According to a recent report published on Fox News, air pollution contamination might have a newly identified risk: brain damage. Researchers with the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences have recently indicated that constant exposure to air pollution can impact brain development. Their research with mice indicated that air pollution inhalation contributed to the […]
Continue ReadingDuring the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest Romania, Russian President Vladimir Putin passed surprising comments before George W bush. He said “George, you have to understand the reality that Ukraine is not a country and its greater part was given to us”. The ongoing drama in Ukraine is not a local issue rather a world […]
Continue ReadingU.S. stocks are climbing, thanks to dissipating tensions in Ukraine. The market braced itself for losses and unpredictable shifts when Russian President Vladimir Putin placed troops in Crimea. Putin spoke out brashly, describing Ukrainian protests as an “anti-constitutional coup and armed seizure of power” and defending Russia’s right “to take all measures to protect the […]
Continue ReadingOne of the most interesting things first semester college freshmen discover is the way other kids from different parts of the country speak. They’ll make friends from the Philadelphia area who pronounce “water” as “wooder,” others who fiercely debate between “soda,” “pop,” or “coke,” and, perhaps most surprisingly, even some who call a TV remote […]
Continue ReadingAn online data breach compromised more than 300,000 personal records for faculty, staff, and students of the University of Maryland at about 4 a.m. on February 18, when an outside source gained access to a secure records database dating back to 1998. The responsible party didn’t change anything in the system–satisfying itself with the duplication […]
Continue ReadingA widely-accepted hypothesis in sleep theory is being challenged by a recent study. The so-called “sleep debt theory”, which states that we can actually “make up” for lost sleep, has been in vogue for the past few decades. But the findings of a new study recently published in the American Journal of Physiology (AJP) show […]
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