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[D.Draker]

cat's got moves !

https://twitter.com/weirdlilguys/status/1567501060486447104

[msfntor]

4 hours ago, D.Draker said:

cat's got moves !

https://twitter.com/weirdlilguys/status/1567501060486447104

cLobo @CWLobo

·20h

Yeah, now we're teaching cats to play video games, further destroying their social skills.

[msfntor]

A 60-Minute Walk In Nature Decreases Activity In Brain Regions Involved In Stress Processing

September 8, 2022

Researchers in Germany have found that a one-hour walk in nature reduces stress-related brain activity.

The amygdala is the brain region involved in stress processing. It has been shown to be less activated in people who live in rural areas, compared to those who live in cities, hinting at the potential benefits of nature.

However, no study so far has examined the causal effects of natural and urban environments on stress-related brain mechanisms.

"But so far the hen-and-egg problem could not be disentangled, namely whether nature actually caused the effects in the brain or whether the particular individuals chose to live in rural or urban regions," says Sonja Sudimac, predoctoral fellow in the Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience (LMGEN) and lead author of the study.

To address this question, researchers from LMGEN examined brain activity in regions involved in stress processing in 63 healthy volunteers before and after a one-hour walk in Berlin's Grunewald Forest and a busy city street using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

The results of the study revealed that activity in the amygdala decreased after the walk in nature, suggesting that nature elicits beneficial effects on brain regions related to stress.

"The results support the previously assumed positive relationship between nature and brain health, but this is the first study to prove the causal link. Interestingly, the brain activity after the urban walk in these regions remained stable and did not show increases, which argues against a commonly held view that urban exposure causes additional stress," explains Simone Kühn, head of the Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience.

The authors show that nature has a positive impact on brain regions involved in stress processing and that it can already be observed after a one-hour walk.

This new study again confirms the importance for urban design policies to create more accessible green areas in cities in order to enhance citizens’ mental health and well-being.

HERE: https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/4787/A-60-Minute-Walk-In-Nature-Decreases-Activity-In-Brain-Regions-Involved-In-Stress-Processing

[msfntor]

Beautiful creature

https://twitter.com/i/status/1558674023227293696

 

This Humpback Whale is appropriately named “Angel Wings”!

https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1568140021495906305

 

Edited September 9, 2022 by msfntor

[XPerceniol]

10 hours ago, msfntor said:

A 60-Minute Walk In Nature Decreases Activity In Brain Regions Involved In Stress Processing

September 8, 2022

Researchers in Germany have found that a one-hour walk in nature reduces stress-related brain activity.

The amygdala is the brain region involved in stress processing. It has been shown to be less activated in people who live in rural areas, compared to those who live in cities, hinting at the potential benefits of nature.

However, no study so far has examined the causal effects of natural and urban environments on stress-related brain mechanisms.

"But so far the hen-and-egg problem could not be disentangled, namely whether nature actually caused the effects in the brain or whether the particular individuals chose to live in rural or urban regions," says Sonja Sudimac, predoctoral fellow in the Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience (LMGEN) and lead author of the study.

To address this question, researchers from LMGEN examined brain activity in regions involved in stress processing in 63 healthy volunteers before and after a one-hour walk in Berlin's Grunewald Forest and a busy city street using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

The results of the study revealed that activity in the amygdala decreased after the walk in nature, suggesting that nature elicits beneficial effects on brain regions related to stress.

"The results support the previously assumed positive relationship between nature and brain health, but this is the first study to prove the causal link. Interestingly, the brain activity after the urban walk in these regions remained stable and did not show increases, which argues against a commonly held view that urban exposure causes additional stress," explains Simone Kühn, head of the Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience.

The authors show that nature has a positive impact on brain regions involved in stress processing and that it can already be observed after a one-hour walk.

This new study again confirms the importance for urban design policies to create more accessible green areas in cities in order to enhance citizens’ mental health and well-being.

HERE: https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/4787/A-60-Minute-Walk-In-Nature-Decreases-Activity-In-Brain-Regions-Involved-In-Stress-Processing

Thank you and I need to make sure I don't stay too sedentary.

[msfntor]

29 minutes ago, XPerceniol said:

Thank you and I need to make sure I don't stay too sedentary.

Yeah, sure.

[msfntor]

Archeology: 1.8-million-year-old tooth found by early humans in Georgia

9/9/2022, 3:07:52 PM

    

An archeology student has found a prehistoric tooth fossil near a Georgian village. According to researchers, the find proves that the early humans who migrated from Africa first settled in this region.

Packed in cotton: Orozmani's tooth

Photo: David Chkhikvishvili / REUTERS

Archaeologists have found a 1.8-million-year-old tooth belonging to an early human species in Georgia.

