Honey has all manner of often-hidden medicine-like qualities, but more eyes will certainly be falling on Manuka honey after it was recently shown to reduce the proliferation of breast cancer cells. It did so in a sophisticated manner that even resulted in the occasional triggering of natural cell death, or apoptosis,…
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370 years ago today, Jacob Barsimson stepped off the boat on North American soil at “New Amsterdam” (Manhattan, New York City) on a mission to discover the potential for Jewish immigration to the New World. He was followed by a party of 23 Jews that established the Congregation Shearith Israel, the…
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A determined Lab has found a new home in Georgia after galloping alongside a doggie daycare bus until he won over the driver and found a new home. In Franklin County, the story begins when the driver of the ‘pup bus’ was doing his rounds to bring clients’ dogs to daycare….
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Rising sea levels and coastal erosion are threatening farmers on America’s mid-Atlantic coast, but a crop from colonial times may be the future harvest in places like Delaware and New Jersey. The issue is that more and more mid-Atlantic farmland is becoming inundated with salt making crops like corn and soy…
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85 years ago today, civil rights protestors quietly entered the library in Alexandria, VA to stage a sit-in. One young black man, well-dressed and polite, entered and requested a library card. When he was declined, he picked up a book, sat down, and began to read just 2 minutes before another…
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A pair of Virginians who found themselves habitually dismayed by the amount of floral waste they saw over a series of weddings and funerals decided to launch a small nonprofit to reuse them. Friendly City Florals delivers flowers to hospice care homes, hospitals, and other events like funerals and weddings to…
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If you want to get excited about scientific advancements from space, you have to accept sometimes that often the most exciting things are the most unactionable. Take for example a study just released from the University of California—that scientists may have finally found all that water that disappeared off the surface…
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