EurekAlert: Researchers have developed a new way to model seismic risk, which they hope will better inform disaster risk reduction planning in earthquake-prone areas. The study, which is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today (Monday 24 September 2018), and was led by academics from Durham University’s Department of Geography, has developed…
Psychology Today: Is it “normal” to call your mother multiple times a day. Is an annual visit at Christmas and a monthly phone call “healthy”? Do you have a family whatsapp group in which you share photos and videos? Or are you part of a family whose videos of your get-togethers have gone viral on social…
EurekAlert: The local LGBT community reports twice the number of poor mental health days as the general population of Richmond and Columbia Counties, and those who identified as transgender report twice that, according to a health needs assessment conducted by faculty and students at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Area LGBT individuals…
Kabir Humayun: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the global community to invest in education to secure peace for future generation. Sheikh Hasina made the call at a high-level meeting on International funding for education at the UN Headquarters in New York on Monday, reports Banglanews24.com. “Education is the most powerful weapon to ensure permanent…
NDTV: Back in 2006, as Glenstone, a private art museum in the Maryland suburbs of the District of Columbia, was preparing to open its first exhibition hall, curator Emily Wei went to Mitchell Rales, her billionaire boyfriend and the guy footing the bill, with a proposal: She wanted him to actually explain his vision for the…
Arafat Hasan: While talking to reporters at his office at the Supreme Court, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said that former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has damaged the image of the country’s judiciary with the “adverse comments” he made about the judges of the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division in his book. The comments made by…
Desk Report: Symphony inaugurated its newly established manufacturing plant, “Edison Industries Limited” at Zirabo of Ashulia, reports Daily Asian Age. The inauguration ceremony was commenced by Minister Mustafa Jabbar, Ministry of Post, Telecommunication and Information Technology. The top officials of Symphony, including the Chairman of Edison Group, Aminur Rashid, Managing Director, Jakaria Shahid and Director…
EurekAlert: The world’s most widely used weed killer may also be indirectly killing bees. New research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that honey bees exposed to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, lose some of the beneficial bacteria in their guts and are more susceptible to infection and death from harmful bacteria….
Kabir Humayun: Five persons were killed as a truck crashed into a CNG-driven auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Mirsharai upazila early yesterday. The deceased are— Shah Alam, 40, the auto-rickshaw driver, Didarul Alam, 35, Kamrul, 45, Mosharaf, 26 and Mohiuddin, 60. Two siblings Liton, 25, and Sohel, 22, were admitted to Jorarganj upazila health complex…
ScienceDaily: A summary of the experiments is published Sept. 20 in Current Biology, and if the findings are validated, the researchers say, they may open opportunities for accurately studying the impact of psychiatric drug therapies in many animals distantly related to people. “The brains of octopuses are more similar to those of snails than humans,…