The combination of the Arab Spring and the economic crisis in southern Europe has led to a quiet panic spreading in hospitals across the Mediterranean Basin. “With the disorganization of medical services, the number of infections resisting most known antibiotics has literally exploded,” says professor Patrice Nordmann, chief of the bacteriology-virology-parasitology department at the…
Sex Doesn’t Gross You Out When You’re Aroused Getting turned on overrides women’s natural disgust response, a study suggests, making them more willing to do things they otherwise wouldn’t By Alexandra Sifferlin | September 14, 2012 If you think about it, sex is actually sort of disgusting, what with all the sweat, saliva,…
Amsterdam Decides It’s High Time To Squash Its Squatters The squatter movement has long had a foothold in the Netherlands’ canal-carved economic capital. As evidenced by a major early July raid, authorities are now looking to send its squatters packing. Squatters during a 2009 demonstration in Amsterdam, Holland AMSTERDAM — The Mobile Unit was…