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There are a lot of upsides to decorating your home with a live Christmas tree during the holidays. For one, you don’t have to worry about storing an artificial tree for 11 months out of the year. The smell of a fresh evergreen is also hard to beat. Then again, disposing of your tree after the holidays can also be […]
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We love Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson for about a million reasons. Well, make that a million and one. On Friday, Dec. 20, Johnson danced and twirled with her newborn daughter, Drew (one month old) in an Instagram video. And having already been mom-shamed by trolls who insisted Drew had been under-dressed indoors, Johnson preemptively clapped back at any potential […]
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Research by Oxford University, carried out in partnership with Cardiff University, and published today in Clinical Psychological Science, has found little evidence to suggest an unhealthy passion for gaming amongst adolescents, often referred to as “gaming addiction,” requires clinical intervention by medical professionals. Based on data from over 1,000 adolescents and their caregivers, the study suggests those engaged in dysfunctional […]
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For the Batek people of the Malaysian peninsula rainforest, laughter can be dangerous. Within the system of taboos of these egalitarian hunter-gatherers, laughing in certain situations can cause storms, illness or even death. And yet sometimes, Batek people—like anyone else—laugh when they know they shouldn’t. In fact, laughter can be especially pleasurable when it’s forbidden. What does this paradox tell […]
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Is it just us, or did summer go way too fast this year? It’s hard to believe schools have already started in certain parts of the country (sorry, The South, we northerners feel your pain). Of course, no one wants their child to start of the year on the wrong foot, but there’s a chance you’re facilitating just that — […]
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While there has long been discussion whether exposure to anesthesia affects brain development, new Rush University Medical Center research published in the journal Cerebral Cortex describes how prenatal anesthesia in rats seems to disrupt the “precisely choreographed” and timed migration of neurons to the area of the developing brain where thinking, memory and language occur. The finding further fuels the […]
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A sepsis awareness and management programme has demonstrated overall success in terms of improved sepsis detection, but has led to an increase in the number of E. coli blood stream infection cases presented, calling into question the targets used by Health Boards and set by the Welsh Government. Sepsis is a serious complication of an infection, which can lead to […]
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Going off to college might be a source of anxiety for some students, but once a student is on campus it shouldn’t be a total drag. But that tends to happen more frequently when a student ends up at a college where the student body is weaker academically overall than the one where the student went to high school. This […]
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