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Can You Store Seed Potatoes From This Year’s Harvest?

Gardeners can store potatoes from this year’s harvest and plant them next season, but that does not make every potato in the harvest a good seed potato. The temptation makes perfect sense: a basket of beautiful homegrown tubers sits on the counter, and suddenly the grocery-store seed potato purchase looks…

Frugal Gardening · Aug 15

'Killer Kitchens': Calls Grow for UK Ban on Quartz Countertops as Incurable Lung Disease Cases Rise

Campaigners and experts are urging the UK to ban engineered quartz worktops due to rising silicosis cases among workers exposed to silica dust during fabrication, despite new safety regulations.

International Business Times UK · Aug 15

In 1993, a mother planted the first tree for her late son Ryan: Israel planned an entire 10,000-Tree forest around it

Jeanne White planted a tree in Israel to honor her son Ryan White's fight against AIDS. This act initiated a memorial forest for those lost to the epidemic. Ryan became a national symbol of courage and AIDS education advocate. His story highlighted discrimination and fear surrounding the disease. The forest…

The Times of India · Aug 15

What India's Cheetah Reintroduction at Kuno National Park Has Taught Science About Rewilding a Predator

The biology that made this harder than anyone admitted publiclyThe African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is not the same animal as the Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) that once ranged across India. The subspecies diverged genetically tens of thousands of years ago. When the Wildlife Institute of India and the National…

Times Life · Aug 15

Your Pancreas Controls Insulin, Digestion, and Your Diabetes Risk. Here Is How.

A Small Organ Doing Two Very Different JobsThe pancreas sits behind your stomach, about 15 centimetres long, and most people could not point to it on their own body. It runs two entirely separate systems simultaneously. The first is exocrine: it produces digestive enzymes, lipase, amylase, protease, that travel through…

Times Life · Aug 15

Horses Have a Vaccine Against Eastern Equine Encephalitis, and People Still Do Not

Horses can be vaccinated against eastern equine encephalitis. People cannot, and roughly a third of human cases turn out to be fatal.

Medical Daily · Aug 15

Why Pancreatitis Is Alarmingly Common in India and What Your Diet and Alcohol Habits Have to Do With It

The numbers nobody talks aboutIndia accounts for a disproportionate share of acute pancreatitis cases in Asia, and the burden is growing. A 2019 study published in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology found that tropical chronic pancreatitis, a form almost exclusive to South and Southeast Asia, affects an estimated 125…

Times Life · Aug 15

New York Tightens Cooling Tower Rules After a Legionnaires' Outbreak That Killed Seven

New York enacted stricter cooling tower certification rules after a Legionnaires' outbreak that killed seven people on the Upper East Side.

Medical Daily · Aug 15

CDC Warns Patients on Common Immune Drugs Face Higher Risk of Severe Brain Infection from Bites

CDC issued a health advisory warning that B-cell-depleting drugs increase the risk of severe brain infections from mosquito- and tick-borne viruses.

Medical Daily · Aug 15

Europe is racing to eradicate a crayfish that can reproduce without mating; in the Czech Republic, two newly detected populations are being targeted before they spread

European conservationists are launching a campaign to eradicate new populations of marbled crayfish, notorious for their rapid reproduction and the deadly diseases they carry. Funded by the European Union, these swift action initiatives aim to tackle invasive species promptly, mitigating the risk of extensive environmental and economic harm while safeguarding…

The Times of India · Aug 14