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¿Qué productos menstruales son mejores para el medioambiente?

Jan 7, 2025 | infobae.com | Elizabeth Brown

(Science Times) ; (Ask NYT Climate)A veces tememos que llegue la menstruación, pero utilizar los productos adecuados para el periodo puede liberarnos de la ansiedad ambiental. En la actualidad, tenemos más productos menstruales para elegir que nuestras predecesoras, pero desde una perspectiva medioambiental, una opción es superior a todas las demás.
Review: Are Teen Girls Suffering From Hysteria? (opinion)

Nov 29, 2024 | yahoo.com | Elizabeth Brown

Search queryOpinionReview: Are Teen Girls Suffering From Hysteria? (opinion)Fri, November 29, 2024 at 11:00 AM UTChoto: Hysterical/Wondery and Pineapple Street StudiosWhat do teen girls with Tourette syndrome–like tics in upstate New York, U.S. military and intelligence officials with an array of mysterious complaints, some victims of mass poisonings in girls schools across Iran, and Salem girls accused of witchcraft have in common?
Is Being a Mom Bad for Your Career? (opinion)

Nov 12, 2024 | yahoo.com | Elizabeth Brown

Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source image: iStockIs motherhood bad for women's careers? Conventional wisdom says "yes," but a new study suggests "maybe not."The research comes from the IZA—Institute of Labor Economics, a German think tank seeking "to bridge the divide between science and society through science communication and evidence-based policy advice." In an April paper titled "Is There Really a Child Penalty in the Long Run?
Apple Makes It More Difficult for Crooks and Cops To Look at Your Phone

Nov 11, 2024 | yahoo.com | Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth Nolan BrownNovember 11, 2024 at 10:30 AM·6 min readA change in the latest iPhone operating system makes it much more difficult for snoops of all sorts—including the snoops in law enforcement—to take a peek at people's phones.
Good Riddance, Lina Khan (opinion)

Nov 7, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com | Elizabeth Brown

Voters unhappy over soaring prices, including runaway housing costs, helped put Donald Trump back in the White House. But what will a second Trump presidency mean for the real-estate industry, and home buyers and sellers? It means higher mortgage rates in the immediate term, but further down the line, another Trump administration could also mean less regulation and more tax incentives across the board, experts told MarketWatch.
Music exec Mathew Knowles talks building the brand of Beyoncé at Conversation with a CEO event

Sep 11, 2024 | usf.edu | Elizabeth Brown

TAMPA – Before he launched an all-girls group, Destiny’s Child, that included his daughter Beyoncé, and before he started his own music management company and record label, Music World Entertainment, Mathew Knowles sold copiers. The 72-year-old music mogul began his career in sales at Xerox and quickly climbed the ranks, becoming the number one sales executive of medical equipment and diagnostic imaging worldwide. Decades later, that background in diagnostic imaging would save his life.
A Slap of a Honeybee’s Wings...... sends ant invaders flying away

Jul 28, 2024 | telegraphindia.com | Elizabeth Brown

Add another weapon to the honeybee arsenal: wings.
NY Times frets over the ‘big environmental impact’ of ‘conventional toilet paper’ - Urges ‘recycled paper’ or bidets instead

Jul 18, 2024 | climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Elizabeth Brown

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/climate/toilet-paper-bidet-environment.htmlThese days, the toilet paper aisle is crowded with products that claim to be more sustainable, from bamboo and recycled material to products with “forest-safe” labels. But are they really better for the environment? And can you cast aside the paper altogether? Today, we’ll try to get to the bottom of it.
Belugas can warp and wiggle their forehead fat like Jell-O

Jun 17, 2024 | snexplores.org | Elizabeth Brown |Sarah Zielinski |Maria Temming |Katie Grace Carpenter

Arctic: A region that falls within the Arctic Circle. The edge of that circle is defined as the northernmost point at which the sun is visible on the northern winter solstice and the southernmost point at which the midnight sun can be seen on the northern summer solstice. The high Arctic is that most northerly third of this region. It’s a region dominated by snow cover much of the year. attention: The phenomenon of focusing mental resources on a specific object or event.
Sumatran orangutans start crafting their engineering skills as infants

May 17, 2024 | sciencenews.org | Elizabeth Brown

At six months old, human infants are still working on sitting up by themselves. But baby orangutans at that age are already developing their engineering skills. Orangutans build complex sleeping platforms as high as 20 meters in the tree canopy — the equivalent of four stories above the ground — every single evening. The nests are intricate and can include woven elements, pillows, blankets, padding and roofs to protect from rain.