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...risk factor for premature death, social isolation is as big a risk factor as smoking,” Putnam said in his speech, which was cosponsored by the Wellness Center, the Harvard Student Mental Health Liaisons, and the Harvard Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group...
...native of San Diego, Lippert has been a dominant factor in the Crimson’s ongoing winning season. Lippert, who has been named Ivy League Rookie of the Week three times so far this season, is currently the second leading scorer on the team with 12.3 points per game. Last weekend, in conference games against Cornell and Columbia, the guard/forward racked up a total of 48 points, leading all scorers and attaining a personal best of 28 points against the Lions...
...Hudson's Bay Co., during the opening ceremonies, when the Canadians wore them as they circled the track during the parade of nations. With the maple leaf and the five Olympic rings stitched into the gloves, they seemed to cover all the bases - national pride, Olympic fever, the cuteness factor. But it's not just Canadians who are obsessing over them. Oprah herself gave them a shout-out on Feb. 19, lifting their cachet, and sales, into the stratosphere. (See TIME's full coverage of the 2010 Winter Games...
Back in the Pliocene era, between 5 million and 3 million years ago, the average global temperature was about 7°F warmer than it is today, yet atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were about the same. If carbon dioxide were the sole factor in warming, that wouldn't make any sense. It isn't, of course; there are several other contributors, including the brightness of the sun and the location of the continents (whose positions dictate, among other things, where ice caps can form) - but these were all pretty much the same in the Pliocene as well...
...what accounted for the higher global temperature? According to a new paper in Nature, one possible factor is hurricanes. Scientists have long suspected that global warming could make hurricanes more intense somehow, but the new study suggests the effect works both ways: tropical cyclones could help drive up temperatures in response. "We're suggesting that hurricanes could have created a permanent El Niño condition," says Yale's Alexey Fedorov, lead author of the study. (See pictures of the effects of climate change...