Sleeping five hours or less a night associated with doubled risk of cardiovascular disease | Moa Bengtsson

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 26, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Middle-aged men who sleep five hours or less per night have twice the risk of developing a major cardiovascular event during the following t ...

Deep forehead wrinkles may signal a higher risk for cardiovascular mortality | Yolande Esquirol

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 26, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- People with lots of deep forehead wrinkles -- more than is typical for their age -- may have a higher risk of dying of cardiovascular diseas ...

Nuclear Calendar -- August 26, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Aug. 26, 2018 Aug. 28 4:30-5:30 p.m., Francis Gavin, Johns Hopkins University, "Rethinking American grand strategy in the age of Trump," ...

Sweeter dreams in a peaceful mind | Pilleriin Sikka

Credit: futurestreet, Flickr (CC BY 2.0)Aug. 24, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Happy people have better dreams, new research suggests. A new study by researchers from the University of Turku, Finland and t ...

No safe level of alcohol | Emmanuela Gakidou

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 24, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- A new scientific study concludes there is no safe level of drinking alcohol. The study, published in the international medical journal The L ...

Astronomers detect synchronous X-ray and radio mode switching of the pulsar PSR B0823+26 | Tomasz Nowakowski

GMRT observation at 325 MHz of PSR B0823+26 on 2017 April 20, showing as a typical example PSR B0823+26 in B mode during 2500 single-pulse sequences, or ∼ 22 minutes of the total duration of ∼ 7.5 ho ...

Core thinking error underlies belief in creationism, conspiracy theories: study | Sebastian Dieguez

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 20, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- It's not uncommon to hear someone espouse the idea that "everything happens for a reason" or that something that happened was "meant to be." ...

BOOKS: The Cosmic Doctrine: The Twelve Rays and the Seven Cosmic Planes | John Michael Greer

Aug. 15, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- This week we continue a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th-century occult philosophy. Climb i ...

Study finds flaw in emergent gravity | Lisa Zyga

Illustration of a three-dimensional hypersurface. Credit: Wang and Braunstein. Published in Nature Communications Aug. 10, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new paper undermines a key assumption of the theory of ...

How Russian Trolls Neutralize Certain News | Xymena Kurowska & Anatoly Reshetnikov

Image credit: NYMag.com Aug. 8, 2018 (The Conversation) -- Russian "troll factories" have been making headlines for some time. First, as the Kremlin's digital guardians in the Russian blogosphere. Th ...

The Kek Wars, Part Four: What Moves In The Darkness | John Michael Greer

Aug. 8, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we saw how a band of outsiders linked by the network of online forums loosely called “the chans,” and armed with the ...