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A healthy lifestyle has the power to keep genetic predispositions to diseases at bay.
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Silverstein describes the benefits of a healthy diet and discredits stories about red wine and possible health benefits.
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Citizens of industrialized societies seek “highs” from food, spirits, and other sources.
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The Medical Director of the Preventative Medicine Center in Hartford, Connecticut, H. Robert Silverstein describes the five basic activities that can make or break an individual’s health.
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Dr. Q says, with work and family, sometimes you have to learn to be flexible with priorities.
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There has been no better time to enter science.
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When you walk the fine line between life and death, you can never prepare too much, says Dr. Q. He’ll even plan his strategies for a brain surgery in his […]
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Tumors are as unique as people, says Dr. Q. In the future, every patient is going to a receive treatment for brain cancer that is as individual as the person […]
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Dr. Q says that, as a neurosurgeon, he has incredible access to the brain through surgery, which proves invaluable in the laboratory where he can help get to the root […]
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Dr. Q recalls the day that changed his life forever and how it sent him on the path toward a life studying the mysteries of the brain
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Dr. Q shares his incredible and improbable journey from Baja, Mexico to his time as a migrant worker to his work today as a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist.
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Wilson served as a lightning rod back in the 1970’s when he first made the outrageous suggestion in a book called “Sociobiology” that human nature exists and it probably has […]
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The more that you move toward that part of the advancing frontier of scientific knowledge, the better career you will have in terms of opportunities opening now in this century […]
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Sure can because the more we learn about how life works, the more we learn how we fit into this environment and how we can maintain and then reduce on […]
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Ant societies are entirely instinct driven whereas we have a little wiggle room.
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If we intelligently plan the establishment of reserves, where we get the maximum protection for the largest number of species, we can save the environment.
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The great problem in recognizing the peril of the living environment, one that ultimately affects our lives, is ignorance.
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Ford has been a pioneer in his work with Conservation International.