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Dolphin brains show signs of Alzheimer’s Disease | University of Oxford

Study suggests Alzheimer’s Disease and Type 2 diabetes might both be the price of a longer lifespan, with altered insulin function the common cause. Source: Dolphin brains show signs of Alzheimer’s Disease | University of Oxford

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Recipes Organized into Component Parts in Food Styling Photos by Mikkel Jul Hvilshøj | Colossal

In a shoot for Nordic cookware brand Eva, Copenhagen-based photographer Mikkel Jul Hvilshøj lets the ingredients speak for themselves. With his flatlay photos on rich matte backgrounds, Hvilshøj creates compositions of raw recipe materials like carrots, star anise, and lemon … Continue reading

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Look At This: Rain Forest Was Here – NPR

NPR spent 2 weeks in the Amazon to find out. Take 10 mins to look at our photos and learn about why it’s so hard for us to stop deforestation — and what could happen if we don’t. Source: Look … Continue reading

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Amazon farmers discovered the secret of domesticating wild rice 4,000 years ago – ScienceBlog.com

Amazonian farmers discovered how to manipulate wild rice so the plants could provide more food 4,000 years ago, long before Europeans colonised America, archaeologists have … Read more Source: Amazon farmers discovered the secret of domesticating wild rice 4,000 years … Continue reading

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Scent of Geranium on Vimeo

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Food Art by Tatiana Shkondina

Recreations of well-known paintings using food by Moscow-based photographer and food stylist Tatiana Shkondina. Source: Food Art by Tatiana Shkondina

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BBC – Earth – Watch ‘sacred’ deer bow for a treat

Hundreds of sika deer roam freely in the Japanese city of Nara where they are considered a national treasure Source: BBC – Earth – Watch ‘sacred’ deer bow for a treat

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How To Live To 100, According To Science

By 2050, the UN estimates that as many as 3.2 million people will live to 100 compared to 316,000 in 2011. Also, a 2013 study from the University of Massachusetts found that 25 year olds today can … Source: How … Continue reading

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Geometric Desserts by Dinara Kasko

Desserts in the shape of different geometric figures by pastry chef Dinara Kasko from the Ukraine. Source: Geometric Desserts by Dinara Kasko

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Fruits of the Brazilian Street Market – Sakerinha

Something that I absolutely love about living in Brazil is the availability of such a delicious range of ‘exotic’ fruits and juices. There’s a street market next to my apartment b… Source: Fruits of the Brazilian Street Market – Sakerinha

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