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What do your blood test results mean? A toxicologist explains the basics of how to interpret them Brad Reisfeld, Colorado State University Your blood serves numerous roles to maintain your health. To carry out these functions, blood contains a multitude of components, including red blood cells that transport oxygen, nutrients and hormones; white blood cells that Read more

You know things are bad when the advertisements aren’t ‘Get into credit card debt’ or ‘Quick loans from aggressive, high interest companies’, but are instead ‘borrow against your house’. Borrow. Against your house. I heard an advertisement on youtube, recently, that was more or less that. Can’t afford groceries? Credit card bills piling up? Borrow Read more

I kind of like geologists – in this case, I’m taking their model on faith, partly because I know they have more data than I, and partly because I lived on the west coast as a kid and remember how common quakes were.  The map also shows likely spots for Yellowstone and New Madrid. On Read more

Are social media apps ‘dangerous products’? 2 scholars explain how the companies rely on young users but fail to protect them Joan Donovan, Boston University and Sara Parker, McGill University “You have blood on your hands.” “I’m sorry for everything you have all been through.” These quotes, the first from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaking to Read more

Twenty years ago, when demographers talked about Israel, the concept of Israel surviving as a Jewish nation was usually dismissed.  There’s a single unyielding number that tells us whether a society will continue – it takes a fertility rate of 2.07 for a society to survive, and Israel didn’t have it.  So when I looked Read more