You can take a break from thinking hard, or worrying about November 8th, or nursing your sore throat after too much political debate these last days and just enjoy today’s landscape photographs all taken in fall.

Or you can add some new information to your brain about how agriculture changed the human genome when it arrived in Europe about 8500 years ago. It’s actually interesting, believe it or not.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/science/agriculture-linked-to-dna-changes-in-ancient-europe.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0