MIND GERMS, PART TWO: PRIME SUSPECTS

by Janet A. Ginsburg

“The biggest breakthrough in the history of psychiatry was recognizing that syphilis causes insanity and that it could be prevented with antibiotics,” says evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald. Here are six other pathogens also linked to mental illnesses...
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Janet

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MIND GERMS, PART ONE: LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE

by Janet A. Ginsburg

More than 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. suffers from a diagnosable mental illness in any given year. And American parents report that nearly 5% of their children –2.7 million kids -- have a severe emotional or behavioral disorder. Could infectious disease help explain what’s going on? Breakthroughs in diagnostics and epidemiology have unmasked a number of pathogens capable of causing neurological destruction and psychiatric illness....
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Janet

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CORN, CARS & COWS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE TRUTH ABOUT ETHANOL

Promoted as a farm economy miracle and green solution to energy independence and global warming, can ethanol deliver?

by Janet A. Ginsburg

Drive in any direction out of Chicago, where I live, on a hot July day and you will find corn. Towering green battalions of the stuff, 30,000 hybrid stalks-per-acre for as far as the eye can see, line I-65 heading south into Indiana. And west on I-88 into Iowa, and down I-55 to southern Illinois, and north to Wisconsin on I-90, and east on I-80/94 to Michigan. Chicago is surrounded, an urban island in a corn (and soy) sea stretching from Nebraska to Ohio to Minnesota and beyond...
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Janet

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www.germtales.com: THE WEBSITE

To all you intrepid people who managed to find this blog,germtales is now a website! In addition to posts on subjects ranging from The Mystery of the Ancient Horses to Mind Germs, there are book reviews, interviews, news headline links and an extensive, eclectic sources page.

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Janet

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