Importance of Walking
Walking 20 minutes can add to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $4000 per month. My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he was 60. Now he’s …
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Neanderthal gene increases fertility, reduces miscarriage in modern women
By Rich Haridy 2020 May 26 – A new study suggests one third of modern European women may carry an ancient gene variant linked to increased fertility. lurii/Depositphotos – A genetic variant inherited from our ancient Neanderthal relatives and thought to confer heightened fertility …
Florence Baker: the polyglot slave girl turned intrepid explorer
The Transylvanian-born orphan was sold to an English traveller, with whom she discovered the wonders of Africa, married and fought to abolish slavery. Lady Florence Baker, pictured in London in about 1870. Photograph: Henry Maull/Alamy – By Marcel Theroux 2020 May 31 – …
Did Geometry Guide the Construction of the World’s Oldest Temple?
New research suggests the center points of three stone megalith circles at Göbekli Tepe form a near-perfect triangle. An aerial view of one of the circular enclosures at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey (Gil Haklay / AFTAU) By Alex Fox, SmithsonianMag.Com 2020 May 28 …
Animals that can do math understand more language than we think
By Erik Nelson, Phd Student, Philosophy, Dalhousie University 2020 May 28 – It is often thought that humans are different from other animals in some fundamental way that makes us unique, or even more advanced than other species. These claims of human …
Closest exoplanet more Earth-like than previously thought
By David Szondy 2020 May 28 – Artist’s impression showing a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. ESO/M. Kornmesser. – A team of international researchers has confirmed …
Ancient bones reveal Irish are not Celts after all
The chance discovery of ancient bones under an Irish pub in County Antrim in the mid-2000s has cast doubt over whether Irish people are actually related to the ancient Celts at all. IrishCentral Staff, @IrishCentral – 2020 May 01 – The bones could …
Against All Odds, England’s Massive Chalk Horse Has Survived 3,000 Years
Cleaning up the Uffington Horse is the neigh-borly thing to do. The White Horse at Uffington, Oxfordshire. (AP Photo). By Emily Cleaver, SmithsonianMag.Com – If you stand in the valley near the village of Uffington in Oxfordshire, England, and look up at the …
Yale study discovers brain network responsible for feelings of stress
By Rich Haridy 2020 May 27 – A new study suggests connectivity between the hippocampus and other brain regions determines our acute feeling of stress. Nomadsoul1/Depositphotos. – New research from scientists at Yale University is offering novel insights into how our brains generate acute …
The bad news quietly buried during the pandemic
Adobe Stock – By Zoë Beery, Columbia Journalism Review 2020 May 28 – With the world’s attention glued to the coronavirus pandemic, news about anything else has been slipping farther and farther down the proverbial front page. But that doesn’t mean nothing’s been …