- US air bases blamed for fluorinated pollutants on Okinawa - a study by two Kyoto University professors has found extremely high concentrations of PFOS and PFHxS in the blood of people living around the two air bases. https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/us-air-bases-blamed-for-fluorinated-pollutants-on-japanese-island/3010607.article 8 comments worldnews
- Among otherwise healthy people, a daily dose of aspirin does not save lives and causes additional bleeding, an analysis by University of Florida Health researchers has found. https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehy813/5250614?searchresult=1 28 comments science
- A study from the Center for Turkish Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany has found that most of the 3 million people with Turkish roots living Germany feel more strongly connected to Turkey than to Germany. https://www.dw.com/en/german-turks-still-rooted-in-the-east-study/a-44799929 31 comments europe
- “What universe are these people living in?” Anne Frank Center blasts Sean Spicer for complaints over anti-Semitism whitewash http://www.salon.com/2017/02/22/what-universe-are-these-people-living-in-anne-frank-center-blasts-sean-spicer-for-complaints-over-anti-semitism-whitewash/ 348 comments politics
- Programmer Archaeologist - A really cool career option for people living in the universe created by Vernor Vinge http://everything2.com/title/programmer+archaeologist 41 comments programming
- In a global study, researchers in evolutionary medicine at the University of Adelaide have found that people living in larger households are at reduced risk of dying from dementia and could stave off the progression of the disease for longer. https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2022/03/03/study-shows-household-and-family-ties-significant-in-staving-off-dementia#:~:text=Study%20shows%20household%20and%20family%20ties%20significant%20in%20staving%20off%20dementia,-Posted%20on%20Mar&text=In%20a%20global%20study%2C%20researchers,of%20the%20disease%20for%20longer. 6 comments science
- Pochettino on Alli "But he is young. He is 21. If you compare with normal people on the street who are 21, they are still living at home with their parents, they are still at university doing stupid things. https://es.pn/2ihlgh1 280 comments soccer
- Neolithic culinary traditions uncovered: A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, were cooked in pots https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220906114401.htm 3 comments anthropology
- UK Green Party manifesto pledges four-day working week and universal basic income - The party says it will ‘transform people lives with bold policies’ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/green-party-manifesto-four-day-week-universal-basic-income-four-day-working-week-a7750036.html 741 comments worldnews
- A study just released by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health finds that gay people living in communities entrenched with high levels of anti-gay bigotry ... are expected to die 12 years earlier than their peers living in more progressive and accepting environments. http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/top-university-study-anti-gay-prejudice-is-killing-gay-people/discrimination/2014/02/17/83300#.uwjqtfldwhh 32 comments science
- Next week is live like a stoic week. Philosophers from Birkbeck, University of London, and the University of Exeter, and psychotherapists are calling on people to live like a Stoic for a week. http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/stoic-week-2013/ 41 comments philosophy
- I’m a Journalist, That’s Why I Don’t Stand With Arnab Goswami: Goswami wields so much power that he can ruin the lives of not just high-profile public intellectuals or university students but also extremely vulnerable people who have no power, influence or social media presence https://thewire.in/media/arnab-goswami-arrest-free-speech 26 comments india
- Punjab Department of Higher Education has issued a show-cause notice to Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar for 'violating government orders & putting in danger lives of about 3200 people' by 'not shutting down completely'. https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1251364903446654976?s=09 49 comments india
- New Study Offers Clues to Origin of Laws. The study found that despite living in separate countries and legal codes separated by thousands of years, people have a universal intuition about whether a punishment fits a crime. https://www.ucf.edu/news/new-study-offers-clues-to-origin-of-laws/ 9 comments science
- A professor at the University of South Carolina studied medieval skeletons from the period before, during and after the Black Death. She found people who survived the plague lived much longer lives than people did before it struck. http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/announcements/2014/05_sharondewitte_blackdeath_plosonejournal.php#.u2uxz1dun41 13 comments science
- A team of researchers at North Carolina State University has found that people living in the United States tend to set their thermostats to temperatures that mimic natural environmental conditions in parts of Africa https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.180695 7 comments science
- A stunning map of depression rates around the world "The Middle East and North Africa suffer the world’s highest depression rates, according to a new study by researchers at Australia’s University of Queensland -- and it’s costing people in the region years off their lives." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/11/07/a-stunning-map-of-depression-rates-around-the-world/?tid=rssfeed 3 comments worldnews
- Police moved in on a Paris university to remove dozens of migrants and activists who had been living in the building since January, the latest move to clear out makeshift camps that regularly appear in the French capital. Authorities said 194 people had their asylum applications processed http://www.france24.com/en/20180626-libya-unity-government-urges-un-block-illegal-oil-sales 4 comments worldnews
- Religious believers think God values the lives of out-group members more than they do themselves. Across religious groups in Fiji and Israel, religious believers see God as encouraging people to treat others in a more universal, or equal, manner. http://spsp.org/news-center/press-releases/pasek-ginges-god-cares 29 comments science
- Universal Benefits Will Help People With Disabilities Escape Poverty - A person with a disability should not be forced to choose between living off $12,000 a year and losing much-needed benefits. https://truthout.org/articles/universal-benefits-will-help-people-with-disabilities-escape-poverty/ 57 comments politics
- Researchers at the University of Utrecht find that Dutch cyclists live longer than non-bikers. They say the evidence proves that cycling is not just good for your health but adds about an hour to your life for every hour spent this way. People in the Netherlands average about 74 minutes per week. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34498871 23 comments bicycling
- Researchers at the University of Utrecht find that Dutch cyclists live longer than non-bikers. They say the evidence proves that cycling is not just good for your health but adds about an hour to your life for every hour spent this way. People in the Netherlands average about 74 minutes per week. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34498871 161 comments worldnews
- Researchers at the University of Utrecht find that Dutch cyclists live longer than non-bikers. They say the evidence proves that cycling is not just good for your health but adds about an hour to your life for every hour spent this way. People in the Netherlands average about 74 minutes per week. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34498871 8 comments science
- Michael Lewis | How Wall Street corrodes your soul: "One moment this herd of graduates of the nation's best universities are young people ... with young people's ideals and hopes to live a meaningful life. The next they are essentially old people, at work gaming ratings companies" http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/09/26/michael-lewis-how-wall-street-corrodes-your-soul/ 8 comments economy
- University of Georgia marine scientist: "talk to people who live around the Gulf of Mexico, who live on the coast, who have family members who work on oil rigs. It's not OK down there. The system is not fine. Things are not normal." http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/13/deepwater-horizon-gulf-mexico-oil-spill 53 comments reddit.com
- Long-ago, all food was organic, healthy natural remedies were universal, obesity was rare, and people got lots of exercise. And they lived to be 35 http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=3904 17 comments reddit.com
- Half of India’s population lives below the poverty line. "According to an Oxford University study, 55 percent of India’s population of 1.1 billion, or 645 million people, are living in poverty. Using a newly-developed index, the study found that about one-third of the world’s poor live in India." http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/indi-a02.shtml 26 comments worldnews