Watching WHO's 71st World Health Assembly in May 2018
> > *Watching** WHO's 71st World Health Assembly in May 2018* > *Call for Watchers!* > > The People's Health Movement is preparing for watching the 71st meeting > of the World Health Assembly (WHA-71) taking place from 21st to 26th May 2018 > in Geneva, Switzerland. > > PHM believes that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is the legitimate > space for global health policy making. Through the WHO Watch initiative, > PHM intervenes in the discussion of WHO's key decisions making bodies and > brings the voice of the movements struggling for Health for All to the > forefront. In additi... mais »
Anti-Aging Pill
Is an Anti-Aging Pill on the Horizon? By ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN February 15, 2018 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Anti-aging products from skin creams to chemical peels are part of a $250 billion industry, but scientists have yet to discover a longevity elixir that stands up to medical scrutiny. A group of researchers believe they’re getting closer, however, thanks to a compound called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD+ for short. “NAD+ is the closest we’ve gotten to a fountain of youth,” says David Sinclair, co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Agi... mais »
Books: Bill Gates like
Bill Gates Is Obsessed With These 2 New Books By MARTHA C. WHITE March 2, 2018 Bill Gates had some awesome answers for curious Redditors on his AMA this week, commenting on topics ranging from philanthropy to technology to beer. (He’s not really a beer guy, he says, but he’ll drink light beer at a ballgame “to get with the vibe of all the other beer drinkers.”) As you might have heard, billionaire entrepreneur Bill Gates is a big reader. In response to one question about his hobbies, he said, “I always try and read a few books every month and a bunch on vacation,” but admits it can b... mais »
Kids participation
Let your kids help you, and other parenting tips from traditional societies FEB 09 2018 8:00 AM Hunter-gatherers and villagers have some parenting tips for modern moms and dads. Read More
Diabetes: 5 types
*Recomendado pelo AMICOR Reginaldo Hollanda Albuquerque* Diabetes Consists of Five Types, Not Two, Say Researchers Liam Davenport March 01, 2018 - 0Read Comment - - - - - - - - Add to Email Alerts Adult-onset diabetes consists of five types of disease that have different physiological and genetic profiles, rather than the traditional type 1 and 2 classification, say Scandinavian researchers, findings that could bring the promise of personalized medicine a step closer. Gathering data on almost 15 000 patients from across five co... mais »
Science of Science
*Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja* Science of science 1. Santo Fortunato1,2,*, 2. Carl T. Bergstrom3, 3. Katy Börner2,4, 4. James A. Evans5, 5. Dirk Helbing6, 6. Staša Milojević1, 7. Alexander M. Petersen7, 8. Filippo Radicchi1, 9. Roberta Sinatra8,9,10, 10. Brian Uzzi11,12, 11. Alessandro Vespignani10,13,14, 12. Ludo Waltman15, 13. Dashun Wang11,12, 14. Albert-László Barabási8,10,16,* See all authors and affiliations Science 02 Mar 2018: Vol. 359, Issue 6379, eaao0185 DOI: 10.1126/science.aao0185 - Article ... mais »
Spaced repetition
The scientific, efficient way to learn languages: “spaced repetition” Before your trip abroad, you hit the flashcards hard. You memorized how to say essential words and phrases like “hello,” “where is the bathroom,” and “I’ll have a beer.” But once you arrived, it’s like your brain had never encountered the language at all. Words would not come. It’s not you, it’s how you used the flashcards: Learning a language as an adult takes time and effort, but the go-to study methods that most diligent language-learners use are out of date by about hundred years. There is a moment in every moder... mais »
Dogs & Cats
Why Scientists Love to Study Dogs (and Often Ignore Cats) By JAMES GORMANFEB. 26, 2018 Continue reading the main storyShare This Page - Share - Tweet - Email - More - Save Photo CreditKim Murton Recently someone (my boss, actually) mentioned to me that I wrote more articles about dogs than I did about cats and asked why. My first thought, naturally, was that it had nothing to do with the fact that I have owned numerous dogs and no cats, but rather reflected the amount of research done by scientists on the animals. After all, I’ll write about any interesting findings, ... mais »
Flu and Memory
*Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja* NEWS NEUROSCIENCE Some flu strains can make mice forgetful Memory trouble and brain changes lingered months after infection BY LAURA SANDERS 1:00PM, FEBRUARY 26, 2018 [image: H3N2 flu viruses] BRAIN DRAIN Certain influenza viruses, like the H3N2 strain shown in this transmission electron micrograph, can cause memory trouble and brain damage in mice months after infection, a new study shows. DR. FRED MURPHY/CDC - Email - Print - Twitter - Facebook - Reddit - Google+ With fevers, chills and aches, the flu can poun... mais »
Arroz de sessenta e poucos anos...
