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Not literally, of course. That would make us no better than hamsters or wolf spiders. But
pretend baby-eating – that is, explaining to an infant that she is so cute that you just want to gobble her up, or, in extreme cases, gently grabbing a pudgy appendage and making Cookie-Monster eating sounds – is not unheard of among H. sapiens.
Why is that, anyway? Why do babies always seem so metaphorically delicious, even when you re not particularly hungry? Using brain scanners and pajamas, an international team of scientists is closing in on a answer.
Apparently it has something to do with the way babies smell. A paper published in the current issue of Frontiers in Psychology describes how researchers in Dresden, Germany, imaged the brains of two groups of 15 women while the women sampled the odors of other parents newborns. One group was composed of women who had given birth within the past six weeks. The other group was made up of women who had never given birth. The scien
Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 28February 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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It appears that new Covid cases and Covid deaths have stopped going down in the US; I say appears because it s possible that the apparent uptick early this week might have been due to underreporting of cases last week, when there were widespread power outages in Texas and other states in the wake of an unprecedented cold wave. For the 7 days ending Saturday, reported new cases were only down 0.3% from the prior week