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November 2, 2016
Eugene Monroe Has A Football Problem
The retired lineman uses cannabis because he says it heals the hurt from a lifetime playing the game. This is his crusade to convince the NFL he's right.
BY TOM JUNOD
So what's it like?" I ask Eugene Monroe.
"What's it like?" He's working out in his basement. The music is loud. From some kind of high-tech rack, he's picking up dumbbells that appear immobile in their sheer mass but yield to his grip like Excalibur.
"Yeah, what's it like?"
It's not much of question straight. But then, I'm not straight. Neither is Monroe. He comes over and wipes his face with a towel.
more
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/17943168/retired-baltimore-ravens-tackle-used-marijuana-quit-football
long and interesting article
November 1, 2016
A New York City rat running along a subway platform. Rattus norvegicus, otherwise known as the brown rat, remains surprisingly mysterious.
Millions of them live in New York, and billions more in cities and on farms across the globe. And wherever they scurry, they wreak havoc.
They devour food supplies and contaminate what they don’t eat with feces and urine. They spread a range of harmful viruses and bacteria. In delicate ecosystems around the world, they threaten other species with extinction.
“They’ll gnaw through walls. They’ll gnaw through wires. They’ll destroy cars,” said Jason Munshi-South, a biologist at Fordham University. “They’ve managed to spread wherever there are humans.”
Despite their ubiquity, Rattus norvegicus, otherwise known as the brown rat, remains surprisingly mysterious. Scientists have only a hazy idea of how it went from wild rodent to unwanted human companion.
more
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/science/brown-rat-new-york-city.html
How the Brown Rat Conquered New York City (and Every Other One, Too)
A New York City rat running along a subway platform. Rattus norvegicus, otherwise known as the brown rat, remains surprisingly mysterious.
Millions of them live in New York, and billions more in cities and on farms across the globe. And wherever they scurry, they wreak havoc.
They devour food supplies and contaminate what they don’t eat with feces and urine. They spread a range of harmful viruses and bacteria. In delicate ecosystems around the world, they threaten other species with extinction.
“They’ll gnaw through walls. They’ll gnaw through wires. They’ll destroy cars,” said Jason Munshi-South, a biologist at Fordham University. “They’ve managed to spread wherever there are humans.”
Despite their ubiquity, Rattus norvegicus, otherwise known as the brown rat, remains surprisingly mysterious. Scientists have only a hazy idea of how it went from wild rodent to unwanted human companion.
more
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/science/brown-rat-new-york-city.html
November 1, 2016
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