Category: Life
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Happy. Birds. Silence…
A high biodiversity in our vicinity is as important for life satisfaction as our income, scientists found. All across Europe, the individual enjoyment of life correlates with the number of surrounding bird species. An additional 10% of bird species therefore increases the Europeans' life satisfaction as much as a comparable increase in income. Nature conservation…
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A small drop… A deep ocean…
Researchers are studying a tornado's song and other 'doors to danger' in an increasingly chaotic world. (1) Flow. From a small drop. To a small creek. A great river. Giant sea. A deep ocean. Bottomless souls. Shallow language full of self-interest and dead trees. What else can there be? But the things that are already…
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Can you love? Can you not understand?
To find out just how well the aging-in-community strategy is working, a University of Central Florida health management and informatics researcher examined three aging-in-community programs in Florida. Her study is among the first to examine some key variables for these programs. (1) Why do we need the old people? The simple answer does not compute…
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Being prepared. (How can you?)
Going into kindergarten already well-prepared gives a child many advantages later in life and lowers costs for society in the long term, researchers in Canada find. (1) Being prepared. For things before they happen. Based on things that have already happened. Things we were never prepared for...
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Back home…
Volatile organic compounds identified that can be used for olfactory navigation by homing pigeons. (1) Open your eyes. Touch the cosmos. Smell the trees. And you will be able to go back home. A home you would have never left in vain. If not for the senses that allowed you to navigate away from it…
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