linked above.
[Other User]
Be careful with sun tea. It can harbor harmful bacteria.
[Other User]
Tap water is by no means sterile. A clean pitcher is not the same thing as a sterile pitcher. Not to mention hands, spoons, countertops, and the tea itself. There certainly is bacteria that can harm you. Sun tea brings a food product to the "danger zone" temperature range, where bacteria grow best. Are the odds low? Sure! But the odds of getting salmonella are low too. If you ever talk to someone who's had salmonella, they'll tell you it's nothing you want to play around with.
https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-the-truth-about-sun-tea-forget-the-sun-cold-brew-tea-is-better
https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/sun-tea/#:~:text=Is%20Sun%20Tea%20Safe%3F,flourish%20and%20make%20you%20sick.
https://foodhero.com/blogs/how-to-make-sun-tea
[my response, minus the reference links because I have to get outdoors and water the garden before sunset]
Going to look at your sources, the Serious Eats piece has more to do with tea selection than safety:

I talked briefly with the chief supply chain officer of Lipton, who told me that the tea destined for the iced-tea market (that is, the cold brew stuff and the tea bags sold in the Southern U.S.) is the lowest quality tea of their whole lineup; large, intact tea leaves are prized more highly by serious tea drinkers than ground leaves.

Heading down to its very brief treatment on food safety, the writer mentions two reasons why sun tea might not be dangerous.

The temperatures at which it brews is ideal breeding grounds for bacteria. Both the acidity of tea as well as its caffeine content can help to keep things at bay

This author cites no scientific research regarding safety either pro or con, and their taste test isn't scientific--just a single run through different methods at home, apparently using the author as the sole judge of quality.
The Taste of Home makes more specific claims but its reference is tangential.

In some cases, no. The 130° Fahrenheit temperature that sun-brewed tea typically reaches, while excellent for extracting flavor, is not hot enough to kill bacteria. Foods kept between 40-140°F are in the “danger zone,” a temperature range where bacteria can flourish and make you sick.

Following the link in that paragraph leads to another Taste of Home article, which in turn is sourced to an FDA document--which supports the general principle of a "danger zone" for food safety but says nothing about the temperature of sun brewing tea.
In order to try to source this 130 Fahrenheit claim I ran several PubMed searches for actual studies on the topic and found nothing relevant despite changing up the search terms.
Taste of Home seems to have pulled that out of the air.
Moving on to your third source, the Food Hero blog makes an unsourced claim for a different temperature range:

The heat of the sun replaces the heating element of water boiled in the kettle but under any sun condition, the tea will only reach in the range of 102° to 130° and not the 170° to 200° normally needed to steep tea in.

Food Hero goes on to make more claims about a specific species of bacteria, but that whole piece is unsourced.
TL;DR these are garbage references.
Maybe I should add a candy thermometer to a carafe of sun tea tomorrow and see what temperature it actually reaches?
TL;DR
Today's test measured temperature because that was the only plausibly sourced claim in any of the Other User's references. Several responses have pointed out reasons why the FDA's temperature guidance for foods might not be applicable to tap water with a few leaves in it. I tend to agree after 40 years of sun tea consumption. Yet in fairness, was unable to find reliable sources to support this belief. I'll still drink sun tea whether or not it exceeds 140 F. Draw your own conclusions and follow your best judgment.
This experiment had the limited purpose of discovering whether or not sun tea could exceed a given temperature that dubious sources claimed it couldn't.

Normally just add some amendments then cover my small raised bed garden with chopped leaves and grass once warm weather crops are done but looking to try keeping mycorrhiza fungi going over the winter and build additional organic matter with cover crops this season. came across a couple good reads from Washington state extension specific to our area and thought I would share for anyone interested...good solid info...
http://pubs.cahnrs.wsu.edu/publications/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/publications/FS119E.pdf
https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/2079/2015/06/Cover-Crops-for-Home-Gardens-West-of-the-Cascades-WSU.pdf

There was an earlier post asking this that was deleted. u/plantmyths cited a source that says they are not: http://pubs.cahnrs.wsu.edu/publications/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/publications/fs207e.pdf
There is competing evidence, and I found this one with quotes by Will Brinton, founder and Director of the Wood's End Research Laboratory in Maine, stating that they are indeed very acidic: https://www.gardensalive.com/product/using-coffee-grounds-correctly
Has anyone used them fresh on plants? What were your results? I've used them outdoors lightly and noticed no difference from other mulches, but not indoors yet.

How plastic from clothing gets into seafood (2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beUhzQAkanM
Synthetic fabrics, such as polar fleece and nylon, shed microscopic plastic fibres when washed. Synthetic clothing has released about 5.6 million tonnes of microfibres since 1950, polluting land and water alike. (Sep 2020) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237839

Anyone know if there have been any attempts or discussions on this already?
Would you guys support this?
EDIT: important update: new info shared in the comments suggests microplastic pollution of the air may be a bigger problem, so only implementing washing machine filters won't solve this.
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Plankton are eating the plastic dumped into the ocean. It bioaccumulates in the food chain when they get eaten. https://www.pbs.org/newshouscience/giant-plankton-eat-transport-plastic-ocean
And kills other ocean animals: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/02/microplastics-killing-fish-before-they-reach-reproductive-age-study-finds
Study found plastic in every seafood sample it analyzed. New research suggests microplastics have invaded the food chain to a greater extent than previously documented. Sardines contained the most plastic. (Jul 2020) https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/study-found-plastic-in-every-seafood-sample-it-analyzed - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c02337
Microplastics found in every marine mammal surveyed in UK study. The research on 50 stranded creatures, including porpoises, dolphins, grey seals and a pygmy sperm whale, found an average of 5.5 particles in their guts, the most comprehensive analysis of microplastics in wild cetaceans and seals. (2019): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/31/microplastics-found-every-marine-mammal-uk-study
Microplastic contamination found in common source of groundwater, researchers report. A new study is the first to report microplastics in fractured limestone aquifers - a groundwater source that accounts for 25 percent of the global drinking water supply. (2019): https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uoia-mcf012519.php
Researchers find microplastics in every human tissue studied (2020) https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/acs-man072320.php
For the first time, researchers say they found microplastics in the placenta (Dec 2020) https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/for-the-first-time-researchers-say-they-found-microplastics-in-the-placenta-1.5229706
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Consequences:

Problems with plastic; toxicity, pollution. The Recycling Scam. The promotion of recycling has proven particularly useful to the industry in shifting responsibility for the waste to consumers, but much of what is “recycled” ends up in landfills or incinerators, and we’re well past the point where anything short of limiting production will alleviate the problem. (Jul 2019) https://theintercept.com/2019/07/20/plastics-industry-plastic-recycling/
Prenatal Exposure to Plasticizers Linked to Motor Skill Deficiencies at Age 11 (Feb 2019): https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/prenatal-exposure-plastics-linked-motor-skill-deficiencies-age-11
Pregnant women warned of 80% increased risk of miscarriage from food heated in plastic (2013) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/10376043/Pregnant-women-warned-of-80pc-increased-risk-of-miscarriage-from-food-heated-in-plastic.html
AAP warns of plastics, with recommendations for consumers, health sector, and government (2018): http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/142/2/e20181408 Food Additives and Child Health. Discussion: https://archive.fo/C9tcS
Evidence linking pregnant women’s exposure to phthalates, found in plastic packaging and common consumer products, to altered cognitive outcomes and slower information processing in their infants, with males more likely to be affected. (Feb 2021) https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/708605600
Neurotoxicity of Ortho-Phthalates: Recommendations for Critical Policy Reforms to Protect Brain Development in Children (Mar 2021) https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2020.306014
"Human penises are shrinking because of pollution, warns scientist. Dr Shanna Swan has found that chemicals called phthalates (a chemical used when manufacturing plastics that impacts the hormone-producing endocrine system) are causing human babies to be born with malformed genitals." - Her book, titled Count Down. https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5b4bq/pollution-shrinking-human-penis-sperm-count-fertility
Chemical pollutants in the home degrade fertility in both men and dogs, study finds (Mar 2019): https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uon-cpi030119.php Independent and combined effects of diethylhexyl phthalate and polychlorinated biphenyl 153 on sperm quality in the human and dog https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39913-9
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BPA:

