https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/09/02/lettersboris-johnson-could-still-have-hold-election-wants-save/
The Telegraph
[London, UK]
3 September 2019
Letters
Writing on the wall
SIR – Further to Colonel James Hardy’s
letter (August 31), I was at a demonstration of Chinese writing in Hong Kong
and the scribe asked what my profession was. Later I was given a plaque, which
he told me read: “The world’s best orthodontist”.
It hung proudly on my waiting room wall
until a Chinese patient one day said politely: “I cannot possibly tell you what
it says but I suggest that you burn it immediately.”
Dr H L Eirew
Manchester
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Science Daily
22 January 2020
Solving a biological puzzle: How stress causes gray
hair
[…] For a long time, anecdotes have connected
stressful experiences with the phenomenon of hair graying. Now, for the first
time, Harvard University scientists have discovered exactly how the process
plays out: stress activates nerves that are part of the fight-or-flight
response, which in turn cause permanent damage to pigment-regenerating stem
cells in hair follicles. […]
Bing Zhang, Sai Ma, Inbal Rachmin, Megan He, Pankaj
Baral, Sekyu Choi, William A. Gonçalves, Yulia Shwartz, Eva M. Fast, Yiqun Su,
Leonard I. Zon, Aviv Regev, Jason D. Buenrostro, Thiago M. Cunha, Isaac M.
Chiu, David E. Fisher, Ya-Chieh Hsu. Hyperactivation of sympathetic nerves
drives depletion of melanocyte stem cells. Nature, 2020; DOI:
10.1038/s41586-020-1935-3
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Plymouth Herald [UK]
23 January 2020
Homes on alert as white circles appear on streets in
Plymstock
Mysterious white circles have suddenly appeared on
roads around Plymstock - but no-one knows who is responsible or what they mean.
Suspicions were raised after a white transit van was clocked by eagle-eyed
locals rocking up in the early hours of Monday on Colesdown Hill at the back of
Billacombe. A bloke reportedly jumped out and began daubing the road in chalk
before driving off. Some suspect travellers with a keen interest in nearby
fields may be to blame - although it's not been determined what their reason or
motive would be. […]
Plymouth Herald
27 January 2020
White circles
in Plymstock - the unexpected explanation
[…] Rumours were flying about what the circles meant,
with some locals believing their dogs were at risk of being kidnapped while
some elderly people thought the markings signified their house had been
'tagged' for a potential burglary. […] A source told Plymouth Live the markings
are believed to have been carried out by a local Hashing Harriers running
group, with the white circles marking different parts of the route the athletes
take - usually between pubs. […]
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