Help & support n family junctions: a family event to support families who have a child with a chronic medical condition will be held March 21, from 2 to 5:30 p.m. at The Works Family Health & Fitness Center in Somersworth. Read more on Exeter News-Letter

BBC NEWS | Health | Swearing ‘helps to reduce pain’. “Uttering expletives when you hurt yourself is a sensible policy, according to scientists who have shown swearing can help reduce pain….” …. Works for Me!!

What Makes Us Human?: Scientific American. “Efforts to identify those regions of the human genome that have changed the most since chimps and humans diverged from a common ancestor have helped pinpoint the DNA sequences that make us human….” …. Genuinely fascinating article.

Scientists create chocoholic dream: all the taste with none of the calories – Telegraph. “A new inhaler – dubbed Le Whif – has been developed by scientists, allowing chocoholics to enjoy all the treats they can handle for zero calories….”

Plummer was lined up to perform in the Shakespeare play in 1956 – but an unplanned romp left him unable to take to the stage. “It began to sink in… Shatner, my understudy, would have to go on… (It) instantly brought back the pain. I screamed the nurse for more morphine. “I knew then that [...]

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