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2 weeks ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Bryan Walsh |Bill McKibben |Casey Crownhart |Bronwyn Thompson
Click here, to View as Webpage. To unsubscribe scroll to bottom. Scroll down for links to timely articles our connection with the rest of naturePAUL HAWKENCARBON: The Tree of LifeThe more we know, the more we knowwe don't know. Listen any time to PodcastApplePodcasts,aworldthatjustmightwork.comProgressive Voices Network on TuneIn.comSaturday 5/10 7pmPT - Sunday 5/11 8pmPT Learn more: paulhawken.comI'm not concerned about the "environment".
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4 weeks ago | 
newatlas.com | Bronwyn Thompson |Leigh Henningham
A new study of nearly 15,000 people found that the window of late-night workouts in which sleep is then impacted is actually much larger than previously thought, showing that exercising within four hours of bedtime can have a detrimental effect on shut-eye. Monash University researchers looked at international data from 14,689 people who were monitored with a multi-sensor biometric gadget for a year, which equaled four million nights of information to analyze.
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2 months ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | David Helvarg |Cristen Hemingway Jaynes |Damian Carrington |Bronwyn Thompson
Learn more: remakingthespace.orgIt’s up to us. Political parties, political players, and the media promote and profit from our division. We the people have ultimate responsibility for healing our politics and our society. In her book, REMAKING THE SPACE BETWEEN US: How Citizens Can Work Together to Build a Better Future for All, DIANA McLAIN SMITH has good news.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
newatlas.com | Bronwyn Thompson
A 13-year study of tiny penguins in Australia has dispelled the long-held myth that these seabirds mate for life, with the 'divorce rate' nearly 10 times that of the current statistics for US adults. And, not surprisingly, it all comes down to kids.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
newatlas.com | Bronwyn Thompson
We all know that a healthy, balanced diet dominated by unprocessed foods is a recipe for gut and overall health, but scientists have now found just how one nutrient – fiber – can trigger a microbiotic chain reaction that actually shields the body from influenza and other viruses.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
newatlas.com | Bronwyn Thompson
We've never been closer to accurately assessing whether an individual is more susceptible to developing major depressive disorder due to their biology, with 293 newly identified gene variants found to play a role in ramping up the risk factor. That's 42% more than was previously known.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Bronwyn Thompson |Dylan Scott |Emily Witt |Ben Coxworth
Learn more: heydaybooks.comSTEVE WASSERMAN has spent half a century in the world of books, newspapers, and ideas, as an opinion editor at the LA Times, editor of the LA Times Book Review; and as an editor at several major publishers. We’ll talk about that lifetime of work, how publishing and the press have changed, and about his first book, a memoir with cameos from Susan Sontag, Orson Welles, Jackie Kennedy, Robert Scheer, & Gore Vidal, TELL ME SOMETHING. TELL ME ANYTHING. EVEN IF IT’S A LIE.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
newatlas.com | Bronwyn Thompson
Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human death as a result of avian influenza H5N1 infection. The unidentified Louisiana man contracted the virus through contact with infected wild and domestic birds on his property in December and passed away on January 6. The man, confirmed to be over 65 years old and who had underlying health issues, battled severe respiratory symptoms before succumbing to the virus this week.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
newatlas.com | Bronwyn Thompson
As the rather odd and chaotic year of 2024 comes to a close, it seems somewhat fitting that the animal science story that captured everyone's imagination was the news that researchers had worked out why orcas were sinking expensive boats off the coast of Spain. But what we amusingly hypothesized as an "Orca-nized" crime spree may be something a little less sinister.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
newatlas.com | Bronwyn Thompson
It's been another strong year for new research into the health benefits of natural foods and extracts, some of which have been used in traditional medicine for centuries. Be it weight loss, cell repair, inflammation or heart health, so-called 'superfoods' may not be miracle cures, but this year evidence suggested certain ones were more than just wellness hype. Meanwhile, experts also highlighted how too much of a good thing, for some people, could also be life-threatening.
