a few stories to get you doing the work for a change
Hope for Alzheimers It’s an understated truth, but the general ageing of the population is one of the most significant trends in human history. That’s why doing everything we can to understand it is so important. We took heart from this new Alzheimer’s test which shows real promise The I paper via Apple News https://inews.co.uk/news/health/blood-test-scientists-alzheimers-nhs-3733762thanks to P seymour
Nigel Farage is becoming the true tribune of the working class in Britain reports the acute mind of Andy Haldane. Because Farage realises that immigration and inter ethnic jealousies it engenders are the prime motivating force for most humans, way ahead of housing, health and certainly education.. And we have noticed a tendency among the educated classes(not Haldane) to sneer at ordinary people like builders and taxi drivers for nurturing these hatreds. Remember one thing: the high-consumption high-energy life styles of these so called educated classes are causing the ecological collapse which causes immigrants to flee to richer countries in the first place. Don’t be surprised if the lower orders , who are the first to encounter all the new neighbours, begin to act in emotional and inconvenient way. The Guardian
Monkey Pandemic -echoes of Gibbon? Pandemics start small, but eventually cause the Decline and Fall of vast empires. That’s the clear lesson from History. Which is why we take this warning Sierra Leone mPox raises fear of spread from the redoubtable Nature Briefing very seriously indeed
A surge of mpox infections in Sierra Leone has stretched the country’s health-care system, sparking fears that the virus will spread to neighbouring countries in West Africa. Sierra Leone has confirmed more than 3,000 infections in the last month, and an analysis of viral genomes suggests there have been at least four times more infections than officially reported, says genomic epidemiologist Edyth Parker. The recent withdrawal of US funds for foreign aid will make curbing the outbreak even more difficult, experts say.Nature | 5 min read
Reference: Virological.org analysis
If I could talk to the animals Ever since the early days of iconic simians like Washoe, Kanzi and Flipper the Dolphin, researchers have been hoping to crack the code of animal language. But would be Dr Doolittles should beware: such languages may not exist, warns this prescient article from the Conversation. Making the hunt for them a wild goose chase. Or should that be a mare’s nest? (that’s enough flippancy–ed)
Prudence always The Beatles White album was for us the least of their works. It seemed to be full of rather self indulgent essays in mediocrity and could have done with being cut down from two of those funny black shiny things to one. However, one song does stand out. Dear Prudence, covered by many, was always best in the original
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