How to create a Mind
Ray Kurzweil’s *How to Create a Mind* publishedNovember 13, 2012 *[+]* Ray Kurzweil’s new book — *How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed** — was published today, Nov. 13, Viking has announced. The book opened on Monday as #1 among all books on the Barnes & Noble bestseller list. It is now available from the book website or from all major booksellers, and available in all popular e-book formats. … *Topics:* AI/Robotics | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Singularity/Futures Comments (35)
Longevity gene
Longevity gene that makes Hydra immortal also controls human agingNovember 14, 2012 [image: hydra_kiel] The Hydra polyp reproduces by budding rather than mating. It is about 1 cm in size. Credit: CAU/Fraune) Why is the polyp Hydra immortal? Researchers from Kiel University decided to study it — and unexpectedly discovered a link to aging in humans. The study carried out by together with the Keil University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) The tiny freshwater polyp Hydra does not show any signs of aging and is potentially immortal. There is a rather simple biological explanati... mais »
New brain gene
New brain gene gives us edge over apesNovember 15, 2012 [image: human_and_ape] (Credit: Ross Hawkes/Flickr) An international team led by the University of Edinburgh hasdiscovered a new gene called miR-941 that helps explain how humans evolved evolved from apes by playing a crucial role in human brain development, and may shed light on how we learned to use tools and language. The researchers say it is the first time that a new gene — carried only by humans and not by apes — has been shown to have a specific function within the human body. They compared the human genome to 11 other sp... mais »
Cloud computing
Can cloud computing boost GDP?November 15, 2012 [image: Cloud_Computing] Cloud computing (credit: Davide Lamanna/Wikimedia Commons) Gross domestic product (GDP) can be boosted by cloud computing, the system in which remote computers on the Internet are used to store, manage and process data rather than the users’ local machines, according to a report to be published in the *International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management.* /.../
Google has officially eaten the newspaper industryNovember 16, 2012 [image: google_ad_revenue] (Credit: Statista/Google) Newspapers have continued to churn out the same content while watching their advertisers steadily flee for sites like Craigslist, Yahoo, the Huffington Post/AOL, Facebook, and Google, says writer Will Oremus in *Slate Future Tense*. . The chart above, from Statista’s Felix Richter, plots Google’s digital advertising revenue against the print advertising revenue of all U.S. newspapers and magazines. *The Guardian*‘s Roy Greenslade estimates that Google’s total rev... mais »
Internet
Internet activists on red alert ahead of United Nations conference November 16, 2012 [image: R.I.P._Internet] Internet activists are warning that next month’s meeting of the International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations body charged with overseeing global communications, may have significant and potentially disastrous consequences for everyday Internet users, Mashable reports. Called the World Conference on International Telecommunications, the meeting is intended to update some of the aging international law that … more…
10 Congresso Brasileiro de Saúde Coletiva
Homenagem recebida ontem, junto com mais 24 outros ilustres colegas durante durante o 10o. Congresso da ABRASCO realizado em Porto Alegre, sob a presidência do Dr. Luiz Augusto Facchini. *Agradecimento:* Desejo agradecer a honra da lembrança de minha participação no desenvolvimento da perspectiva de saúde coletiva. Mesmo envaidecido, devo confessar minha sensação de estranho no ninho junto a tantos ilustres colegas. Considero-me um simples cardiologista clínico (professor universitário e funcionário publico aposentado), que há quarenta anos ficou deslumbrado com a perspectiva de in... mais »
Ankle-Brachial Index
*Measurement and Interpretation of the Ankle-Brachial Index* A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association *Victor Aboyans, MD, PhD, FAHA, Chair; Michael H. Criqui, MD, MPH, FAHA, Co-Chair;* *Pierre Abraham, MD, PhD; Matthew A. Allison, MD, MPH, FAHA; Mark A. Creager, MD, FAHA; Curt Diehm, MD, PhD; F. Gerry R. Fowkes, MBChB, PhD, FAHA; William R. Hiatt, MD, FAHA; Bjo¨rn Jo¨nsson, MD, PhD; Philippe Lacroix, MD; Benoıˆt Marin, MD; Mary M. McDermott, MD, FAHA; Lars Norgren, MD, PhD; Reena L. Pande, MD, PhD, FAHA;* *Pierre-Marie Preux, MD, PhD; H.E. (Jelle) Stoffers, MD, PhD;... mais »
E-Mails Secret
Trying to Keep Your E-Mails Secret When the C.I.A. Chief Couldn’tBy NICOLE PERLROTHPublished: November 16, 2012 If David H. Petraeus couldn’t keep his affair from prying eyes as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, then how is the average American to keep a secret? Megan Piontkowski In the past, a spymaster might have placed a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony or drawn a mark on page 20 of his mistress’s newspaper. Instead, Mr. Petraeus used Gmail. And he got caught. Granted, most people don’t have the Federal Bureau of Investigation sifting through their personal e-... mais »
Europe: Public Health
REPORTS Health at a Glance: Europe 2012 (OECD 2012) Health at a Glance: Europe 2012 [image: Health at a glance cover] This second edition of Health at a Glance: Europe presents a set of key indicators of health and health systems in 35 European countries, including the 27 European Union member states, 5 candidate countries and 3 EFTA countries. The selection of indicators is based largely on the European Community Health Indicators (ECHI) shortlist, a list of indicators that has been developed by the European Commission to guide the development and reporting of health statistics. It ... mais »
