Green is good: We know that asparagus can help you get over a hangover. Now it turns out that other green vegetables can help protect you from heart disease.

Heart attacks are often caused by fatty plaques that build up in the arteries the reduce the blood flow to the heart. However, arties don’t all get clogged up in the same way: Just like your kitchen sink, places where the arteries curve or bend are likely to get clogged up with plague before other areas. A protein in green vegetables called Nrf2 can help reduce these clogs, and even clear them out (kind of like Roto Rooter for the body).
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People from different cultures often do not always read each other right. One example of this is the distance that they stand apart when talking face to face to strangers or acquaintances. In some cultures, people stand much closer to each other than we do, meaning that the American keeps backing up when talking with someone he doesn’t know well.

Now neuroscientists have found the brain structure that is responsible for our sense of personal space. Since different cultures express it differently, are our BRAINS different as well? The brain structure that controls this is the amygdale, a pair of almond-shaped regions located in the medial temporal lobes in the front of the brain. It is also considered the source of emotion in the brain.
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Whenever I hear that someone’s relative or friend is ill and near death, I always tell them what hospice physician John Lerma told me: Find out if the person says he’s recently had visitors, especially from people he once knew who are dead. When that happens, the person usually dies in 4 days. He noticed this in his own practice and compared his experience to that of other hospice doctors at a conference on palliative care, and they all agreed on the same thing: People died 4 days after the visit.
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desperate measures? – One way of defeating climate change may be through geo-engineering. Suggestions include sending giant mirrors into space to reflect sunlight away from our plant to building gigantic “scrubbers” that would clean CO2 out of the air. Are these ideas gimmicks or real possibilities? If they won’t work (or won’t work well), we don’t want to waste a lot of time and talent on them.

Some of them could be downright dangerous, such as putting iron filings into the ocean to encourage the growth of algae, which would absorb CO2 (as all plans do) and “breathe out” oxygen. But this could also cause substantial damage to marine life.
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