TEDMED 2015
TEDMED2015BreakThrough TEDMED is a global community dedicated to inspiring and catalyzing progress in health and medicine. Our goal is to seed the innovations of today, making possible the breakthroughs of tomorrow, leading to…a healthier, more vibrant humanity. This year, we are trying something new: we’re creating a collaborative setting with everyone and everything all under one roof! Sunny Palm Springs, California at a beautiful Waldorf Astoria Resort from November 18-20 will be the location for our stage, all experiences and our lodging. Our program will span 2.5 days and will ... mais »
The corrugated Galaxy
The corrugated galaxy — Milky Way may be much larger than estimatedMarch 12, 2015 *[+]* The Milky Way galaxy is at least 50 percent larger than is commonly estimated, according to new findings that reveal that the galactic disk is contoured into several concentric ripples (credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) The Milky Way galaxy is at least 50 percent larger than is commonly estimated, according to new findings that reveal that the galactic disk is contoured into several concentric ripples. The research, conducted by an international team led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute... mais »
Language
By Hazel Gale, Cognitive Hypnotherapist, Athlete & Performance CoachA Language You Didn’t Know You Spoke Think of something you really, really like. Something simple like cupcakes, or kittens, or organising a shelf of books so the spines form a perfect rainbow (just me?). Take a moment to consider your particular mental image of that thing (actually do this. I’ll wait). Is that picture in colour or black and white? Where exactly on your internal screen of representation is it (left, right, top, bottom, dead centre…)? Is it big or small? Is it near or far? Moving or still? Light or da... mais »
Tecnologias na Prática Médica
Reginaldo Albuquerque 01:39 (Há 16 horas) *Cumprimentando e divulgando* Achutti: Apresentação que fiz hoje em evento sobre Tecnologias na Prática Médica. Foi na sessão de abertura. Teve uma boa repercussão. http://www.slideshare.net/reginaldoalbuquerque/apresentao-finalsethis120315
Today: 03.14.15... (US notation)
The Pi Day FEATURED REPORT Irrational Exuberance: How Will You Celebrate the Pi Day of the Century? Send us *pi*x of your *pi*es, *pi*zzas and parties in honor of math (and circular baked goods) [image: Irrational Exuberance: How Will You Celebrate the Pi Day of the Century?]Read MoreTop StoriesOBSERVATIONS MORE SCIENCEAmerican Pi: Why the Day Belongs to the U.S. (and Belize) Pi may be a universal constant, but only two countries can natively celebrate Pi Day: the U.S. and Belize. That's because they are the only ones (if Wikipedia is correct) to shorthand their date format so that ... mais »
the winds of change
How to Hack the Music Industry Lessons for creatives from the world’s fastest growing companies *“*When the winds of change are blowing, some people are building shelters and some are building windmills” ~Chinese Proverb *Our concepts of ownership* are rapidly changing. The quiet revolution that’s now getting noisy is the sharing economy. We’ve gotten a taste with Airbnb and Uber, but it’s just getting started. This new mentality already affects the way we consume music. We’re entering a world where “access trumps ownership.” What’s the value in owning a single album when you can hav... mais »
Milky Way neighbourhood
Welcome to the neighbourhood: new dwarf galaxies discovered in orbit around the Milky Way Astronomers have discovered a ‘treasure trove’ of rare dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting our own Milky Way. The discoveries could hold the key to understanding dark matter, the mysterious substance which holds our galaxy together. Earlier surveys of the southern sky found very little, so we were not expecting to stumble on such treasure Vasily Belokurov A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way, the largest number ev... mais »
Proto-Indo-European Language
Listen to what our ancestors' language sounded like 6,000 years ago 154,770 22 [image: AnnaleeNewitz] Annalee NewitzProfileFollow Annalee Newitz Filed to: ARCHAEOLOGY - LINGUISTICS - PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN - ANTHROPOLOGY - SCIENCE - HISTORY 9/26/13 1:38pm - Share to Kinja - Share to Facebook - Share to Pinterest - Share to Twitter - Go to permalink [image: Listen to what our ancestors' language sounded like 6,000 years ago] Linguists have recently reconstructed what a 6,000 year-old-language called Proto-Indo-European might have sounded like. This language w... mais »
Intelligence Test
Take The Intelligence Test That Thomas Edison Gave to Job Seekers 177,305 16 [image: mattnovak] Matt NovakProfileFollow Matt Novak Filed to: THOMAS EDISON - EDISON QUIZ - EDISON TEST - QUIZ - JOB QUIZ - JOB TEST - 1920S Thursday 12:40pm - Share to Kinja - Share to Facebook - Share to Pinterest - Share to Twitter - Go to permalink [image: Take The Intelligence Test That Thomas Edison Gave to Job Seekers]1 Today tech companies are infamous for asking silly questions at job interviews. How would I move Mount Fuji? If I knew that I probably wouldn't be si... mais »
harmful medical overuse
monica.lalanda Posts: 76 Joined: 23/5/2013 Last Post: 11/3/2015 Score: 2 "Can doctors reduce harmful medical overuse worldwide?"- BMJ article turned into a cartoon
Prophecies ?!
