The Psychological Toll of the Pandemic: What Isolation Does to the Brain
The worldwide increase in isolation during COVID-19 is sure to exact a psychological toll on people across the globe
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Jupiter and Saturn are about to appear closer in the sky than they have for 800 years, aligning as a 'double planet'

Here's how to see this rare conjunction.
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☄️A meteor explosion was seen in the south of Brazil at dawn this Monday, close to the border with Uruguay. The phenomenon was recorded by the Heller & Jung Space Observatory, 426.9 km away from the where the explosion took place.

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Your Brain Is Not for Thinking

Your brain runs your body using something like a budget ( allostasis )
A financial budget tracks money as it’s earned and spent. The budget for your body tracks resources like water, salt and glucose as you gain and lose them. Each action that spends resources, such as standing up, running, and learning, is like a withdrawal from your account. Actions that replenish your resources, such as eating and sleeping, are like deposits.

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Unloading Allostatic Load

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How close is too close?

The neuroscience of peripersonal space explores how you create, defend or relax the buffer zone between you and the world
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Meat-free diets linked with greater risk of breaking bones

By 2010, vegans had broken a hip at over twice the rate of meat eaters, while vegetarians and fish eaters had a smaller increase in risk, of about 25 per cent. Vegans – but not vegetarians and pescetarians – also had a higher risk of breaking other bones.

It’s certainly possible to look after your bones on a well-planned vegan diet, but people need information to make healthy choices.

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