Is it safe to own a cat? A new paper suggests the answer may be Yes. Maybe Yes The new, possibly-pro-cat paper is: “Healthy cats provide more health benefits than risks to owners,” Michael Lappin, Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, vol. 21, no. 11, November 2019, pp. 1007-1007. The author explains: “In these 2019 […]
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Associations : Ultra Violet Radiation and the number of days it takes to get a misaddressed letter back (new study)
Can the level of Ultra Violet Radiation (UV-R) in your environment affect the number of days it takes to get a misaddressed letter returned to the sender*? Or the degree to which a country’s laws protect private property rights? A new study in the journal KYKLOS examines the effects of sunlight on such indicators of […]
Article 15—“Débrouillez-vous”
A jaunty passage from Ed Yong’s essay “The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?” in The Atlantic magazine: If [the disease outbreak does return], is there any protective equipment at the hospital? “No,” she tells me. Mikolo laughs. “Article 15,” he says. Article 15 is something of a Congolese catchphrase, referring to a fictional but […]
Fracking and Sexually Transmitted Disease [public health study]
Of all the criticisms aimed at fracking, charges that it might increase the incidence of STDs – specifically gonorrhea – are seldom heard. Yet there might be a link – according to a new research paper published in the Journal of Public Health Policy. “We analyzed one potential cost to communities, the effect of fracking […]