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Octopuses hurl objects in rare example of animal throwing behavior. Scientists studying the behavior of wild octopuses off the coast of Australia have made a strange discovery, with the creatures caught hurling silt, algae and even shells at one another in a rare example of animal throwing behavior.
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Study found that people aged 18-30 and 65-85 with normal hearing—and hearing impairment—could all be trained to boost their ability to differentiate subtle changes in the speed, or “rate,” of sounds, improving the understanding speech in noisy environments
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Same-sex married couples cope with stress more positively and collaboratively than different-sex couples, and women married to men report more negative support — meaning that their spouses react ambivalently or even hostilely in response to stress — than women married to women
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Political ideology linked with COVID health outcomes. The higher the exposure to conservatism on each political metric, the higher the COVID-19 age-standardized mortality rates, even after adjusting for the district’s social characteristics, voters’ political lean, and vaccination rates
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Cooking from meal boxes can cut household food waste by 38%. Even without subscribing to a meal box provider, our results suggest that taking care to measure and weigh the exact amount of ingredients you need before cooking is a good way to lower the amount of food sent to landfill
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An analysis of six studies found that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is better at quickly relieving major depression than ketamine: “Every single study directly reports ECT works better than ketamine. But people are still skeptical of ECT, perhaps because of stigma,”
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Based on current evidence, vegetarian and vegan diets during the complementary feeding period have not been shown to be safe, and the current best evidence suggests that the risk of critical micronutrient deficiencies or insufficiencies and growth retardation is high.
mdpi.comSubmitted by Meatrition t3_xtfl8n
New study show spike protein but no nucleocapsid protein detected within the foci of brain and the heart, particularly in the endothelial cells of small blood vessels. Since no nucleocapsid protein could be detected, the presence of spike protein must be ascribed to vaccination not viral infection.
mdpi.comSubmitted by TheBravan t3_xtaq1i
Permafrost thaw is usually expected to emit CO2 on net. Instead, a 37-year analysis of the northern high latitude regions found that for now, permafrost-rich areas have been absorbing more CO2 as they get warmer. However, northern forests are absorbing less carbon than predicted by the models.
nature.comSubmitted by BurnerAcc2020 t3_xsvill
Stereotypes about senior employees lead to premature retirements: senior employees often feel insecure about their position in the workplace because they fear that colleagues see them as worn-out and unproductive, which are common stereotypes about older employees
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