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If you’ve contracted Herpes, will your memory fly away? The virus that causes cold sores, along with other viral or bacterial infections, may be associated with cognitive problems.

A new study found that people who have had higher levels of infection in their blood (measured by antibody levels), meaning they had been exposed over the years to various pathogens such as the herpes simplex type 1 virus that causes cold sores, were more likely to have cognitive problems than people with lower levels of infection in the blood.

Medical researcher Mira Katan says, "We found the link was greater among women, those with lower levels of education and Medicaid or no health insurance, and most prominently, in people who do not exercise.
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A decomposing foot was found in the woods near Quincy, Massachusetts by two boys, who collected it and brought it home. Police were informed, and it was determined by the local medical examiner that the foot was not human. Although it had five toes, it was far too large to be a human food. This has led to speculation that it could be remains from a bigfoot, but the far greater probability is that it is a bear paw, or the foot of a great ape such as a gorilla.
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We have received this report from a UC reader in the Punjab. It appears to be an orb sighting, but as the witness points out, it could be something else. Your thoughts and reports are welcome in the comments section below. We have a readership in India and across Asia, so if anyone else in those areas in particular has seen anything like this recently, let us know. The motion described doesn’t rule out a sky lantern moving on a steady breeze, but it is also possible that this was an unknown.
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Here’s a way to cure those restless nights–stop sleeping!

There just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. If there was a DISEASE that robbed us of one-third of our lives, we’d invent a medicine to cure it!

We don’t really understand why we sleep in the first place. Different species vary widely in their hours of sleep. Herbivores sleep far less than carnivores (because they have less onerous foods to digest?) Elephants sleep about four hours a night, compared with almost 20 hours for a lion. Humans are omnivores, so our sleep habits fall somewhere in the middle.
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