The University of Virginia (UVA) researchers findings essentially pick culprits responsible for coronary artery disease (CAD) out of a far, far larger lineup of potential genetic suspects, giving scientists promising targets as they work to develop new and better treatments.
The Kuşköy bird language is spoken by some 10,000 people in towns and villages across northeast Turkey, mostly in the Canakci district of Giresun Province, according to some estimates. The practice was once widespread across the Black Sea regions of Trabzon, Rize, Ordu, Artvin, and Bayburt. The locals mostly farmers who spend much of their lives outdoors tilling the land over time developed what they call “kuş dili,” which translates literally as “bird language” a form of whistled communication that can carry for miles over the difficult-to-traverse terrain. While the region’s geography explains why the language developed, no one knows exactly when it began. Experts say the whistled language dates back 500 years in the region, but it could have been used far earlier: the Greek historian and philosopher Xenophon described people shouting across the same valleys two millennia ago.
Possessor: Uncut
4 star(s), 103 minutes, Blu-Ray and streaming Brandon Cronenberg (acclaimed cult director David Cronenberg’s son) second film, and first since 2012, is an uber-violent descent into high-tech madness that likely will surprise fans with its emotional depth. “Possessor,” which is now available ‘uncut,’ meaning all the gory goodness is intact, is a cyberpunk masterpiece about a corporate spy/assassin, Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough), who is adept at using top-secret technology to literally inhabit the body and mind of anyone her employer chooses. This cool trick isn’t without some very real consequences, namely the risk that Vos might lose her sense of identity and possibly her life if she stays inside another person for too long.