Extinction - the facts. Meet Magawa, The Landmine-Detecting Rat Who Just Received The PSDA Gold Medal For Exceptional Bravery. New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States. By Al Shaw, Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, and Jeremy W.
Goldsmith, Special to ProPublica, September 15, 2020. Shockingly Simple: How Farmland Could Absorb an Extra 2 Billion Tonnes of CO2 From the Atmosphere Each Year. Credit: Dr Dimitar Epihov 2 Billion Tonnes of CO2 Could be Absorbed From the Atmosphere Each Year by Applying Rock Dust to Farmland Adding crushed rock dust to farmland could draw down up to two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air per year and help meet key global climate targets, according to a major new study led by the University of Sheffield.
Adding crushed rock dust to farmland could draw down up to two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air per year and help meet key global climate targets, according to a major new study led by the University of Sheffield. Smile! Could the pandemic lead to happier times?
In January 2018, a Yale University professor named Laurie Santos launched a course, Psychology and the Good Life, which quickly became the most popular class in the institution’s 319-year-history.
After 13 years at Yale, in 2016, the 44-year-old had taken charge of one of the university’s residential colleges and had become alarmed by widespread mental illness and stress. She wanted to explain the paradox of why so many students were still suffering, having achieved their dreams of being admitted to Yale and having met society’s definition of success. Santos created the lecture series in a bid to teach her students what really mattered – to help them carve out lives of meaning and contentment. Within a few days of the course’s launch, roughly a quarter of Yale’s entire undergraduate population had signed up. A few months later, in March 2018, Santos launched a 10-week online version of the original happiness course that anyone could access. Doomsday Clock Set At 100 Seconds To Midnight, Issuing Dire Warning Of Apocalypse. Topline: The Doomsday Clock was set 100 seconds to midnight Thursday—20 seconds closer than its previous time—indicating that the world is closer to the apocalypse than it has been since the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists began tracking it over 70 years ago.
During a Thursday press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., former California governor Jerry Brown, Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, and former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon unveiled the clock’s new time.Rachel Bronson, the group’s president and CEO, said, “Today we feel no more optimistic” about the world’s outlook, and that the current environment is unstable due to inaction on climate change and a precarious nuclear landscape, and urged the world’s leaders to act on these two issues, or else disaster will occur. I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left - Broccoli Is Dying. Corn Is Toxic. Long Live Microbiomes! Editor’s Note (9/3/2019): This post has been substantially rewritten to change or eliminate claims and sourcing that did not meet Scientific American’s editorial standards.
The revised post can be found here. As food writer Mark Bittman recently remarked, since food is defined as “a substance that provides nutrition and promotes growth” and poison is “a substance that promotes illness,” then “much of what is produced by industrial agriculture is, quite literally, not food but poison.” Of course, it doesn’t have to be this way. OB/GYN Shares The Many Reasons Her Patients Had For Abortions, Says They’re All Completely Valid. Octopuses May Go Blind As Climate Change Sucks Oxygen Out of the Ocean. Editor's Note: This story was updated at 11:20 a.m.
E.D.T. on Friday, May 17. The Prescription Drug Landscape, Explored. Overview Americans spend more on prescription medications each year than the citizens of any other country.
Measuring drug spending remains a challenge, however, because of limited public data on how much the various payers and supply chain intermediaries pay for prescription drugs. Several public and private organizations have recently published U.S. drug spending estimates using different methodologies. These estimates differ, but an analysis from The Pew Charitable Trusts indicates that spending on prescription drugs has increased in recent years. The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that total retail prescription drug spending rose 26.8 percent between 2012 and 2016—a faster rate of growth than all other categories of personal health care expenditures. The complex drug supply and payment chain involves transactions among drug manufacturers, wholesalers, pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), and health plans.
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Ariadne Labs, based in Boston, Massachusetts—where Gawande also works as a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and teaches at Harvard—has been trying since 2012 to innovate in an area that has historically resisted innovation: healthcare delivery. You may not have heard of Ariadne, but you’ve certainly heard her story. Religion and refugees are deeply entwined in the US. Robert Bowers lashed out at what he believed to be a Jewish plot to bring more refugees and asylum seekers to the U.S. before allegedly murdering 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Bowers’s claim that HIAS, a prominent Jewish humanitarian organization, was bringing migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala northward to commit violence was false. But it is true that many religious communities in the U.S., including American Jews, have long supported refugees and asylum-seeking migrants who arrive in the U.S. The Fallen of World War II. Climate change: Our plans are in pieces as killer heat shreds records. Climate change is here and is affecting the entire globe -- not just the polar bears or tiny islands vulnerable to rising sea levels -- scientists say.
