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    It is very disappointing that this article has not a word about any disagreement surrounding the health and related consequences of global warming, let alone of any disputes about its very likelihood. Tibor R. MachanOrange, Calif. The article asserts that malaria and other tropical diseases will migrate northward with global warming. This ignores the fact […]

    By Science News
  2. Earth

    Dead Heat

    New studies suggest that adverse health effects related to global warming aren't just a theoretical concern for the distant future.

    By Sid Perkins

  3. 19434

    I was surprised to find no mention of Linus Pauling’s theory of anesthesia in this article. In 1961, Pauling provided detailed arguments that interactions between anesthetic agents and water, rather than lipids, form hydrate microcrystals in the brain that entrap side chains of proteins and interfere with electrical oscillations.