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More than 100,000 years ago, humans lived in the caves that dot South Africa’s coastline. With the sea on their doorstep and the Cape’s rich diversity of plant life at their backs, these anatomically modern Homo sapiens flourished. Over several millennia, they collected shells that they used as beads, created toolkits to manufacture red pigment, and sculpted tools from bones.
Now some of these caves, along the country’s southern coast, ...read more
A Monarch butterfly on the flowers of a milkweed plant (Credit: Mark Rogovin/The Field Museum)
In the past two decades, the monarch butterfly population east of the Rocky Mountains has declined by 87 percent. That's due in part to the fact that the only plant that monarchs lay their eggs on - milkweed - has become scarcer thanks to farmers removing it from their fields. Scientists say that stopping the monarch's decline will require planting some 1.8 billion stems of milkweed. And, according ...read more
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So, you just got a parking ticket. Let’s assume it wasn’t the first. And let’s take that a step further and say that you absolutely, positively, do not want to pay it, or think you should, for that matter.
Or let’s say you’re in a more serious situation – you’re planning
to file for divorce. You might not be able to afford an expensive attorney, or
maybe you just flat-out don’t know where to start with the l ...read more
Older people often take many supplements, including ones purported to help with brain health. A recent study says the supplements do not work. (Credit: Mladen Zivkovic/Shutterstock)
Americans and others around the world have turned increasingly to dietary supplements in order to maintain or preserve their brain health.
A recent study found that a quarter of adults over 50 take a supplement for brain-related health. But that same study, done by experts convened by the AARP ...read more
Processed meats remain a major part of the average American's diet. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Raysonho@ Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine)
Well, the results are in. After years and years of nutritionists telling Americans to eat fewer processed meats and more fish, Americans are eating (drumroll please) … exactly the same amounts as they did 18 years ago.
A research team at Tufts University in Boston crunched the numbers, and published their study today in the Journal of the Academy ...read more
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