“Peace of mind and physical well-being are closely related. Some years ago, a scientist at Emory University told me that continuous anger, fear and suspicion tend to eat into our immune system. Besides, peace of mind and warm-heartedness bring us confidence.” His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Peace of mind — Silent Songs of Sonsnow
Daily Archives: January 26, 2023
Riding the Cosmic Turtle — Frits Ahlefeldt: sketchbook and stories
The tortoise swimming beneath time
Riding the Cosmic Turtle — Frits Ahlefeldt: sketchbook and stories
Covid is making flu and other common viruses act in unfamiliar ways – The Washington Post
Flu in the summer and RSV year-round: More than two years into the pandemic, familiar viruses are acting in unfamiliar ways.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/06/13/covid-flu-rsv-viruses/
Human activity and drought ‘degrading more than a third of Amazon rainforest’ | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian
Fires, land conversion, logging and water shortages have weakened resilience of 2.5m sq km of forest, says study
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” Não acredito que seja saudável escolher uma luta e dizer que é mais importante, mas reconhecer como as diferentes lutas se conectam. “
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While animal origin of Covid-19 remains a mystery, will revised law in China help prevent more diseases jumping from wildlife to people? | South China Morning Post
The revised Wildlife Protection Law will prohibit the consumption, hunting, transport and sale of wild animals. However, environmentalists say it is riddled with loopholes and will encourage the commercial breeding and use of wildlife.
“It’s a big step forward in terms of captive breeding and the commercial use of wild animals,” Tian said. “It actually looks more like a wildlife utilisation law to me.”
Avinash Basker, a senior campaigner with the Environmental Investigation Agency, an international NGO, said that while there were a few positive changes in the revised law, such as strengthening of the prohibition on the consumption of wild animals as food, “the major problem with the law – that it legitimised the breeding and commercial use of even the highest level of protected species in China” remained unchanged.
Even bivalent updated COVID-19 boosters struggle to prevent omicron subvariant transmission – an immunologist discusses why new approaches are necessary
The new bivalent boosters against COVID-19 have failed to halt omicron infections. However, new technologies are being developed that pave a way forward.
Rural Mississippi Led the Nation in Covid-19 Infection Rates Last Week | The Daily Yonder
While Covid-19 infection and death rates generally dropped in rural areas last week, Mississippi reported a rural Covid-19 infection rate 67% higher than
Source: Rural Mississippi Led the Nation in Covid-19 Infection Rates Last Week | The Daily Yonder
Pandemic fears surge in wake of ‘concerning’ bird flu outbreak at mink farm | Science | News | Express.co.uk
Health experts fear the captive mammals – concentrated together in a way that facilitates the kind of spread that wouldn’t happen in nature – could allow the virus to adapt to mammals.
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