Roberto Barros Benevett (20/05/1938 - 19/10/2018)

Dra. Valderês e eu fomos padrinhos de casamento do Benevet e Maria Helena.

Hubble–Lemaître law

Universal law expands to include Lemaître The International Astronomical Union has voted to change the name of the Hubble law to the Hubble–Lemaître law. The equation describes how the expansion of the Universe causes galaxies to move away from Earth at speeds proportional to their distance. The name change aims to recognize the contribution made by Belgian priest and astronomer Georges Lemaître, who came up with the result independently of Edwin Hubble, two years earlier. The new terminology is only a recommendation: “if people will continue to use the Hubble law naming, nobody will object,” says former IAU president Piero Benvenuti. Nature | 6 min read

Eduardo de Azeredo Costa: publicação

Tive hoje a grata satisfação de receber a visita de um eminente sanitarista e companheiro dos tempos de Secretaria da Saúde e do Meio Ambiente Airton Fischmann, trazendo-me um livro com dedicatória de outro grande amigo Eduardo de Azeredo Costa.
"1967 um mergulho no Amazonas", relato substanciado de sua experiência de vida "em busca da medicina pública para o Brasil".
Conheci o Eduardo no Rio de Janeiro, quando ele recém voltava de Londres, da LSHTM,  numa reunião promovida pelo Ministério da Saúde e o Instituto Nacional do Câncer, presidida pelo Dr. Torloni, visando aproveitar nossa experiência do RS para iniciar abordagem de Doenças Cardiovasculares e Crônicas nos demais Estados do país.. Deste contato inicial com Eduardo surgiu a proposta de um Projeto Epidemiológico para Pesquisa sobre Pressão Arterial na População Adulta do RS em 1978. Na época Airton era diretor da Escola de Saúde Pública que sediou o projeto e dele participou, juntamente com a FINEP e a FIOCRUZ Foi também Eduardo que me apresentou o Professor Geoffrey Rose, orientador de sua tese de Pós-doutorado, analisando os dados da pesquisa populacional do RS.
Há outro encontro com Eduardo: seu pai Rubens Menna-Barreto Costa desenvolveu a SEFAE na Sedretaria da Educação onde eu adquiri experiência com Escolares e Cardiologia Pediátrica, antes de criar o Ambulatório de Cardiologia Pediátrica no Instituto de Cardiologia. Também tive a honra de ser chamado por seu pai para ajudar no tratamento de Dona Lýgia, sua mãe.
(pretendo acrescentar referências adicionais)

Foto da reunião do Rio quando conheci o Eduardo

Genetics : Education

MIT Technology Review

Reporting on important technologies and innovators since 1899

Jul 23

Million-Person Genetic Study Finds Gene Patterns Linked to How Long People Stay in School

Researchers explore genetic “scores” that may predict educational success

Photo by Andre Hunter on Unsplash

By Antonio Regalado

The largest-ever genetic study on human cognition has found more than 1,000 links between people’s genes and how far they get in school.

The work, which involved DNA from 1.1 million people and researchers drawn from 40 institutions, led to a scoring system that can roughly predict how educated someone is by examining that person’s DNA.

Fear

How Evolution Designed Your Fear

The universal grip of Stephen King’s personal terrors

Image: Andrzej Wojcicki/Science Photo Library/Getty Images

By Mathias Clasen

The most effective monsters of horror fiction mirror ancestral dangers to exploit evolved human fears. Some fears are universal, some are near-universal, and some are local. The local fears — the idiosyncratic phobias such as the phobia of moths, say — tend to be avoided by horror writers, directors, and programmers. Horror artists typically want to target the greatest possible audience and that means targeting the most common fears. As the writer Thomas F. Monteleone has observed, “a horror writer has to have an unconscious sense or knowledge of what’s going to be a universal ‘trigger.’ ”¹All common fears can be located within a few biologically constrained categories or domains.

