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Brooke Larsen and Nick Underwood write:
“In this region, food is power, and that power is not equally shared. Before that can change, however, we need to understand the complexities of this system, tracing its roots to the growth of retail giants and the consolidation of Western agricultural production.”
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“You can pull up a tube of mud from the ocean floor, and take samples along its length, and they’ll each contain thousands of forams: a detailed record of their local history.” https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/foraminifera-fossils-tell-story-of-past-life-on-earth
🦋 The eastern monarch butterfly population that winters in the forests of Mexico appears have nearly doubled in size, Marina Dunbar reports in the nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq6uxymwh4thlfg6vzdv2p7eej3hhcjzys5y5tq8rwhwpa4jtywpjs6d8srg.
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It is increasingly well understood that the countless microbes in our guts help us to digest our food, to absorb and produce essential nutrients, and to prevent harmful organisms from settling in.
Less intuitive — perhaps even outlandish — is the idea that those microbes may also affect our mood, our mental health and how we perform on cognitive tests. But there is mounting evidence that they do.
Learn more: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2024/gut-brain-axis-mental-health-microbiome
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Even among Asian Americans with diagnosable mental health problems, only about 25% seek mental health services, compared to around 50% of white Americans.
Researchers & clinicians hope to address this gap.
✍️ Diana Kwon
🔁 republished BrainFacts.org
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