Click Here to Read: Health advocates say schizophrenia should be reclassified as a brain disease: Changing the definition could unlock more money for cures By Brianna Ehley on the Politico website on January 5, 2019.
Image showing brain areas more active in controls than in schizophrenia patients during a working memory task during a fMRI study. Two brain slices are shown. Image: Kim J, Matthews NL, Park S. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: New Horizons completes flyby of Ultima Thule
By Bryan Dyne on the World Socialist Web Site on January 4, 2019.
Illustration of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69 – nicknamed “Ultima Thule” – a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles beyond Pluto. Set for New Year’s 2019, New Horizons’ exploration of Ultima will be the farthest space probe flyby in history.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Patty Crane
A happy, healthy and hopeful New Year, everyone. We have a delightful poetry surprise for you this morning. Although we have featured poets who are also translators, I know that we haven’t yet had poems in Swedish. Since this is an international website, I also know that those of you who are Swedish speakers yourselves must of course be familiar with the work of Nobel prize-winning poet, Tomas Tranströmer. His volume of selected Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: January 7, 2019
Click Here to Read: Brain scans show social exclusion creates jihadists, say researchers: International studies of young Muslim men show that radicalisation follows a sense of isolation from society by Mark Townsend on the Guardian website on January 6, 2019.
Two armed Iraqi insurgents from northern Iraq, belonging to a faction of the Iraqi insurgency, which carries out attacks on American and coalition forces. Photo: بدر الإسلام Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
