Tag Archive for decline

Bad Bee-Havior

Kill more bees!  They can be a nuisance–when not pollinating our plants so we can have fruit, vegetables, nuts, and flowers.  Do we really need all that produce and beauty anyway?

That seems to be the attitude of Syngenta Crop Protection LLC.  They’ve asked the EPA to relax their rules about legal limits of a pesticide reside that is a proven cause of the marked decline in the bee population over the last 30 years.  They want to increase the limit 4000 times (yes, four thousand), ensuring an even quicker decline in bees and, therefore, crops pollinated by them.

For more details, click on http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060005321.

 

 

Older People Too Smart for their Own Good

[Maybe it’s my age, but this article from The Telegraph makes sense to me. Thanks to Verne Meade for sending me this.]

Brains of elderly slow because they know so much

The brains of older people only appear to slow down because they have so much information to compute, much like a full-up hard drive, scientists believe.
Older people do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains, scientists believe.
Much like a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full up, so to do humans take longer to access information, it has been suggested.
Researchers say this slowing down it is not the same as cognitive decline.

 

…….READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE AT http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10584927/Brains-of-elderly-slow-because-they-know-so-much.html.