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A new animal study points to a potential link between consumption of highly processed foods and memory loss.

A new animal study points to a potential link between consumption of highly processed foods and memory loss.

“riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs” – so began James Joyce’s (infamous) Finnegans Wake. That line is but the completion of the book’s last sentence, “A lone a last a loved a long the”, You can, of course, stitch the two halves together in order simply by reading first this string and then that one. Joyce was a notorious jokester. One of the jokes embedded in tha...

The Body’s Best Defense, on Overdrive When inflammation harms instead of helps—and how to stop it When you catch an infection, your body responds with redness, swelling, and pain. This is called inflammation. It’s how our immune system gets rid of intruders. This response is an essential part of the healing process. But inflammation can also work against us—when things go wrong, it can become a major driver of disease. How can something that heals also make us sick? It depends on how lo...

This republican party, he can attach whatever wings he wants to, i read his article carefully. he is brilliant, a writer about brain behavior. partisan politics, im not sure. this republican party is what it is, although interestingly, the republican party as it is right now, based in the south and the midwest, being what it is in the sort of ronald reagan-bush family image is moving very rapidly. dont forget, lawrence, within the last couple of weeks they caved on the fiscal cliff, at least tem...