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A new study has found that eating between one and six eggs each week significantly reduces the risk of dying from any cause but particularly from heart disease – even in people who have been diagnosed with high cholesterol levels. · Whether eating eggs is good for you is something that has been debated for decades. That they’re packed with beneficial nutrients, including high-quality protein, is offset by the frequently cited concern about…

Acute respiratory infections are a serious public health concern across the world.  · Every year, around 13 million children under the age of five die from these infections. · Unsurprisingly, a majority of them – 95 per cent – are from developing nations; acute respiratory infections are responsible for one-third of all deaths.  · One among a host of viruses causing these infections is Human metapneumovirus (hMPV), which has been in the news…

In 1868, Secretary of State William Seward went on a territory-shopping spree. A year earlier, Seward had negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. If Seward’s acquisition of Alaska hadn’t been politically branded as a “folly,” he may have gotten his wish to add Greenland (and Iceland) to the expanding United States. · America’s longstanding interest in Greenland and other northern territories—including Canada—was about…

If one untangles his executive orders, it is clear that US President Donald Trump’s attempt to “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) is unlikely to succeed.  · At best, MAGA seems delusional, disruptive and divisive. · The hundred executive orders Trump signed, the many statements he makes and his chosen personnel reveal his broad agenda. · Business-politics nexus · Trump’s cabinet has 13 billionaires  and the billionaire  funders of the 2024…

China has approved what is set to become the biggest hydropower dam complex in the world, capable of producing nearly three times as much power as the current record-holder, the Three Gorges Dam. · The project is slated to be built on the Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet near the border of India at a cost of US$137 billion. It's part of China's 14th "Five-Year Plan," which includes environmental goals to accelerate renewable energy and fight…

Adrian Ward had been driving confidently around Austin, Texas, for nine years — until last November, when he started getting lost. Ward’s phone had been acting up, and Apple maps had stopped working. Suddenly, Ward couldn’t even find his way to the home of a good friend, making him realize how much he’d relied on the technology in the past. “I just instinctively put on the map and do what it says,” he says. · Ward’s experience echoes a common…

While the price of eggs is unlikely to come down anytime soon, it might be time to find other sources of one of their key nutrients – omega-3. Because the latest research on polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) has found some encouraging signs that it can slow the aging process. · An international team of researchers, including scientists from Australia's Monash University and Switzerland's University of Zurich, have reported that, for people aged…

On February 6th, 1840 More than 40 Māori chiefs signed a treaty with the British Crown in the Bay of Islands. The Treaty of Waitangi remains controversial. · A week earlier, Captain William Hobson had landed at Kororāreka from HMS Herald and proclaimed himself lieutenant-governor of a colony that did not yet exist. His instructions from the Colonial Office in London were to seek Māori consent to British sovereignty. Officials drafted a document…

Public submissions on Phase 2 of the Covid 19 Inquiry are now open to the public via an online portal – and every New Zealander is encouraged to have their say. · New Zealand First campaigned on and committed to a full scale, wide ranging, independent inquiry into how the Covid pandemic was handled in New Zealand. · The original inquiry, started by the previous government, was beleived to be nothing more than a political tool by NZF. · They…

Studies in the philosophy of history and the philosophy of time have an interesting relationship to twentieth-century critics of modernity. It is well known that T.S. Eliot, for example, was intellectually influenced by philosopher Henri Bergson’s writings on duration and time. The protagonist for this essay, Henry Adams, also had a fascination with the effects that his modern age—its distortion of time, place, and meaning—had on our culture.…