Yet another good news story about nuts, particularly if you are older. Eating nuts. Simple. Tasty. Good for you.
Nuts notch up another win a new study showing their power to keep people healthy after the age of 70 Credit: Depositphotos
Adding another plus in the “nuts are good for you” column, new research shows that regular consumption of the superfood not only holds off death, but it also keeps the mind sharp and limits persistent disability. But age was a factor in the study.
If you look at the news coming out of the Red states what you see is the healthcare available to women is becoming more and more precarious. Here is the latest from Georgia. But what I am particularly seeing are four trends: First, OB/GYNs are leaving Republican-controlled Red states, practicing proper healthcare for your female patients has become dangerous, and can cost you your license or put you in prison. Second, medical schools in Red states are having to change their curriculums, and are no longer able to train physicians properly. Third, fewer young women as well as men are choosing medical schools and even colleges in Red states. Fourth, Republican-controlled Red states are developing “medical deserts”, particularly in rural areas, leaving women and girls unable to get proper healthcare.
Georgia Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Kathleen Toomey. Credit: Kevin C. Cox / Getty
Georgia officials fired everyone on the Maternal Mortality Review Committee after ProPublica reported that the panel found the deaths of two women whose care was restricted by the state’s abortion ban were preventable, the news outlet revealed Thursday.
ProPublica first exposed the committee’s findings for Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller in September, sparking a flood of criticism directed at abortion care restrictions and the primarily Republican politicians who impose them. Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, who was running for the White House, even traveled to Atlanta to pay tribute to the two women.
Thurman and Miller’s stories, as the news outlet acknowledged Thursday, “became a central discussion” in not only the presidential contest—ultimately won by Republican President-elect Donald Trump, who has bragged about the role he played in reversing Roe v. Wade—but also ballot initiatives to protect abortion rights in 10 states, seven of which succeeded.
If Trump, the first felonious, rapist, criminal ever elected President actually does this, the effect on the military will devastating. Few Americans, I think realize that military as part of American society is a much smaller percentage than it was. In 1970, when I became Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations the number of active-duty service members was about 3.5 million. This was when the draft still existed. Today, when the military is all-volunteer there are only about 1.3 million Americans in service. Active-duty service members now comprise less than 1% of all U.S. adults. I can tell you from direct knowledge that when we created the all-volunteer armed forces it never occurred to any of us that the military would become such a tiny percent of the population. We never imagined the difficulty the military would have recruiting. If Trump fires the generals, as he says he wants to do, and takes out all the LGBTQ service personnel, which is what this will really do, the American military will be transformed in a negative way.
Donald Trump with Pete Hegseth, his nominee for defence secretary. Mr Hegseth has previously criticised ‘effeminate’ military leadership, Credit: Andrew Harnik / AP
Donald Trump will remove all transgender members of the US military from their posts, according to reports.
There are so many negative trends that I just don’t want to do any more tonight. So here are two stories that don’t deal with the destruction of American democracy by Trump and the Republican Party he controls. The research I have been doing for the last 60 years has convinced me that Max Planck, the father of Quantum Mechanics, and Einstein, the discoverer of Relativity were correct when they said consciousness is causal and fundamental, and consciousness produced spacetime. As a result, I have been telling you for decades that we live in a Matrix of Consciousness, and that all life has a measure of consciousness. A growing body of research confirms this, and this is the latest. Even fungi have intelligence. This is why I so strongly urge you to make wellbeing your priority in all the choices you make. All life is interconnected and interdependent and when you foster well being you support the Matrix of Consciousness, and the wellbeing of Earth.
The question of how intelligent plants and fungi are has been increasingly explored by scientists, as they have delved into the capability of these lifeforms to perceive and communicate with each other and the outside world.
A new study has found that fungi can not only perceive, but learn, have memories, solve problems and make decisions.
“You’d be surprised at just how much fungi are capable of,” said Yu Fukasawa, as assistant professor in the graduate school of agricultural science at Tohoku University, in a press release from Tohoku University. “They have memories, they learn, and they can make decisions. Quite frankly, the differences in how they solve problems compared to humans is mind-blowing.”
When you see mushrooms growing on the surface of soil, the small umbrella-like caps are really the fruiting bodies of an expansive underground mycelium below. The mycelium is an intricate and complex fungal network germinated and formed by spores. This subterranean web of long, spidery threads spreads underground like roots and is similar to the brain’s neural connections.
In the study, the researchers looked at how a mycelial network growing on decaying wood responded […]
A new window coating can cool interiors by up to 40° F. Credit: Depositphotos
Cranking up the air conditioner is one way to keep buildings cool, but it guzzles energy. Passive materials can regulate interior temperatures more efficiently, and now scientists in South Korea have developed a new coating that keeps glass much cooler, while still being transparent.
Windows are great for filling rooms with natural light, but they’re also a major portal for messing with temperature. When it’s cold out, about 30% of the interior heat can escape through the windows, while in hotter times about 76% of the sunlight that hits windows enters as heat.
That’s why it’s important to plug this gap, ideally without ruining what makes windows appealing in the first place. A new coating, created by researchers at POSTECH and Korea University, could help do just that.
The team designed a material that can radiate heat away while allowing visible light to pass through. It’s made up of three layers that have different roles. The topmost layer is polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), which emits far-infrared radiation, which […]
