Life expectancy
Yesterday the UN released its statistical annex for 2018 (available at *http://report.hdr.undp.org/#three* Life expectancy figures there for the top 35 countries are: 1 Japan 83.9 2 Switzerland 83.5 3 Spain 83.3 4 Singapore 83.2 5 Italy 83.2 6 Australia 83.1 7 Iceland 82.9 8 France 82.7 8 Israel 82.7 10 Sweden 82.6 11 Canada 82.5 12 South Korea 82.4 13 Norway 82.3 14 New Zealand 82.0 14 Netherlands 82.0 14 Luxembourg 82.0 17 Austria 81.8 18 United Kingdom 81.7 18 Andorra 81.7 20 Ireland 81.6 21 Finland 81.5 22 Portugal 81.4 22 Greece 81.4 24 Belgium 81.3 25 Germany 81.2 26 Slovenia 81.1... mais »
Creativity
Walt Whitman on CreativityWisdom “for strong artists and leaders—for fresh broods of teachers… and coming musicians.”BY MARIA POPOVA *“The most regretful people on earth,”* Mary Oliver wrote in her beautiful reflection on the central commitment of the creative life, *“are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”* A large part of that power, and of its temporal dimension, is an openhearted curiosity about the world — a willingness to take in its varied and often contradictory aspects, in o... mais »
post-truth era?
Are we living in a post-truth era? Yes, but that’s because we’re a post-truth species. Shared fictions -- in the form of news, religions, novels, sports, money, even brands -- fill our lives, but that's OK. It's these shared beliefs that have helped humans cooperate and conquer the planet, explains historian Yuval Harari. Read more »
Brain information process
Diving In to How Our Brains Process Informationby Neuroscience News Researchers are embarking on a new project to better understand the mechanisms of cognitive control.They hope to generate a specific mathematical model for each individual's brain activity in order to understand how cognitive control differs between people. Read more of this post
Age bias
Age Bias is Subconsciousby Neuroscience News A new study reveals our response to others is subconsciously connected to appearance and age. Researchers say the finding may shed light on why people tend to prefer the company of others in their own age groups. Read more of this post
our grip on the truth
Our Shared Reality is Frayingby Neuroscience News[image: a frayed piece of rope] Have we lost our grip on the truth? NeuroscienceNews.com image is adapted from The Conversation news release. Researchers report truth is key to normal human interactions and consider how society might be losing its sense of shared reality. Read more of this post
Zero Civilization
Today’s highlights We’re a Type Zero Civilization When will we move up the scale? Ella Alderson[image: Member only content]6 min read The Kardashev scale, designed by astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev, was created to assess how advanced a civilization is by taking into consideration multiple factors, including population growth, technology, and energy demands. The idea is that the more advanced the people are, the higher and more complex their energy usage will be. When we first appeared on Earth 200,000 years ago, for example, our species was few in number, and the extent of our ener... mais »
Anti-Inflammatory Diet
Anti-Inflammatory Diet Linked to Reduced Risk of Early Deathby Neuroscience News Researchers report following an anti-inflammatory diet can help lower the risks of dying from cancer and cardiovascular disease. Read more of this post Anti-inflammatory foods consist of fruits and vegetables, tea, coffee, whole grain bread, breakfast cereal, low-fat cheese, olive oil and canola oil, nuts, chocolate, and moderate amounts of red wine and beer. Pro-inflammatory foods include unprocessed and processed red meat, organ meats, chips, and soft-drink beverages. [image: fruits and veggies] Anti-i... mais »
Gut Flora Changes
Even on Standardized Diet, Gut Flora Changes from Day to Dayby Neuroscience News “These results suggest that the major drivers of microbiome composition are dietary fibers,” Gurry says. Researchers say that, despite taking a standardized diet consisting of a liquid meal replacement, gut bacteria change frequently and unpredictably. Read more of this post
Human Development 2018
Human Development Today September 2018 Newsletter Release of the *Human Development Indices and Indicators: 2018 Statistical Update* Wide inequalities in people’s well-being cast a shadow on sustained human development progress *According to the latest Human Development Index, people living in the very high human development countries can expect to live 19 years longer, and spend seven more years in school, than those living in the group of low human development countries.* *New York, 14 September 2018 *– Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Ireland and Germany lead the ranking of 189 cou... mais »
Psychosis/Ethnicity
Go to: ABSTRACT In this paper we provide an overview of the design and the initial findings of the AESOP (Aetiology and Ethnicity in Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses) study. The AESOP study is a major multi-centre incidence and case-control study conducted in the UK. Its primary aim is to investigate the high rates of psychosis in African-Caribbean populations from the UK, and from this to shed light on the aetiology of psychosis in general. As the study has progressed, the wealth of data collected has allowed further questions to be addressed: for example, about determinants of du... mais »
The Greeks
New post on *The Ancient Greeks: Tragedy, Philosophy, and Politics* Readings for Next Week (Sept. 17-21): Thucydides “Pericles’ Funeral Oration,” “The Plague of Athens,” and “The Melian Dialogue”by gmackin In our next set of readings, we are moving from tragic plays to the history writing. Specifically, we are reading excerpts of Thucydides "History of the Peloponnesian War." Thucydides was an Athenian, and he served as a general during that war. In his major engagement, he unsuccessfully attempted to keep the city of Amphipolis from being conquered by the Spartans. For this, he was... mais »
Viruses cooperation
Viruses cooperate to overcome immune defenses of bacteria *Recomendado por meu amigo Prof. Antônio Padula* *Date:*July 19, 2018Source:University of ExeterSummary:Virus particles that infect bacteria can work together to overcome antiviral defenses, new research shows. The findings are a key breakthrough that will help improve phage therapy, which is used to treat life-threatening bacterial infections.