Universe

The Universe Unseen The mystery of dark matter and dark energy Tony Deller in The Startup5 min read

Web of life

The conversion of tropical forests to unsustainable palm oil plantations destroys the habitat of species like this sumatran orangutan. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty)

Within two years, we must commit to saving the web of life Mammal, bird, fish and reptile populations have fallen on average by 60% since 1970, finds a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report involving 59 scientists from around the world. “If there was a 60% decline in the human population, that would be equivalent to emptying North America, South America, Africa, Europe, China and Oceania. That is the scale of what we have done,” says Mike Barrett, executive director of science and conservation at the WWF. Runaway human consumption is to blame: the biggest cause of wildlife loss is the annihilation of natural habitats, much of it to create farmland to feed humans and livestock, followed by killing for food. The WWF is calling on world leaders to strike a global deal at the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity in 2020, similar to the Paris agreement on climate change, to limit and reverse the destruction. “This is far more than just being about losing the wonders of nature, desperately sad though that is,” says Barrett. “This is actually now jeopardising the future of people. Nature is not a ‘nice to have’ — it is our life-support system.” CNN | 10 min read Read more: Nature digs deep into the last WWF Living Planet Report in 2016 Reference: WWF Living Planet Report & Nature Sustainability paper

Alma Ata 40: Declaración de Astaná

Alma Ata +40 acaba de compartilhar uma atualização no abaixo-assinado "CARTA A MINISTRAS Y MINISTROS DE SALUD A 40 AÑOS DE ALMA ATA".

Quantum Biology

"Schrödinger's Bacterium" Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone

Galileu Galilei

Carta achada após 250 anos indica recuo de Galileu

Para evitar ser condenado pela Inquisição, o astrônomo italiano Galileu Galilei (1564-1642) amenizou seus argumentos contra a doutrina eclesiástica de que o Sol orbitava a Terra. É o que sugere uma carta encontrada na Royal Society, em Londres, onde estava havia ao menos 250 anos. Por erro de catalogação, o documento não era encontrado. Só foi descoberta recentemente por pesquisadores da Universidade de Bérgamo, Itália. Na carta, escrita em 21 de dezembro de 1613 ao amigo e padre Benedetto Castelli, matemático na Universidade de Pisa, Galileu defende que as referências bíblicas aos eventos astronômicos não deveriam ser tomadas como literais porque os escribas as teriam simplificado para serem compreendidas pelos comuns. Ele também afirma que o modelo heliocêntrico, segundo o qual a Terra orbita o Sol, proposto por Nicolau Copérnico em 1543, não era incompatível com a Bíblia. Duas versões da carta eram conhecidas. A primeira, enviada à Inquisição em 7 de fevereiro de 1615 pelo frade Niccolò Lorini, era mais dura e serviu de prova para a condenação do astrônomo em 1633. Sabia-se que Castelli havia devolvido a carta ao amigo e que, em 16 de fevereiro de 1615, Galileu havia escrito a Piero Dini, um clérigo em Roma, sugerindo que a versão apresentada por Lorini ao Vaticano havia sido manipulada. Em anexo, Galileu enviou uma carta mais amena, que dizia ser a correta, e pediu que fosse entregue aos inquisidores. Como essa versão estava perdida, não era possível saber se os clérigos tinham alterado as palavras de Galileu ou se o astrônomo havia escrito a versão mais forte e depois atenuado sua posição. A carta achada agora contém rasuras e emendas, todas com a caligrafia de Galileu, feitas após a devolução de Castelli. Sugere que o astrônomo escreveu a versão enviada aos inquisidores e depois moderou as palavras.

Quantum Computing

Tony Deller

Startup product manager. Amateur astronomer and anthropologist. Daydreamer. Writer.

Oct 17

The Awesome Potential of Quantum Computing

QC is humanity’s next big step forward, but can we be good stewards of such power?

All we as humans had as tools for hundreds of thousands of years were sticks, stones, and our brains… and eventually fire. Arguably the greatest tool we’ve ever invented, though, is the computer. In the tiny span of time extending from the mid-20th century to now, we’ve entered a realm of exponential progress as processing power roughly doubles every few years. However, this rule, known as Moore’s Law, is getting close to its limit, since computer parts are getting closer and closer to atomic-size./.../

The Mystery of the Self

How a Jellyfish and a Sea Slug Illuminate the Mystery of the Self

A humbling evolutionary antidote to the hubris of exceptionalism, with a side of etymology.

BY MARIA POPOVA

“There is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thought that rises, independent, lifted out from all else, calm, like the stars, shining eternal,” Walt Whitman wrote in contemplating identity and the paradox of the self. Whitman lived in an era before the birth of neuroscience, before psychology as we know it became a robust field of scientific study — before, that is, we began examining more closely whatever it is that we mean by the “self,” only to find that it doesn’t hold up to systematic scrutiny. A century after Whitman, another great poet and great seer of the human experience articulated the terror and the beauty of this elemental fact: “The self is a style of being, continually expanding in a vital process of definition, affirmation, revision, and growth,”Robert Penn Warren wrote in admonishing against the trouble with “finding yourself,” “a process that is the image, we may say, of the life process of a healthy society itself.”

