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Adams River in British Columbia, Canada, supports the largest salmon migration in the world.
Tens of millions of sockeye salmon migrate back to their home river every four years from as far off as Japan. It is believed they use the smell of the stream and location of the sun to navigate.
“I didn’t get it when people said they were comfortable in their fat skin but uncomfortable in their thin skin. Then I got it,” says one weight-loss patient who after losing 160 kilograms still had the skin that once held the extra weight. Plastic surgeons are doing increasingly more body contouring surgeries to provide a more fitting skin for those who have achieved great loss of weight.
Medical researcher John Ioannidis of the University of Ioannina in Greece offered mathematical “proof” that most published research results are wrong. Using simple statistics, Ioannidis argued that the results of large, randomised clinical trials— the gold standard of human research—were likely to be wrong 15 per cent of the time and smaller, less rigorous studies fare even worse.
Sources: Scientific American, ABC, Smithsonian, theworld.org
The life of a follower of Christ is much like any other life—full of decisions, growth, experiences and challenges. Signs magazine has been helping people take the next step in their Christian journey for more than 120 years.
Extract from Signs of the Times, May 2007.
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