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When you get your blood drawn, doctors are looking for proteins and antibodies inside it—proxies for disease. Based on the presence and quantities of certain proteins or antibodies, a diagnostic physician can say with reasonable certainty whether you’ve been fighting off a particular disease. That’s the kind of test…Read more
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We learned from our research that thinking about positive events in a systematic way can be… Read more
When asked recently to name the one attribute CEOs will need most to succeed in the turbulent times ahead, Michael Dell, the chief executive of Dell, Inc., replied, “I would place my bet on curiosity.”
Dell was responding to a 2015 PwC survey of more than a thousand CEOs, a number of whom cited “curiosity” and “open-mindedness” as leadership traits that are becoming increasingly critical in challenging times. Another of the respondents, McCormick & Company CEO Alan D. Wilson, noted that business leaders who “are always expanding their perspective and what they know—and have that natural curiosity—are the people that are going to be successful.”
Welcome to the era of the curious leader, where success may be less about having all the answers and more about wondering and questioning. As Dell noted, curiosity can inspire…READ MORE
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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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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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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Can women smell disease? In an article by AFP written for Discovery Health, one woman could. The widow of a man who suffered with Parkinson’s has triggered new research this week into the condition after she discovered she could “smell” the disease.
“I’ve always had a keen sense of smell and I detected very early on that there was a very subtle change in how Les smelled,” Milne, from Perth, Scotland, said on Thursday. “It’s hard to describe but it was a…Read more
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Can women smell disease? In an article by AFP written for Discovery Health, one woman could. The widow of a man who suffered with Parkinson’s has triggered new research this week into the condition after she discovered she could “smell” the disease.
“I’ve always had a keen sense of smell and I detected very early on that there was a very subtle change in how Les smelled,” Milne, from Perth, Scotland, said on Thursday. “It’s hard to describe but it was a…Read more
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In a recent article written by Danny Clemens for Discovery.com: A chemical commonly found in sunscreen is detrimental to coral health, a new report finds. An international team of researchers linked oxybenzone, an organic compound used in more than 3,000 sunscreens, to “gross morphological deformities,” DNA damage and endocrine disruption in already-vulnerable baby corals.
Oxybenzone can adversely impact coral health in concentrations as small as 62 parts per trillion — the equivalent of one drop of water in more than six Olympic-sized swimming pools.
In Hawaii and the U.S. Virgin Islands, however, oxybenzone has been measured in concentrations as high as 1.4 parts per million — an unsurprising statistic considering that an estimated 14,000 tons of sunscreen enter coral reefs each year. Around the world, at least 10 percent of reefs are at a high risk of exposure to oxybenzone, study authors estimate. According to the National Park Service, no sunscreen…Read more
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