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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 25, 2019
January 25, 2019
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Have you heard about the 65-year-old guy who has an alligator as an emotional support animal? From York, PA, JOIE HENNY loves reptiles, and has owned and rescued a bunch of poisonous snakes --including Gaboon vipers-- according to the local paper, the York Gazette.
Then a friend who was rescuing alligators from Walt Disney World asked Henney if he'd be interested in taking one. Bingo.
Joie adopted Wally, who was just a foot-and-a-half at the time. was rescuing alligators from Walt Disney World asked Henney if he'd be interested in taking one. "Alligators don't make good pets," he said.
Nevertheless, Joie has installed a 300-gallon landscaping pond complete with filter sits in his living room, and says the water has to be changed every three days, because "it can stink pretty bad."
Now Wally has become the first American alligator to be licensed as an emotional support animal.You may remember the name, E-L JAMES, especially since she was the one who wrote that "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy a couple of years back, which was then made into movies starring DAKOTA JOHNSON and JAMIE DORNAN.
Now, she's back on the book shelves with a new novel which she calls "The Mister," claiming it's "a Cinderella story for the 21st Century."Is it possible that exercise can build new brain cells? Studies as far back as the late 1990s say "yes," when a neuroscientist named FRED GAGE did a bunch of experiments on mice which showed after exercising, the mice were creating new neurons. The mice, he said, "the ones that scampered on running wheels, were producing two to three times as many new neurons as the mice that didn't exercise." And when he rolled the tests over to humans, he found similar results. As he put it, "I constantly get asked at cocktail parties what someone can do to protect their mental functioning. I tell them, 'Put down that glass and go for a run'."
Other studies have given similar results, including one which had people walking backwards to get out of their comfort zone. -
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