Boosting longevity
Informal pub meeting: boosting longevity - Ontem às 18:00 · 18:00 - The Marlborough Arms Would you like to live to experience, not only the year 2025, but also 2075, 2125, and beyond? This informal meetup is being organised by Didier Coeurnelle, taking advantage of the fact that many London Futurists will be in central London for the Anticipating 2025 event this weekend. Didier is co-chair of HEALES, the Healthy Life Extension Society, which was founded in Brussels. *Didier writes:* At the moment, there is little that people can do to significantly increase their healthy lif... mais »
Cosmic Inflation
First direct evidence of cosmic inflation Telescope at the South Pole finds twists in microwave-light remnants from the Big Bang, showing evidence for inflation and gravitational waves March 18, 2014 Graduate student Justus Brevik tests the BICEP2 telescope readout electronics (credit: Steffen Richter (Harvard University) Researchers from the BICEP2 telescope collaboration announced Monday the first direct evidence for cosmic inflation. The inflation theory posits that almost 14 billion years ago, the universe we inhabit burst into existence in an extraordinary event that initiated the... mais »
Global Futures
*Global Futures Intelligence System* The Millennium Project is integrating all of its information, groups, and software into a "Global Futures Intelligence System." GFIS* is The Millennium Project’s new way for you to participate with and have access to all of our resources in one place. Those who buy a one-year subscription can interact with all the elements of the system, make suggestions, initiate discussions with experts around the world, and search through over 10,000 pages of futures research and 1,300 pages of methods. The text has built-in Google translation with 52 languages... mais »
The State of the Future
The state of the future: 2013–14March 19, 2014 On Thursday March 20, The Millennium Project, a global participatory think tank, will launch the “2013–14 State of the Future” report at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from about 12:20 to 1:30 pm EDT, with an open-access webcast. The “State of the Future” is a comprehensive annual overview of the present global situation and prospects for humanity. It integrates forecasts, trends, and judgments of thought leaders and scholars from around the world, sharing important future possibilities to improve strategies today. J... mais »
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Fierce solar magnetic storm barely missed Earth in July 23,2012 "Perfect storm" could have knocked out the electrical grid and disabled satellites and GPS, costing trillions worldwide March 21, 2014 [image: cme] This image captured on July 23, 2012 at 12:24 a.m. EDT shows a coronal mass ejection that left the sun at the unusually fast speeds of over 1,800 miles per second (credit: NASA/STEREO) According to University of California, Berkeley, and Chinese researchers, a rapid succession of coronal mass ejections — the most intense eruptions on the sun — sent a pulse of magnetized plasma ... mais »
Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, or Maimonides
Maimonides Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, or Maimonides, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. His great philosophical work, *Moreh Nevukhim* (*Guide for the Perplexed*), attempts to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy with the tenets of Jewish theology and addresses such metaphysical and religious topics as the existence of God and the principles of creation. A physician as well as a scholar and philosopher, he also wrote a number of medical texts. Why is he called "Rambam"? More... mais »
Neuroimaging
Hastings Center Report Copyright © 2014 The Hastings Center [image: Cover image for Vol. 44 Issue s2] March-April 2014 Volume 44, Issue s2 Pages S2–S52, inside back cover–inside back cover - Previous Issue - Next Issue Select All - - 1. Jump to… Special Reports 1. Introduction You have free access to this content Neuroimaging: *Beginning to Appreciate Its Complexities* (pages S2–S7) Erik Parens and Josephine Johnston Article first published online: 14 MAR 2014 | DOI: 10.1002/hast.293 2. - Abstract - Full Article ... mais »
Statins
New cholesterol guidelines would add 13 million new statin users *Recomendado pelo AMICOR Reginaldo H. Alkbuquerque* By: SHARON WORCESTER, Clinical Endocrinology News Digital Network Strict adherence to the new risk-based American College of Cardiology–American Heart Association guidelines for managing cholesterol would increase the number of adults eligible for statin therapy by nearly 13 million, a study suggests. Most of the increase would be among older adults without cardiovascular disease, Michael J. Pencina, Ph.D., of the Duke Clinical Research Institute of Duke University, Durh... mais »
World Day for Water
World Day for Water In 1992, the United Nations declared March 22 World Day for Water. Programs associated with the day draw attention to the ways in which proper water resourcemanagement contributes to a nation's economic and social vitality. More...
