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The bittersweet taste of chocolate

November 3, 2008
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How many people think about where the cocoa in the chocolate comes from? In many countries, there are awareness campaigns running attempting to educate people about this. According to a study in 2002 by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, more than a quarter of a million African children are behind the West Africa cocoa [...]

Is this the end of reading?

November 3, 2008
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According to the National Endowment for the Arts’s survey of reading habits, in 1982, 56.9 per cent of Americans had read a literary book in the previous year. This fell to 54% in 1992, and 46.7 percent in 2002. When television was introduced in the Netherlands, reading time plummeted from 5 hours per week to [...]

Familial and neural ties that bind – How stroke is a family affair

November 3, 2008

Several years ago, my Father-in-law, Albert, suffered a serious stroke in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, his wife slept right through it. For several long minutes, he experienced seizures and then withdrew into a zombie-like state. By the time his wife had realized what had happened, it was several hours later the next morning. [...]