The HIV Epidemic Is Not Over, And We're Not as Prepared as We Need to Be. This heatwave is just the start. Britain has to adapt to climate change, fast. Much of the world is in the grip of a heatwave. Britain is so hot and dry that we have Indonesia-style peat fires raging across our moorlands. Montreal posted its highest temperature ever, with the deaths of 33 people in Quebec attributed to the scorching heat. And if you think that’s hot and dangerous, the town of Quriyat in Oman never went below a frightening 42.6C for a full 24 hours in June, almost certainly a global record.
There may be one big reason why suicide rates keep climbing in the US, according to mental-health experts. Stop scrimping, Theresa May – or the NHS’s 70th birthday will be its last. This is it. The bailiffs are at the door waving the red-ink bill. Pay up or else. ‘He saw our children as possessions': my husband killed our sons. IV 'Normal Saline': A Medical Habit : Shots - Health News. Doctors Warn Climate Change Threatens Public Health.
Two-thirds of those on Medicaid are children, seniors or disabled. One-third of New York state residents are on Medicaid, the federal-state program that helps pay for health care. We recently rated that claim True in a fact-check on U.S. Trump Administration Has Tips For Idaho On How To Make 'Freedom' Health Plans Legal : Shots - Health News. Probe Into Generic Drug Price Fixing Set To Widen. Pre-existing conditions denial insurance. Brain prize winner calls Brexit a 'disaster' for the NHS and science. Former Aetna Medical Director Admits To Never Reviewing Medical Records Before Denying Care. Florida health care system finishes at bottom of pack, study finds. Florida’s poor showing on a recent ranking of state health care systems can be attributed partly to the large number of lower-wage jobs in the Sunshine State and its decision not to expand Medicaid, which would have come with its own significant costs over the long term, health care experts said.
The personal finance website WalletHub.com reported that Florida came in No. 43 in its ranking of state health care systems. Florida received poor marks for its relatively low percentage of adults and children with health insurance and its high premium costs. The study measured health care costs, accessibility and outcomes. Florida received a score of 46.07, with a score of 100 representing the best-quality health care at the most affordable price. Taking back control: how a remote island in Alaska tackled domestic abuse. Many operations more harmful than beneficial, top surgeon warns. Some Medicare Patients Eligible And Eager For Home Health Care Aren't Getting It. A sexist troll attacked Sarah Silverman. She responded by helping him with his problems. Remember Trump’s Pitch on Health Care Associations? Now We Know What He Meant.
The Leap to Single-Payer: What Taiwan Can Teach. Depression treatment: 30 years after Prozac arrived, we still buy the lie that chemical imbalances cause depression. Trump just told the truth. He may wish he hadn’t. Placebo and Nocebo - HEAL Documentary Sneak Peek - HEAL is Available Now on Digital/DVD. How to Resolve Conflict with Dignity. Hollywood’s Other ‘Open Secret’ Besides Harvey Weinstein: Preying on Young Boys. Watch: Poor women in Puerto Rico became unwitting guinea pigs for the birth control pill.
Researchers Find "Executioner Protein" That Causes Cancer Cells to Self-Destruct Without Hurting Healthy Cells. The Americans with Disabilities Act Is Under Threat. Block grants would be a disaster. Here’s how we know. I Support Medicare for All Because Health Care is a Civil Right, a Human Right. Pants on Fire! Paul Ryan uses old stat to claim counties will have no Obamacare insurer in 2018. Doctors Warm To Single-Payer Health Care. A New Poem About America and Donald Trump From Sherman Alexie. Earth Overshoot Day. Canada Moves Closer to Protecting Stunning Area of Arctic Ocean. Universal health care -the lancet 2 clicks. The High Price of the Opioid Crisis. Marco Rubio says Florida mandates coverage of more conditions than Obamacare. If No Access to Affordable Heath Care... Not Much Else Matters. Pediatricians say Florida hurt sick kids to help big GOP donors.
Farm-To-Table May Feel Virtuous, But It's Food Labor That's Ripe For Change. LBJ Launches Medicare: ‘You Can't Treat Grandma This Way’ – BillMoyers.com. Heal the World. At Summer Camp, Girls Build Sandboxes And Confidence In Their Own Abilities. Former Ethics Director Says Trump Is Causing A 'Crisis;' Calls For Reforms. This Kansas City Neighborhood Wrote The Blueprint For Transforming a Community. Medicaid is the secret to universal health care. U.S. Suspends Applications For 'Innovative' Anti-Poverty Efforts : Goats and Soda.