Art of Tea

An Illustrated Field Guide to the Art, Science, and Joy of Tea

From leaf to cup, by way of the history of human civilization.

BY MARIA POPOVA

“The first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy,” Jack Kerouac wrote of tea in his 1958 novel The Dharma Bums. Late one night that year, he walked five miles with an enormous tape recorder strapped to his back to keep the woman he loved from taking her own life.

Lois Beckwith didn’t die that night. She and Jack soon parted ways as lovers, but remained friends. Eventually, he introduced her to the man who would become her husband. Their son would go on to devote his life to tea.

In Pursuit of Tea founder Sebastian Beckwith fell in love with tea while working as a trekking guide in Bhutan and northern India in the 1980s, and has spent the years since procuring and advocating for the planet’s finest, most sustainably grown and ethically harvested teas. Traveling to and working with small farms in Asia’s most historic tea-growing regions, he sources teas that grace the menus of some of New York City’s finest restaurants and have powered much of my own writing over the years. In his workshops, seminars, and lectures, he has brought the art-science of tea to the American Museum of Natural History, the French Culinary Institute, and Columbia University./.../

2892 - AMICOR 21

Bôrtolo Achutti (28/10/1898 - 19/11/1977)

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um minuto

Papai, *Bôrtolo Achutti* estaria completando hoje 120 anos, se vivo ainda estivesse. Filho de imigrantes: pai Libanês e mãe Italiana. Fotógrafo, farmacêutico, curioso, funcionário da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, desenhista da Viação Férrea do RS quando jovem, com muitos amigos, campeão Nacional de tiro ao alvo de 1922 no Rio de Janeiro, por ocasião das comemorações da Independência (mas nunca o vi atirar contra um ser vivo). No dia 26 p.p. teria completado 91 anos de casado com nossa mãe *Luiza Cechella Achutti*. Deixou, além de mim, mais duas filhas: *Lia Maria* e *Maria He...mais »

AMRIGS (27/10/1951)

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 19 horas

TED: 5 selecciones

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 21 horas

11:54 Will MacAskill¿Cuáles son los problemas morales más importantes de nuestro tiempo? Posted Sep 2018Rated Inspiring, Informative++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 11:36 Niels van NamenPor qué el hospital del futuro será tu hogar Posted Sep 2018Rated Informative, Ins++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 6:50 Stephen DeBerryPor qué "el lado equivocado de las vías" está usualmente en el lado este de las ciudades. Posted Aug 2018Rated Inspiring, Infor+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 12:30 Tammy LallySeamos sinceros con nuestros problemas económicos Posted Aug 2018Rated Inspiring, Inf++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4:... mais »

10 billion Pop.

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 21 horas

TED TALK OF THE DAY [image: Charles C. Mann: How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion?] CHARLES C. MANNHow will we survive when the population hits 10 billion?

Human Evolution

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 22 horas

Tony DellerFollow Startup product manager. Amateur astronomer and anthropologist. Daydreamer. Writer. Sep 18 Human Evolution is Happening…Right…NowPeople continue to evolve even as our societies becomes more interconnected. What are we becoming now, and what might we become in the far future? The story of humanity is a story of adaptation. Over the past 200,000 years, ever since the first modern humans (Homo sapiens) appeared in Africa, people have been spreading outward from that continent in every possible direction. As they encountered new environments and challenges, our ancest... mais »

Two Trillion Galaxies

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 23 horas

than SiegelFollow The Universe is: Expanding, cooling, and dark. It starts with a bang! #Cosmology Science writer, astroommunicator & NASA columnist. Oct 25 Artist’s logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe. Galaxies give way to large-scale structure and the hot, dense plasma of the Big Bang at the outskirts. Trying to figure out how many galaxies exist within the Universe is one of the great cosmic quests of our time. (WIKIPEDIA USER PABLO CARLOS BUDASSI) This Is How We Know There Are Two Trillion Galaxies In The UniverseHubble, even at its best, only r... mais »