Bisphenol A and human health: A review of the literature (2013): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reprotox.2013.08.008
Daily exposure to BPA in amounts that are FDA-approved to be “safe” may still be altering insulin release and be enough to have implications for the development of Type 2 diabetes and other metabolic diseases, finds the first study of its kind. https://archive.fo/KCgCa (only 8 people). Experimental BPA Exposure and Glucose-Stimulated Insulin Response in Adult Men and Women (2018): https://doi.org/10.1210/js.2018-00151
BPA exposure has transgenerational effects on gene linked to autism, suggests a new study, which found that mice who were never exposed to BPA, but whose great grandmothers were exposed to BPA during pregnancy, showed autistic behavior. BPA is a common EDC used in plastics and food storage material. https://www.endocrine.org/news-room/2019/mouse-study-finds-bpa-exposure-has-transgenerational-effects-on-gene-linked-to-autism. Transgenerational Bisphenol A causes deficits in social recognition and alters post-synaptic density genes in mice (June 2019) https://doi.org/10.1210/en.2019-00196
Prenatal BPA Exposure May Contribute to the Male Bias of Autism Spectrum Disorder (Jan 2021, rats) https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/prenatal_bpa_exposure_male_bias_asd.html Sex differences in the effects of prenatal bisphenol A exposure on autism-related genes and their relationships with the hippocampus functions.
Thermal paper, the kind that virtually every receipt is printed on is dusted with a BPA to help the ink develop https://archive.fo/tLp6v
CLARITY-BPA was supposed to resolve the conflict. But it hasn't. Laura Vandenberg, an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, said her own analysis of the study data comes up with a different result — low doses of BPA are a problem. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/13/647246241/study-bpa-safety

BPA-free plastic is just as toxic:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bpa-free-plastic-containers-may-be-just-as-hazardous/
https://news.wsu.edu/2018/09/13/wsu-researchers-see-new-plastics-causing-reproductive-woes-old-plastics/ Replacement Bisphenols Adversely Affect Mouse Gametogenesis with Consequences for Subsequent Generations (2018): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.06.070
Feb 2020: https://news.missouri.edu/2020/think-all-bpa-free-products-are-safe-not-so-fast-scientists-warn/
After 2008, bisphenol F and S (BPF, BPS) were used to replace bisphenol A (BPA) in many plastics because BPA was shown to be an endocrine disruptor. Now, urine levels of BPF and BPS are significantly associated with a higher risk of obesity in kids aged 6-19. (July 2019) https://www.inverse.com/article/58021-are-bpf-or-bps-any-safer-than-bpa
BPA associated with obesity; alternatives not. But alternatives have other detrimental effects: https://archive.vn/sJSMo
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Microplastics:

Tissue accumulation of microplastics in mice and biomarker responses suggest widespread health risks of exposure (2017) https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46687
A Detailed Review Study on Potential Effects of Microplastics and Additives of Concern on Human Health (Feb 2020) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068600/
Microplastics Hurt Gut Health (Mar 2019): https://www.forbes.com/sites/linhanhcat/2019/03/11/microplastics-hurt-gut-health/
Nanoplastics alter intestinal microbiome and threaten human health. (Aug 2020) Insights into nanoplastics effects on human health https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-12/uadb-nai122120.php
Microplastics can change soil properties and affect plant performance (April 2019): https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.9b01339

Hi, I’ve been growing wasabi for over 2 years, specifically a variety called Greenthumb, a cross between Daruma and Mazuma

I started with 6 small plants from a local nursery (I live in BC, Canada)  
I’m now at 17 plants, the 11 new plants were larger side shoots that I cut off the initial 6 and replanted.  
I’d like to create, at the least, a discussion about some of the more niche questions we might come across when growing wasabi.
 
 
Here’s a few of my own questions that I’ve found answers to:
!This is ALL from personal experience, so don’t take anything as fact!
 
What should I do for my plants once temperature starts dropping? Are they going to die if I leave them out over winter?
Over my first winter with the initial 6 plants I was very worried and unsure of what to do with them. I couldn’t really find any advice on the internet and as the temp dropped the plants begun to look weaker (and shrivel up, iirc)  
I ended up taking one inside, and covering the rest with landscaping fabric to try to keep them warm. Come spring and they all survived. I still do try to insulate them and keep their heat in over the winter, and it seems to work. They always lose leaves and get smaller in size over the winter, but come back strong in the spring.
 
My plants have developed large offshoots that grow off of the main stem, will I hurt the plant if I cut them off & replant?
I asked this question to a place I found online, World Wasabi Inc. Here’s their response.

“If you have offshoots then just snap them off and plant them. Make sure they have some roots on them and they should grow OK. You can only do this 3 times before the plants become no good for replanting. You can also expect to get black heart disease in the transplanted offshoots.”

 
 
So far those two have been my biggest issues/questions. If you guys have your own unanswered questions, please please share.
I’ve found information about wasabi to be very limited. I’d like to do my part in trying to fix that. Let’s talk.
ps. has anyone here had luck with germinating seeds? I've tried once but it didn't work out...
 
Here’s some pics of my own plants. I’d love to see some of yours!
OG 6
Larger Offshoots
Smaller Offshoots  
Also, here's a pretty good paper I found
Growing Wasabi in the Pacific Northwest

