Health and Science
Center for American Progress, Japan and the Future of US Nuclear Power
"In the immediate future, the US government must do four things: Review the ability of every reactor to deal with threats to its safety, not cut funding for NOAA's tsunami warning service, the permitting process must not be further weakened and the DOE must continue to run the nuclear loan guarantee program." more »
Do You See Yourself as Inventive? Young Men and Women Don't Seem to Think They Are
American women ages 16-25 possess many characteristics necessary to become inventors, such as creativity, interest in science and math, desire to develop altruistic inventions, and preference for working in groups or with mentors — yet they still do not see themselves as inventive more »
NIH, Moderate Exercise May Improve Memory in Older Adults
While both groups examined showed an improvement on spatial memory tests, there was a significant correlation between increased hippocampus size and improved memory performance only for those in the walking group. more »
Mom, Me, and Menopause
My mother was completely finished with menopause by the time she was forty-four. At least I think she was; Mom had an aversion to admitting that anything was not perfect. When my aunt found her lying prone on the living room sofa with a wet dishtowel draped over her head, Mom insisted that she wasn’t going through "the changes" more »
