Here’s the Case for Putting Your Kids to Bed Super Early
Everyone has a natural sleep pattern, even babies. Some of us are night owls, others thrive in the early hours of the morning, but one thing is true across the board – we need solid, consecutive hours of sleep in order to perform our best. And since many people find themselves on a forced 9-5...
Violent Crime Drops When the Pollen Count Goes Up
If you want to feel safer in your community, it turns out you can just wait until allergy season and then go about your business worry-free. Because, much in the same way you feel like crap when allergies attack, it turns out criminals are less likely to go about their regular day when they’re not...
Man’s Weird Reaction to Antibiotics Has His Guts Brewing Alcohol
A week into his course of cephalexin, a common antibiotic prescribed to ward off infection in an injured thumb, a man checked into the emergency room with some strange symptoms. They included memory loss, brain fog, and episodes of depression, along with personality changes and uncharacteristic aggression. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzneji-niXW/ Doctors were unable to get to the...
Research Says Kittens Bond to Their Owners Similarly to How Kids Bond With Parents
In the 1960s, developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth led a groundbreaking study into how babies bond with their caregivers. In an experiment called the Strange Situation, she would have a mother leave her baby alone for a short time in an unfamiliar room with toys. Most of the babies would cry at mom’s absence, but were...
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Hospital Turns Its Roof into a Garden to Feed Thousands
When Boston Medical Center personnel realized how many of their patients weren’t sure where their next meals were coming from, they decided to be a part of the solution. In 2016, they turned the hospital’s 2,658 square-foot roof into a garden of 25 crops. Patients, referred by the medical center’s Preventative Food Pantry which opened...
Antibiotic Resistance in Germs Has Doubled in the Past 20 Years
There are so many things to worry about these days, but if you’re a germophobe (like my husband) or someone obsessed with the idea that we’re all going to die in a pandemic (like me), then you’ve probably spent at least some time wondering what’s going to happen when antibiotics stop being widely effective. I...
The Infamous Berserker Vikings Were All Probably on Drugs – And Scientists Think They Know Which One
If you’re not familiar with the fierce, often naked, and always crazy berserker warriors, well…they are the reason we say that someone “went berserk.” They struck fear into pretty much everyone during the Viking Age, and though scientists have always assumed they used some kind of mind-altering substance to reach the savage, trance-like state that...