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What foods can a teenager cook for his parents to help their depression?
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Why Calvin and Hobbes is Great Literature
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My response to Mayor Kevin Davis in regards to his statement. No response was received. I'm posting it here as people keep asking for it but I'm tired of copying and pasting it. I really wish someone at the City of Brantford would really look into this and crunch the real numbers to come up with their own conclusion. Or at least give us a breakdown on how they came to the $500,000.00 figure. But it seems to have just been unseen or possibly ignored.
Here it is:
"I'd like to know how senior city staff came to the $500,000.00 figure. Research conducted by Washington State University has shown that cannabis legalization (and retail sales) has not hurt police effectiveness. In fact, it has dramatically improved clearance rates for violent crime, burglary and motor vehicle theft, as well as property crime. That is in the midst of legalization and retail stores.
The only figure that really matters is the amount when we take into consideration the positive impact cannabis legalization and retail stores has on policing. If we do not take into account the surplus that has been scientifically shown, we're not telling the whole truth.
When you calculate the amount of money that would be saved due to the sharp decrease (over 50% in Colorado and Washington) in arrests for cannabis possession, plus the cost savings in a decrease in the time it takes to investigate and solve violent crimes, burglary and motor vehicle theft, and property crimes, the actual cost to the City of Brantford cannot in reality be $500,000.00. Unless, of course, they took these factors into account?
Can you clarify if these factors have been taken into account? If so, thank you for clarifying. If not, certainly you cannot use that figure to come to an informed decision about opting in or opting out.
A write up by WSU: https://news.wsu.edu/2018/07/24/positive-policing-changes-after-cannabis-legalization/?fbclid=IwAR2vlHOx3eyW6K-Dm7zqepCUsrROYkeuJmnYMVdlabpCVnhsaQ5yZcbP0pg
The actual research paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1098611118786255?fbclid=IwAR0NpM-QjPLiMi1-V_WXySXZ5jf1TnB6ZUHA5keLcYPo-tF175bcbsR9dIQ&journalCode=pqxa
While I wait, I'll look into it a little myself:
Looking into the cannabis crime statistics in Canada for 2016 (https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pjjf-pf/2017/july01.html?fbclid=IwAR1d9wc25Y4d7JKDAiaIOm4ZQMM7_HcnkptzXMLCcEHHM-8aVwbEh7YLujA), Ontario had a total of 14,870 reported crimes by police for cannabis. Approximately 76% of these reported crimes were possession related. That is 10,542 possession related crimes in Ontario alone in 2016. That is a decrease of 15% from 2015 which shows already a downward trend. If we go by the 50% decrease in cannabis possession crimes, that would mean we will have 5,271 less arrests.
According to the public safety website of the government of Canada (https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/2015-r022/index-en.aspx?fbclid=IwAR3gJJQ2r2NkhEZKZZp7k3M52wupHfd9XA8Vl2kvwvpNTlf2sYxJBZJ7wEY#s5), an arrest costs approximately $15,364.34 on average, an incident $2,356.14, a charge $1,048.83, a trial $44,279.80 per conviction, $6,866.04 per case, and more is listed.
Let's just calculate the number based off of an arrest: $15,364.34*5271 = $81,084,702.40.
Or if we only calculate it based off the cost of an incident: $2,456.14*5271 = $12,946,313.94
According to the Brantford Police Service, the 5 year annual statistics from 2012-2016 (http://www.brantfordpolice.ca/upload/edito2012-2016-5YR-ANNUAL-STAT-REPORT.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1DG54gSdAg1WwC1vPSGvauPHcmTB2pgHStKNtEToUZVSXxLwy8lN3744Y) shows an average of 359 drugs & narcotics incidents. If we take the national average of 76% into account, that means yearly we have approximately 273 cannabis possession related incidents in brantford yearly.
If these led to arrests, they have cost tax payers $15,364.34*273 = $4,194,464.82 yearly.
If these only led to an "incident", they have cost tax payers $670,488.00 yearly.
So, by taking about 30 minutes to look online at the data freely available to me and doing simple math, it appears that cannabis legalization and retail stores will SAVE us an approximate minimum of $670,488.00 yearly. That is not taking into account the increase in productivity the police will have when it comes to clearing violent crimes, burglary and motors vehicle thefts, as well as property crimes. This is based purely on cannabis possession related incidents.
So, we'd be in the surplus of $170,488.00 yearly taking into account cannabis possession crimes alone. (Added note: This is taking into account the assumed $500,000.00 yearly estimate it'll cost the city to handle cannabis outlets, however I am unsure how this figure given by senior city staff came to be in light of the above information.) Just for quick reference, the numbers for the other crimes are as follows:
Violent crimes: 1,008 yearly average Burglary and motor vehicle theft crimes: 3,849 yearly average
1,433 of the crimes I've listed above under burglary and motor vehicle crimes are listed as theft over, and under, $5000.00, which may or may not be classified under property crimes. In addition to this, some of the total of mischief crimes, a yearly average of 988, could possibly fall under property crimes as well.
When we take into account the clearance rates increasing dramatically with these other 5,845 crimes we deal with per year in our city, we will be saving even more money; not to mention the freeing up of police resources on top of this. I highly doubt the increase in bylaw enforcement will cost nearly as much.
I'm sure the numbers will be different if the exact numbers were looked at, especially using local average costs vs national costs, but I can't see it being drastic enough to change the logical outcome.
Please, if any of you have read this, follow the links. Read the research. Do the math yourself and come to your own conclusions. If you find my reasoning flawed, please say so and have a proper discussion regarding this. Just trying to get the ball rolling on facts and real numbers.
If you've made it this far in my comment, thank you for giving me a few minutes of your time.
So, where do we go from here?"
That's the post. Sadly no one engaged with it. I would really just like to see a real breakdown of the numbers, how they came to half a million dollars, and if they even considered the possibility of legalization and retail outlets having a positive effect on policing and society when coming up with that figure.
Anyone else come up with different results? Anyone with actual policing experience in Brantford that can clarify the end result of a possession based incident so we can get a more accurate figure? That'd be great if so.
I say all this with respect. It's not to stir the pot and get a bunch of angry comments. It's here to actually come to a real figure and understand how the situation will really affect Brantford socially and financially.
So please, if you have any expertise, share your input! 😊
UPDATE: I noticed a flaw in my reasoning. I used the national average of 76% of cannabis related incidents being possession related and used that to determine the total number of cannabis possession incidents in Brantford from total drugs and narcotics incidents.
Nationally, the average amount of cannabis related incidents out of all drugs and narcotics incidents is 67% (as of 2013 according to Statistics Canada https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2015001/article/14201-eng.htm). So, 359x.67 = 241 cannabis related incidents. 241x.76 = 184 cannabis possession incidents. 184x.50 = 92 incidents to account for the 50% decrease (conservative estimate). 92x$2456.14 = $225,964.88 in minimum savings per year from cannabis posession related incidents alone. 184x$2456.14 = $451,929.76 in savings per year from all cannabis possession related incidents if the number grows closer to 100% than 50%. If we can get the actual figure for cannabis related incidents, we could get a better figure. It may be more, it may be less. But, as of right now, that leaves us with a figure between $274,039.12 and $48,070.24 shy of $500,000.00. Which I'm sure would easily be made up with the improved clearance rates in other crimes (which should affect the perceived need for police resources due to legalization). We need to remember that these costs are already here and not additional. Also, that the costs are showing to be less than the current operating budget. Worst case scenario, we save $225,964.88 a year. Best case scenario, we save $451,929.76 a year. Unless they can show justification of the $500,000.00 increase in operating costs due to legslization and retail outlets, they should only be able to argue for an increase of $48,070.24 to $274,039.12. Unless the justification takes into account the savings already, which would allot them their $500,000.00. Which again, doesn't seem to make sense.
UPDATE 2: Another thought came to mind: if Brantford has an average of 359 drugs and narcotics incidents on average per year, that means the total cost of all drugs and narcotics incidents stands at approximately 359x$2456.14 = $881,745.26 per year. So, they are expecting a 56.7% increase in drugs and narcotics incidents due to cannabis legalization? That doesn't sound right to me. I'm sure they could account for some of it under violent crimes, robbery, etc. which would lower the 56.7% ratio and make it seem somewhat more plausible. But I don't see how they can justify that big of an increase in light of the research? This is why if they just released their justification for the $500,000.00 figure, we could understand where they are coming from. There would be no need for guessing.
However, it was an amount used to justify opting out. With no explanation. That's where the issue lies.
Is my logic completely flawed here? What am I missing? I really hope some of you crunch some numbers yourselves and post here what you've come up with. It'd be good to see! Don't take my word for it.
UPDATE 3: I want to clarify that these statistics aren't the only aspect of the situation. Of course there are going to be other issues that may arise due to the shift of legalization. However, I posted this in order to get people to think. Those in City Council should look into other research as well and calculate the costs or savings and come up with an informed decision on allowing retail stores. None of this is to say I'm right. I just hope it sparks some critical thinking and analysis from City Council regarding not only this issue, but all issues that affect our city. We need people who choose to see the big picture and think from all angles regarding decisions to be made. Why? Because we may very well make some choices that sound good from one perspective but in reality it turns out to do more harm than good; and that harm could potentially be avoided if we take the time to see things from all angles and try to be as unbiased as possible.
Thanks for reading this monstrosity of a post. Go show love to your neighbour, make our city a better place.

Hello everyone In this topic we will collect info about nutrient defficiencies symptoms of different plants. Feel free to write your experience!

