Can olive oil prevent mental illness?
A new study says the ingestion of trans-fats and saturated fats increases the risk of suffering depression and that olive oil protects against this mental illness.
The study by researchers from Navarra and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria used 12,059 SUN Project volunteers over the course of six years; the volunteers had their diet, lifestyle and ailments analyzed at the beginning of the project, over its course and at the end of the project. The researchers say none of the volunteers reported depression at the beginning of the study but, at the end, 657 new cases had been detected.
Astronomers at the Hubble Space Telescope believe they have found the most distant object ever seen in the universe, 13.2 billion light years away, some 3% of the age of universe, making it roughly 150 million light years more distant than the previous record holder, says the report in Nature.
This newly found object, named UDFj-39546284, is a compact galaxy made of blue stars that existed only 480 million years after the Big Bang - and it's tiny. Over one hundred such mini galaxies would be needed to make up our Milky Way.
Frédéric Chopin, composer of "The Last Waltz" and poet of the piano, suffered from tuberculosis and regularly hallucinated.
Even for those in the Romantic Revolution, like Liszt, Schumann and Victor Hugo, among others, Chopin was considered frail and hypersensitive and somewhat of a mad genius. Tuberculosis would claim him at age 39 but a paper published in Medical Humanities says that his hallucinations were not madness, but rather temporal lobe epilepsy. Hallucinations typically feature in seizure disorders, they say.
In , it was noted that happiness spikes when wealth increases but then gradually levels off as a factor. Money does not buy happiness, it was always said, and it may be that money does not buy a better education either.
It's what happens when money is expected to increase basic education; achieving that begins to conflict with notions of diversity, equality and inclusion.
Inclusion has become a political buzzword, notes Docent Girma Berhanu from the University of Gothenburg in International Journal of Special Education, but educational reform is leading to less of it.
The U.S. spends more per capita on health care for its citizens than any other nation and, its proponents note, the quality is higher, but where area where spending has not helped is the life expectancy of older people - at least when it comes to increases in life expectancy.
Did dinosaurs appear and replace other animals? At least in one South American valley, there's no indication that the dinosaurs appeared and wiped out other animals, which has been the prevailing hypothesis for the origin of dinosaurs based on fossils from North America and elsewhere in the world.
Dating of new dinosaur fossils and volcanic ash around them by researchers from has led them to cast doubt on the idea that dinosaurs appeared and opportunistically replaced other animals. They seem to have existed side by side and gone through similar periods of extinction.
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