The world quietly reached a milestone in the evolution of the human diet in 2011. For the first time in modern history, world farmed fish production topped beef production. The gap widened in 2012, with output from fish farming—also called aquaculture—reaching a record 66 million tons, compared with production of beef at 63 million tons. [...]
Infants as young as two months old already exhibit growth patterns that can predict the child’s weight by age 5, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and Tennessee State University. “Almost from birth, we quickly saw this growth pattern emerge in our curves and growth charts for [...]
The Colorado Center on Law & Policy weighs in on the Affordable Care Act and Medicare… March marked the third anniversary of the passage of the health reform law, known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). When fully implemented, the law will fundamentally transform the American health care system, providing affordable, quality health insurance [...]
To provide a safe environment for the 2013 Kaiser Permanente Colfax Marathon, the cities of Aurora, Denver and Lakewood will have temporary traffic impacts along Colfax Avenue on Sunday, May 19, 2013. While travel on Colfax Avenue will be restricted, normal traffic patterns will resume as soon as it’s safe for athletes, spectators and motorists. [...]
Advanced biofuels – liquid fuels synthesized from the sugars in cellulosic biomass – offer a clean, green and renewable alternative to gasoline, diesel and jet fuels. Bringing the costs of producing these advanced biofuels down to competitive levels with petrofuels, however, is a major challenge. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint [...]
With more than a billion active accounts worldwide, it can be easy to forget that some people don’t use Facebook. A study by Cornell University researchers presented this week in Paris suggests that “non-use” of the social networking site is fairly common – a third of Facebook users take breaks from the site by deactivating [...]
Drinking one (or one extra)* 12oz serving size of sugar-sweetened soft drink a day can be enough to increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 22%, a new study suggests. The research is published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) and comes from data in the InterAct [...]
Charter schools may be public, but they can shape their student enrollment in surprising ways. This is done though a dozen different practices that often decrease the likelihood of students enrolling with a disfavored set of characteristics, such as students with special needs, those with low test scores, English learners, or students in poverty. “The [...]
Are today’s youth really more materialistic and less motivated than past generations, or do adults tend to perceive moral weakness in the next generation? San Diego State University psychology professor Jean M. Twenge — along with co-author Tim Kasser, professor of psychology at Knox College — has set out to answer that question. In [...]
Making a choice for a car can be more than just a matter of economy, style or price. Automobile crashes are a leading cause of death and severe injury. So picking the right car can literally be a matter of life or death. Via: CheapAutoInsurance.org Cherry Creek News
