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Culinary medicine offers what students don’t get at med school
It’s still a shock learning how little training about nutrition medical students get. Whereas JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, ranks food as the single most important factor when it comes to premature death and diseases, hardly any medical school offers real education about Read More...
Finally, a cleaner, greener way to clean up oil spills
Oil spills are bad enough. But cleaning them up is pretty bad too. A chemical mix is typically sprayed around the spill in the water. But since it’s non-biodegradable, the amphiphile remains in the ocean’s ecosystem long after the cleanup is over. Now, a group of researchers have developed a Read More...
Generating solar energy from noise barriers
Noise barriers along highways can be used as a source for clean energy. Used to dampen the loud sounds of traffic, these noise barriers just sit there, usually not even very pretty. So engineers at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands created barriers with colored panels that Read More...
Could cannabis be accepted if it’s part of a religious practice?
A much-debated religious freedom law in Indiana sparked an idea inside Bill Levin’s head. The long-time advocate for the use of medical marijuana thought, if the law protects religious practices, how could it not also permit marijuana use—still illegal in the state—as part of a broader Read More...
How you can be a genius
Of course, you may already be a genius. But if you’re not and would like to be one, here are 5 practical tips of leading scholars and experts, whom—it must be added—may have missed the irony that they all have had excellent formal education whereas the genius tends to be a Read More...
China presents climate roadmap, environmental groups praise plan to curb carbon emissions
China has announced details of its climate action plan. As the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluter, the country promises deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental groups are praising their pledge, which comes ahead of talks late this year in Paris to seek a new global deal on Read More...
Treating sleep problems may improve work satisfaction
Work-related stress is a growing problem around the world. New research suggests that there may be a reciprocal, causal pathway between job strain and disturbed sleep. This might not sound like good news, but the results of the study imply that interventions to treat sleep problems may improve work Read More...
These innovative tires create energy while rolling across the road
A car tire is a car tire, right? Well, not according to scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They developed an energy generating car tire that harvests energy from friction. The scientists concluded that the friction created as a car's tires run over the ground accounts for Read More...
Catholic organizations ask members to change lifestyle and fight climate change
Cut energy use, eat less meat and buy locally produced food. These are three examples of the necessary lifestyle changes included in the campaign launched by an international group of Catholic organizations this week. Following the pope's call to fight climate change in his environmental Read More...
Walking in nature prevents depression, but why?
We all know that you can feel refreshed after a nice walk through the forest. But why? Is it the clean air, the natural beauty of nature or the healthy exercise? A group of researchers from Stanford University came up with an additional idea. They thought the nature effect might have something to Read More...