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Top Science stories of the year.
The best "discovery"?------------------------------
9. The debunking of calorie-restricted diets for longevity
While previous studies have indicated that animals such as rats and roundworms had aged more slowly if they consumed fewer calories, a study conducted over 25 years comparing rhesus monkeys on a restricted-calorie diet to those on a normal diet found no difference. However, two factors did seem to make a difference: genetics and eating healthy food. And here are some others studies showing just what kind of food is healthy: not eating red meat, eating a Mediterranean diet or even avoiding fatty food.
Here in the Philippines, everyone has cellphones, but now Africa is catching up.
Strategypage's mainly depressing podcast on Africa points out how cellphones are making a difference (fast forward to 31 minutes). Honest banking!
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David Warren tries to correct the distortion of medieval medical history and notes this factoid:
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Innocent III... at the dawn of the 13th century launched a “crusade” to provide every little town throughout Christendom, no matter how remote, with its own medical hospital...
Botox cures depression?!
Earlier articles noted that people getting botox also had "blunting" of emotions, but with small samples it might be coincidence.
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What did Mr Sun think of the Mayan Apocolypse kerfuffle?
Did the sun give a knowing wink a few minutes after the Mayan doomsday
prophecy was proved wrong? NASA's SDO satellite captured this image on
22 Dec 2012.
Picture: NASA/NOAA GOES Project / Rex Features
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