[ad_1] Absence can be as strongly felt as presence, and soon Ben, too, became obsessed with family math. He would stare at the snapshots I’d taken of his half sister holding him as a newborn: he in a tie-dye onesie, she in a matching tie-dye T-shirt. He would stare at the pictures of the two […]
[ad_1] Encased in a neon orange plastic shell, a collection of electronic sensors bobbed along the surface of the Monterey Bay, waiting to be retrieved by Stanford University researchers. A lunchbox-sized speck in the vast waters, it held cargo of outsized importance: the first-ever recording of a blue whale’s heart rate. This device was fresh […]
[ad_1] Small populations, inbreeding, and random demographic fluctuations could have been enough to cause Neanderthal extinction, according to a study published November 27, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Krist Vaesen from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, and colleagues. Paleoanthropologists agree that Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ago — about the same […]
[ad_1] A new modeling approach can help researchers, policymakers and the public better understand how policy decisions will influence human migration as sea levels rise around the globe, a paper published today in Nature Climate Change suggests. “I’m often asked ‘How many people will migrate because of sea level rise?’ The answer is the number […]
[ad_1] In a recent study using mice, lab-grown human retinal cells and patient samples, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they found evidence of a new pathway that may contribute to degeneration of the light sensitive tissue at the back of the eye. The findings, they conclude, bring scientists a step closer to developing new drugs […]
[ad_1] Shutterstock Any relationship can’t exist without partners showing their affection to each other. While telling your significant other that you love them is very important, there are a lot of different ways to express how you feel. Here are some simple things you can do to show your love to someone. Do Something They […]
[ad_1] Meghan Daum is an author, a writing instructor, a former LA Times columnist and a Facebook friend, in that order. We haven’t met in real life. But I respect her work more than I can possibly say. Daum – like me – knows one mode: 100% honest. I can cite a few of her […]
[ad_1] Didn’t know much about how to be kinky until you saw Fifty Shades of Grey? While the movie is cheesy, it’s changed the way we look at our kinky side. If you thought you were the only one who has kinky thoughts, well, think again. In reality, one in five individuals incorporate know how […]
[ad_1] Rastafurian! Abandoned cat with DREADLOCKS is rescued by shocked staff at French animal centre Chamade the nine-year-old ‘rasta’ cat was abandoned in Brittany, France The ropelike strands of hair were preventing him from cleaning himself Image shows the cat looking much happier after his rescuers sheared the dreads By Ryan Fahey For Mailonline Published: […]
[ad_1] My Christmas dinner last year was hospital food. And it wasn’t even solid food because I’d just had major surgery (so my digestive system was temporarily fucked and took a week to recover). I’m Australian. We don’t really have Thanksgiving (not traditionally), so Christmas dinner is the closest thing we have to it, I […]