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Scientists report that droughts in India are associated with a
particular type of El Niño, the climate phenomenon marked by increased
sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific. http://louisjsheehan.blogstream.com
The rainy
season in India occurs in June, July, and August. Between 1871 and
2002, central India experienced 10 severe summertime droughts, says
Martin Hoerling, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo. Every one of |
Breathing smoggy air diminishes the ability to breathe deeply in
overweight people more than it does in lean folks. The new finding
mirrors an effect recently seen in rodents. http://louis1j1sheehan.us
About a decade ago,
Milan J. Hazucha of the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel
Hill and his colleagues exposed people for 90 minutes to ozone, the
primary respiratory irritant in smog. The goal had been to evaluate the
effect of age on how sensitive adult lungs were to ozone |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Lonely people often get a lousy night's sleep, according to a new
study. Lack of high-quality slumber among the lonesome may contribute
to their elevated physical illness and death rates, say psychologist
John T. Cacioppo of the University of Chicago and his coworkers. Data
for the study came from 33 male and 21 female college students who
spent a night in a sleep laboratory wearing a cap fitted with sensors
that measure eyelid movements, head rolls, |
Attention, married men suffering from major depression: Positive
comments directed at your wife may sometimes be hazardous to your
emotional health. That, at least, is the implication of a
preliminary study of couples with either a depressed husband or wife.
When depressed husbands discussed marital problems with their wives,
the men's approving and friendly comments often elicited nasty and
critical retorts, say Sheri L. Johnson of the University of Miami in
Coral Gables, Fla., and |
After living for nearly 2 millennia in Chile's lowland jungles,
South American settlers first braved the region's Atacama Desert around
13,000 years ago. Modern archaeologists would like to know why. New
evidence may explain this puzzling migration and also account for an
extended abandonment of the 2-mile-high desert several thousand years
later. It boils down to climate changes, say Martin Grosjean of
the University of Bern in Switzerland and his two Chilean colleagues.
Hunters sought |
What led to the project: Joel Kugelmass had some
interesting reading tastes as a child growing up in the 1950s. He read
Euclid's writings on geometry as a 11-year-old seventh grader. (He had
skipped grades.) He soon turned his attention to number theory,
reading everything he could about this "elegant" branch of mathematics
that is concerned with the properties of numbers. This interest was
surprising to his more literary family—his father was a reporter at the
San Jose Mercury News—but
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Louis J. Sheehan When some toad toes tap, maybe it’s the beat, not the motion, that matters. The
resulting vibrations could agitate insects and other little morsels,
setting them wriggling and scuttling in a flurry of activity that
triggers a toad’s known tendency to strike at moving prey, says
entomologist John Sloggett of Groningen, the Netherlands. http://louis8j8sheehan8esquire.wordpress.com/
Details
of how a toad’s brain processes information about when and where to
strike |
The graves of people who died 12,000 ago rarely contain a woman’s
skeleton pinned down in an unusual position by large stones,
accompanied by a menagerie of animal remains and another person’s foot.
Yet that’s what archaeologist Leore Grosman of Hebrew University of
Jerusalem and her coworkers recently discovered in a small Israeli cave
called Hilazon Tachtit. Closer analysis shows that this grave holds a shaman, one of the earliest ever excavated, the researchers report in an upcoming |
Caroline Elfland began receiving complaints soon after researchers started occupying one of a pair of brand new buildings on the University of North Carolina
campus, almost two years ago. People said the water tasted funny — as
in bad. To ferret out the source of the noxious taste, this associate
vice chancellor directed all sorts of probes into the new facilities’
construction, into water entering the buildings from mains in the
street, and of course into plumbing materials. Within |
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