Candy!
Candy season is upon us!
Said one journalist:
We’ve officially entered the long season of candy-centric holidays. After we drench ourselves in sugar this Halloween, we’ll do it again on Christmas and Hanukkah, Valentine’s Day, Passover, Easter, and in the weeks between these special days. The candy industry counts on us to celebrate with sugar for a huge portion of its annual sales.”
Indeed, American consumers aren’t scared to pull out all the stops their credit
Eyes!
The title of a study caught my attention last week: “Evidence That Leonardo da Vinci Had Strabismus,” published in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Ophthalmology, by Christopher Tyler from the City University of London.
Least?
Recently a Grand Rapids, MI, man, David Mazurek, saw on the news that meteorite hunters were finding shards and selling them for thousands of dollars after a meteor shower this January in the Detroit area.
That made the guy curious about a nondescript rock that he’d been using as a door stop in his farm.
Said Mr. Mazurek:
Wait a minute. I wonder what this rock is. Maybe it’s worth something.”
It was.
That 22.5-pound rock was recently identified by Department of Earth
Pleasure!
Scientists from Oxford, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, and the Glasgow Center for Virus Research published “Human Endogenous Retrovirus-K HML-2 Integration Within RASGRF2 Is Associated with Intravenous Drug Abuse” in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The long and short of it is that a virus may be responsible for the warping of our pleasures, especially addictions.
The human RASGRF2 gene, that one researcher called the “pleasure gene”
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.