Treating with Parasitic Worm Eggs
Parasitic Worm Eggs Ease Intestinal Ills by Changing Gut Macrobiota By Katherine Harmon | November 15, 2012 | ------------------------------ [image: parasitic worm egg monkey colitis ibs] Image of Trichuris trichiura courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Delorieux for Johann Gottfried Bremser Intestinal issues are not just for us humans. Whereas theinflammatory bowel disease(IBS) now afflicts some 1.4 million people in the U.S., a similar condition often besets captive monkeys. But these animals are providing new insights about a cure for this condition in both species—and that cure is wor... mais »
Cosmology
The Multiverse By Amir D. Aczel | November 4th 2012 01:01 PM | 9 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments Alan Guth, the discoverer of cosmic inflation, gave a talk at MIT on November 1, which convinced me, a natural skeptic about these issues, that the multiverse may very well exist. Two routes to the multiverse were never to my liking. One is "Many Worlds," Hugh Everett IIIs idea that quantum events whose wave functions seem to "collapse" in our world to yield specific measurements actually never collapse but realize all other characteristics implicit in their wave functions i...mais »
Detection Advances Outpace Treatment
For Alzheimer’s, Detection Advances Outpace Treatment Options Joshua Lott for The New York Times Awilda Jimenez got a scan for Alzheimer’s after she started forgetting things. It was positive. By GINA KOLATAPublished: November 15, 2012 When Awilda Jimenez started forgetting things last year, her husband, Edwin, felt a shiver of dread. Her mother had developedAlzheimer’s in her 50s. Could his wife, 61, have it, too? - Health Guide: Alzheimer's Disease - Alzheimer’s Precursors Evident in Brain at Early Age(November 13, 2012) - Three Drugs to Be Tested to Stave Off Alzheimer’s (O...mais »
Tamiflu?
Tamiflu Efficacy, Safety in Doubt, Says BMJ Troy Brown Nov 14, 2012 http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e7304 The *BMJ* is also intensifying its efforts to help resolve a three year battle to gain access to the full data on oseltamivir (Tamiflu). In 2009 the Cochrane respiratory group, led by Tom Jefferson, was commissioned by the UK government to update its systematic review of neuraminidase inhibitors. Despite a public promise to release “full study reports” (internal company reports) for each trial, each of which can run to thousands of pages,8 Roche has stonewalled, variously p... mais »
Vit D
Vitamin D Gene Changes May Drive Disease By Cole Petrochko, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: November 13, 2012 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Action Points - Certain variations in the vitamin D receptor gene may influence the clinical effects of low vitamin D levels in some chronic diseases. - Note that patients in the cohort without the genetic polymorphism showed no association between low 25(OH)D levels and outcomes such as hip fracture, myocardial infarction, cancer, and death. ...mais »
Soccer Head
Soccer Players Show Signs of Brain Damage Repetitive hits on the head that are below the threshold for causing a concussion may still result in changes in the brain’s white matter, a small study of soccer players suggested.full story White Matter Integrity in the Brains of Professional Soccer Players Without a Symptomatic Concussion Inga K. Koerte, MD; Birgit Ertl-Wagner, MD; Maximilian Reiser, MD; Ross Zafonte, DO; Martha E. Shenton, PhD *JAMA. *2012;308(18):1859-1861. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.13735. T *To the Editor:* Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, with more than 250 m... mais »
Antioxidants
Targeting Endogenous Antioxidants to Prevent Cardiovascular Diseases 1. W. H. Wilson Tang +Author Affiliations 1. Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Prevention, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH 2. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 1. *Correspondence to:* W. H. Wilson Tang, MD, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Desk J3-4, Cleveland, OH 44195. E-mail: tangw@ccf.org - Oxidative stress has long been associated with a wide r... mais »
Jejum para exames?
Fasting for Lipid TestingComment on “Fasting Time and Lipid Levels in a Community-Based Population” ONLINE FIRST Amit V. Khera, MD; Samia Mora, MD, MHS *Arch Intern Med. *2012;():1-2. doi:10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.263. Text Size: A A A Published online November 2012 Article References Comments Lipid testing plays a major role in cardiovascular risk stratification and the assessment of lipid responses to clinical interventions. Current guidelines suggest that blood samples for lipid profiles should be obtained after a 9- to 12-hour fast.1 This requirement is not always practical for ... mais »
A fotografia e a imagem da nação
*Um olhar sobre o Brasil* Exposição em SP, onde nosso filho *Luiz Eduardo Robinson Achutti*, contribui com duas de suas fotos. Com mais de 400 imagens vindas de diferentes acervos públicos e coleções privadas, a FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE, em parceria com Instituto Tomie Ohtake, realiza a exposição “Um olhar sobre o Brasil. A Fotografia na construção da Imagem da Nação”. O projeto inédito, de pensar 170 anos de história do país (1833-2003) a partir do registro fotográfico, tem curadoria do especialista em história da fotografia Boris Kossoy e curadoria adjunta da antropóloga e historia
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