April 2024

Drought/Wildfires and GPP Nature 04/2024

Drought threat to terrestrial gross primary production exacerbated by wildfires | Communications Earth & Environment (nature.com)

Diet and Brain Health Nature 4-2024

Research shows ‘profound’ link between dietary choices and brain health (medicalxpress.com) Associations of dietary patterns with brain health from behavioral, neuroimaging, biochemical and genetic analyses | Nature Mental…

US Energy Use 2022

Forests and Planetary Cooling

How Can Forests Cool the Planet? They Work As Heat Pumps! (substack.com)

US Universities: No Support for The First Amendment, Support for Genocide

Chris Hedges: Revolt in the Universities – ScheerPost

Lyme Disease Biomarkers

Circulating antibody-secreting cells are a biomarker for early diagnosis in patients with Lyme disease – PubMed (nih.gov)

Noise and Health

Cardiovascular effects of environmental noise exposure | European Heart Journal | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

Air Pollution and Cognitive Disabilities

Polluted Minds | OpenMind Magazine

Beer in the 16th Century

Five things our research uncovered when we recreated 16th century beer (and barrels) (phys.org)

Community Ecology and Land Use Selective Forcing

A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification | Nature Communications

Poverty and It’s Cognitive Effects

The impact of poverty and socioeconomic status on brain, behaviour, and development: a unified framework (degruyter.com)

Minority Rule in the USA

Minority Rule Is Threatening American Democracy Like Never Before – Mother Jones

State Policy and Mortality Rates USA PLOS ONE

U.S. state policy contexts and mortality of working-age adults | PLOS ONE

Public Policy 1900-2010 and violent Death Rates in the USA

Political correlates of violent death rates in the U.S., 1900–2010: Longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses – ScienceDirect

H5N1, an Evolving Threat

How to Handle the Bird Flu: America Must Prepare for the Next Possible Pandemic (foreignaffairs.com)