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Charlie Chen served authentic Chinese food at the cafe in DC's World Bank before offices shut down last year. He shifted to feeding his regular customers through delivery, and picked up some new ones.
In this week’s episode of The Conversation Weekly, as new scientific guidelines are released on embryo research and the use of stem cells, we talk to experts about what’s changed – including a recommendation to relax the 14-day time limit for human embryo research. And we hear about a wave of romantic comedy films emerging from South Africa that are re-imagining the city of Johannesburg. It’s been five years since the last set of guidelines from the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) were published. Since then, scientists have made significant developments in stem c...
In California, extreme heat and ozone pollution hit poor communities hardest A new study identifies places in the state where the climate-intensified health risks are linked. ByAlejandra Borunda Email When Juan Flores steps out of his Delano, California home into the midst of a heat wave, “it’s like walking into a wall,” he says. Flores lives in the San Joaquin Valley, one of the places where summer heat regularly creeps well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. But it isn’t just the heat that Flores is experiencing. During extreme temperatures, the air can be so thick with ozone and fine pa...
When King Minos of Crete was given a magnificent bull by the sea god Poseidon for a sacrifice, he could not bring himself to kill it. In anger, Poseidon enchanted Minos’s wife Pasiphaë to be filled with lust for the creature. The result of their trans-species mating was the bull-headed monster the Minotaur. Hybrids of humans and animals throng within myth and legend: centaurs, mermaids, goat-footed Pan. We’re both fascinated and uneasy about the...
Researchers from University of Michigan have discovered an essential oil in cinnamon that attacks fat cells and could be used as a treatment to fight obesity.