Revisando coisas guardadas reencontrei grãos de arroz que nos atiraram após a cerimônia de nosso casamento e que ficaram escondidos nos bolsos de meu terno e que guardei. Aproveitei para fotografa-los junto com nossa fotografia de saída da igreja há 60 anos, sete meses e vinte dias... Coincide com o início da colheita da safra de arroz, conforme noticiário de hoje... http://g1.globo.com/rs/rio-grande-do-sul/rbs-noticias/videos/v/caminhos-do-arroz-colheita-do-grao-chega-com-desafios-para-produtores/6534329/ http://g1.globo.com/busca/click?q=arroz&p=2&...mais »
Ark of seeds
‘Noah’s ark of seeds’ banks 1 million samples The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway is celebrating its tenth anniversary today by taking delivery of its 1 millionth deposit. The black-eyed pea, a major protein source in Africa and southern Asia, and the Bambara groundnut, which is being developed as a drought tolerant crop in Africa, are among those taking their place in the reinforced vault. BBC | 3 min read
João Gomes Mariante Médico Centenário
Conheça um pouco a trajetória de vida do acadêmico João Mariante [image: Imagem inline 1] Hoje é um dia especial para medicina. Em 26 de fevereiro do ano de 1918 nascia João Gomes Mariante. Ele viveu boa parte da infância na estância do pai, em um lugar chamado Porto Mariante, plantado às margens do Rio Taquari. Após se mudar para o Rio de Janeiro, ingressou na Faculdade Fluminense de Medicina, onde se formou em 1946. Durante este tempo também cursou jornalismo. Foi editor da revista Medicina Social e comentarista de saúde pública no Correio da Manhã. No período em que ...mais »
Pessimism advantage
The Surprising Benefits of Being a Pessimistby Neuroscience News Researchers reveal how being pessimistic may be beneficial for performance, confidence and health. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | February 26, 2018 at 6:57 am | Tags: defensive pessimists, negative mood, negativity, optimists, pessimism, pessimist | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-cdz Comment See all comments
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
50 frases de Drummond para carregar no bolso Ademir Luiz/31 de out de 2015 Flipar para…12 curtidasDeixe um comentário Compartilhar A vida do poeta interplanetário Carlos Drummond de Andrade, nascido sob a proteção de um anjo torto na cidadezinha mineira de Itabira, de besta não teve nada. Além de ter colocado uma pedra no caminho (e no sapato) de muitos poetas municipais (e de bairro) Brasil afora, Drummond foi contista, cronista e um frasista de abalar a máquina do mundo. A Revista Bula selecionou 50 das mais belas, instigantes e provocadoras frases do mestre. Frases que podem s... mais »
mais de 110 milhões de anos
*Brotos e flores de 110 milhões de anos são descobertos no Maranhão* Aliny Gama Em Maceió 26/02/201804h00 ... - Veja mais em https://noticias.uol.com.br/ciencia/ultimas-noticias/redacao/2018/02/26/brotos-e-flores-pre-historicas-de-110-milhoes-de-anos-sao-encontrados-no-ma.htm?cmpid=copiaecola
to Hunt Unknown Viruses
[image: image] Researchers Want to Hunt Unknown Viruses Before They Cause the Next PandemicHealth & Medicine A $1.2 billion global cooperative wants to hunt down the nearly 1.6 million unknown viruses on Earth in the hopes of stopping the next global pandemic. READ MORE
Doctor Scientist and Activist
SundayReview | OPINIONDoctors, Revolt! By RICH JOSEPHFEB. 24, 2018 Continue reading the main storyShare This Page - Share - Tweet - Email - More - Save Photo Dr. Bernard Lown, 96, at home in Newton, Mass. A celebrated pioneer in cardiology, Dr. Lown laments that modern medicine too often disregards the healing aspect. CreditKatherine Taylor for The New York Times Boston — The 96-year-old patient with pneumonia in Bed 11 was angry. “Do you really need to check my vital signs every four hours?” he asked. Checking things like temperature, blood pressure and respiratory r... mais »
Redução Natalidade no RS
*Do AMICOR Airton Fischmann* Por que diminui o número de matriculados em escolas no Rio Grande do Sul? Uma das razões (tem outra?) está no gráfico abaixo. Diminuição da natalidade. Em 2016 (último dado disponível) residiam no Rio Grande do Sul, 211.349 crianças de 5 a 9 anos de idade a menos que em 2001 162.567 jovens de 10 a 14 anos a menos e 98.176 a menos de 15 a 19 anos.( Sempre comparando 2016 com 2001) *População por faixa etária, de 5 a 19 anos . Rio Grande do Sul. 2001 a 2016.* [image: Imagem inline 2] -- *Fonte: Fundação de Economia e Estatística do RS*
Who We Are
enormously. If you already donate: THANK YOU.The Continuous Thread of Revelation: Eudora Welty on Writing, Time, and Embracing the Nonlinearity of How We Become Who We Are To be human is to unfold in time but remain discontinuous. We are living non sequiturs seeking artificial cohesion through the revisions our memory, that capricious seamstress, performs in threading the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. It is, after all, nothing but a supreme feat of storytelling to draw a continuous thread between one’s childhood self and one’s present-day self, since hardly anything ma... mais »
Visual peeception
A graph that is made by perceiving itby tomstafford The contrast sensitivity function shows how our sensitivity to contrasts is affected by spatial frequency. You can test it using gratings of alternating light and darker shade. Ian Goodfellow has this neat observation: View image on Twitter [image: View image on Twitter] Ian Goodfellow@goodfellow_ian By looking at this image, you can see how sensitive your own eyes are to contrast at different frequencies (taller apparent peaks=more sensitivity at that frequency). It's like a graph that is made by perceiving the graph itself. ... mais »
Radical Honesty
The Virtue of Radical Honesty David Brooks FEB. 22, 2018 Continue reading the main storyShare This Page - Share - Tweet - Email - More - Save PhotoSteven Pinker, a psychology professor at Harvard, calls himself an Enlightenment man.CreditChona Kasinger for The New York Times This week I asked a group of students at the University of Chicago a question I’m asking students around the country: Who are your heroes? There’s always a long pause after I ask. But eventually one of the students suggested Steven Pinker. Another chimed in Jonathan Haidt. There was general nodd... mais »
generative adversarial network
The GANfather: The man who’s given machines the gift of imagination By pitting neural networks against one another, Ian Goodfellow has created a powerful AI tool. Now he, and the rest of us, must face the consequences. - by Martin Giles - February 21, 2018 - - In the future, computers will get much better at feasting on raw data and working out what they need to learn from it./.../
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