Just Plain WEIRD #2
Combining two natural compounds revives the brain’s cleanup processes. Depositphotos original extended using GenAI – By Paul McClure 2025 Aug 06 – A green tea extract and vitamin B3 combo may hold the key to reviving the brain’s natural cleanup crew, restoring energy, clearing …
Darius I of Persia, center, and his court, from a vase painted between 340 and 320 B.C.E., on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. Carlo Raso/ Flickr, CC BY-SA – By Debbie Felton, Professor of Classics, UMass Amherst Published: 2025 Aug …
Indian boarding schools intentionally separated Native children from their families and taught them to be ‘model American citizens.’ Humboldt County Collection Photos. Special Collections, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt Library, CC BY-ND – By Kerri J. Malloy, Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous …
A new targeted immune-modulating drug holds promise for people with RA. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2025 Aug 06 – A new nanoparticle drug has shown preclinical promise in both preventing rheumatoid arthritis and reducing painful flare-ups, offering hope for a targeted, steroid-sparing treatment …
These new drops offer up to 10 hours of clearer vision without glasses. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Aug 06 – The first aceclidine-based eye drop to improve near vision in adults with presbyopia, which affects more than 100 million adults in the …
Microplastics break off from a wide range of plastic objects in the home with day-to-day use, as well as from synthetic materials in our cars. FlyD on Unsplash – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2025 Jul 31 – Research out of the University of Toulouse, France, …
Betel nuts wrapped in betel leaves, a common preparation for chewing. Ffggss/Wikimedia Commons – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Aug 04 – Traces of a psychoactive compound has been detected in the dental plaque of a Bronze Age woman buried in Thailand some 4,000 years …
A byproduct produced when tryptophan is metabolized by gut bacteria could become a natural obesity treatment. DALL-E – By Paul McClure 2025 Aug 03 – Byproducts from gut bacteria breaking down tryptophan, a dietary amino acid, can restore hormone-secreting gut cells reduced by obesity, …
Beehive Geyser, in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park. Thomas S. Bremer – By Thomas S. Bremer, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Rhodes College Published: 2025 Jul 24 – Nearly 5 million travelers come to Wyoming to visit Yellowstone National Park each …
Humans building thousands of dams over the past century have changed the planet’s mass distribution, shifting the globe’s axis. Depositphotos – By Jay Kakade 2025 Jul 30 – Over the past two centuries, the construction of thousands of dams has done more than just …
