Georgia Republicans have passed a new law that allows for the removal of locally-elected prosecutors from office, which could include the Atlanta-area district attorney probing efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. The law, Senate Bill…
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The Anhinga or ‘Devil Bird’ Lands in New York, With More to Come – The New York Times
Anhingas, water birds with snakelike necks, have turned up in Prospect Park in Brooklyn and far upstate, a sign of shifting ranges for birds from the South.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/science/anhinga-brooklyn-devil-bird.html
Use It or Lose It: the Brain and Dementia
Medical News Today (MNT) reports on a new study relating Internet use to resistance to dementia.(1) The report finds that from a study of more than 18,000 US adults age 50 and over, use of the internet for at least 30 minutes per day is associated with a 43% reduction in the risk of developing dementia.
The big caveat on this remarkable finding is that this is a statistical analysis, not a causal model. We don’t know how usage of the brain impedes the development of dementia, just that it seems to do it.
A second caveat is that perhaps half of dementia patients are never formally diagnosed with the disease.(2) Dementia can of course take a range of forms from very mild to severe, and a doctor may not even notice that a patient has a milder form.
On the other hand, the research is consistent with other findings…
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Use It or Lose It: the Brain and Dementia – CRAIN’S COMMENTS
Medical News Today (MNT) reports on a new study relating Internet use to resistance to dementia.(1) The report finds that from a study of more than 18,000 US adults age 50 and over, use of the internet for at least 30 minutes per day is associated with a 43% reduction in the risk of developing dementia.
Source: Use It or Lose It: the Brain and Dementia – CRAIN’S COMMENTS
Allen, TX Mass Shooter Posted Neo-Nazi Content, FBI Document Reveals – Rolling Stone
“Dear Future Earth…” Jamaican students reflect at the Institute of Jamaica
Just over a week ago – and the day before Earth Day 2023 – I had the great pleasure of attending the awards ceremony for this year’s competition, organised annually by the Natural History Museum of Jamaica’s (NHMJ) Education Department for students aged 12 to 19 years. It’s an arts competition, including poetry, poster art, video, and photography – now in its 23rd illustrious year! The NHMJ is a division of the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ).
There were two contrasting moods at the event, which took place in the lovely old-fashioned IOJ Lecture Hall. There was a great deal of joy: smiles on all the faces, laughter, and a complete absence of bitter competition and sour grapes. Everyone – students, teachers, IOJ officials, and a few parents – was happy to be there. On the other hand, there was an underlying seriousness, as the high school students reflected on the…
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Tiny tiny hands — Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Lãm ThắngTranslator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm Photography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm TINY TINY HANDS ĐÔI BÀN TAY BÉ Tiny tiny hands The hardest working pair of hands Threading the needle for nan Helping mama wash vegetables Tiny tiny hands Quick and able Watering pop’s garden in the afternoon Noting […]
Tiny tiny hands — Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
‘Spare us your prayers’: Ted Cruz faces backlash after Texas mall shooting kills eight | Texas | The Guardian
Is Covid really over? WHO’s announcement sounds more like surrender than victory | Coronavirus | The Guardian
Professor Susan Michie, director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London. “Whether Covid-19 is labelled a global pandemic or not, many countries around the world are experiencing significant waves of infection, with thousands dying every week,” she said. “This will continue for the foreseeable future while there is no global effort to reduce Covid-19, and hence no global effort to reduce the likelihood of damaging new variants.”
Professor Benjamin Neuman of Texas A&M University was even more critical. “This bittersweet announcement seems more a white flag than a cause for celebration,” he said. “While there has been profound progress, this decision reflects the political reality of Covid more clearly than the medical situation.”
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Duele tanto cuando uno -yo, tú, ella, él, nosotros, ellos, ustedes, todos-, a cierta hora, voltea atrás y descubre huellas en una dirección y en otra, carentes de rumbo y de sentido, rastros que pronto cubrirán el polvo y la desmemoria, como prueba delatora, quizá, de que el paseo por la vida terrena resultó vano, e hiriente el tránsito por parajes ausentes de pétalos y pletóricos de espinas; por eso, hay que cultivar flores, detalles hermosos, ideas geniales, sentimientos nobles, palabras de aliento, actos épicos y, principalmente, dedicar la existencia al bien y a la verdad. Duele tanto, insisto, darse cuenta de que en el balance existe mayor número de minutos, horas, días y años consumidos trivialmente, que momentos dedicados al ser, a la evolución, a dar lo mejor de sí, a regalar sonrisas, a tener la oportunidad de…
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