St. Malachy predicted Pope Francis will be last pope IrishCentral Staff Writers @irishcentral August 13,2014 03:41 AM [image: \"The] The Irish St. Malachy made predictions for every pope from his day until the end of the world.Photo by: Wikimedia Commons The prophecies of the Irish saint Malachy, the 12th century bishop of Armagh, have thrilled and dismayed readers for centuries. He has stated there will be only one more pope after Benedict, and during his reign comes the end of the world. So Francis could be the last./.../
Sugar Industry versus Public Health
HEALTH DIET/NUTRITIONThe Sugar Industry Shaped Government Advice On Cavities, Report Finds - Alexandra Sifferlin @acsifferlin March 10, 2015 [image: 164419934]Getty Images Internal sugar industry documents reveal how it influenced national research priorities for tooth decay A new report reveals that the sugar industry heavily influenced federal research—as well as the guidelines that resulted from that research. Tooth decay remains a problem in the U.S. despite being preventable. One simple fix is cutting back on overall sugar intake. But a new report published in the jou... mais »
foundations of vocal learning
06.03.2015 | Press release Mice don’t need the cortex to sing their songs Goettingen scientists question the utility of mice to explore the foundations of vocal learning [image: Laboratory mouse. Image: anyaivanova/Shutterstock] Laboratory mouse. Image: anyaivanova/Shutterstock [image: Mice lacking the cerebral cortex develop normal song. Image: Kurt Hammerschmidt]Mice lacking the cerebral cortex develop normal song. Image: Kurt Hammerschmidt *The human language is unique in that we can refer to objects, events and ideas. The combination of syllables and words enables humans to generat... mais »
Imagination
neurosciencestuff*The brain treats real and imaginary objects in the same way* The human brain can select relevant objects from a flood of information and edit out what is irrelevant. It also knows which parts belong to a whole. If, for example, we direct our attention to the doors of a house, the brain will preferentially process its windows, but not the neighbouring houses. Psychologists from Goethe University Frankfurt have now discovered that this also happens when parts of the objects are merely maintained in our memory./.../
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 – September 8, 1894)
*Hermann von Helmholtz* [image: Hermann von Helmholtz.jpg] *Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility may rest assured that he seeks in vain. — Academic Discourse (Heidelberg 1862)[21]* He was a German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science. Inphysiology and psychology, he is known for his mathematics of the eye, theories of vision, ideas on the visual perception of space, color vision research, and on the sensation of tone, perception of sound, andempiricism. In physics, he is kno... mais »
Henrietta Lacks (08/01/1920-10/04/1951)
The Poor Black Woman Who Unknowingly Changed Science Forever By Steve Wynalda on Friday, March 6, 2015 [image: HeLa-IV] “”I got a knot on my womb. [. . .] I got a knot inside me.” —Henrietta Lacks, describing her pains to her doctor Henrietta Lacks had a short, hard life. She lost her mother when she was four, and her father abandoned her and her nine siblings soon afterward. When she died at the age of 31, her obituary never appeared in a newspaper and she was buried in an unmarked grave. And yet cervical cancer cells, taken from her without her knowledge or consent, were very, very s... mais »
Saúde Urbana - UFRGS
Artigo recentemente publicado pela ABRASCO, acessível também através do endereço do Grupo de Pesquisa e Extensão sobre Saúde Urbana, Ambiente e Desigualdade do Departamento de Saúde Coletiva da Faculdade de Medicina da UFRGS, do qual tenho a honra de participar. Bibliografia relacionada pode ser baixada do mesmo endereço. *Saúde Urbana* *AZAMBUJA MI, ROSA RS, ACHUTTI A, LEWGOY A.* Cidades, Saúde e Desenvolvimento Social: visão, iniciativas, desafios e algumas reflexões a partir do Sul. Rio de Janeiro: Abrasco - Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva, 2015. Disponível em: http://ww... mais »
Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology
*Jacobs Journal of Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology* *Dear Dr. Aloyzio Achutti,* *Quality research and its access is important to Scientific Community!* We, Jacobs Publishers are committed in association with the research community and our motto is to serve the scientific and research community. Quality research and its access is an important aspect of scientific community and ours is an open access publishing group publishes peer reviewed articles in various aspects like Medical, Life Sciences, Pharma, Chemistry and Engineering. We have a pioneered journal called* Jaco... mais »
Earliest Human Species
Oldest Human Fossil Found, Redrawing Family Tree Discovery pushes back the origin of our genus, Homo, by half a million years. By Jamie Shreeve, National Geographic PUBLISHED MARCH 05, 2015 [image: Picture of the mandible of the oldest Homo fossil found in Ethiopia] This jawbone, shown steps from the place where it was spotted by Arizona State University grad student Chalachew Seyoum, puts the first members of the human genus *Homo* in the Afar region of Ethiopia half a million years earlier than previously thought. PHOTOGRAPH BY KAYE REEDIn a rare congruence of new evidence, ... mais »
lengths of index and ring fingers
Can you judge a man by his fingers? Link between relative lengths of index and ring fingers in men and behavior towards women Date: February 18, 2015 Source: McGill University Summary: Men with short index fingers and long ring fingers are on average nicer towards women. This phenomenon stems from their fetal life, and the hormones these men have been exposed to in their mother's womb. The findings might help explain why these men have more children. New research shows that men with short index fingers and long ring fingers are on average nicer towards women. *Credit: © igor / Fotolia*... mais »
Why does E=mc^2?
Ask Ethan #78: Why does E=mc^2?Einstein’s most famous equation works out more neatly than you’d expect. in Starts With A Bang!, by Ethan Siegel 8 min read
Sugar and Hypertension
From Medscape Education Clinical BriefsIs Sugar the Real Culprit Behind Hypertension? CME/CE News Author: Lara C. Pullen, PhD CME Author: Charles P. Vega, MD Faculty and Disclosures CLINICAL CONTEXT Dietary salt has traditionally been held responsible for increasing blood pressure and, therefore, the risk for cardiovascular disease. In their current review, DiNicolantonio and Lucan challenge this assumption. They note that there has been limited change in sodium consumption in Western diets for the past 50 years, with an average intake of 3.5 to 4 g/day. They also report that low-sal... mais »
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