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It Seems Free Radicals Aren’t All Bad

from Virginia Hopkins Health Watch --
There’s no doubt that in excess, free radicals are harmful and accelerate aging. However, the key word here is excess—free radicals have beneficial jobs to do in the body so it’s not helpful to go overboard and mop them all up. The downside of taking lots of supplements of any kind is that they are highly concentrated biochemicals, and make the liver work very hard to process them. Meanwhile, the liver is also working to help regulate blood sugar and insulin levels, neutralize toxins that come in through the air and skin, and filter impurities from whatever you’ve eaten recently before the nutrients enter the bloodstream. One thing is that the effects of physical exercise can be lost Vitamins and other nutritional and herbal supplements can be powerful allies in preventing and treating disease, and maintaining optimal health. However, it’s important to be thoughtful and discriminating about what’s going down the hatch. Taking handfuls of vitamins every day may do as much harm as good, especially as we age and liver function declines. A balanced diet of wholesome foods will provide an adequate baseline of nutrients for most people.

"Greenest" Building in the World

from jetsongreen.com
Near completion in Abu Dhabi is the world's first positive energy, mixed-use building for the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city called Masdar. The "positive energy" building, will generate more energy each day than it consumes. The 1.4 million sq. ft. building complex will serve as the centerpiece of Masdar City, which will end up being about a $22 billion development in Abu Dhabi.

In addition to being the first mixed-use, net positive energy building in the world, the $300 million building will be the lowest energy consumer per square meter for a modern class A office building in an extremely hot and humid climate, feature the world’s largest building-integrated photovoltaic arrays. This stunning building will also consume about 70% less water than a mixed-use building of its size.

Voodoo Hex?

from New Scientist --
Late one night in a small Alabama cemetery, Vance Vanders had a run-in with the local witch doctor, who wafted a bottle of unpleasant-smelling liquid in front of his face, and told him he was about to die and that no one could save him.

Back home, Vanders took to his bed and began to deteriorate. Some weeks later, emaciated and near death, he was admitted to the local hospital, where doctors were unable to find a cause for his symptoms or slow his decline. Only then did his wife tell one of the doctors, Drayton Doherty, of the hex.

Doherty thought long and hard. The next morning, he called Vanders's family to his bedside. He told them that the previous night he had lured the witch doctor back to the cemetery, where he had choked him against a tree until he explained how the curse worked. The medicine man had, he said, rubbed lizard eggs into Vanders's stomach, which had hatched inside his body. One reptile remained, which was eating Vanders from the inside out. Doherty then summoned a nurse who had, by prior arrangement, filled a large syringe with a powerful emetic. With great ceremony, he inspected the instrument and injected its contents into Vanders' arm. A few minutes later, Vanders began to gag and vomit uncontrollably. In the midst of it all, unnoticed by everyone in the room, Doherty produced his pièce de résistance - a green lizard he had stashed in his black bag. "Look what has come out of you Vance," he cried. "The voodoo curse is lifted."

Nuclear Soybeans?

From the Journal of Peroteome Research --
Twenty three years after the world's largest nuclear disaster, life around Chernobyl continues to adapt. The soil in the close vicinity of CNPP is still significantly contaminated with long-living radioisotopes. To determine how plants might have adapted to the meltdown, a team compared soybeans grown in radioactive plots near Chernobyl with plants grown about 100 kilometers away in uncontaminated soil. Compared to the plants grown in normal soil, the Chernobyl soya produced significantly different amounts of several dozen proteins, the team found. Among those are proteins that contribute to the production of seeds, as well as proteins involved in defending cells from heavy metal and radiation damage. One protein is known to actually protect human blood from radiation. After the 1986 meltdown, it took plants several generations to fully adapt to the new conditions,say scientists from the Slovak Academy of Sciences in the Ukraine. Determining how plants cope with life after Chernobyl could help scientists engineer radiation-resistant plants.

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