Month: June 2014

The O’Neill family is raising funds to cure their daughter Eliza, 4, who has Sanfilippo syndrome.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking aim at global warming, President Barack Obama introduced a politically charged plan Monday to order big and lasting cuts in the pollution discharged by America's power plants. But the plan, though ambitious in scope, wouldn't be fully realized until long after Obama's successor took office and would generate only modest progress worldwide.

By Morgan Jones Following national news of increased measles cases in the US, health officials in the Pacific Northwest warned that recent air travelers could have been exposed to the disease. Seattle area health officials warned that a child sick with measles was in the Sea-Tac Airport last week, potentially exposing unvaccinated travelers to the highly contagious disease. Health officials are reminding the public about measles vaccination, which is generally recommended in two doses. …

The unconscious fears that rule our lives have been hidden away for so long in most cases that we have no idea of their programming running in the background. Fear is usually our default program.

The anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann wrote a New York Times op-ed recently about all of my favorite topics: dreams, sleep, religion, psychology, culture, and science. I wrote a letter in response, focusing on the religious studies angle of her argument. There's an intriguing psychological angle, too: a great deal of research shows that people's attitudes about dreams can have a direct impact on the their dream recall frequency.

I respect and admire those who choose AA as their path. But I'm happily, for now, on the other side. Life after AA is indeed a mixed bag and I cannot handle it alone — but I have learned how to find my own kind of fellowship.

By Valerie Volcovici and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. power sector must cut carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels under federal regulations unveiled on Monday that form the centerpiece of the Obama administration’s climate change strategy. The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal is one of the most significant environmental rules proposed by the United States, and could transform the power sector, which relies on coal for nearly 38 percent of electricity. Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator, said on Monday that between 2020 and 2030, the amount of carbon dioxide the proposal would reduce would be more than double the carbon pollution from the entire U.S. power sector in 2012.

Raidho — travel — Finally, some movement! For a while, now, The Weekly Rune has instructed us to be still, assess, and formulate. This week's advent of Raidho says we can take all of that intel and do something with it. I always love finding Raidho in a cast, because it draws on my favorite things: words, travel, and the interconnection of All Things. In short, Raidho indicates how we tell our story. In a very literal context, this stave means a journey between two points. It emphasizes the mode of transportation involved, movement across space and time, and everything that occurs between

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Before heading to Brazil for this month’s World Cup or the 2016 Olympic Games, people should visit their doctors for appropriate preventive medicine, U.S. health officials say. Those visiting Brazil should see their doctors or travel medicine specialists four to six weeks before traveling, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta write in JAMA Internal Medicine. “We’re expecting that a lot of Americans will attend and we want to give them a chance to review some of the health and safety issues that come with attending World Cup-like events in a country like Brazil,” said Joanna Gaines, a senior epidemiologist at the CDC and lead author of the statement.