When he died in 1955, Einstein bequeathed the literary rights for his more than 75,000 papers and other items in his estate to the Hebrew University in Israel. Now, his 69 year old granddaughter wants a share.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/10/california.einstein.granddaughter/index.html?hpt=T2#
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It’s been known for a long time that winter-born babies are more likely to develop severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, depression and seasonal affective disorder. Researchers at Vanderbilt and the University of Alabama may have identified clues as to how seasonal sunlight exposure could affect expression of clock genes that control our normal biological rhythms.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=blame-it-on-winter
Supervolcanos produce eruptions with ejecta greater than 1,000 cubic kilometers (240 cubic miles) – thousands of times larger than most historic volcanic eruptions. Supervolcanoes occur when magma rises into the crust from a hotspot but is unable to break through that crust until pressure builds to a phenomenally high level. Yellowstone National Park is a supervolcano that last erupted 640,000 years ago.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/supervolcano/supervolcano.html
Some scientists are worried that we’re overdue for another eruption. The floor of the Yellowstone supervolcano has risen 3 inches a year for the past 3 years, the fastest rate since records began in 1923.
http://www.earthmountainview.com/yellowstone/yellowstone.htm
Here’s what National Geographic predicts will happen when Yellowstone explodes:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/08/yellowstone/achenbach-text
Originally discovered by an Allied forces Army nurse in WWII, the placebo response continues to mystify physicians, researchers, and pharmaceutical companies alike. Our body’s physiological response to medicine is largely impacted by our interpretation of social cues, anticipation of reward, and our beliefs and expectations. This complex constellation of factors in the mind can yield significant clinical improvement in patients taking nothing more than inert sugar pills. As Steve Silberman describes, “The placebo response doesn’t care if the catalyst for healing is a triumph of pharmacology, a compassionate therapist, or a syringe of salt water. All it requires is a reasonable expectation of getting better. That’s potent medicine.” Interestingly, it also works the other way – the ‘Nocebo Response.’
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all
We’re trying to bring back the mammoth.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/17/scientists-trying-to-clone-resurrect-extinct-mammoth/?npt=NP1
Bacteria frozen in time 34,000 years ago subsisted off algae without moving or reproducing. Now, they’re awake and thriving.
http://io9.com/5736128/a-34000-year-old-bacteria-has-come-back-from-the-dead-and-is-breeding
Pioneered at the Benrath Senior Centre in Düsseldorf, some treatment centers are now encouraging Alzheimer’s sufferers to wait at a fake bus stop as part of pioneering treatment for the disease.
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2010/mar/23/the-bus-stop/
http://www.fastcompany.com/1598472/uncommon-act-of-design-fake-bus-stop-helps-alzheimers-patients
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