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From The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2015 by Kathryn Schulz: Why do your fingers and toes turn all pruney after soaking in water? I’d assumed that the answer was osmosis, until I came across the real explanation in Cynthia Barnett’s “Rain.” Since the nineteen-thirties, Barnett writes, researchers have known that people with ( Read more... )

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The Harvard Health Blog (of, yes, Harvard Medical School) posted on Jan 28: Common anticholinergic drugs like Benadryl linked to increased dementia risk [...] A report published online this week in JAMA Internal Medicine offers compelling evidence of a link between long-term use of anticholinergic medications like Benadryl ( Read more... )

One of my favorite hypotheses as to Why Do We Need To Sleep -- which, let us be clear, is one of the greatest mysteries of biological sciences -- is that it's some form of what computer scientists call "garbage collection".

Recent evidence suggests that sleep is for what urban planners call "garbage collection": Scientists have just reported the ( Read more... )

Via conuly, an article that features my favorite tree, the honeylocust! ("The tree that does not want a hug.") The Trees That Miss the Mammoths. Consider the fruit of the Osage-orange, named after the Osage Indians associated with its range. In the fall, Osage-orange trees hang heavy with bright green, bumpy spheres the size of softballs, full of seeds ( Read more... )