General articles	Guide to Symptoms of Plant Nutrient Deficiencies by Shanyn Hosier
	Plant Nutrient Functions and Deficiency and Toxicity Symptoms by Ann McCauley, Soil Scientist; Clain Jones, Extension Soil Fertilit
	Plant Nutrient Deficiencies with Photos by: Wade Berry, UCLA
	Identifying and Fixing Plant Nutrient Deficiencies BY MARIE IANNOTTI
	A REVIEW ON DIAGNOSIS OF NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS IN PLANT LEAF IMAGE USING DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING S. Jeyalakshmi and R. Radha
	Nutrient Deficiency: What’s Wrong With My Crop?
	Identify Nutrition Deficiencies in Your Vegetable Plants by Carol Rossi
	VEGETABLE PLANT NUTRIENTS: SOURCES AND DEFICIENCIES by Steve Albert
	Micronutrient Deficiency Images
BY COMPONENT
[N] Nitrogen	Nitrogen deficiency impacts on leaf cell and tissue structure with consequences for senescence associated processes in Brassica napus Clément Sorin
	Nitrogen Toxicity: Understanding and Preventing It In Your Garden
[ P ] Phosphorus	Phosphorus Deficiency Symptom Images
	PHOSPHORUS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS
	The Colors in Phosphorus Deficient Plants
[ K ] Potassium	Potassium deficiency Wiki)
	Potassium Deficiency Symptom Images
[ Ca ] Calcium	Calcium Deficiency By Easy Grow Ltd
	Role of Calcium in Plant Culture by Troy Buechel
	Calcium deficiency guide
	Calcium deficiency
[ Fe ] Iron	Iron Deficiency of Hydroponic Leafy Greens and Herbs by Neil Mattson
[ Cu ] Copper	Copper Deficiency: Diagnosis and Correction
	Copper (Cu) deficiency
[ Mg ] Magnesium	Magnesium deficiency in plants: An urgent problem by Wanli Guo, Hussain Nazim, Zongsuo Liang, Dongfeng Yang
[ Zn ] Zinc	Zinc And Plant Growth: What Is The Function Of Zinc In Plants By: Jackie Carroll
	Zinc Deficiency of Crops
	Understanding Zinc Deficiency
	Zinc deficiency
[ B ] Boron	Boron deficiency
	Identifying Boron Deficiency and Corrective/Preventative Actions by Neil Mattson, Brian Krug
[ Mn ] Manganese	Manganese deficiency
	Role of Manganese in Plant Culture by Ed Bloodnick
	Manganese in Crop Production
[ Mo ] Molybdenum	Molybdenum deficiency
	Molybdenum deficiency in plants R. G. Weir
	Role of Molybdenum in Plant Culture by Ed Bloodnick
[ S ] Sulfur	Sulfur deficiency
	Sulphur deficiency guide
	Role of Sulfur in Plant Culture
[ As ] Arsenic	The Fate of Arsenic in Soil-Plant Systems by Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez , Elvira Esteban , and Jesús M. Peñalosa
[ Al ] Aluminium	Effect of aluminium on plant growth and metabolism by Teresa Mossor-Pietraszewska
BY PLANT
Arugula	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Arugula by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
Basil	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Basil by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
Broccoli	Nutrient deficiencies - Broccoli by Yara
Cabbage	Mineral deficiencies in cabbages By Bill Kerr
	Nutrient deficiencies - Cabbage by Yara
Cotton	Nutrient Deficiencies & Toxicities in Cotton
Cucumber	Symptoms of Nutrient Deficiencies on Cucumbers by V. V. Carmona, L. C. Costa, A. B. Cecílio Filho
	Nutrient disorders of greenhouse Lebanese cucumbers
Kale	KALE IN SAND CULTURE
Lettuce	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Lettuce by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
	Nutrient deficiencies - Lettuce by Yara
Melon	Melon Nutritional Summary by Yara
	Calcium Fertigation Ineffective at Increasing Fruit Yield and Quality of Muskmelon and Honeydew Melons in California by P.R. Johnstone
Mint	The Critical Role of Nutrient Management in Mint Production
Onion	Color Pictures of Mineral Deficiencies in Onions
Peppers	Capsicum Nutrient Deficiencies & Toxicities
	The Symptoms of Soil Nutrient Deficiency in Bell Peppers
Potato	Role of Nitrogen in Potato Production
Radish	Deficiency symptoms of nutrients and their remedies in Radish
Raspberry	Micronutrient deficiency in raspberry Author: Mark Bolda
	Nutrient deficiencies - Raspberries by Yara
Rice	Identification of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium Deficiencies in Rice Based on Static Scanning Technology and Hierarchical Identification Method by Lisu Chen
Spinach	Effects of salinity and nutrient deficiency determined for spinach
Strawberry	STRAWBERRY NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS by Frank D. Johanson
	Image representation of nutrient defficiencies of strawberry
Tomato	How to Identify and Correct Tomato Nutrient Deficiencies by Jeremy Dore

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02/08/2019 - Added 1 article about onions. Sry for not updating this table for a year, now i'm back.
12/06/2018 - Added 2 articles about raspberries, 1 - broccoli, 2 - cabbage, 1 - lettuce, 1 - kale
08/06/2018 - Added 7 articles about Ca, Cu, As, Al and 1 general article, 2 articles about Melons
07/06/2018 - Original topic published

Hello everyone.
This topic is aimed to help novice and experienced agronomists identify problems with nutrient deficiencies in plants
We will continue updates of this table with new information here: https://www.reddit.com/ponics/comments/8p0yso/topic_about_nutrient_defficienciec_of_different/
Feel free to contact me or comment with your thoughts, experience or links to the articles, which can help other growers. All useful information will be included in the main article.

General articles	Guide to Symptoms of Plant Nutrient Deficiencies by Shanyn Hosier
	Plant Nutrient Deficiencies with Photos by: Wade Berry, UCLA
	Identifying and Fixing Plant Nutrient Deficiencies BY MARIE IANNOTTI
	A REVIEW ON DIAGNOSIS OF NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS IN PLANT LEAF IMAGE USING DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING S. Jeyalakshmi and R. Radha
	Nutrient Deficiency: What’s Wrong With My Crop?
	Identify Nutrition Deficiencies in Your Vegetable Plants by Carol Rossi
	VEGETABLE PLANT NUTRIENTS: SOURCES AND DEFICIENCIES by Steve Albert
	Micronutrient Deficiency Images
BY COMPONENT
[N] Nitrogen	Nitrogen deficiency impacts on leaf cell and tissue structure with consequences for senescence associated processes in Brassica napus Clément Sorin
	Nitrogen Toxicity: Understanding and Preventing It In Your Garden
[ P ] Phosphorus	Phosphorus Deficiency Symptom Images
	PHOSPHORUS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS
	The Colors in Phosphorus Deficient Plants
[ K ] Potassium	Potassium deficiency Wiki)
	Potassium Deficiency Symptom Images
[ Fe ] Iron	Iron Deficiency of Hydroponic Leafy Greens and Herbs by Neil Mattson
[ Mg ] Magnesium	Magnesium deficiency in plants: An urgent problem by Wanli Guo, Hussain Nazim, Zongsuo Liang, Dongfeng Yang
[ Zn ] Zinc	Zinc And Plant Growth: What Is The Function Of Zinc In Plants By: Jackie Carroll
	Zinc Deficiency of Crops
	Understanding Zinc Deficiency
	Zinc deficiency
[ B ] Boron	Boron deficiency
	Identifying Boron Deficiency and Corrective/Preventative Actions by Neil Mattson, Brian Krug
[ Mn ] Manganese	Manganese deficiency
	Role of Manganese in Plant Culture by Ed Bloodnick
	Manganese in Crop Production
[ Mo ] Molybdenum	Molybdenum deficiency
	Molybdenum deficiency in plants R. G. Weir
	Role of Molybdenum in Plant Culture by Ed Bloodnick
[ S ] Sulfur	Sulfur deficiency
	Sulphur deficiency guide
	Role of Sulfur in Plant Culture
BY PLANT
Arugula	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Arugula by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
Basil	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Basil by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
Cotton	Nutrient Deficiencies & Toxicities in Cotton
Cucumber	Symptoms of Nutrient Deficiencies on Cucumbers by V. V. Carmona, L. C. Costa, A. B. Cecílio Filho
	Nutrient disorders of greenhouse Lebanese cucumbers
Lettuce	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Lettuce by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
Mint	The Critical Role of Nutrient Management in Mint Production
Peppers	Capsicum Nutrient Deficiencies & Toxicities
	The Symptoms of Soil Nutrient Deficiency in Bell Peppers
Potato	Role of Nitrogen in Potato Production
Radish	Deficiency symptoms of nutrients and their remedies in Radish
Rice	Identification of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium Deficiencies in Rice Based on Static Scanning Technology and Hierarchical Identification Method by Lisu Chen
Spinach	Effects of salinity and nutrient deficiency determined for spinach
Strawberry	STRAWBERRY NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS by Frank D. Johanson
	Image representation of nutrient defficiencies of strawberry
Tomato	How to Identify and Correct Tomato Nutrient Deficiencies by Jeremy Dore

