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Besides Red Meat, What Types of Protein Are Hard on the Environment and Human Health?

Scientific American - Posted: July 28th, 2012, 11:00am EDT

p Dear EarthTalk: Wersquo;ve been hearing for years how producing red meat is bad for the environment while consuming it is bad for our health. How do other types of meat, fish, dairy and vegetable proteins stack up in terms of environmental and health impacts? --Julia Saperstein, via e-mail /p a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=meat-consumption-health-environment[More]/a

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Strong Partnerships Fuel Curiosity

Scientific American - Posted: July 28th, 2012, 9:00am EDT

pPsychologists know that ldquo;secure attachmentsrdquo;--close, positive relationships such as healthy marriages and good friendships--increase our interest in new experiences. Babies who have learned they can count on their moms, for example, tend to try unfamiliar toys in a lab more readily than do babies whose insecure attachment to caregivers makes them anxious and clingy. A recent set of studies published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin reveals a surprising explanation for this attachment-exploration link: feeling alive and full of energy./p a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strong-partnerships-fuel-curiosity[More]/a

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