Kate Moss and Her Daughter Lila Look So Alike As They Attend Marc Jacobs’s Wedding Together

Tom Patriot

Marc Jacobs got married this weekend to his longtime partner Char Defrancesco, in a New York wedding. The chic event was attended by an array of models and celebs that the fashion designer has worked with throughout his dextrous career. So it makes sense that Kate Moss was in attendance at the event, along with her daughter, 16-year-old Lila. While Kate wore a burgundy vintage dress by Janice Wainwright, Lila wore a metallic strapless dress with chunky black heels. The mother and daughter duo looked adorable as they left the wedding together. Plus the…

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Dopamine conducts prefrontal cortex ensembles

Tom Patriot

Anyone who has savored a bite of chocolate or glanced at each new blinking notification on their smart phone is familiar with dopamine. But that is not all dopamine does. This chemical neurotransmitter also plays a fundamental role in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which controls higher functions such as paying attention, staying motivated, and making decisions. Now, research in rodents reveals for the first time how dopamine changes the function of the prefrontal cortex. In a study published in the journal Cell Reports, researchers found that dopamine has little…

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Geographers use big data to predict how slope affects human travel rates

Tom Patriot

Have you ever been running on a sidewalk making pretty good time, then hit a hill and slowed way down? If so, you’ve experienced how slope affects travel rates. For most of us, understanding how slope steepness impacts our speed is a matter of fitness. For others, such as wildland firefighters retreating from the fire line to a safety zone, predicting how long it takes to move across terrain can be a matter of life and death. Fire crews, city planners and search and rescue teams are just some of…

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Mass drug administration reduces scabies cases by 90% in Solomon Islands’ communities

Tom Patriot

Mass drug administration (MDA) of two antibiotics can be highly effective at reducing cases of scabies and the bacterial infection impetigo, according to new research published in Lancet Infectious Diseases. The study was conducted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney and the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services. It saw the entire population of Choiseul Province of the Solomon Islands (26,000 people), in the Pacific, given one round of the antibiotics ivermectin and azithromycin…

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