Hello everyone.
This topic is aimed to help novice and experienced agronomists identify problems with nutrient deficiencies in plants
We will continue updates of this table with new information here: https://www.reddit.com/ponics/comments/8p0yso/topic_about_nutrient_defficienciec_of_different/
Feel free to contact me or comment with your thoughts, experience or links to the articles, which can help other growers. All useful information will be included in the main article.

General articles	Guide to Symptoms of Plant Nutrient Deficiencies by Shanyn Hosier
	Plant Nutrient Deficiencies with Photos by: Wade Berry, UCLA
	Identifying and Fixing Plant Nutrient Deficiencies BY MARIE IANNOTTI
	A REVIEW ON DIAGNOSIS OF NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS IN PLANT LEAF IMAGE USING DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING S. Jeyalakshmi and R. Radha
	Nutrient Deficiency: What’s Wrong With My Crop?
	Identify Nutrition Deficiencies in Your Vegetable Plants by Carol Rossi
	VEGETABLE PLANT NUTRIENTS: SOURCES AND DEFICIENCIES by Steve Albert
	Micronutrient Deficiency Images
BY COMPONENT
[N] Nitrogen	Nitrogen deficiency impacts on leaf cell and tissue structure with consequences for senescence associated processes in Brassica napus Clément Sorin
	Nitrogen Toxicity: Understanding and Preventing It In Your Garden
[ P ] Phosphorus	Phosphorus Deficiency Symptom Images
	PHOSPHORUS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS
	The Colors in Phosphorus Deficient Plants
[ K ] Potassium	Potassium deficiency Wiki)
	Potassium Deficiency Symptom Images
[ Fe ] Iron	Iron Deficiency of Hydroponic Leafy Greens and Herbs by Neil Mattson
[ Mg ] Magnesium	Magnesium deficiency in plants: An urgent problem by Wanli Guo, Hussain Nazim, Zongsuo Liang, Dongfeng Yang
[ Zn ] Zinc	Zinc And Plant Growth: What Is The Function Of Zinc In Plants By: Jackie Carroll
	Zinc Deficiency of Crops
	Understanding Zinc Deficiency
	Zinc deficiency
[ B ] Boron	Boron deficiency
	Identifying Boron Deficiency and Corrective/Preventative Actions by Neil Mattson, Brian Krug
[ Mn ] Manganese	Manganese deficiency
	Role of Manganese in Plant Culture by Ed Bloodnick
	Manganese in Crop Production
[ Mo ] Molybdenum	Molybdenum deficiency
	Molybdenum deficiency in plants R. G. Weir
	Role of Molybdenum in Plant Culture by Ed Bloodnick
[ S ] Sulfur	Sulfur deficiency
	Sulphur deficiency guide
	Role of Sulfur in Plant Culture
BY PLANT
Arugula	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Arugula by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
Basil	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Basil by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
Cotton	Nutrient Deficiencies & Toxicities in Cotton
Cucumber	Symptoms of Nutrient Deficiencies on Cucumbers by V. V. Carmona, L. C. Costa, A. B. Cecílio Filho
	Nutrient disorders of greenhouse Lebanese cucumbers
Lettuce	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Lettuce by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
Mint	The Critical Role of Nutrient Management in Mint Production
Peppers	Capsicum Nutrient Deficiencies & Toxicities
	The Symptoms of Soil Nutrient Deficiency in Bell Peppers
Potato	Role of Nitrogen in Potato Production
Radish	Deficiency symptoms of nutrients and their remedies in Radish
Rice	Identification of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium Deficiencies in Rice Based on Static Scanning Technology and Hierarchical Identification Method by Lisu Chen
Spinach	Effects of salinity and nutrient deficiency determined for spinach
Strawberry	STRAWBERRY NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS by Frank D. Johanson
	Image representation of nutrient defficiencies of strawberry
Tomato	How to Identify and Correct Tomato Nutrient Deficiencies by Jeremy Dore

Hello everyone.
This topic is aimed to help novice and experienced agronomists identify problems with nutrient deficiencies in plants
We will continue updates of this table with new information here: https://www.reddit.com/ponics/comments/8p0yso/topic_about_nutrient_defficienciec_of_different/
Feel free to contact me or comment with your thoughts, experience or links to the articles, which can help other growers. All useful information will be included in the main article.

