Based on animal models and pilot studies that have been done on humans, there’s enough to suggest that it may reduce PTSD symptoms and cravings for substances,’ explains Dr. Sudie Back, the principal investigator on the study.
Jessica Leigh Lebos
Community Editor Jessica Leigh Lebos has been writing about interesting people, vexing issues and anything involving free food for more than 20 years. She introduces herself at cocktail parties as southern by marriage.
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Exploring the ethics, economics and empowerment of breast milk sharing
Falls also examines how the outlying practice employs established infrastructure from FedEx to Facebook and occupies spaces that weren’t necessarily designed for it.
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Stories from the underground
EVERY YEAR, millions of tourists traipse along the worn cobblestones of Factor’s Walk, soaking in Savannah’s historic charms. While they learn about General Oglethorpe’s vision and Sherman’s restraint for not […]
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Team Liam, all the way
A star in his own right, Liam Steffen has been in the local spotlight for a decade as the face of Liam’s Land, the non-profit that funds research and clinical trials for lymphatic malformation.
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Shalom Y’all: Same nosh, less shlep
For the first time in almost two decades, the Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival will be serving it up in front of the historic synagogue on Monterey Square, the event’s original location.
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Susan Earl’s debut novel In the Dark explores a side of the city few see
With almost four decades of living in Savannah behind her, Earl brings intimate local knowledge to her first novel.
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Here and Queer on Ellis Square
‘We are literally and figuratively taking down the fences.’
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Calling all the good hackers
Carl V. Lewis heads up Open Savannah, a small team of local programmers and designers working with municipal leaders to streamline operations and devise solutions for community problems.
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From the microscope to the open ocean at Skidaway Marine Science Day
The relatively tiny corner of ocean off of Savannah’s coast has enough mysteries to keep the biologists, chemists and geologists of the University of Georgia’s Skidaway Institute of Oceanography busy for years.
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Catering with care
THE SUNNY kitchen off Eisenhower Drive bustles with a dozen people in striped aprons and sturdy clogs chopping vegetables, washing pots and arranging trays. Several are packing up box lunches, […]
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Tiptoeing our way to common ground
Those mile-long Facebook threads never seem to lead anywhere for me, and I would much rather have more of society’s difficult conversations in person, but only if there are ground rules and snacks.
That’s the ideology behind Common Grounds, the regular Wednesday night roundtable discussion at the Foundery Coffee Pub.