What is ‘Editor’s Pick’?
In the most precise editorial language, it is a selection of the week’s best articles, condensed and reviewed for our users. Is this section of any good when we already provide daily reads to our users? Well, it most definitely is. The articles featured here will add to your knowledge bank as well as help you become better readers. Happy reading!
Article 1: Can exercise protect the brain from fatty foods?
The experiments as conducted on the lab animals suggest that high-fat diet may be bad for the brain. This whole study began last month at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans with scientists at the University of Minnesota experimenting on rats subdivided into various groups. Some earlier studies by the same scientists had shown that a high fat diet exacerbated the animals’ progression to full-blown dementia, and that both a low-fat diet and exercise slowed the animals mental decline. Exercise, in other words, had “reversed the high-fat diet-induced cognitive decline”. The results may not be the same on humans as on animals but exercise might protect the brains in the same manner as it does in case of mice and rats. The author concludes by saying “so if you can’t walk away from the buffet table, be sure to at least take a walk afterward”.
Article 2: President Obama’s success
Obama’s current victory scenario showed clear divisions among voters by gender, age, race and religion. It showed a strong desire of the US nationalities on the endorsement of economic policies that stress job growth, health care reforms, tax increment, and balanced deficit reduction and of moderate policies on immigration, abortion and same-sex marriage. Mid-western voters endorsed the president’s argument that the government has a significant role in creating private sector jobs. While the African-American’s supported Obama, Only the White men voted for Romney. The author concludes by stating that the race came down to a relatively small number of voters in a relatively small number of states did not speak well for a national election apparatus that is so dependent on badly engineered and badly managed voting systems around the country. The delays and breakdowns in voting machines were inexcusable.
Article 3: World on track for 6C warming without carbon cuts, study shows
The article begins by stating that the new research by consultancy giant PwC has found that a 5.1 percent annual cut in global emissions per unit of GDP is needed by 2050 to avoid the worst effects of climate change. The report also states that the greatest rises I the greenhouse gas emissions comes from the E7 economies of China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Indonesia and Turkey. It also warns that industrialised countries must accelerate their partially successful efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Businesses in carbon-intensive sectors must also anticipate “invasive regulation” and the possibility of stranded assets, said Jonathan Grant, director of sustainability and climate change at PwC.
