Subthema 'Reformed Daily'

WASHINGTON - A conservative author in the USA has a new theory on why more children are overweight today than in previous generations.

PORTLAND - A flotilla of 100 fishing boats, rafts, and kayaks crossed the Willamette River to a downtown park in Portland, Oregon (US), the other evening to rally for the Pacific Northwest’s reigning icon: wild salmon, now plummeting toward extinction due to development across much of the Columbia River basin.

A new wide-field survey of the sky has made its first major discovery - two planets orbiting far-distant stars.

Music lessons can improve memory and learning ability in young children by encouraging different patterns of brain development, research shows.

A new study provides a grim reminder of the potential cost of sexual promiscuity.

„Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.” Mark 5:19

A black pastor in Georgia (USA) says he has found that black teenagers tend to be very tentative about the idea of marriage, and he believes he has gained some insight into why this may be so.

„And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.” aanhef (u13,1,0(Zecharia 12:10

A USA government study showed fifth-graders became less willing to try vegetables and fruits when more were offered as free school snacks. Older kids in the same study upped the amount of fruit they ate, but there was no change in their vegetable consumption.