Whether you think global warming is an impeding disaster or a cruel hox, you might want to check out Climate Debate Daily, which has taken up the mission of presenting the best arguments from both sides:
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I've been neglecting my "research into the obvious" lately, so here's a good one:
In a study of nearly 3,000 healthy British adults, lead by Dr. Andrew Steptoe of University College London, found that those who reported upbeat moods had lower levels of cortisol -- a "stress" hormone that, when chronically elevated, may contribute to high blood pressure, abdominal obesity and dampened immune function, among other problems.
I've been neglecting my "research into the obvious" lately, so here's a good one:
In a study of nearly 3,000 healthy British adults, lead by Dr. Andrew Steptoe of University College London, found that those who reported upbeat moods had lower levels of cortisol -- a "stress" hormone that, when chronically elevated, may contribute to high blood pressure, abdominal obesity and dampened immune function, among other problems.
The brave new world is coming:
If you're younger than 35, you'll probably live long enough to put David Levy's prediction to the test. Levy says that by 2050 we'll be creating robots so lifelike, so imbued with human-seeming intelligence and emotions, as to be nearly indistinguishable from real people. And we'll have sex with these robots. Some of us will even marry them. And it will all be good.
I don't have much to do with diet foods, but I've used Equal instead of sugar in my coffee ever since the stuff first came out. I drink so much of it that I figured it couldn't help but make me lose weight. This bad news may help explain why I have not exactly become svelte:
Asking patients to rate their pain is not that helpful:
It may be a painful truth, but a new study suggests that attempting to measure pain on a scale of 0 to 10 may not help doctors effectively treat the suffering.
Listen up, young ladies. The life you save could be mine, and you could help the whole human race in the process:
Older men who shack up with much younger women keep the Grim Reaper at bay for the human population and extend our species' lifespan, new research claims.
When journalists, like this AP writer, write about the singularity, they tend to focus too much on specific possible outcomes, like cell-size robots circulating through our bloodstreams and increasing our brain power a hundred-fold or being able to upload our consciousnesses into a computer -- so it sounds more like crazy science fiction than an actual possibility:
How about that global warming, huh?
Don't forget to bundle up if you're headed out in New York City today. After all, it is August 21.
The city along with the rest of the tri-state region is feeling the chilly effect of a cold front sweeping through the region, accompanied by cool rain showers.
Tuesday's high temperature in Central Park was just 59 degrees. The normal high for today is 82 degrees. The normal low is 67.
