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Winter Is The Season Of Giving…:
You can catch a cold or flu from being cold, right?
There is actual “cold” in the air and if you stick your hand out, you can catch some?
So, ever since we were little, we’ve been told to bundle-up in the winter.
-Or you’ll catch a cold.
Well in this video, ASAPScience explores a few of the myths on how you really do…
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What’s Old Is New Again!:
So one miracle drug that reversed Alzheimer’s Disease in trials is something we’ve told you about before.
We’ve also told you about another miracle drug that’s a little more famous.
Well researchers at the Gladstone Institutes are throwing us another curveball that’s like a combination of the two strangely-enough.
A not-so-famous cousin of a drug we all know may have surprising beneficial properties similar to both of these…
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Sick Building Syndrome: Perhaps The Skyscraper Was Not Modern Enough:
So before he got sick at the office, Edna Mode’s favorite architect Mies Van Der Rohe got beaten to the punch by era-defining skyscraper, “Lever House” in 1952.
The minimalist giant-steel-ice-cube International style went gangbusters and was copied just about everywhere.
Then a few decades later, we all inherited an accidental invention from these sealed curiosities: Sick Building Syndrome.
But today with the advent of the Human Microbiome, safety experts are finding something even more sinister: The Office Micro-Biome…
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The Joys of Cross-Contamination:
So as children go back to school, one of the joys that comes with the territory is sickness.
Schools, ball-pits, & daycare-centers are like stock-exchanges for millions of short little typhoid-marys, infecting eachother with God knows what.
And as other scientists from Duke and IC-L have mystifyingly said before,
That may actually not be such a bad thing…
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One Quest Meets Another:
Over time, mankind has set itself many challenges to find purpose & meaning in life.
And one of those big goals is counterintuitive. One that doesn’t necessarily involve outward achievements.
-But Inward ones. All of which lead to it: Happiness.
And once you’re actually surviving, perhaps it’s The Only Goal.
Strangely enough, researchers are finding out some of our dearest desires have significant, yet unexpected side-benefits.
Including, among other things, actually keeping you alive longer…
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Is The Organic Premise Right In The First Place?:
So, lots of people believe in food that’s decomplicated and grown in ways similar to those of 100 years ago as the path to good nutrition.
And recently, Organic seems to have taken that place at the grocery store for people who don’t hit up the farmers’ markets.
Many people even think that Organic means No Pesticides at-all and that it’s more natural, less dangerous to you and the environment, and ultimately healthier.
But is any of that true? -In this video, ASAPScience decides to find out…
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Summer Is About To Get Even Better!:
So with the full-weight of summer approaching, we revisit a more human side of good-health: How people look in a bathing-suit.
Especially when they get just the right amount of color to highlight their features. -Bikinis don’t hurt either.
And the unfortunate side-effect is all the UV-damage that occurs while achieving that crispy KFC hue.
But if Massachusetts researchers have anything to say about it, that could all be a thing of the past…
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Retro Approach To New Info Pays Off:
In the field of research, The New rules the roost. What’s old is considered obsolete.
And nowhere is this more obvious than the search for cures to diseases.
Both The How & The Why seem so complex, the Solution must be something supercomputer-complex, & supercomputer-new, also.
Well, in a strange turn of events, an English team took the recent trend of Inflammation being implicated in many diseases, including Alzheimer’s,
And ran with it, back to a 2,000+ year-old fix that looks like the start of a new cure…
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