April 2012
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“I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a...”
– Chaim Potok
Memory-Altering Drug, Keeps Good Times, Kills Bad...
A drug that seems to dampen bad memories, while leaving other memories in tact, may one day be used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
Previously, scientists knew that a stress hormone called cortisol affects people’s ability to form new memories and decrease negative emotions that might have been associated with them. But they thought once memories had solidified, they could no...
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“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you...”
– Eric Roth
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Plastic-eating fungi may solve landfill problems
Just when you thought that plastic waste was never going to break down in the environment, along comes Mother Nature to solve the problem.
The Amazon contains more species of flora and fauna than virtually anywhere else on earth. In a report by NZ Herald it was stated that a group of students from Yale University found a species which appears to be happy eating plastic in airless landfills. The...
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“It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Anonymous asked: I just went through your entire blog and my God, it brightened my day immensely every time I sat here and went through it. It has been one of my favorites for quite a while, but just something these past few days, everything on here has been just what needed. Not to sound frantic or like a total dork, but thank you.
