Not exact matches
As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has
shown in study after study, life expectancy is increasing on a global basis, including in the Third World;
water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago;
fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one
of unprecedented human prosperity.
Results
showed that after the reminder
of the
fear and after the test for
fear relapse, those mice given alcohol had many more GluR1 receptors with phosphates at the edge
of the synapse than did mice given only
water.
Psychologist Ullrich Ecker
of the University
of Western Australia and his colleagues collected data last year
showing that deceptive headlines, such as «
Fears of Fluoride in Drinking
Water» (which topped an article emphasizing the safety of fluoride in water), can provoke biased inferences about the story, leading to misconcept
Water» (which topped an article emphasizing the safety
of fluoride in
water), can provoke biased inferences about the story, leading to misconcept
water), can provoke biased inferences about the story, leading to misconceptions.
Why It Matters: Creating this type
of ice
shows the structure
of water on a
water -
fearing, or hydrophobic, surface.