General articles	Guide to Symptoms of Plant Nutrient Deficiencies by Shanyn Hosier
	Plant Nutrient Functions and Deficiency and Toxicity Symptoms by Ann McCauley, Soil Scientist; Clain Jones, Extension Soil Fertilit
	Plant Nutrient Deficiencies with Photos by: Wade Berry, UCLA
	Identifying and Fixing Plant Nutrient Deficiencies BY MARIE IANNOTTI
	A REVIEW ON DIAGNOSIS OF NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS IN PLANT LEAF IMAGE USING DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING S. Jeyalakshmi and R. Radha
	Nutrient Deficiency: What’s Wrong With My Crop?
	Identify Nutrition Deficiencies in Your Vegetable Plants by Carol Rossi
	VEGETABLE PLANT NUTRIENTS: SOURCES AND DEFICIENCIES by Steve Albert
	Micronutrient Deficiency Images
BY COMPONENT
[N] Nitrogen	Nitrogen deficiency impacts on leaf cell and tissue structure with consequences for senescence associated processes in Brassica napus Clément Sorin
	Nitrogen Toxicity: Understanding and Preventing It In Your Garden
[ P ] Phosphorus	Phosphorus Deficiency Symptom Images
	PHOSPHORUS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS
	The Colors in Phosphorus Deficient Plants
[ K ] Potassium	Potassium deficiency Wiki)
	Potassium Deficiency Symptom Images
[ Ca ] Calcium	Calcium Deficiency By Easy Grow Ltd
	Role of Calcium in Plant Culture by Troy Buechel
	Calcium deficiency guide
	Calcium deficiency
[ Fe ] Iron	Iron Deficiency of Hydroponic Leafy Greens and Herbs by Neil Mattson
[ Cu ] Copper	Copper Deficiency: Diagnosis and Correction
	Copper (Cu) deficiency
[ Mg ] Magnesium	Magnesium deficiency in plants: An urgent problem by Wanli Guo, Hussain Nazim, Zongsuo Liang, Dongfeng Yang
[ Zn ] Zinc	Zinc And Plant Growth: What Is The Function Of Zinc In Plants By: Jackie Carroll
	Zinc Deficiency of Crops
	Understanding Zinc Deficiency
	Zinc deficiency
[ B ] Boron	Boron deficiency
	Identifying Boron Deficiency and Corrective/Preventative Actions by Neil Mattson, Brian Krug
[ Mn ] Manganese	Manganese deficiency
	Role of Manganese in Plant Culture by Ed Bloodnick
	Manganese in Crop Production
[ Mo ] Molybdenum	Molybdenum deficiency
	Molybdenum deficiency in plants R. G. Weir
	Role of Molybdenum in Plant Culture by Ed Bloodnick
[ S ] Sulfur	Sulfur deficiency
	Sulphur deficiency guide
	Role of Sulfur in Plant Culture
[ As ] Arsenic	The Fate of Arsenic in Soil-Plant Systems by Eduardo Moreno\Jiménez , Elvira Esteban , and Jesús M. Peñalosa)
[ Al ] Aluminium	Effect of aluminium on plant growth and metabolism by Teresa Mossor\Pietraszewska)
BY PLANT
Arugula	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Arugula by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
Basil	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Basil by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
Broccoli	Nutrient deficiencies - Broccoli by Yara
Cabbage	Mineral deficiencies in cabbages By Bill Kerr
	Nutrient deficiencies - Cabbage by Yara
Cotton	Nutrient Deficiencies & Toxicities in Cotton
Cucumber	Symptoms of Nutrient Deficiencies on Cucumbers by V. V. Carmona, L. C. Costa, A. B. Cecílio Filho
	Nutrient disorders of greenhouse Lebanese cucumbers
Lettuce	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Lettuce by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
	Nutrient deficiencies - Lettuce by Yara
Melon	Melon Nutritional Summary by Yara
	Calcium Fertigation Ineffective at Increasing Fruit Yield and Quality of Muskmelon and Honeydew Melons in California by P.R. Johnstone
Mint	The Critical Role of Nutrient Management in Mint Production
Peppers	Capsicum Nutrient Deficiencies & Toxicities
	The Symptoms of Soil Nutrient Deficiency in Bell Peppers
Potato	Role of Nitrogen in Potato Production
Radish	Deficiency symptoms of nutrients and their remedies in Radish
Raspberry	Micronutrient deficiency in raspberry Author: Mark Bolda
	Nutrient deficiencies - Raspberries by Yara
Rice	Identification of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium Deficiencies in Rice Based on Static Scanning Technology and Hierarchical Identification Method by Lisu Chen
Spinach	Effects of salinity and nutrient deficiency determined for spinach
Strawberry	STRAWBERRY NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS by Frank D. Johanson
	Image representation of nutrient defficiencies of strawberry
Tomato	How to Identify and Correct Tomato Nutrient Deficiencies by Jeremy Dore

Hello everyone In this topic we will collect info about nutrient defficiencies symptoms of different plants. Feel free to write your experience!

General articles	Guide to Symptoms of Plant Nutrient Deficiencies by Shanyn Hosier
	Plant Nutrient Functions and Deficiency and Toxicity Symptoms by Ann McCauley, Soil Scientist; Clain Jones, Extension Soil Fertilit
	Plant Nutrient Deficiencies with Photos by: Wade Berry, UCLA
	Identifying and Fixing Plant Nutrient Deficiencies BY MARIE IANNOTTI
	A REVIEW ON DIAGNOSIS OF NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS IN PLANT LEAF IMAGE USING DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING S. Jeyalakshmi and R. Radha
	Nutrient Deficiency: What’s Wrong With My Crop?
	Identify Nutrition Deficiencies in Your Vegetable Plants by Carol Rossi
	VEGETABLE PLANT NUTRIENTS: SOURCES AND DEFICIENCIES by Steve Albert
	Micronutrient Deficiency Images
BY COMPONENT
[N] Nitrogen	Nitrogen deficiency impacts on leaf cell and tissue structure with consequences for senescence associated processes in Brassica napus Clément Sorin
	Nitrogen Toxicity: Understanding and Preventing It In Your Garden
[ P ] Phosphorus	Phosphorus Deficiency Symptom Images
	PHOSPHORUS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS
	The Colors in Phosphorus Deficient Plants
[ K ] Potassium	Potassium deficiency Wiki)
	Potassium Deficiency Symptom Images
[ Ca ] Calcium	Calcium Deficiency By Easy Grow Ltd
	Role of Calcium in Plant Culture by Troy Buechel
	Calcium deficiency guide
	Calcium deficiency
[ Fe ] Iron	Iron Deficiency of Hydroponic Leafy Greens and Herbs by Neil Mattson
[ Cu ] Copper	Copper Deficiency: Diagnosis and Correction
	Copper (Cu) deficiency
[ Mg ] Magnesium	Magnesium deficiency in plants: An urgent problem by Wanli Guo, Hussain Nazim, Zongsuo Liang, Dongfeng Yang
[ Zn ] Zinc	Zinc And Plant Growth: What Is The Function Of Zinc In Plants By: Jackie Carroll
	Zinc Deficiency of Crops
	Understanding Zinc Deficiency
	Zinc deficiency
[ B ] Boron	Boron deficiency
	Identifying Boron Deficiency and Corrective/Preventative Actions by Neil Mattson, Brian Krug
[ Mn ] Manganese	Manganese deficiency
	Role of Manganese in Plant Culture by Ed Bloodnick
	Manganese in Crop Production
[ Mo ] Molybdenum	Molybdenum deficiency
	Molybdenum deficiency in plants R. G. Weir
	Role of Molybdenum in Plant Culture by Ed Bloodnick
[ S ] Sulfur	Sulfur deficiency
	Sulphur deficiency guide
	Role of Sulfur in Plant Culture
[ As ] Arsenic	The Fate of Arsenic in Soil-Plant Systems by Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez , Elvira Esteban , and Jesús M. Peñalosa
[ Al ] Aluminium	Effect of aluminium on plant growth and metabolism by Teresa Mossor-Pietraszewska
BY PLANT
Arugula	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Arugula by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
Basil	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Basil by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
Broccoli	Nutrient deficiencies - Broccoli by Yara
Cabbage	Mineral deficiencies in cabbages By Bill Kerr
	Nutrient deficiencies - Cabbage by Yara
Cotton	Nutrient Deficiencies & Toxicities in Cotton
Cucumber	Symptoms of Nutrient Deficiencies on Cucumbers by V. V. Carmona, L. C. Costa, A. B. Cecílio Filho
	Nutrient disorders of greenhouse Lebanese cucumbers
Kale	KALE IN SAND CULTURE
Lettuce	Symptoms of Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Hydroponic Lettuce by Neil Mattson and Tanya Merrill
	Nutrient deficiencies - Lettuce by Yara
Melon	Melon Nutritional Summary by Yara
	Calcium Fertigation Ineffective at Increasing Fruit Yield and Quality of Muskmelon and Honeydew Melons in California by P.R. Johnstone
Mint	The Critical Role of Nutrient Management in Mint Production
Onion	Color Pictures of Mineral Deficiencies in Onions
Peppers	Capsicum Nutrient Deficiencies & Toxicities
	The Symptoms of Soil Nutrient Deficiency in Bell Peppers
Potato	Role of Nitrogen in Potato Production
Radish	Deficiency symptoms of nutrients and their remedies in Radish
Raspberry	Micronutrient deficiency in raspberry Author: Mark Bolda
	Nutrient deficiencies - Raspberries by Yara
Rice	Identification of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium Deficiencies in Rice Based on Static Scanning Technology and Hierarchical Identification Method by Lisu Chen
Spinach	Effects of salinity and nutrient deficiency determined for spinach
Strawberry	STRAWBERRY NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS by Frank D. Johanson
	Image representation of nutrient defficiencies of strawberry
Tomato	How to Identify and Correct Tomato Nutrient Deficiencies by Jeremy Dore

