What is it about Scandinavian semen? What has left me confused is that Bonde and co-authors describe a 1998 study of theirs that found a “surprisingly large” proportion of young men who turned up with low sperm counts. So even though sperm counts aren’t changing over the years, they w...
Norse Paganism is an old religion, but also a living one – albeit with a relatively small number of followers in modern times. What do Norse Pagans believe? Unlike the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam), Norse Paganism is a polytheistic religion – in other words, followers...
Strong inbreeding depression in two Scandinavian populations of the self-incompatible perennial Herb Arabidopsis lyrata. Evolution 67: 2876–2888. Stein JC, Dixit R, Nasrallah ME, Nasrallah JB (1996). SRK, the stigma-specific S locus receptor kinase of Brassica, is targeted to the plasma membrane...
Meanwhile, Alaina carries another relatively young haplogroup: U5a1a, which is between 8-16,000 years old, and commonly found in far northern Europeans, particularly Scandinavians. Although U5 is mainly a European haplogroup, it has been found in the mitochondrial DNA of a 6th-century AD Chines...
Also, while eutrophication is not, as strictly defined, a toxicological problem, it and algal blooms are usually considered together with toxicological problems. The overall effects of aquatic contamination are reflected in fisheries: together with overfishing, the contamination of water is of the ...
“Do you know what time it is?” I shouted. “Are you all right? Sarah and the kids?” I pictured him bleeding on some hospital gurney. “The game, man, tell me the score. The Israeli sports feed went out in the 9th. I was up all night. Did they win?” ...
Interestingly, much of the specialized function of brown adipocytes is controlled by transcriptional cofactors, which do not bind DNA directly but which determine which targets are bound and activated by transcription factors. The best-studied of these is PGC-1α, which is a dominant regulator of ...
The concern is that the cell phone and it's antenna (the source of the radiation) are held close against the head)The damage to the dna molecules is thought to be the cause. The radiation that a cell phone uses is also part of the same electromagnetic spectrum, but is not ionizing. ...
Marx (1972). The Scandinavian word “vare” is derived from German. 37. Ibid.:320–321. 38. Marx (1972:303). 39. In this sense, Marx focused on economic rather than moral alienation as loss of integrity (as it is often the case in debates about body parts). It was, of course, ...
Even much of what is considered smart money management involves factoring in uncertainty. One thing I am pretty certain about though is that our society could use more kindness. I’m seeing a lot mean posts here and people ganging up on and making fun of each other, calling each other ...