Readers respond to March 2025 issue

Find a Toxic Source

In “Penguin Cartography“(Progressives), Gioung Lee reports research by marine biologist John Regeldeder and his companions about compiling penguins. An article in October 2010 In the wooded hole portitutionographic institution (Whoi’s) Journal seasMost mercury of the ocean is made with coal power plants. This link is important because the burning coal is also a major carbon source in the air that causes climate change.

Terrence Dunn Vancouver, Wash.

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Reply to refefelder: The Article Whoi Dunn Notes is published before the United Nations environmental program Worldwide Review of Mercury 2018showing that artisanal and small mining mining mining is the largest source of devils in afhropogenic abstinence (which represents 38 percent of such emissions). Coal combustion is the second largest source (represents 21 percent).

Understanding Insight

In “The odd to the sharp intelligence“John Kounios and Yvette Kounios Examine Neurocognitive Interpinnings in” Aha! moment. “I wonder if the authors – or other fields – check similar neurocognitive mechanisms in the initial information or participation of sudden recognition or revision.

Mark Halliwell Smith Beverly Hills, Calif.

The authors assure “the messages about rewards can develop understanding – but if it is shown shortly someone does not understand them.” Despite the impact of warranties’ in understanding is nervous and confident in context. Very important rewards can sometimes shift the focus to immediate objectives and so limit the broad, assumption of expression for understanding. But in other contexts, they can move encouragement, maintain and solve creative problems. In addition, the authors seem to present a tight dichotomy by suggesting that the blacksmiths of the subliminal can be stressful, can prevent the role of incentives to the incentive.

Jamal I. Bittar Toledo, Ohio

Until I first 20s, I’m a more creative person and makes beautiful paintings. Since I finished college and entered a line of work that requires a lot of analysis of thinking, I struggle with artistic. So far, I think I’m just tired of thinking to make new ideas. But after reading this article, I wonder if better analytical functions and regular work deadlines starting about my brain used to make me creative.

Ailyn montes Miami, Fla.

Reply to authors: Smith has made fun of the puzzles and suggest their punchlines can cause the first understanding of a person to be structured. There is a fair value of research on this subject. But “get” a joke can be imposed on a burden on party life: If you don’t explain the healing of blinking snoring heaps of mocking while talking about it. If you see something in a new light, it’s hard to remember it in old light.

The bittar argues that clear rewards can encourage creativity. Research shows that the hope of such reward can insult people to keep solving a problem, which is better to have a good idea. Research also shows that offering clear rewards can prevent the size of the idea of ​​ideas, which is harder for a person to explore the remote associations and fringe ideas for a creative sense. And the new research suggests that test rewards, especially, can encourage thinking that does not prevent one’s thinking. Thinking outside the box is more likely when one’s eyes are not in the prize.

Montes’s reflections on how job-related pressures can prevent a person’s creativity clearly true for many people. The kind of relaxed reverie that can give birth to a sharp intelligence can be easily crushed with anxiety, often pressure to keep the task and lack of sleep. So many creation ideas that are unexpected to go out on vacations. So do why some businesses take their creative vacation teams like retreat.

Ah, Sugar, Sugar

“Sweet surprise“By Saima S. Iqbal (February), reports a study of sugar restrictions. The two, the reason for consecutive diseases?

Rajesh Kulkarni By e-mail

Gra & Caron; Reply to ner: In the entire article, “sugar” refers to increased sugar-sugar added to foods rather than occurring, or intrinsic, sugar. These additives can come in many forms, including but not limited to honey, table sugar, molasses and high-fructose corn syrup. Our study does not specifically examine the exact sources of additional sugar.

Real spicicity

“The surrounding object of the universe“By Phil Plait (the universe; February), saying that, among known things in the einsten recount, which he does not mention gravity in gravity. Spherical than the sun.

Don Jennings College Park, MD.

Plit answers: I have to explain that I explore the question of the most spherical natural object. As many people know, there are some artificial things vying for the title. They especially attached the gyroscopic rotors developed for the gravity of in the Bet MIS mission, which was launched by the ball gyroscopes in 2004. Unfortunately, there is no place in the article to discuss them. So after it was published online on November 2024, I follow further information on the issue number 801 of my Bad Aast Jonconomy Newsletter. Other contenders for the closest thing spheres used to measure frequent avogadrothe number of atoms or molecules on a mole in a given substance. Having an almost perfect circle thing is not something worthless; Our understanding of the universe can depend on it!

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In “The traumatic drugs in addiction“(October 2024), Maia Szalavitz refers to the train bound for Auschwitz with his father and his mother leaving the Nazis in 1944.

The online version of “Deep-Sea Mining begins“By Willem Marx (May), now describes Amisher Usmanov as a businessman.