The Nurses’ Health Study II was established by Dr. Walter Willett and colleagues in 1989 with funding from the National Institutes of Health. The primary motivation for developing the Nurses’ Health Study II was to study oral contraceptives, diet and lifestyle risk factors in a population younger than the original Nurses’ Health Study cohort.
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Laser is produced by a living cell
A single living cell has been coaxed into producing laser light, researchers report in Nature Photonics.
“The ancient Egyptians showed dogs being held on a leash, sitting under the chairs of owners, and they even sometimes listed their names, such as Brave One, Reliable, North Wind and even Useless.”
We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.
“Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.”
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Visual Cognition Lab.
Plenty of visual experiments.
“Turritopsis Nutricula is technically known as a hydrozoan and is the only known animal that is capable of reverting completely to its younger self.
It does this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation.
Scientists believe the cycle can repeat indefinitely, rendering it potentially immortal.
While most members of the jellyfish family usually die after propagating, the Turritopsis nutricula has developed the unique ability to return to a polyp state.”
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Starry Night CAKE. Want this for my Birthday, wedding, Lunch—whatever!
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That’s just true camaraderie right there. (Shot at Target Store I presume)
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