Changelog
DD/MM/YYYY
02/08/2019 - Added 1 article about onions. Sry for not updating this table for a year, now i'm back.
12/06/2018 - Added 2 articles about raspberries, 1 - broccoli, 2 - cabbage, 1 - lettuce, 1 - kale
08/06/2018 - Added 7 articles about Ca, Cu, As, Al and 1 general article, 2 articles about Melons
07/06/2018 - Original topic published

Hello again! Big update: May post now includes an Early Bird category, for ticket releases/early bird promotion periods. Do note that this is limited to Early Bird promos only, and not just general ticketing sales. Hope this helps people get their tickets early for things all the way in October!
Anyway, as usual, post is WIP. (Update 30/04, 1.30pm: will get back to all of the comments and update the list sometime tonight, but in the meantime, the comments have more events to sort through if you're looking! Much thanks to all the contributors.)
Public Holidays/Important Dates
Labour Day 1 May, Tuesday Nice job doing work, everybody
Mother's Day 13 May, Sunday The true gift is a ticket to something on this list
Vesak Day 29 May, Tuesday If you take leave on Monday twice this month you get two long weekends
School Holidays
26 May-24 Jun School holiday promotions, etc. Places of interest, etc. probably crowded.
Open Houses
Temasek Secondary School Open House 18 May 6pm-8pm
Dunman High Open House 19 May 9am-3pm
Hwachong Institution Open House 19 May 8.30am-1pm
Raffles Girls School Open House 19 May 8am-3pm
Raffles Institution Open House 19 May 9am-3pm
Junyuan Secondary School Open House 24 May 7.30am-1pm
Paya Lebar Methodist Girls School (Secondary) Open House 26 May 3pm-5pm
Cedar Girls Secondary School Open House 26 May 8.30am-1pm
School of Science and Technology Open House 26 May 8.30am-4.30pm
Singapore Chinese Girls' School Open House 26 May 9am-1pm
Tanjong Katong Girls' School Open House 26 May 8am-12pm
Victoria School Open House 26 May 8am-1pm
Art/Exhibitions
Jane's Singapore Tours @ Various locations Walking tours of Singapore, featuring iconic Singapore landmarks, historical and food tours! Dates, times and ticket prices vary
Urban Redevelopment Authority Heritage Trails @ Various locations Dates and times vary URA heritage trails of older neighbourhoods in Singapore Free
Overjoyed Saturday Art Workshops @ Overjoyed Every Saturday Workshop timings and prices vary
Voilah! French Festival 2018 @ Various locations Until 5 May Film screenings, exhibitions, talks, concerts and more! Show timings and ticket prices vary
Lasalle MA in Fine Arts Grad Exhibition @ Lasalle College of the Arts Until 6 May 12pm-7pm, Tue-Sun Opening on 20 Apr, 6.30pm Free
Singapore Chinese Film Festival @ Various locations Until 6 May Featuring talks and film screenings Timings and prices vary
Tulipmania 2018 @ Gardens by the Bay Until 13 May 9am-9pm Admission charges to conservatories apply
Peroni Sunset Cinema @ Siloso Beach 2-14 May Beach screenings of Oscar highlights and more Show timings and ticket prices vary
Wes Anderson Month @ The Projector 4-20 May Show timings vary Tickets priced at $13.50
Imaginarium: Into the Space of Time @ SAM at 8Q 6 May-26 Aug Opening hours apply Free
European Union Film Festival @ National Gallery Singapore 10-20 May Show timings and ticket prices vary
A Walked Line Can Never Be Erased @ Objectifs 10-27 May 12-7pm; 12-4pm (Sun) Panel discussion on 12 May, 2pm-4pm Free
Studio Screening: Do You Trust This Computer? @ The Hive Lavender 11 May 7pm Free
NTU Art, Design and Media Grad Show @ National Library and National Design Centre 12-20 May 9am-9pm Opening night on 12 May, 7pm Free
Mahota Sunday Morning Walk @ Jalan Besar 13 & 27 May 9am-11.30am Free
ArtScience Late: I'm Willing @ ArtScience Museum 17 May 8pm Project on the portrayal of women in film Free
The Lasalle Show @ Lasalle College of the Arts 18-30 May 12pm-8pm Opening night on 17 May, 7pm Free
The More We Get Together: Curator Tour @ National Museum 24 May 7.30pm Tickets priced at $10
Drink and Draw: Life Drawing @ The Hive Lavender 31 May 7pm Tickets priced at $25 for non-members
Angkor: Exploring Cambodia's Sacred City @ Asian Civilization Museum Until 22 July 10am-7pm; 10am-9pm (Fri) Tickets priced at $12 for Singaporeans and PRs, $20 for Foreign Residents and Tourists
Art from the Streets @ ArtScience Museum Until 3 Jun 10am-7pm Admissions fees apply
NAFA Arts Festival 2018 @ NAFA Campuses Until 3 Jun Performances, exhibitions and markets Timings and prices vary
Tian Tian Exhibition @ Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre Until 3 Jun 10am-8pm Workshops on alternate Saturdays, 10am-12pm, English and Chinese Free
Sirri Na Pesse: Navigating Bugis Identities in Singapore @ Malay Heritage Centre Until 24 Jun 10.30am-6pm Free
The More We Get Together: Singapore's Playgrounds 1930-2030 @ National Museum Until 30 Sep 10am-7pm Free
Music/Theatre
Singapore International Festival of Arts Until 12 May Largest arts festival in Singapore, features performances, talks and film screenings Timings and ticket prices vary
SSO Discovering Music!: Everyone is a Soloist! @ Victoria Concert Hall 1 May 4pm Tickets priced at $20
5 Seconds of Summer Live @ Capitol Theatre 2 May 8pm Tickets priced from $108
Shakespeare in the Park: Julius Caesar @ Fort Canning Lawn 2-27 May 7.30pm (queue early for good picnic spot!) Tickets priced from $45
Harry Styles Live @ Singapore Indoor Stadium 3 May 8pm Tickets priced from $98
Dua Lipa Live @ The Star Theatre 4 May 8pm Tickets priced from $88
Zouk 27th Anniversary Weekender @ Zouk 3-5 May Featuring DJs such as Marshmello and Ben Nicky Show timings and ticket prices vary
SSO Gala: Kavakos Plays Shostakovich @ Victoria Concert Hall 5 May 7.30pm Tickets priced from $25
Death Angel x At The Gates Live @ *Scape Ground Theatre 6 May 6pm Tickets priced from $108
'A Getai Date With Mum' Charity Night @ Esplanade Concert Hall 6 May 7.30pm Tickets priced from $88
Stereophonics Live @ Zepp@Big Box 8 May 8pm Tickets priced at $118
The St Petersburg Ballet: Swan Lake @ The MES Theatre, Mediacorp 8-13 May Showtimes vary Tickets priced from $75
Legally Blonde @ MBS Theatre 10-20 May Showtimes vary Tickets priced from $65
SSO Subscription Concert: Christian Blackshaw Plays Beethoven @ Esplanade Concert Hall 11 May 7.30pm Tickets priced from $15
The Cultures Live @ Hood Bar 12 May Prices TBC
VCH Presents: La Voix Humaine @ Victoria Concert Hall 12-13 May 7.30pm; 4pm Tickets priced from $28
Iron and Wine Live @ Capitol Theatre 14 May 8pm Tickets priced from $68
Nils Frahm Live @ Esplanade Concert Hall 18 May 7.30pm Tickets priced from $45
MISSING @ Centre 42 18-20 May 3pm & 7.30pm shows Tickets priced at $16+
SSO Chamber Series: The Glory of Baroque @ Victoria Concert Hall 18-19 May 7.30pm Tickets priced at $20
