Nature 272

Misiunea pisicii este de a curăța energia negativă din viața ta. Mulți oameni cred că pisicile nu fac altceva decât să mănânce, să doarmă și să miaune. Dar, de fapt, aceste animale pufoase aduc o mulțime de beneficii proprietarilor lor, din...

Încrederea in tine este cheia succesului în viață Un afacerist era îngropat în datorii pe care nu mai reușea să le ramburseze. Vânzările pe care le făcea nu erau atât de profitabile, muncitorii săi doreau salarii mai bune,...

Scientists have also wondered whether the calories in comfort foods might boost mood somehow. There is some evidence that sweet taste can reduce markers of stress in rats. And in human babies, sugar water is thought to provide some amount of pain relief. But many comfort foods, of course, aren't sweet. In fact, one poll found that pizza beat all other contenders for the title of America's favourite comfort food.

Offered a popular American brand of potato chips or an "exotic" British packet of crisps with flavours like camembert and plum, those with more stability chose the familiar brand. Those without opted for something new. Times of change might actually make us more open to new possibilities, the researchers suggested.

"I always want to take women to events, but the problem is that they don't want to go because they feel shy," Bermudez-Coronel said.

Memento Park is intended to be an apolitical museum where the past can be seen and discussed openly, but inevitably, it's always had its critics. Later that day, I met with Agnes Molnar, a Hungarian tour guide who leads communist tours of Budapest, showing travellers what life was like behind the Iron Curtain.

That's because bacalhau – or salt cod – which sits at the heart of all these dishes, runs deep through Portugal's culinary identity, with the country consuming 20% of the world's supply. In fact, so central to Portuguese hearts (and stomachs) is this ingredient, that the saying goes "there are 365 ways to prepare salted cod, one for each day of the year".

And when I flew over the little tiny Gombe National Park in 1960, it was part of this great forest that stretched right across Africa. By 1990, it was a tiny little island of forests with more people than the land can support, who buy food from elsewhere and who are struggling to survive. And that was when I thought, "If we don't do something to help the people find an alternative way of living without destroying the environment, then we can't save chimps, forests or anything else." So we began the Tacare programme.