Quantum Theory/Reality
What Does Quantum Theory Actually Tell Us about Reality? Nearly a century after its founding, physicists and philosophers still don’t know—but they’re working on it - By Anil Ananthaswamy on September 3, 2018 [image: What Does Quantum Theory Actually Tell Us about Reality?] *Credit: Alexandre Gondran Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)* For a demonstration that overturned the great Isaac Newton’s ideas about the nature of light, it was staggeringly simple. It “may be repeated with great ease, wherever the sun shines,” the English physicist Thomas Young told the members of the Royal Society i... mais »
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Because...
The Most Persuasive Word in the Dictionary Give a reason to get results [image: Go to the profile of Bignoggins] Bignoggins Follow Aug 25 The study of psychology is great for many reasons, but the main reason I became interested in it was because I wanted to learn how to become more persuasive. And the more I learn, the more I’m convinced that being a master of persuasion is the closest a person can get to having a legitimate superpower. An aspect I find deeply satisfying about learning something new is that moment when you have a simple realization that simultaneously unlocks a mass... mais »
What Time is it
What Time is it in Your Body?by Neuroscience News[image: clocks] The scientists then developed a novel machine-learning method that was used to train a computer to predict the time of day based on patterns in these gene expression measurements. Out of about 20,000 genes measured, these 40 emerged with the strongest signal. NeuroscienceNews.com image is in the public domain. A new blood test can help identify your body's precise internal time clock in relation to external time. Researchers say the test could help examine the impact of misaligned circadian clocks in a wide range of dis... mais »
Christopher Columbus
Charles ChuFollow Rethinking the obvious @ http://thepolymathproject.com Sep 8 Christopher Columbus and the Manufacture of Identity When I first visited Japan a decade ago, I was surprised to learn that Japanese schools did not teach students about the systematic murder of several hundred thousand Chinese civilians at the 1937 “Nanking Massacre”. Mariko Oi at the BBC says that, as a student, her textbook only had a single footnote about the event: “There was one page on other events leading up to the Sino-Japanese war in 1937 — including one line, in a footnote, about the massacre tha... mais »
Diabetes treatment
Association of Hemoglobin A1c Levels With Use of Sulfonylureas, Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 Inhibitors, and Thiazolidinediones in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Treated With MetforminAnalysis From the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics Initiative Rohit Vashisht, PhD1,2; Kenneth Jung, PhD1,2; Alejandro Schuler, MS1,2; et alJuan M. Banda, PhD1,2; Rae Woong Park, MD, PhD1,3,4; Sanghyung Jin, MS1,4 ; Li Li, MS, MD5; Joel T. Dudley, PhD5; Kipp W. Johnson, MD, PhD5; Mark M. Shervey, PhD5; Hua Xu, PhD1,6; Yonghui Wu, PhD1,7; Karthik Natrajan, PhD 1,8,9; George Hripcsak, MD, MS1,9; P... mais »
Tsar Nicholas II
KING GEORGE AND THE MURDER OF TSAR NICHOLAS II -- 9/11/18 - 0 COMMENTS *Today's selection -- from The Race to Save the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport. *When the Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra and their five children were brutally murdered in Ekaterinburg, Russia, in 1918, King George V of England, who was Nicholas's cousin, was in a quandary on the most superficial matters of funeral protocol. Complicating matters, the Bolsheviks would not even acknowledge they were dead. Further complicating matters emotionally was how little King George had done to help his cousin: *George... mais »
O casamento de Franz Karl Brenner - Há 157 anos
Franz Karl Brenner, meu bisavô materno, nasceu em 17 de setembro de 1831, em Ellweiler, uma aldeia no Principado de Birkenfeld/Hunsrück. Tinha 14 anos quando emigrou para o Brasil, junto com seu irmão Johann Jakob e suas irmãs Anna Philippina, e Catharina, casada com Jakob Cullmann. Franz Karl já adotara somente o prenome Karl, em sua terra natal, conforme assinou na Bíblia que recebera no ato de sua confirmação, em 1845. Ele ficou pouco mais de dois anos em São Leopoldo, junto à família da irmã Catharina. Em 1849, aos 18 anos, já residia em Porto Alegre, como aprendiz de ... mais »
violencia
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GQcmY1HY4sH5dOcwvhgb1SPqAdGTBPW77ivomR-GfYo/edit *VIOLÊNCIA* *Aloyzio Achutti. Membro da Academia Sul-Rio-Grandense de Medicina* Convive-se num clima generalizado e crescente de violência. Está por toda a parte: nos jornais, no rádio, na televisão, nas revistas, está no quotidiano, bem a vista... Assume também várias formas: no trânsito, nos assaltos e seqüestros, contra a mulher, a criança e o velho, no esporte, no comércio, na política, na academia, entre países, etnias e vizinhos, contra animais e contra a natureza, na pró... mais »
Extracting Meaning From the World
Life’s Purpose Rests in Brain’s Drive to Extract Meaning From the World[image: blue smokey lines] Grace or violence? NeuroscienceNews.com image is adapted from The Conversation news release. by Neuroscience News A new article questions what gives us purpose in life? Researchers speculate it is our drive to extract meaning from the world around us. Read more of this post
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