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Filmed at the Harry Laidlaw Honeybee Research Facility at UC Davis with the help of Billy Synk. Music by Rob Moose (@mooseofrob) See more videos from Anand Varrma 

"Loneliness can be a shameful hunger, a shell, a dangerous landscape of shadowy figures. But it is also a gift" Read more

Sweden has virtually eliminated the need for landfills. Swedes recycle half their garbage, but it’s what they do with the rest that sets them apart. Rather than dump their trash into giant holes in the ground, they convert it to energy, keeping their lights bright and their homes warm with the stuff most countries throw away."  Read more

Image: Malmo Sweden by David Mark

The idea that we should eat three meals a day is surprisingly modern. How many meals a day is best for our health? Read more

Medicare finalized its decision to restrict its coverage of Aduhelm, Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s disease drug, on April 8, 2022.The decision means only patients who have enrolled in clinical trials , will receive Medicare coverage for Aduhelm which goes by the generic drug name of Aducanumab. Read more

Four forces are propelling the rising rates of depression among young people. Read more

"A colleague from Kyiv, Ukraine, whom I’ll call N.M., sent me brief essays her students wrote on what they would do when the war ends. As both a scholar and a novelist, I knew that these voices, which expressed a beautifully straightforward and pure yearning for the simplest things that are lost in war, needed to be heard by the world" ... Read more

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"Is there a danger - through the current lack of action by the Security Council - that it could be damaged by what’s going on in Ukraine?"....... Read more

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The electrical chatter of our working memories reflects our uncertainty about their contents. Neuroscientific studies suggest that when we call up a memory to use it, our uncertainty about its accuracy is part of the recollection. Read more

Albert Alexander was dying. World War II was raging, and this police officer of the county of Oxford, England, had developed a severe case of sepsis after a cut on his face became badly infected. His blood was now teeming with deadly bacteria....Read more

Russia's disinformation campaign hides the truth and offers false news narratives as it closes access to independent news sources and shuts down public demonstrations and opposition to the war... Read more

In 1997 California use to provide 90% of the avocados consumed in the US. Today, as the result of changes implemented as part of NAFTA, Mexico provides 80% of a much larger avocado consumption in the U.S. The avocado trade high prices and high profit margins have attracted the interest of the Mexicans crime cartels. A major disruption of this market could have a major negative effect on the American consumer as briefly shown during the U.S. Department of Agriculture ban of avocado imports from Mexico on February this year Read more