Abstracts » Zoology and wildlife conservation

Buddhism on the brain

Article Abstract:

Dalai Lama, the head of Tibetan Buddhism and neurologists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California met in a meeting organized by the Mind and Life Institute in Louisville, Colorado to promote communication between science and Buddhism. The research conference also included a presentation of evidence that people in good spirits were better able to control their blood sugar levels, and suggested that meditation can transform emotions and alter the expressions of genes.

Health aspects, Analysis, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Lamaism

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Future shock in California

Article Abstract:

Gerstenberg's work describes a procedure that sets a new standard against which future earthquake predictions can be tested, and can be adopted, with appropriate local modifications, in other earthquake prone areas. An important element of this work is to allow aftershocks to be of any size, including bigger than the original earthquake, using Gutenberg-Richter law to describe the likeliness of the different sizes of the aftershocks.

United States, Earthquake engineering, Earthquake prediction

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Net losses pose extinction risk for porpoise

Article Abstract:

Vanquita porpoise, one of the world's most endangered marine mammals is edging nearer to extinction because of fishing nets in the Gulf of California off Mexico. Environmental groups including The Nature Conservancy, the WWF and Conservation International have devised a viable plan to save the porpoises, but the plan has not been implemented.

Goods & services distribution, Channels of Distribution, Hunting, trapping, game propagation, Hunting and Trapping, Marine Mammals, Distribution, Protection and preservation, Company distribution practices

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