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Chickens are having their beaks brutally chopped off in factory farms. Not only is this distressing and painful to the chickens, it deprives them of some of their most basic needs and ability to function naturally. Help stop this cruel practice.
Feeding 9 Billion - National Geographic
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When we think about threats to the environment, we tend to picture cars and smokestacks, not dinner. But the truth is, our need for food poses one of the biggest dangers to the planet.
AckerbauHalle's insight:
Grafisch ansprechend gemachte Foto-Feature zu der WelternƤhrungssituation
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China underlines cautious approach to biotech crops | Ag Professional
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China will continue to promote research into genetically modified crops while maintaining strict controls on safety of the technology, a top agriculture official said on Tuesday, underscoring Beijingās cautious approach toward biotechnology.
AckerbauHalle's insight:
China intensivier Forschung zu transgenen Pflanzen, bleibt bei der Freisetzung aber eher vorsichtig.Ā
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A Question for my Followers
How many of you would be interested in a service that lets you remote into telescopes around the world? basically you would be able to look at where the telescope is looking for free, but if you wanted to capture an image or you wanted to control it yourself you would pay a small amount. It may be that the service in entirely free at first, or forever. If you think there are better options for community telescopes let me know, Iām completely open to ideas and criticism. what do you think?
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At the end of an ad set to air during Super Bowl XLIX, a scantily-clad supermodel takes a bite out of Carlās Jr.ās new āAll-Naturalā hamburger. Bold letters flash across the screen: No Antibiotics. The risquĆ© nature of the commerā¦
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A ball pit for adults just opened in London
Who says adults canāt have playtime? In December, creative agency Pearlfisher decided to test out that question with an adult ball pit.
And it looks nothing like this:
Pearlfisherās version, open in London through February 13, is called āJump In!,ā and features minimalistic white plastic balls instead of technicolor orbs. Itās also categorized as an art installation rather than a venue for pure play.
The scientific reason every city should have an adult ball pit
In a prominent landmark building in The Hague, a former Philips factory, UrbanFarmers is developing a multi-story urban farming enterprise called UF De Schilde.Ā
The Spring 2015 Greenhouse Crop Production & Engineering Design Short Course Dates will be held March 22 - 27 at the Westward Look Resort (245 East Ina Road, Tucson, AZ 85704) in Tucson, Arizona. Discounted hotel room rates can be found by clicking the link below. Please contact Aaron Tevik by phone at 520-626-9566 or by email [email protected] with any questions or concerns.
In 70% of countries, girls scored significantly better than boys on the standardized test, which includes reading, mathematics and science literacy sections.
Girls out perform boys in most countries worldwide ā even where theyāre oppressed (via micdotcom)
Brain Region Vulnerable to Aging is Larger in Those with Longevity Gene Variant
People who carry a variant of a gene that is associated with longevity also have larger volumes in a front part of the brain involved in planning and decision-making, according to researchers at UC San Francisco.
The finding bolsters their previous discovery that middle-aged and older people who carry a single copy of the KLOTHO allele, called KL-VS, performed better on a wide range of cognitive tests. When they modeled KL-VS in mice, they found this strengthened the connections between neurons and enhanced learning and memory.
KLOTHO codes for a protein, called klotho, which is produced in the kidney and brain and regulates many different processes in the body. About one in five people carry a single copy of KL-VS, which increases klotho levels and is associated with a longer lifespan and better heart and kidney function. A small minority, about 3 percent, carries two copies, which is associated with a shorter lifespan.
Examining Part of Prefrontal Cortex
In the current study, published Jan. 27, in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, researchers scanned the brains of 422 cognitively normal men and women aged 53 and older to see if the size of any brain area correlated with carrying one, two or no copies of the allele.
They found that the KLOTHO gene variant predicted the size of a region called the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC), which is especially vulnerable to atrophy as people age. Deterioration in this area may be one reason why older people have difficulty suppressing distracting information and doing more than one thing at a time.
Researchers found that the rDLPFC shrank with age in all three groups, but those with one copy of KL-VS ā about a quarter of the study group ā had larger volumes than either non-carriers or those with two copies. Researchers also found that the size of the rDLPFC predicted how well the three groups performed on cognitive tests, such as working memory ā the ability to keep a small amount of newly acquired information in mind ā and processing speed. Both tests are considered to be good measures of the planning and decision-making functions that the rDLPFC controls.
āWeāve known for a long time that people lose cognitive abilities as they age, but now weāre beginning to understand that factors like klotho can give people a boost and confer resilience in aging,ā said senior author Dena Dubal, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurology at UCSF and the David A. Coulter Endowed Chair in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease. āGenetic variation in KLOTHO could help us predict brain health and find ways to protect people from the devastating diseases that happen to us as we grow old, like Alzheimerās and other dementias.ā
Bigger Size Means Better Function
In statistical tests, the researchers concluded that the larger rDLPFC volumes seen in single copy KL-VS carriers accounted for just 12 percent of the overall effect that the variant had on the abilities tested.
However, the allele may have other effects on the brain, such as increasing levels or changing the actions of the klotho protein to enhance synaptic plasticity, or the connections between neurons. In a previous experiment, they found that raising klotho in mice increased the action of a cell receptor critical to forming memories.
āThe brain region enhanced by genetic variation in KLOTHO is vulnerable in aging and several psychiatric and neurologic diseases including schizophrenia, depression, substance abuse and frontotemporal dementia,ā said Jennifer Yokoyama, PhD, first author and assistant professor of neurology at UCSF. āIn this case, bigger size means better function. It will be important to determine whether the structural boost associated with carrying one copy of KL-VS can offset the cognitive deficits caused by disease.ā
If humans suddenly disappeared, what would happen to our planet?Ā Find out the shocking results in our new video.
The Design Trust presented a new online data aggregator to farming and policy experts on December 9, 2014. Read about the aggregator and the response here.Ā
The Design Trust presented a new online data aggregator to farming and policy experts on December 9, 2014. Read about the aggregator and the response here.Ā
Just when you thought Emma Watson couldnāt get more amazing ā¦
Not content to keep her message confined to the U.N.ās stage, Watson recently took to Twitter with a message about gender equality. While promoting the HeForShe campaign, she answered questions ā and stemmed the worries ā of young women like her.
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āMalnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth; one from a lack of food, the other from a lack of knowledge of food"
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"The largest threat to global food security is rural to urban migration"
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