According to the researchers, the Caucasus region is thus confirmed as one of the oldest prehistoric human settlement sites, possibly the oldest outside of Africa.

The tooth was found near the village of Orozmani, around 100 kilometers southwest of the Georgian capital Tbilisi.

Human skulls were found in nearby Dmanisi in the late 1990s and early 2000s and have been dated to be 1.8 million years old.

The Dmanisi finds were the oldest such discovery outside of Africa.

This changed the scientific understanding of the evolution and migration patterns of early humans.

"Orozmani, together with Dmanisi, forms the center of the oldest settlement of early humans in the world outside of Africa," said the National Research Center of Archeology and Protohistory of Georgia on Thursday, announcing the find of the tooth.

Giorgi Bidzinashvili, the excavation team's research director, said he believed the tooth belonged to a "cousin" of Zezva and Mzia.

These names were given to the bearers of the fossilized skulls almost completely preserved in Dmanisi.

The British archeology student Jack Peart, who discovered the tooth in Orozmani, spoke of "far-reaching conclusions" - "not only for this deposit, but for Georgia and the history of the people who left Africa 1.8 million years ago".

He told Reuters news agency, "This cements the status of Georgia as an important place for paleoanthropology and human history in general."

The world's oldest known human fossil has been dated to be 2.8 million years old: a partially preserved jaw found in Ethiopia.

Scientists assume that the early human species Homo erectus left Africa as hunter-gatherers around two million years ago.

Tools as old as 2.1 million have been found in China.

However, the Georgian finds remain the oldest human remains outside of Africa.

ak/Reuters

Source: spiegel

HERE: https://newsrnd.com/tech/2022-09-09-archeology--1-8-million-year-old-tooth-found-by-early-humans-in-georgia.Byfx2ch_ej.html

[mina7601]

On 9/3/2022 at 5:13 PM, XPerceniol said:

That is my wallpaper now!

You mean it's your desktop background now? Awesome! But which one exactly? The 1st picture or the 2nd picture? I set the 1st picture as desktop background.

Edited September 10, 2022 by mina7601

[mina7601]

15 hours ago, msfntor said:

A 60-Minute Walk In Nature Decreases Activity In Brain Regions Involved In Stress Processing

September 8, 2022

Researchers in Germany have found that a one-hour walk in nature reduces stress-related brain activity.

The amygdala is the brain region involved in stress processing. It has been shown to be less activated in people who live in rural areas, compared to those who live in cities, hinting at the potential benefits of nature.

However, no study so far has examined the causal effects of natural and urban environments on stress-related brain mechanisms.

"But so far the hen-and-egg problem could not be disentangled, namely whether nature actually caused the effects in the brain or whether the particular individuals chose to live in rural or urban regions," says Sonja Sudimac, predoctoral fellow in the Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience (LMGEN) and lead author of the study.

To address this question, researchers from LMGEN examined brain activity in regions involved in stress processing in 63 healthy volunteers before and after a one-hour walk in Berlin's Grunewald Forest and a busy city street using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

The results of the study revealed that activity in the amygdala decreased after the walk in nature, suggesting that nature elicits beneficial effects on brain regions related to stress.

"The results support the previously assumed positive relationship between nature and brain health, but this is the first study to prove the causal link. Interestingly, the brain activity after the urban walk in these regions remained stable and did not show increases, which argues against a commonly held view that urban exposure causes additional stress," explains Simone Kühn, head of the Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience.

The authors show that nature has a positive impact on brain regions involved in stress processing and that it can already be observed after a one-hour walk.

This new study again confirms the importance for urban design policies to create more accessible green areas in cities in order to enhance citizens’ mental health and well-being.

HERE: https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/4787/A-60-Minute-Walk-In-Nature-Decreases-Activity-In-Brain-Regions-Involved-In-Stress-Processing

Thank you for the tips, as usual.

[mina7601]

On 9/7/2022 at 6:11 PM, msfntor said:

Help who you can, whenever you can, for as long as you can. How wonderful is this!

And very wise as well.

[mina7601]

On 9/3/2022 at 9:50 PM, msfntor said:

Don't take life too seriously, because you won't make it out alive anyway!

Ne prenez pas la vie trop au sérieux, car vous n'en sortirez pas vivant de toute façon !

No te tomes la vida demasiado en serio, porque de todos modos no saldrás vivo.

 

- one boy

Thank you for this statement, very helpful.

