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How Our Brains Make Memories

Surprising new research about the act of remembering may help people with post-traumatic stress disorder By Greg MillerPhotographs by Gilles MingassonSmithsonian magazine, May 2010

via www.smithsonianmag.com

New Madrid quake analysis rewrites history books: Scientific American

A series of earthquakes that hit the North American heartland nearly 200 years ago were considerably smaller than reported in the history books, according to research presented at a meeting this week.

Read more at www.scientificamerican.com (hat tip Chris Merle)

Immunisation - Science - Herd immunity - animation

Herd immunity - animation This animation demonstrates how herd immunity is achieved. If you can't view this animation, you may need to download: Adobe Flash Player version 7 or aboveA Javascript capable web browser. For details of compatible web browsers, go here.

via www.immunisation.nhs.uk

Division of Parasitic Diseases - Hookworm Infection Fact Sheet

Hookworm is an intestinal parasite of humans that causes mild diarrhea and abdominal pain. Heavy infection with hookworm can create serious health problems for newborns, children, pregnant women, and persons who are malnourished. Hookworm infections occur mostly in tropical and subtropical climates. In 2002, the estimated number of person infected with hookworm was 1.3 billion.

via www.cdc.gov

Eradicating Guinea worm disease | Health | PRI's The World

Download MP3 A global campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease is tantalizingly close to success. The parasitic infection, caused by a worm that can grow three feet long before it emerges from a patient’s body, now affects just a few thousand people per year. Almost all of the remaining cases are in Southern Sudan. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who has helped lead the campaign, went there in February. The World’s David Baron was there too.

via www.theworld.org

The Raw Milk Debate: Don't Have a Cow, Man | Food | AlterNet

The Raw Milk Debate: Don't Have a Cow, Man | Food | AlterNet

Poop Is the Most Important Indicator of Your Health | Food | AlterNet

Poop Is the Most Important Indicator of Your Health | Food | AlterNet

We = (what we eat) – (what they eat) « Jon Udell

The sound track for yesterday’s run was a talk by primatologist Richard Wrangham1, author of Catching fire: how cooking made us human. Cooking, he says, has long been thought to be an optional cultural practice, like wearing jewelry. But really, he argues, cooking was the essential technological innovation that enabled us to produce the metabolic energy we needed to become human.

via blog.jonudell.net

Despite iPods and Walkmen, Rates of Hearing Loss Dropping | Wired Science | Wired.com

This counterintuitive finding from the first study of long-term changes in hearing loss is that for every five years a man or woman was born later in the 20th century, their chance of having hearing impairment dropped 13 percent and 6 percent, respectively.

via www.wired.com