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Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems–Simple Cells Can Do It
The planarian is nobody's idea of a genius. A flatworm shaped like a comma, it can be found wriggling through the muck of lakes and ponds worldwide. Its pin-size head has a microscopic structure that passes for a brain. Its two eyespots are set close together in a way that makes it look cartoonishly confused.
January 27, 2024
In Youngest Kids, RSV Required More Hospital Resources Than COVID
Among infants and very young children, symptomatic respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections required greater hospital resource utilization than SARS-CoV-2 infections, a retrospective study in Germany found. Among nearly 200 symptomatic children (median age 3 months), the median length of stay was twice as long for those with RSV as compared to SARS-CoV-2 infections (4 vs…
February 25, 2022
New strategies are required to control food-price inflation
The question of how best to control inflation is back on the economic policy agenda, and opinion is divided. The mainstream view emphasises the need for tighter monetary policies and regards higher interest rates and reduced liquidity provision as justified, even if they dampen the fragile economic recovery now underway in many countries. Others argue…
January 31, 2022
U.S. Athletes Will Be Required to Get COVID-19 Vaccines to Compete at the Winter Olympics
All Team USA athletes and staff will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to compete at the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing next year. The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) announced the vaccine mandate on Wednesday in a letter from CEO Sarah Hirshland obtained by Reuters. The mandate will take…
September 23, 2021