Brain Post: Study Says NOT Drinking Will Shorten Your Life Not drinking is killing you… Seriously. There have been many studies showing that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol (2 drinks/day for men, 1 drink/day for women) is good for your health and can actually lengthen life. These studies generally focus on alcohol being healthy as it thins the blood and causes benefits to heart and circulatory health. A 2010 study in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research that followed 1,824 participants between the ages of 55 and 65 for 20 years is showing that the benefits of moderate alcohol use may actually be social. There are some great facts from this study and we’re […] Brains SnowBrains | December 17, 2013 0 Comments
Deforestation in Amazon Could Reduce Snowfall in Sierra Nevada by 50% The deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest in South America via logging, burning, gold mining, coca plant cultivation, and cattle grazing could reduce California’s Sierra Nevada snowpack by 50% and the Pacific Northwest snowpack by 20% according to a new study published in the Journal of Climate by Princeton University & the University of Miami. […] SnowBrains | November 12, 2013 4 Comments
NASA: Pollution, Not Rising Temperatures, May Have Melted Alpine Glaciers NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently finished a study that shows that Europe’s glaciers may have begun their rapid melting in the 1860s due to soot from the industrial revolution.  It’s thought by NASA that this soot absorbed sunlight and greatly accelerated the melting of Europe’s glacier system. “If you look back through the 1600s and 1700s, the glaciers were big […] Brains SnowBrains | September 4, 2013 2 Comments
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