Dragonflies by Pangdemonium @ Victoria Theatre 18 May-3 Jun 3pm & 8pm shows Tickets priced from $30
VCH Open House @ Victoria Concert Hall 23 May 9.30am, 1pm Tickets priced at $20
Kehlani Live @ Zepp@Big Box 23 May 8pm Tickets priced at $118
Sensing the Dark: A journey of sound without sight @ Esplanade Theatre Studio 26-29 May 3pm & 7.30pm shows Tickets priced from $28
Timeless Splendour: SSCC 12th Anniversary Concert @ Victoria Concert Hall 27 May 4pm Tickets priced at $20
Events
Engineers.SG Website for tech events, sorted by date!
The List SG Another website for tech events.
Sunrise in the City: Fitness Classes by HPB @ Various locations Daily morning exercise classes of different kinds, including yoga, piloxing, etc. Free
Coco Game Center by Chanel @ The Luxe Art Museum Until 6 May 11am-9pm Free
Istana Open House @ The Istana 1 May 8.30am-6pm Free for Singaporeans and PRs
SWF Pop #25: The Nature of Stories by Piers Torday @ Bishan Public Library 2 May 7pm Free
In Search of Purpose #20: An Evening With Tommy Koh @ Drama Centre Theatre, Central Public Library 3 May 7pm-9pm Free
WrestlingCity Asia's Triple Thrill Series: SPW vs IWF @ Far East Pavilion 4 May 7.30pm Tickets priced from $30
May the 4th Be With You Star Wars Festival 2018 @ F1 Pit Building 4-5 May 3pm-11pm; 11am-11pm Individual event timings vary, kid-friendly Free, Runner package prices vary
Singapore Cocktail Festival 2018 @ Empress Lawn 4-13 May Festival Village at Empress Lawn, other participating locations 4pm onwards Tickets priced from $28
Doctors Without Borders - Missing Maps Mapathon 2018 @ Clinical Sciences Building 5 May 9am-12.30pm (full); 2.30pm-6pm Free
The Mess We Make By Creating and Donating After a Disaster @ OneKM 5 May 2pm (full) Free
A Librarian's World: Innovation and Early Childhood Education Collections @ Bedok Public Library 5 May 2-3pm Free
Opening of Unpackt @ 6 Jalan Kuras 5 May Open 9am-8pm Singapore's first zero-waste store
Danish Design Fair 2018 @ Danish Seamen's Church Singapore 5 May 11am-4pm Tickets priced at $2
Understanding the Parsi Zoroastrian Community in Singapore @ Inter Religious Organisation Singapore 5 May 11am (full) Free
Doujin Market (Doujima) 2018 @ Suntec Convention Centre 5-6 May 11am-8pm Free
Migrant Library Singapore Book Club @ Geylang East Public Library 6 May 3pm-5pm Free
Photo Walks: Architectural Perspective with Mac Lim @ Apple Orchard Road 6 May 4pm-6pm Free
Buddhism: the Early Years @ URA Building 7 May 11am Free
Hands-on Sculpture Walk in Toa Payoh @ Toa Payoh MRT 7-18 May 9am-10.30am Tickets priced at $40
Kani Sozni Embroidery Workshop @ Indian Heritage Centre 8, 11 & 15 May 4pm Free
IKEA Singapore's 40th Anniversary @ IKEA Tampines & IKEA Alexandria 10-13 May 10am-10pm Just go for the furniture building competition honestly Free
Pro Wrestling Fight Club: CBD Edition by Grapple Max Dojo @ Core Collective 11 May 8pm Advance tickets priced at $30
Diner en Blanc Singapore @ Secret location 12 May Tickets and membership priced at $58
Funk'd: A Fermentation Festival @ UE Square 12-13 May 11am-10.30pm; 11am-7pm Food fair and workshops Free
Live Art: Shaped by Memory with Rob Sketcherman @ Apple Orchard Road 13 May 3pm-5pm Free
Pint of Science @ Various locations 14-16 May Science festival that includes talks, pub quizzes and more Timings vary Tickets priced at $5
UX in the Jungle - Expansion Edition @ National Design Centre 18 May 10am-6pm Tickets priced at $107
ONE: UNSTOPPABLE DREAMS Martial Arts Championship @ Singapore Indoor Stadium 18 May 7pm Tickets priced from $28
Singapore Mindfulness Conference 2018 @ Singapore Conference Hall 19 May 9.30am-5.30pm Tickets priced from $25+
Public Garden Consumer Trade Show @ Suntec Convention Centre 19-20 May 1pm-7pm Free
Central or Marginal? Precolonial Singapore's Place on the Maritime Silk Route @ URA Building 21 May 11am Free
Infosec in the City @ Raffles City Convention Centre 21-25 May 10am onwards Paid entry for events at $350 for standard 1 day pass, free village pass for exhibition floor and community night
Made in Singapore 2018 @ Various locations 21-27 May Timings vary Series of panel discussions on brands, products and talent made in Singapore Free
ArtBox SG @ Marina Bay 25-27 May, 1-3 Jun 3pm-11pm Pop-up creative market with retail, eateries and entertainment Free
26th Harujuku Fashion Walk SG @ NAFA Campus 1 26 May 2pm-5pm Main page is on Facebook Free
World Cosplay Summit: Singapore Preliminaries @ Zepp@Big Box 27 May 6pm Free
askST@NLB: Diplomacy in a Time of Flux with Prof Tommy Koh @ Central Public Library 27 May 7pm-8.30pm Free
Pocari Sweat - Go Sweat at Sentosa @ Sentosa 30 May 9am-6pm Pocari Sweat bottle cap currency
Singapore Literature Book Club @ Central Public Library 31 May 7pm-8.30pm Free
A Librarian’s World – The Edwin Thumboo Collection: Mapping Singapore’s Poetic Soul @ Central Public Library 31 May 7pm-8pm Free
Novena: Paper Art Course @ Brahm Centre 1 Jun-24 Aug 10am-12pm 12 session course on paper art forms $240 full course fee, $12 materials fee
Nature/Environment
#LepakInSG A one-stop calendar listing environmental events and activities in Singapore, so anyone can see at a glance what is going on at any given day!
Wild Happenings Singapore Events everyday, including nature tours and birdwatching at parks/nature reserves island-wide. Most events are free or at nominal cost. Suitable for kids and the family.
Figs of the Fort Trail @ Fort Canning Park 12 May 4pm-6pm Free
The Green Collective Workshops @ OneKM 12-19 May Environmentally friendly DIY workshops Timings and prices vary
Plant Guided Walk @ Jurong Lake Gardens 26 May 8.30am & 10am sessions Free
Kids
Create Your Very Own Poby and Eddy Bento @ Marina Square 12 May 2pm-3.30pm Tickets priced at $60 for 1 adult and 1 child
Rainforest Kids Outdoor Play Sessions @ Orto Forest 5-19 May Event timings vary Ticket prices vary, packages available
Cartoon Network: Animate Your Life @ Gardens by the Bay 26 May-10 Jun 3pm onwards Child tickets (2-12) from $12.50, student tickets (up to tertiary) from $15, adult tickets (18+) from $18
Code in the Community @ Various CCs and Libraries Until 30 Sep 10 week programme, 2 hours on Sat or Sun Refer to link for full schedule and venues Free
Early Bird
Singapore Theatre Festival 2018 @ Lasalle College of the Arts 5-22 Jul Early Bird till 16 May Show timings and ticket prices vary
Paramore Live @ Zepp@Big Box 21 Aug 8pm Early Bird from 3-5 May, $158 Standard tickets priced at $168

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This formatting of this post broke after a regular attempt to update it in December 2018 (thanks, new Reddit editor!). I might consider trying to fix it someday, but Reddit was never the best play to maintain lists like this one, so for now it might be better to maintain this list elsewhere...