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IMF Predicts Global Economic Downtrend
Jan. 24th, 2012 07:47 amIn its “downside scenario,” the fund said that a continued rise in European government borrowing rates and a worsening of problems with the region’s banks would push the world into recession.
“The current environment...provides fertile ground for self-perpetuating pessimism,” the fund wrote.
Their calculations predict the global downward trend in spite of the booming economies of China and India. Want to move there? I don't.
SOURCE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/imf-report-global-economy-to-hit-mild-recession/2012/01/24/gIQAWR6SNQ_story.html?wpisrc=al_comboNE_b
“The current environment...provides fertile ground for self-perpetuating pessimism,” the fund wrote.
Their calculations predict the global downward trend in spite of the booming economies of China and India. Want to move there? I don't.
SOURCE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/imf-report-global-economy-to-hit-mild-recession/2012/01/24/gIQAWR6SNQ_story.html?wpisrc=al_comboNE_b
Amber Evolution
Dec. 10th, 2010 02:09 pmA recent amber discovery in India contains over 700 kinds of arthropods including bees, ants, termites, crustaceans and spiders. Apparently the amber was from a Gujarat province open pit mining operation, and contains at least 100 previously unknown species of insects. The history recorded in this batch of amber is from approximately 53 million years ago---just before India, which had broken off from the subcontinent called Gondwana, collided with Asia. That collision was supposed to have happened about 50 million years ago, and formed the Tibetan plateau. About 150 million years ago, the Indian tectonic plate separated from the African plate and began its 100 million year journey to Asia. During that long journey the subcontinent was isolated from all other continents, giving its wildlife the chance to evolve in distinctly different ways (much like the evolution of marsupials in Australia). So this data is a sample suspended in geological time, before the species on one floating block of land merged with the established biome of Asia. As such it is much more important that just being a bunch of bugs in pretty yellow stone. It helps us further map the biological history of many species.
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A new enzyme (NDM-1) has been found in some bugs brought back to the UK by people who went to India and Pakistan for hospital procedures. The enzyme makes these microbes resistant to yet another type of abx (carbapenems, the last of the beta lactams that can beat bugs with beta lactamase). NDM-1 has been found in E.coli and they're worried that other microbes may gain this capacity because of the way that bacteria trade DNA (plamids). There are only 50 known cases in the UK but docs are worried. The future for the treatment of infections may not be antibiotic drugs. We may end up using naturopathic methods of increasing immune resistance, or perhaps even the introduction of bacteriophages. I would love to see phages investigated further but as long as antibiotics are the standard of practice for infections, nobody's got the time or money to investigate it. Except the Russians. They are all over a good idea.
Alzheimer’s Disease and Curcumin: an Update
June 15, 2010
Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO
Denver Naturopathic Clinic
( curcumin, DHA (docosahexanoic acid), and alpha lipoic acid )
June 15, 2010
Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO
Denver Naturopathic Clinic
( curcumin, DHA (docosahexanoic acid), and alpha lipoic acid )
