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Bacteria aren’t always bad. Some, like the billions that live in our guts, are vital for our health. So should we make our homes and cities more hospitable to these beneficial microbes?

Graves will discuss his collection Saturday at the virtual Southern Festival of Books

"I first responded to poetry the way I responded to music. A rhythmic pulse and a sense of somatic presence — these were things that compelled me, and which I wanted, in an inchoate sense, to channel or register. Sentience and intensities, not subjectivity, were primary attractants."

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Last modified on Sun 11 Jul 2021 05.00 EDT If you want to learn more about what’s going on in your gut, the first step is to turn your poo blue. How long it takes for a muffin dyed with blue food colouring to pass through your system is a measure of your gut health: the median is 28.7 hours; longer transit times suggest your gut isn’t as healthy as it could be. We are only now beginning to understand the importance of the gut microbiome: could this be the start of a golden age for gut...

Much of the marketing suggests that they’re safer than more traditional underarm products, but that hype is not based on science.

 E-Mail IMAGE: This schematic shows some of the location where SARS-CoV-2s genetic signature was detected in the intensive care unit (ICU) and other hospital rooms. view more  Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences Watching what was happening around the world in early 2020, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers knew their region would likely soon be hit with a wave of patients with COVID-19, the infection caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. They wondered ho...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘My Madness Will Now Bare Itself’ Credit...Jamiel Law By Sarah Broom NOTES ON GRIEF By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie June 2020 marked the 40th anniversary of my father’s death. In the months leading up to then I’d plotted ritualistic ways I might mark such loss. But by the time the anniversary arrived, more than 380,000 were dead from Covid. That grief of mine, no longer singular, was subsumed in the collective wail. That is, until Chimamanda Ngozi Adich...

New pandemic advice from the New York Times: Practicing good hygiene may be worse than COVID-19 The title of a puzzling opinion piece published recently in the New York Times, written by author Markham Heid, asks: “Can we learn to live with germs again?” The subtitle proceeds to answer the curious question by suggesting that our health depends on resuming our pre-pandemic “lifestyles that expose us to bacteria, despite the risks” posed by the coronavirus. In short, the entire article p...

A vegan mother films her baby chomping on sand, dirt, rocks and even supermarket shopping trolley straps - as she claims her breast milk protects the tot while he builds his immune system. Alice Bender, from Phoenix, Arizona, shared footage of eight-month-old baby Fern chewing on various objects on TikTok including sand while at the beach and even her handing him a brown rock, which he puts in his mouth straight away. The 22-year-old, who raises her son as a vegan, defended her parenting style...