Soul Searching

Hello All,
Time for another GAHP adventure! We’re headed to Indonesia and Nepal this round. We leave tomorrow and return on May 12th. It should be fun. We start this trip on the heels of our success in Wyoming, hopefully it carries through.
In the meanwhile, I’m moving apartments (ugh) and the weekend after I get [...]

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By Leon Kreitzman
Teenagers are notoriously difficult to rouse in the mornings. For the sake of parental authority it may be best that we keep this an adult secret, but . . . it may not be the youngsters’ fault.

In many cases, it is not laziness, but a part of normal development and determined by the [...]

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By Victoria Gill
An Amazonian ant has dispensed with sex and developed into an all-female species, researchers have found.
The ants reproduce via cloning - the queen ants copy themselves to produce genetically identical daughters.

This species - the first ever to be shown to reproduce entirely without sex - cultivates a garden of fungus, which also reproduces [...]

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18:00 12 April 2009 by Linda Geddes
The dogma that women are born with a finite number of eggs may soon be overturned. Stem cells have been discovered in the ovaries of adult mice that seem to give rise to new eggs and healthy offspring.
If these findings are confirmed, it could revolutionise female reproduction – opening [...]

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By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
Richard Wrangham, a primatologist and anthropologist, has spent four decades observing wild chimpanzees in Africa to see what their behavior might tell us about prehistoric humans. Dr. Wrangham, 60, was born in Britain and since 1989 has been at Harvard, where he is a professor of biological anthropology. He is about to publish [...]

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By RONI CARYN RABIN
People with Type 2 diabetes may be at increased risk for developing dementia as they age, several studies have suggested. Now researchers say the higher odds may be linked to life-threatening drops in blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, usually caused by excess insulin.

A long-term study of thousands of older patients with Type 2 [...]

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For more than 30 years, scientists have been intrigued by brown fat, a cell that acts like a furnace, consuming calories and generating heat. Rodents, unable to shiver effectively to keep warm, use brown fat instead. So do human infants, who do not shiver very well. But it was generally believed that humans lose brown [...]

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