Psychiatric medications passing through sewage treatment plants could be dramatically changing the behavior of fish. After researchers discovered low levels of common anti-anxiety drugs called benzodiazepines in perch living downstream from a treatment plant in southern Sweden, they tested the same concentrations of the drug on fish in the lab. They found that the medicine made the fish lose their […]
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
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“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain–the equality of all men.” – Ignazio Silone
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“Our life’s a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.” – Palladas
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“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston Churchill
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“If art can reveal the truth, art can also lie. An artist can be not only divinely inspired, but diabolically inspired.” – George Bernard Shaw
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For every deceased person who is buried, four are now cremated.
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As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to evolve, comparisons have been drawn to influenza. Both cause respiratory disease, yet there are important differences between the two viruses and how they spread. This has important implications for the public health measures that can be implemented to respond to each virus. How are COVID-19 and influenza viruses similar? Firstly, COVID-19 and influenza […]
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Mark Roberts likes nothing more than taking off his clothes in public, said Adam Lee P6tter in The Daily Mail (U.K.). The 48-year-old from Liverpool, England, is the world’s most notorious streaker: He has appeared naked at 519 public events, including the Super Bowl, Miss World, and Wimbledon. “There’s no major venue or event I haven’t done,” he says proudly. […]
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“To the man who is afraid, everything rustles.” – Sophocles
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