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Um lá e quarenta aqui...
*Um lá e quarenta aqui... **Aloyzio Achutti. Médico.* - *Artigo que enviei para ZH há mais de uma semana e que provavelmente não será mais publicado, motivo pára compartilhar agora com vocês. O propósito foi lembrar o evento ocorrido há um ano em NY na ONU e nosso início de caminhada no mesmo sentido por aqui há 40 anos exatamente. **Aqui repetimos no ano passado uma reunião preparatória de mobilização local, liderada pela Dra. Maira Caleffi. **Este hiato de 40 anos não é de surpreender, em quase tudo há um longo tempo para que a aceitação geral se torne con... mais »
Power and Internet
Power, Pollution and the Internet Ethan Pines for The New York Times Data centers are filled with servers, which are like bulked-up desktop computers, minus screens and keyboards, that contain chips to process data. Published: September 22, 2012By JAMES GLANZ THE CLOUD FACTORIESSANTA CLARA, Calif. — Jeff Rothschild’s machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt./.../ This is the first article in a series about the physical structures that make up the cloud, and their impact on our environment.
PNAD 2011
*PNAD 2011: crescimento da renda foi maior nas classes de rendimento mais baixas* http://cod.ibge.gov.br/7HG A Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) 2011 mostra que, de 2009 para 2011, o rendimento médio mensal real de todos os trabalhos das pessoas de 10 anos ou mais de idade, ocupadas e com rendimento, cresceu 8,3%. Na divisão por faixas de rendimento, o maior aumento nos rendimentos de trabalho (29,2%) foi observado nos 10% com rendimentos mais baixos. De modo geral, houve redução no crescimento do rendimento conforme seu valor aumentava. Com isso, o Índice de Gini p... mais »
brain’s ‘resting state
Neuroscience: Idle minds Neuroscientists are trying to work out why the brain does so much when it seems to be doing nothing at all. - Kerri Smith 19 September 2012 RYAN SNOOK Article tools - For volunteers, a brain-scanning experiment can be pretty demanding. Researchers generally ask participants to do something — solve mathematics problems, search a scene for faces or think about their favoured political leaders — while their brains are being imaged./.../
Memory
Why your memory is like the telephone game Each time you recall an event, your brain distorts it September 21, 2012 *[+]* (Credit: iStockphoto) Remember the telephone game where people take turns whispering a message into the ear of the next person in line? By the time the last person speaks it out loud, the message has radically changed. It’s been altered with each retelling. Turns out your memory is a lot like that, according to a newNorthwestern University Medicine study. Every time you remember an event from the past, your brain networks change in ways that can alter the later rec... mais »
How to access TV news
How to access TV news on any topic for the last three years http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-access-tv-news-on-any-topic-for-the-last-three-years http://blog.archive.org/2012/09/17/launch-of-tv-news-search-borrow-with-350000-broadcasts/ September 20, 2012 by Amara D. Angelica *[+]*[image: internet_archive_news] This is fantastic news for journalists and voters: the Internet Archive has launchedthe free TV News Search & Borrow service. The collection now contains 350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C. Th... mais »
2014 World Cup mascot
Tatu-BolaBrazil has chosen a peculiar looking armadillo which can curl itself up like a football as the 2014 World Cup mascot.The tatu bola, or three banded armadillo, is indigenous to Brazil and is an endangered species.Fifa's secretary-general, Jerome Valcke, said turning the endangered creature into the cartoon mascot was "very fitting" as one of the tournament's main aims was to raise awareness about the environment and ecology./.../
Um olhar para dentro
*Artigo da Dra. Themis Groisman Lopes na ZH de 21 setembro* "Solidão é quando nos perdemos de nós mesmos e procuramos, em vão, pela nossa alma." *Esta é a frase por ela escolhida para definir o tema de seu artigo.* *Ao cumprimentar a autora e recomendar sua leitura, senti-me provocado a olhar para dentro. Vejo que o sentimento de solidão muitas vezes pode ser fruto de uma ambivalência na tentativa de vencer a barreira natural protetora de nossa identidade. A curiosidade nos leva a tentar desvendar o outro (olhar para dentro do outro), descobrindo a final que somos únicos - e que a com... mais »
Saúde na Américas: 2012
Saúde nas Américas 2012: panorama da situação de saúde dos países das Américas Saúde nas Américas é a principal publicação da OPAS sobre a situação da saúde, seus determinantes e tendências na Região das Américas. Trata-se de um relatório, publicado a cada cinco anos, que analisa as condições, os avanços e os desafios da saúde na Região e nos países e territórios que a integram. As fontes dessa publicação são diversificadas, constituídas não só por estatísticas oficiais dos países, mas também outras menos formais, sem impedimento de que sejam identificadas e minimizadas as eventuais... mais »