The fate of the oceans

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 23 horas

*THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP* *The fate of the oceans is our fate* *By Nathan Gardels, WorldPost editor in chief* The seas are the lifeblood of our blue planet. They are the critical element in forging that narrow band of livable climate that distinguishes us, so far as we know, in the universe. It is thus not an overstatement to say that the fate of the oceans is our own fate as well. From sea to shining sea globally, the warning lights are flashing./.../

Anthropocene

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um dia

How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion? 12:58 minutes · TED2018 By 2050, an estimated 10 billion people will live on earth. How are we going to provide everybody with basic needs while also avoiding the worst impacts of climate change? In a talk packed with wit and wisdom, science journalist Charles C. Mann breaks down the proposed solutions and finds that the answers fall into two camps -- wizards and prophets -- while offering his own take on the best path to survival. Watch now » PLAYLIST OF THE DAY [image: What is the Anthropocene?] What is the Anthropocene? Hum... mais »

Primary Health Care: Global Conference

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um dia

http://www.who.int/primary-health/conference-phc/ [image: WHO logo] On 25-26 October 2018, the world will come together in Astana, Kazakhstan, at the Global Conference on Primary Health Care to renew a commitment to primary health care to achieve universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals. The Conference will be held at the Palace of Independence and is cohosted by the Government of Kazakhstan, WHO and UNICEF. [image: phc-app] Global Conference on Primary Health Care On 25-26 October 2018, the world will come together in Astana, Kazakhstan, at the Global Confer... mais »

Noncommunicable Diseases

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um dia

Noncommunicable diseases country profiles 2018 *Authors*: World Health Organization Publication details Number of pages: 223 Publication date: September 2018 Languages: English ISBN: 978 92 4 151462 0 Downloads - Full report: NCD country profiles 2018 pdf, 9.3 Mb - NCD profiles by country Overview At the First and Second UN High-level Meetings on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) in 2011 and 2014, the World Health Organization released Country Profiles, highlighting the latest data on NCDs in each WHO Member State. This third set of Country Profiles provides an update on eac... mais »

baloxavir marboxil (Xofluza, Shionogi)

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um dia

FDA OKs *Xofluza, *First New Flu Antiviral in Nearly 20 Years Megan Brooks October 24, 2018 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved baloxavir marboxil tablets (*Xofluza*, Shionogi) for the treatment of acute uncomplicated influenza in people age 12 years and older who have been symptomatic for no more than 48 hours. "This is the first new antiviral flu treatment with a novel mechanism of action approved by the FDA in nearly 20 years. With thousands of people getting the flu every year, and many people becoming seriously ill, having safe and effective treatment alternati... mais »

Lung Cancer : ACE

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um dia

ACE Inhibitors Linked to Higher Lung Cancer Risk Kristin Jenkins October 25, 2018 The use of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors to lower blood pressure was associated with an overall increased risk for lung cancer of 14% compared to hypertension therapy with angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), a large, population-based cohort study shows. Thanks to the widespread use of ACE inhibitors for the treatment of hypertension, this relatively modest association could result in large absolute numbers of patients at risk for lung cancer, the researchers warn. An analysis of primary... mais »

Grief Tied to Death

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um dia

Grief Tied to DeathDying of a Broken Heart Is a Real Phenomenon George W. Citroner October 25, 2018 The death of a loved one is a tragic and ultimately unavoidable experience that we all eventually face. Stories of spouses dying within days or even hours of each other are not uncommon. A recent study may explain why. Researchers from Rice University, Houston, Texas, found that individuals who struggle to overcome grief caused by the loss of a loved one may experience levels of inflammation high enough to cause heart damage. "I was struck by how often people who had lost a loved one, lik... mais »

Finishing

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um dia

[image: Go to the profile of Mayo Oshin] Mayo OshinFollow Fishing for ideas in a rich ocean, at the intersection of science, art and philosophy. Trying to avoid stupidity and live a better life at Mayooshin.Com. Oct 16 5 Things to Do When You Have Too Many Ideas and Never Finish Anything. What do you do when you’re overwhelmed with too many ideas? Do you abandon them, or do you finish what you start? Juggling multiple ideas and goals — to write, exercise, read more, wake up early and so on — is a tough gig that often begins with excitement, but ends with procrastination, and failure to... mais »

Primary H. Care

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 dias

New global commitment to primary health care for all at Astana conference Share Tweet Forward Share On 25 October 2018, United Nations Member States unanimously agreed to the Declaration of Astana, vowing to strengthen their primary health care systems as an essential step toward achieving universal health coverage. The Declaration of Astana reaffirms the historic 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata, the first time world leaders committed to primary health care. Whether you are a health care provider, an academic, a policy maker, a health care manager, a representative of an organization, o... mais »

Alzheimer's Disease : Supreme Court Justice member

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 3 dias

Justice O'Connor announces dementia diagnosis Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has revealed she has been diagnosed as being in the "beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's." The Alzheimer's Association commends Justice O'Connor for bravely sharing her diagnosis and increasing awareness about this devastating disease.

