Globally, 1.4 billion adults at risk of disease from lack of physical activity | Regina Guthold

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sept. 5, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- More than a quarter (1.4 billion) of the world's adult population were insufficiently active in 2016, putting them at greater risk of cardio ...

Monotreme and marsupial brain hemispheres communicated before development of corpus callosum | Bob Yirka

White matter fiber architecture of the brain. Credit: Human Connectome Project. Sept. 4, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Mammalian brain hemispheres had a means of communicating long before the development of the ...

Small fish passes classic self-awareness test | Bob Yirka

Credit: Flickr/Mr. T in DC Sept. 4, 2018 (Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has found a small tropical fish that is capable of passing a classic test of self-awareness. The results ar ...

A Farewell to Norms | Milton Mueller

Credit: Derek Bridges, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Milton Mueller -- Internet Governance Project Sept. 4, 2018 “Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms ...

What Lies Beneath: The US-Israeli Plot to ‘Save’ Gaza | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 2, 2018 Israel wants to change the rules of the game entirely. With unconditional support from the Trump Administration, Tel Aviv sees a golden ...

Homeless Women Need Your Help -- But They’re Not Helpless | Jocelyn Cheng

Credit: Mickey Z. Giving homeless women your leftovers may not be as helpful as you think. Aug. 29, 2018 (Period) -- Michael Zezima, a native of Queens, New York, is one of the few people who breaks ...

The Audacity of Super Wealth | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2018 As a transplanted New Yorker living in what I call "Death Valley USA," or Daytona Beach, Florida, I like to keep up with my ol ...

U.S. consumer spending, inflation data point to strong economy | Lucia Mutikani

Aug. 30, 2018 -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. consumer spending increased solidly in July, suggesting strong economic growth early in the third quarter, while a measure of underlying inflation hit th ...

Stripped Naked | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 30, 2018 In the 1997 British film The Full Monty, we have six unemployed men, four of them laid off steelworkers, earning money by putt ...

What’s the life of a single raccoon worth? | Mickey Z.

Photo: Paxson Woelber (CC BY-SA 3.0) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2018 I notice things. If I casually glance out my bedroom window -- in my apartment of more than a dozen years -- I will no ...

An Astrological Interlude: Brexit | John Michael Greer

Aug. 29, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- The noise and bustle generated by the ongoing three-ring circus of U.S. politics in the era of Trump can make it hard sometimes to notice that performances just as co ...