cities 2030
[image: las-vegas-growth]Gigalopolises: Urban Land Area May Triple by 2030 Suburbs, slums and city centers may grow by more than a million square kilometers—much of it now home to wildlife By David Biello More than half of the world's expected nine billion people will live in giant urban expanses by 2030 as cities and their hinterlands occupy an additional 1.2 million square kilometers, thereby tripling in size. That's an additional 1.35 billion people living in cities, suggesting that urban areas that currently occupy roughly 3 percent of the planet's surface will continue to expan... mais »
Health US 2011
*Health****, United States****, 2011: With Special Feature on Socioeconomic Status and Health. * ***National**** Center for Health Statistics - Hyattsville, MD. 2012 * *Available online as PDF file [583p.] at: **http://1.usa.gov/JTENAA** * ***Health****, United States, 2011 is the 35th report on the health status of the Nation and is submitted by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to the President and the Congress of the United States in compliance with Section 308 of the Public Health Service Act. This report was compiled by the Centers for Disease Contro... mais »
Evolution
[image: Image of a petri dish illuminated with blue light with E.coli on the surface of the growing medium.] Bacteria's Key Innovation Helps Understand Evolution *Genomic analysis of E. coli shows multiple steps to evolve new trait* Long-term *E. coli* experiment yields surprising results regarding complex trait evolution. Credit and Larger Version *September 19, 2012* *View video interviews with Michigan State University postdoctoral researcher Zachary Blount and professor Richard Lenski.* Several years ago researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) reported discovering a novel, ... mais »
glycemia
Low Blood Sugar Raises Risk of Death in ICU By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: September 19, 2012 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Hypoglycemia in the intensive care unit (ICU) appears to carry an increased mortality risk, researchers found. In a post-hoc analysis of data from the NICE-SUGAR trial, both moderate and severe hypoglycemia were tied to a significantly higher risk of death even after adjustment for several confounders New England Journal of Medicine ./.../
NCD
From the HEARTBEAT WHF Bulletin Fulfilling the asks of the United Nations Political Declaration on non-communicable diseases In May of this year, a global target to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) 25 per cent by 2025 was adopted by the World Health Organization. Now, Member States need to agree on a global monitoring framework to achieve this ambitious goal which will include, should Member States approve, additional targets and indicators. World Heart Day 2012 World Heart Day offers the cardiovascular disease (CVD) community a platform to take actio... mais »
Science, Religion and Naturalism
*Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism* by Alvin Plantinga Oxford University Press, 359 pp., $27.95 [image: nagel_1-092712.jpg] Sijmen Hendriks Alvin Plantinga, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1995 1. The gulf in outlook between atheists and adherents of the monotheistic religions is profound. We are fortunate to live under a constitutional system and a code of manners that by and large keep it from disturbing the social peace; usually the parties ignore each other. But sometimes the conflict surfaces and heats u... mais »
Chronic Diseases and Pharmaceutical Industry
Pharmaceutical Industry Influences Practice and Guidelines Larry Hand Authors and Disclosures *METHODS* This qualitative study focused on management of type 2 diabetes and hypertension in 44 primary care clinics in Michigan and was based on interviews with 58 clinicians and 70 of their patients, and observations of 107 clinical consultations. We assessed clinicians’ treatment strategies and discussions of factors influencing treatment decisions, and patients’ understandings and experiences in managing these illnesses. *RESULTS* Clinicians focused on helping patients achieve test res... mais »
Unified Theory of Dark Matter, Dark Energy
Mathematicians Offer Unified Theory of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Altering Einstein Field Equations ScienceDaily (Sep. 6, 2012) — A pair of mathematicians -- one from Indiana University and the other from Sichuan University in China -- have proposed a unified theory of dark matter and dark energy that alters Einstein's equations describing the fundamentals of gravity.*Sichuan University professor Tian Ma, left, and IU Department of Mathematics professor Shouhong Wang have developed a unified theory of dark matter and dark energy they believe could change our view of energy, gravitati... mais »
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