Working Memory

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 3 dias

How Working Memory Gets You Through the Dayby Neuroscience News Researchers present a new model of working memory which helps explain how the brain holds information and executes volitional control. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | October 24, 2018 at 11:22 am | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-dxR Comment See all comments

Anatomy : Gender

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 3 dias

Anatomy does not equal gender Researchers say that the Trump administration’s latest plan to define gender goes beyond the limits of scientific knowledge. According to a memo seen by *The New York Times*, the Department of Health and Human Services is proposing that gender be defined narrowly as a biological condition determined by genitalia at birth. Scientists and medical professionals have long since moved on from such a binary reading of biology, and exactly what determines gender identity is still unclear. New York Times | 4 min read Read more: *Sex redefined: The idea of two se... mais »

Alzheimer's Disease

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 3 dias

Pfizer, Bain launch a startup to focus on nervous system diseases By Jonathan Saltzman GLOBE STAFF OCTOBER 23, 2018 Not long ago, Pfizer Inc. said it was getting out of the business of developing drugs for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, but the New York-based pharmaceutical giant appears to be hedging its bets. Pfizer and Bain Capital LP, the Boston global investment firm cofounded by Mitt Romney, plan to announce Tuesday that they are launching a biopharmaceutical startup that will work on medicines for people with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other diseases of the central n... mais »

UN 1945

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias

[image: United Nations, flag] FEATURED EVENT 1945 United Nations established The charter for the United Nations—the world's premier international organization, established at the end of World War II to maintain world peace and friendly relations among nations—entered into force this day in 1945.

Just 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male - By Claire Ainsworth, Nature magazine on October 22, 2018 [image: Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic] *Credit: Gary Waters Getty Images* As a clinical geneticist, Paul James is accustomed to discussing some of the most delicate issues with his patients. But in early 2010, he found himself having a particularly awkward conversation about sex. A 46-year-old pregnant woman had visited his clinic at the Royal Melbourne Hospital i... mais »

Aristoteles: Property

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias

Aristotle’s Defense of Private Property Ownership inspires virtue, justice, and unity [image: Go to the profile of Paul Meany] Paul Meany Follow Aug 14 Photo: PanosKarapanagiotis/iStock/Getty Images Plus Asan institution, private property has been critical in Western society and political thought. Modern capitalists defend private property merely on the grounds of efficiency. Socialists, on the other hand, tend to critique it. Capitalists’ defense of private property rarely extends beyond a calculation of economic benefits. Many assert simply that there is no viable alternative to indi... mais »

Consciousness

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias

Memory, Neuralink, and Immortality of Consciousness In a study published on May 14 in the journal eNeuro, researchers at UCLA described how they removed memories… Tony Deller in Predict[image: Member only content]8 min read

World oldest shipwreck

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias

World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered in Black Sea Archaeologists say the 23-metre vessel has lain undisturbed for more than 2,400 years Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the world’s oldest intact shipwreck at the bottom of the Black Sea where it appears to have lain undisturbed for more than 2,400 years. The 23-metre (75ft) vessel, thought to be ancient Greek, was discovered with its mast, rudders and rowing benches all present and correct just over a mile below the surface. A lack of oxygen at that depth preserved it, the researchers said. “A ship surviving inta... mais »

Early childcare

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias

Early childcare type predicts children’s emotional and behavioural trajectories into middle childhood. Data from the EDEN mother–child cohort study 1. Ramchandar Gomajee1, 2. Fabienne El-Khoury1, 3. Sylvana Côté2,3, 4. Judith van der Waerden1, 5. Laura Pryor1, 6. Maria Melchior1 7. on behalf of The EDEN mother-child Cohort Study Group Author affiliations Abstract *Background* The scientific literature on the impact of early childcare on children’s behavioural and emotional difficulties shows contrasting results. We studied this association in France, where c... mais »