Marco Civil da internet
*Encaminhou-e um jurista cliente e amigo, Ilton Carlos Dellandreia:* O fim do WhatsApp, NetFlix e Skype pelo Marco Civil da internet (Publicado por Matheus Galvão no Jus Brasil) A forma como você usa a internet, o peso do acesso no seu bolso e o futuro da rede é assunto de uma das atuais batalhas entre o Poder Executivo federal e o Congresso Nacional. É uma parte do Marco Civil da Internet: a neutralidade da rede. Atualmente, no Brasil, seu provedor de internet não bloqueia seu acesso a um determinado conjunto de serviços, nem pode tornar o uso de uma rede social pior que outra. Isso ... mais »
Prof. John Briscoe 2014 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate.
Giant in Global Water Management Wins 2014 Stockholm Water Prize *John, casado com uma descendente de Açorianos, Conceição Andrade, foi membro do Departamento para o Brasil em Washington no WB, depois diretor da agência do WB no Brasil. Tive o prazer de participar de um projeto do qual resultou uma publicação sobre Saúde do Adulto, um novo desafio para países em desenvolvimento. Fiquei amigo deles e muito contente com a notícia do prêmio.* *[image: Web_banner_SWP2014]* [image: John Briscoe Mini Photo] *Professor John Briscoe, a native of South Africa, is named the 2014 Stockholm Water... mais »
AD Women
Women at Higher Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s Disease Than Men - Alice Park @aliceparkny 12:01 AM ET The latest research from the Alzheimer's Association shows a woman's lifetime risk of developing the neurodegenerative disease is one in six, compared with one in 11 for men. More than 5 million Americans suffer from the disorder Alzheimer’s disease may hit women harder than men in the coming decades, according to the latest report from the Alzheimer’s Association. The organization’s figures show a woman’s lifetime risk of developing the condition is 1 in 6, compared with 1... mais »
Canto gregoriano
Gregorian Chant Named for Pope Gregory I, who is credited with recodifying chant and liturgy in the 6th century CE, Gregorian chant is the monophonic, unaccompanied liturgical music of the Catholic Church. It is thought to have its roots in Jewish cantillation and in the Byzantine chant of the Greek Orthodox Church. Though the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) curtailed the use of chant in church services, recordings of Gregorian chants were topping pop music charts as recently as when? More... (Ainda em construção...)
Ripples in space-time
*Ripples in space-time detected, astronomers say* March 17, 2014 Courtesy of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and World Science staff *Astronomers say they have detected “ripples” in space and time caused by a process in which our universe expanded out of control during its first fleeting fraction of a second.The process is said to have begun almost 14 billion years ago during the Big Bang, an explosive event that gave birth to the universe. In an unimaginably small amount of time, the theory goes, the universe stretched to be far bigger th... mais »
The pain of social exclusion
*Estas informações vêm reforçar o que já se sabia sobre o caminho da recompensa, auto-estima, dependência psico-físico-social, trauma físico e psíquico.* *A compreensão deste complexo deveria ajudar a lidar com a violência, guerras, segregação, "bulling", droga-adição, luto, iniquidade, descaso, abandono e tantas outras condições às quais ainda não aprendemos a controlar, apesar de todo nosso desenvolvimento científico-tecnológico e psicológico (com atraso).* *Parece que o assunto pode ir ainda mais longe: isolamento de pacientes em hospitais, em clínicas, CTII e domicílio, desiguald... mais »
Chronic abdominal pain
Oxytocin may treat abdominal pain [image: Oxytocin may treat abdominal pain] Professor Alewood from UQ's IMB has developed a molecule that showed significant potential in alleviating abdominal pain. (Medical Xpress)—Australian researchers have found a key to treating chronic abdominal pain may lie in a hormone that induces labour and encourages social bonding. The researchers, led by The University of Queensland's Professor Paul Alewood from and the University of Adelaide's Dr Stuart Brierley, have developed a version of thehormone oxytocin to treat chronic abdominal pain associated ... mais »
exercise and exame
20 Minutes of Exercise Before an Exam Can Boost Your Scores 30,707g61 [image: alanhenry] Alan HenryProfileFollow Alan Henry Filed to: MIND HACKS - HEALTH - EXERCISE - PSYCHOLOGY - EXAMS - EDUCATION - TEST PREP - STUDYING - STUDY HACKS Wednesday 5:30am - EShare to Kinja - jShare to Facebook - iShare to Twitter - rGo to permalink [image: 20 Minutes of Exercise Before an Exam Can Boost Your Scores]SEXPAND You've studied hard, had a good night's sleep, eaten a good breakfast, and now you're ready for your big test. You might consider walking to the ... mais »
Maconha!
Analice Gigliotti 14 minutes ago Espero você para debatermos! [image: Clínica Espaço Clif's photo.] Join Palestra: Está na Hora do Brasil Legalizar a Maconha? Thursday at 8:00pm Clínica Espaço Clif in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro You were invited by Analice Gigliotti
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