Currently Creasing: Week of November 25
Here’s what our team has for you to bookmark & read this week
As Tropical Rainforests Disappear, So Do Potential Medicine Reservoirs: Losing the diversity of plant life in tropical rainforests could mean that potential new drugs remain undiscovered.
Agency shows which alternative medical approaches are useful and safe — and which ones aren’t: Website for the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health offers a trove of research-based information.
Romaine lettuce is at it again: Don’t eat romaine lettuce from California’s Salinas Valley, CDC warns, as a total of 40 people in 16 states have been sickened. Twenty-eight people have been hospitalized, including five with severe kidney failure. No deaths have been reported.
Can Babies Learn to Love Vegetables? No diet has been more obsessively studied, more fiercely controlled, or more anxiously stage-managed than baby food. Yet we still get it wrong.
Video: A Firsthand Account of Dehumanization in Jail: Chasity Hunter was on a Tinder date when she was pulled over for a routine traffic stop.
Sleeping Fewer Than 5 Hours a Night Tied to Bone Problems: Menopausal women who didn’t get enough sleep were at increased risk of osteoporosis.
Dear Therapist: I Will Probably Take the Secret of My Sexuality to the Grave: I’ve gone through life pretending, and my heart aches.
Joan Didion’s Early Novels of American Womanhood: In Didion’s fiction, the standard narratives of women’s lives are mangled, altered, and rewritten all the time.
Sticking to My Own Premises: The author asks, “Why does a holiday visit from adult children inspire anxiety? I am afraid they will judge me incompetent to care for my husband and myself.”
Air Pollution May Damage the Brain: Tiny air pollutants may cause changes in brain structure that resemble those of Alzheimer’s disease.
