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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The New York Times «Vital Signs» column reports today on a study of more than a thousand Michigan sixth graders which found that those students who regularly ate school lunch were 29 % more likely to be obese than those who brought lunch from... [Continue reading]

The New York Times «Vital Signs» column reports today on a study of more than a thousand Michigan sixth graders which found that those students who regularly ate school lunch were 29 % more likely to be obese than those who brought lunch from home.

Study finds self - employed single parent of two on # 10,000 faces losing thousands from national insurance rise and universal credit cuts

The group also studied the OR7D4 gene in the ancient DNA from two extinct human populations, Neanderthals and the Denisovans, whose remains were found at the same site in Siberia, but who lived tens of thousands of years apart.

In the study, published on October 14 in PLOS ONE, Rutgers researchers found that the density of Bornean orangutans is almost two times greater in an Indonesian peat - swamp forest — just 39 miles from similar surroundings where orangutans must survive on thousands of calories less each day for most of the year.

A study evaluating the origins of shrubs and herbs on a group of islands in the Arctic Circle finds that seeds arrived from hundreds of kilometers away to restore plant communities lost during the last ice age — all in a matter of a few thousand years.

Dondorp's study showed that compared with an older drug called quinine, a new one called artesunate reduces the risk of death from severe malaria in African children by 23 % — a finding that could save tens or even hundreds of thousands of lives annually.

In these studies, sequence data from several thousands of individuals is compared to find disease - associated genes where cases have a higher load of genetic variants that are likely to disturb gene function, compared to the controls.

While researching their new book, The Informed Parent: A Science - Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years, science journalists Tara Haelle and Emily Willingham, Ph.D., sifted through thousands of studies on parenting practices — from birthing and breastfeeding to sleep training and screen time — to find out what moms and dads really need to know.

The «wildly speculative values» of 3 to 7 grams per day referred to by Cordain came from a cohort study published in 2011 in The Journal of the American Medical Association in which sodium intake of almost twenty - nine thousand patients with established cardiovascular disease or diabetes mellitus was estimated by twenty - four - hour urinary sodium excretion.26 During the follow - up of fifty - four months, the study found that daily sodium intake below three grams and above seven grams significantly increased cardiovascular risk.

As with the casein research, the China Study findings as described in Campbell's book are a hop, skip, and eighteen thousand jumps away from what the original research says.

With thousands of supplements to choose from - and ever - shifting study results - a registered dietitian offers here a guide to: nutrition's latest findings; detailed explanations of vitamins and minerals; information on fats, carbohydrates, fiber, and proteins; daily requirements; health weight evaluation and management; food labels; meal planning; and combating disease through nutrition.

We've studied more than one thousand people, from ages eight to 80, and found that people who practice gratitude consistently report a host of benefits:

If you scour veterinary literature, you won't find many double - blind clinical studies on therapy lasers; however, if you search PubMed for clinical evidence on the efficacy of laser therapy, you'll be inundated with thousands of articles on its various applications — ranging from its basic usages to the vastly more extreme and bizarre: things like treating diabetic ulcers, traumatic brain injuries, peripheral nervous system failures, mal - union fractures, and more.

The pioneering studies, which include the most comprehensive estimates yet of the emissions from the Amazon fires, also found that pollution from the burnings traveled thousands of miles.

[This post begins one more irregularly reoccuring series at Watthead, this one focused on global climate change and entitled «Warnings from a Warming World»:] A new study by NASA climatologists finds that the world's temperature is reaching a level that has not been seen in thousands of years.

One study using evidence from stomata of fossilized leaves suggests greater variability, with carbon dioxide mole fractions above 300 ppm during the period seven to ten thousand years ago, [70] though others have argued that these findings more likely reflect calibration or contamination problems rather than actual CO2 variability.

Matt Yglesias points us to a new study, which finds that pollution reduces working productivity — and acts as a drag on the economy: We already know that emissions from coal plants and factories cause hundreds of billions of dollars of damage to the economy annually, in the form of health care costs (not to mention causing tens of thousands of deaths, respiratory illnesses, missed school and work days, and so forth).

Virtually everyone uses verbal fillers, though the frequency can vary greatly from person to person.18 A study of one language database showed that speakers produced between 1.2 and 88.5 uhs and ums for every thousand words, with a median filler rate of 17.3 per thousand words.19 Other databases show anywhere from three to twenty uhs and ums for every thousand words, placing uh and um thirty - first in a ranking of most commonly used utterances, just ahead of or and just after not.20 A British study showed that, contrary to popular expectations, the use of verbal fillers does not indicate a lack of education or manners; instead, the use of uh and um increases with education and socioeconomic status, a finding with particular implications for the legal profession.21 Older people use more uhs and ums than younger people, and, curiously, men consistently use verbal fillers more often than women — a finding that has been replicated across several studies.22 Women, for their part, appear to use a higher ratio of ums to uhs than their male counterparts.23

Social and parenting factors affecting criminal - offence rates: findings from the Newcastle Thousand Family Study (1947 — 1980)

Based off of the findings from Healthy Relationships California conducting five years of outcome evaluation of thousands of participants attending hundreds of RME classes throughout California, this is the largest study ever conducted on the impact RME courses have on participants in a range of categories including: relationship satisfaction, communication skills, and conflict resolution skills.

The study found that homes served by different school districts with similar square footage, the same number of bedrooms and baths and location near each other can range in price from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.