MAHB:: HUMANITY & THE BIOSPHERE

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias

*The Way Forward* [image: Moving Forward | Mariyan Dimitrov | Flickr] Moving Forward | Mariyan Dimitrov | Flickr

Human Development 2018

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias

Human Development Today October 2018 Newsletter The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released two important measures of global development this past month ahead of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly: the Human Development Index (HDI) and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). Together they paint a broader picture of the world today – a picture that goes beyond purely monetary measures and focuses on people’s choices and opportunities. Disparities between and within countries continue to stifle progress Children born today in a very high human develop... mais »

Pelé from E. Britannica

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias

[image: Pelé] FEATURED BIOGRAPHY 1940 Pelé Born this day in Brazil in 1940, Pelé became the most famous football(soccer) player in the sport's history, and, by the time of his retirement in 1977, he had arguably become the most famous athlete in the world.

Amadeo Avogadro (1776-1856)

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias

How Was Avogadro’s Number Determined? Chemist George M. Bodner of Purdue University explains - By George M. Bodner on February 16, 2004 [image: How Was Avogadro's Number Determined?] Amadeo Avogadro. *Credit: Getty Images* Contrary to the beliefs of generations of chemistry students, Avogadro’s number—the number of particles in a unit known as a mole—was not discovered by Amadeo Avogadro (1776-1856). Avogadro was a lawyer who became interested in mathematics and physics, and in 1820 he became the first professor of physics in Italy. Avogadro is most famous for his hypothesis that e... mais »

Wishful Thinking = Reward

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias

Wishful Thinking is Reward [image: Neuroscience News]NEUROSCIENCE NEWSOCTOBER 22, 2018 Summary: A new stu*tudy reports the reward system in our brains may affect our judgments.* [image: a brain]*Source: Max Planck Institute.* We make judgements quite rationally or “by the gut”. Not only experience and relevant information play an important role, but also our preferences. A study by the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne shows how the reward system in the brain conveys judgements affected by one’s own desires. *So, our desires and preferences influence our judgment ... mais »

Rapamycin

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*Sirolimus ou Rapamycin* [image: C. elegnas]Drug Cocktail that Increases Lifespan Discoveredby Neuroscience NewsA microscope image of the Caenorhabditis elegans worms used in the study. NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to Dr Jan Gruber. Uma placa na ilha de Rapa Nui (Ilha de Páscoa), Chile, lê-se uma homenagem, em português (vide foto): "*Neste local foram obtidas em janeiro de 1965 as amostras de solo que permitram obter a rapamicina, substância que inaugurou uma nova era para os pacientes submetidos a transplantes de órgãos. Homenagem dos investigadores brasileiros, Novembro d... mais »

Google Inc

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias

Google Inc. AMERICAN COMPANY WRITTEN BY: - William L. Hosch - Mark Hall See Article History *Google Inc.*, American search engine company, founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page that is a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Inc. More than 70 percent of worldwide online search requests are handled by Google, placing it at the heart of most Internet users’ experience. Its headquarters are in Mountain View, California. Google began as an online search firm, but it now offers more than 50 Internet services and products, from e-mail and online document creation to so... mais »

Song That Hasn't Been Heard

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 dias

Listen to a Song That Hasn't Been Heard For a Thousand Years George Dvorsky 4/22/16 2:58pm Filed to: The missing manuscript. (Image: Cambridge University Library) An ancient song repertory lost since the 11th century has been reconstructed by researchers from the University of Cambridge. It’s called “Songs of Consolation,” and it was a medieval musical retelling of Roman philosopher Boethius’s magnum opus, *The Consolation of Philosophy*. Back then it was common practice to take classic works, such as those written by Horace and Virgil, and assign a melody to the texts. This was done...mais »

Cancer...

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 dias

[image: Go to the profile of umair haque] umair haqueFollo vampire. Oct 17 If It Feels Like Capitalism is Killing You — That’s Because It isWhat American Collapse Teaches Us About Capitalism (and Fascism) It’s become something of a global urban legend. People in other countries ask me often, aghast, curious: “Do Americans really sometimes have to choose between medicine and food and shelter? I can’t believe it! Is it true?” I nod, having had acquaintances who’ve made just that choice. *But now we know a hard number — 42% of Americans who get cancer will go bankrupt as a result. *A sho... mais »