Zuckerberg, Gates lead ‘Breakthrough’ coalition on clean energy

In an article published on www.wired.co.uk by Emily Reynolds, an elite group of private investors including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and Mark Zuckerberg have formed a coalition to help companies “get clean-energy innovation out of the lab and into the marketplace”. Breakthrough Energy Coalition is designed to bring “widely available energy that is reliable, affordable and does not produce carbon” and …Read more

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Rewriting the Rules of Youth Football

The game of football has changed and so has the view of it.  In an article written by Talal Al-Khatib for Discovery Health, be describes how around 3 million Americans kids ages 7 through 14 participate in football leagues, and an additional 1.1 million high school students play the game as well. [This] according to USA Football, the national governing body for the sport on the amateur level.

Given the risks involved with playing a contact sport at a young age, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued a set of recommendations, released in the journal Pediatrics, to tackle potential safety issued faced by kids on the field.

For starters, the AAP advises that both referees and coaches enforce a zero-tolerance policy for illegal, head-first hits. These are the kinds of tackles that are most likely to result in head, neck or other injuries.

The organization also recommends that athletic trainers be made available on the sidelines during play as a means of reducing player injuries.  A study presented last week at the AAP’s national conference in Washington, D.C., found that… Read more

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Musicians’ Brain Waves Dance to the Beat

Bianca Nogrady helped clarify why some people are just plain better at music than others.  In an article she wrote for  ABC Science Online, she pointed out that musicians get more out of music because their brain waves are better able to synchronize with musical rhythms.
Cortical oscillations — the rhythmic firing of neurons in the brain — are fundamental to our ability to hear and process sounds.  Aligning the frequency of these cortical oscillations with the frequency of the sounds we wish to focus on allows us to better tune into these sounds; for example, …Read more
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21 Anxiety Triggers That Might Surprise You

y , if you suffer from anxiety, you’re not alone. Anxiety disorders affect 40 million U.S. adults, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.Doctors typically diagnose patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder if they suffer from symptoms of anxiety (constant worry, insomnia, difficulty concentration and more) for more than six months. But according to Everyday Health, almost all of us have experienced anxiety at some point.

What triggers those feelings of panic and worry that we’re oh-so-familiar with? We reached out to HuffPost Lifestyle’s Facebook community and got some honest, heartfelt answers from our readers. Here are 21 things that trigger anxiety:

1. “Money woes! Trying to READ MORE

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Fossilized Tropical Forests Found In Arctic

The ice lands we know have not always been that way.  Evidence of that was given by Mary Beth Griggs in an article she wrote for Popular Science.

Svalbard, Norway is known for it’s splendid Arctic scenery, frigid weather and polar bears. But it wasn’t always like this. In a study published recently inGeology, researchers announce the discovery of a fossilized tropical forest in Svalbard.

Chris Berry and other researchers from Cardiff University found tropical tree stumps–the remains of an ancient tropical forest–during field work in the frigid latitudes.

380 million years ago, the continents were in vastly different places. The solid part of the Earth that we live on..Read more

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