Curtain’s Halfway Up: At the Midpoint, Our Theater Season Needs
Monday, January 2nd, 2006Curtain’s Halfway Up: At the Midpoint, Our Theater Season Needs a Few Miracles to Be a Memorable One (RedNova)
By Chris Page, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz., The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz. Jan. 1–Normally, at the halfway point of the Valley’s live theater season, we’d stop and look back on all the great stuff that hit our stages since September.
Investigating stress in farm animals and their young
A team of Scottish researchers is to investigate the long-term effects of stress on farm animals and their young and look at the ways to improve their welfare. The consortium of scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Scottish Agriculture College and the Roslin Institute will look at the way in which early life events, such as stress before birth and tail-docking in the first days of life, have long-term effects on their young… click link for more info.
Animals Warn of Human Health Hazards in New “Canary Database”
Yale School of Medicine has launched a state-of-the-art database funded in part by the National Library of Medicine, called the Canary Database, containing scientific evidence about how animal disease events can be an early warning system for emerging human diseases. There have long been reports of animals succumbing to environmental hazards before humans show signs of illness, according to the project’s leader, Peter Rabinowitz, M… click link for more info.