[msfntor]

Your Meme of the Day

[msfntor]

Can homeopathy and acupuncture help patients with Parkinson’s?
Acupuncture is not a substitute for treatment; homeopathy is just a lie. This is what you need to know about these alternative therapies
NURIA E. CAMPILLO NURIA EUGENIA CAMPILLO
20 AUG 2022 - 01:29 UTC

A man receives an acupuncture session.
First of all, there is no single answer to the question, as acupuncture and homeopathy are two very different fields. Regarding homeopathy, the answer is an emphatic no. People call homeopathy a pseudomedicine (false medicine) or pseudoscience, but in my opinion, the terms “medicine” or “science” should not even be part of the definition. What homeopathy does is fool people. Homeopathic compounds contain – if after all the dilutions there is still a molecule there at all – an infinitesimal amount of the active ingredient. We are talking about the dilution of a dilution of a dilution of an active ingredient. Homeopathy is based on three alleged scientific assumptions, but there is really no science there at all: what is similar cures what is similar – in other words, at minuscule doses, a substance that causes symptoms similar to the disease in healthy people will be an effective therapeutic agent in sick people. The second principle is that of dilutions and dynamization.

In homeopathic products, terms like 3C, 10C, and so on, refer to the degree of dilution. After countless dilutions, practically nothing remains of the alleged active ingredient. This is where the third principle comes in: water memory. Homeopaths argue that the water of the initial tincture (known as mother tincture) in which these solutions are made remembers the active ingredient, that is, that the water can physically recall the chemical properties of the substances that have been diluted in it, apparently forever. The experiments that have been done, and published, to prove water memory, have been later proved to be erroneous and careless.

In conclusion, homeopathic compounds do not cure diseases such as Parkinson’s. They rely on the placebo effect and, quite often, on the distress of sick people and their urgency to find a something that will heal them.

Acupuncture is a completely different matter. There are clinical trials – that is, scientific evidence – that show that, together with the different treatments used for Parkinson’s, acupuncture can actually produce some improvement. However, the metastudies that have been carried out for these clinical trials are insufficient. Much more rigorous analyzes are needed, like the double-blind method, a system used to guarantee that clinical trials produce real results. In it, neither those who carry out the research nor those who participate in the trial know if what the patients are receiving is the drug or the placebo. This is a way to avoid biases in the interpretation of the results, and it is easy if the treatment to be tested is something like a pill, but if we are talking about acupuncture, then it is much more complicated. There have been attempts where the acupuncturist performs fake acupuncture to some of the participants, but the acupuncturist does know whether they are using real or fake acupuncture.

In addition, another aspect to consider is that Parkinson’s is a chronic disease, and what the trials have determined is the immediate relief produced by acupuncture. Whether this works in the medium and long term, it has not been studied. That is why meta-analyses on these clinical trials have to be more rigorous and include more people. But they have found that acupuncture, together with current treatments, does seem to help alleviate some of the symptoms of Parkinson’s. Nonetheless, it is of great importance to be aware that acupuncture cannot, under any circumstances, replace treatment.

Parkinson’s is a neurodegenerative disease. It occurs when neurons do not produce enough of a neurotransmitter called dopamine. It mainly affects movement; its symptoms are tremors, stiffness, slowness of movement and some balance problems. It is estimated that it affects between 1% and 2% of the population over 60 years of age, and up to 5% of the population over 65 years of age. There are treatments to alleviate the symptoms, but we do not have a definitive cure.

Nuria E. Campillo

 

Here: https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-08-20/can-homeopathy-and-acupuncture-help-patients-with-parkinsons.html

[msfntor]

ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Bison in Spain: the risks of introducing an ‘exotic’ species - photos only

A hundred specimens are living on large estates in the Spanish countryside. The last 18 arrived from Poland and settled in the Sierra de Andújar in Jaén. Some scientists warn of the danger of shoehorning this “exotic species” into the Mediterranean ecosystem while advocates argue for the animal’s conservation

A European bison at the La Perla estate in Cubillo (Segovia).VÍCTOR SAINZ

 

Alberto Herranz carries a sick bison calf afflicted by ticks at his estate in Cubillo (Segovia).VÍCTOR SAINZ

 

A herd of bison at Alberto Herranz's rural estate.VÍCTOR SAINZ

 

European bison female with calf, in a snow-covered field in Bialowieza National Park in Poland.ROBERT CANIS (ROBERTHARDING VIA AFP)

 

Look for story, here: https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2021-06-25/bison-in-spain-the-risks-of-introducing-an-exotic-species.html#?rel=mas

[XPerceniol]

20 hours ago, mina7601 said:

You mean it's your desktop background now? Awesome! But which one exactly? The 1st picture or the 2nd picture? I set the 1st picture as desktop background.

Yes I meant desktop background, but I change it often ... and sometimes I enjoy a picture that brings me some ease of mind and I will use it. It was the 2nd picture (trying to recall) perhaps because lonely road but the leaves on the ground reminded me of change of season and I like fall so much. Another thing I would walk along that road and not feel lonely, but more lonely around other people ... hard to explain.

Anyway, is ok today.

Hope everyone is well and not allowing news to turn your spirit toxic.