FAMED/UFRGS - 1958
Há sessenta anos na noite de hoje nossa turma estava recebendo o diploma de médicos. Éramos 88, alguns já haviam ficado pelo caminho. Não consegui saber com segurança quantos estariam em condições de comemorar. Na celebração anual no Salão de Atos (que foi inaugurado com nossa turma) da *Associação dos Antigos Alunos da UFRGS*, só estava mais um além de mim *Eduardo Beck Paglioli*. Três vezes por semana encontro na Piscina do Clube do Comércio (Hidroginástica) com *Nilo Milano Galvão* e pela Internet tenho me correspondido com *José Izidoro Peirano Maciel, Antônio Eduardo Ludwig, Be... mais »
#WORDSTHATMATTER2018
*2018 WORDS* *- MOMENTS- GRIEVE- TRUST- NATION- RAGE- TRUTH*
Language
Bound by rules, yet constantly changing, language might be the ultimate self-regulating system, with nobody in charge Lane Greene is an American writer and editor. He is the language columnist and an editor at *The Economist*, and his latest book is *Talk on the Wild Side* (2018). He lives in London. Edited by Sam Haselby Decades before the rise of social media, polarisation plagued discussions about language. By and large, it still does. Everyone who cares about the topic is officially required to take one of two stances. Either you smugly preen about the mistakes you find abhorre... mais »
Global Health Expenditure
*Equity & Health* @equitylist Dec 12 More The #GlobalHealth Expenditure Database (GHED) provides comparable data on health spending for close to 190 countries http:// apps.who.int/nha/database/Home/Index/en … 0 replies4 retweets2 likes Reply Retweet 4 Like 2 Direct message Save To Pocket
Global Health Expenditure
Global Health Expenditure Database [image: Search] [image: Home]Data ExplorerVisualisationsDocumentation CentreHelp [image: OOPS_GGHE-D] The Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED) provides internationally comparable data on health spending for close to 190 countries from 2000 to 2016. The database is open access and supports the goal of Universal Health Coverage by helping monitor the availability of resources for health and the extent to which they are used efficiently and equitably. This, in turn, helps ensure health services are available and affordable when people... mais »
Dementia
New Genetic Clues to Frontotemporal Dementiaby Neuroscience News Study reports a mutation in a single gene that causes hereditary frontotemporal dementia makes it harder for neurons to communicate, leading to neurodegeneration. Read more of this post [image: neurons] The photo shows neurons (red) with a mutation in the MAPT gene — a gene that makes the protein tau. People with this mutation develop frontotemporal dementia. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that cells carrying the MAPT mutation developed abnormalities in genes that control comm... mais »
Sobre o Sarau da Oficina "Presença de palco para Músicos"
Sobre o Sarau da Oficina “Presença de Palco para Músicos" Assisti dia 21 de novembro de 2018, um sexta-feira às 19 horas, na o SARAU DA OFICINA PRESENÇA DE PALCO PARA MÚSICOS, trabalho periódico e incessante da atriz e diretora de teatro ELISA LUCAS (*). Não acompanhei o trabalho durante o ano, embora soubesse de sua existência e tive intensa curiosidade em conhecer os resultados que seriam mostrados no “Sarau”. Naquela sexta-feira, fui até a CCMQ na sorte, como se diz, nada sabendo, de antemão, sobre repertório, participantes e o que aconteceria lá. Quando li o pro... mais »
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Sobre o Sarau da Oficina “Presença de Palco para Músicos Assisti dia 21 de novembro de 2018, um sexta-feira às 19 horas, na o SARAU DA OFICINA PRESENÇA DE PALCO PARA MÚSICOS, trabalho periódico e incessante da atriz e diretora de teatro ELISA LUCAS (*). Não acompanhei o trabalho durante o ano, embora soubesse de sua existência e tive intensa curiosidade em conhecer os resultados que seriam mostrados no “Sarau”. Naquela sexta-feira, fui até a CCMQ na sorte, como se diz, nada sabendo, de antemão, sobre repertório, participantes e o que aconteceria lá. Quando li o prog... mais »
NCDs - The Lancet
[image: Elsevier-TheLancet_inFocus.png] December 2018 | Wra [image: Tweet] [image: Share on Facebook] *2018 in review: a renewed call for urgent and prioritised action on NCDs* Dear Aloyzio With the launch of the *Lancet* Taskforce on NCDs and Economics in April, Richard Horton and I wrote that 2018 must be the year for action against NCDs. And so it has been, both internationally and here at *The Lancet*. Over the past year, we have been delighted to bring you the best scientific research and the strongest evidence to motivate global action to curb years lived with NCD-related disab... mais »
Fashion’s toxic threads
From Economist Films Film Fashion’s toxic threads A single clothes wash can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres, many of which end up in the ocean. Now some pioneering fashion brands are putting the materials they use under the microscope
Contagious PTS Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Can Be Contagious PTSD sometimes spreads from trauma victims to the people who care for them, including rescue workers, spouses and even therapists - By Christian Wolf on October 3, 2018 - *When caregivers, rescue workers or family members* attend to someone with post-traumatic stress disorder who has suffered a horrible experience, a number of them develop “secondary” PTSD, without themselves having witnessed the traumatic event. - *Stories of trauma, it seems, can become* etched into memory as if they were the hearer’s own experi... mais »
Galxy *Intelligent* Life
How Rare is *Intelligent* Life in the Galaxy?The Current State of the Drake Equation and the Chances for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth [image: Go to the profile of Tony Deller] Tony DellerFollow Nov 14 Photo by Brooke Lark on Unsplash Elon Musk’s SpaceX just sent a Tesla Roadster into space in February. It will travel almost 250 million miles into space before shifting into an orbit around the Sun. And yet such an extreme distance is nothing compared to the cosmos as a whole. The scales of time and distance when it comes to astronomy boggle the mind. Our nearest neighboring star, Proxim... mais »
Science books 2018
These are our favorite science books of 2018 *Science News* writers and editors have chosen the must-reads of the year BY SCIENCE NEWS STAFF 9:00AM, DECEMBER 9, 2018 [image: collage of book covers] READ ON Some of the best science books of the year tackled genetics, animals of the past and present, natural disasters and much more.
Sun up-close look
The Parker Solar Probe takes its first up-close look at the sun The spacecraft broke speed and distance records on its initial solar flyby BY LISA GROSSMAN 5:49PM, DECEMBER 12, 2018 [image: sun's plasma] FIRST LOOK One of the first images NASA’s Parker Solar Probe took during its close encounter with the sun shows a streamer of plasma in the outer solar atmosphere, or corona. The probe took this image November 8 at a distance of about 27 million kilometers from the sun’s surface. The bright dot below the streamer is Jupiter. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has met the sun and lived to tel... mais »
Moses Maimonides
*From E. Britannica* *[image: Maimonides, Moses]* FEATURED BIOGRAPHY 1135 Moses Maimonides Philosopher, jurist, and physician Moses Maimonides, the foremost intellectual figure of medieval Judaism , whose works, written in Hebrew and Arabic, influenced both Jewish and non-Jewish scholars, died this day in 1204.
Philosophy of life
There’s No Philosophy of Life Without a Theory of Human NatureThe only way to construct a robust philosophy for life is to have a clear and realistic picture of what makes humans tick Photo: Moussa81/Getty Images *By Skye C Cleary and Massimo Pigliucci* [image: Go to the profile of Aeon Magazine] Aeon MagazineFollow Apr 30
Cidadão de POA: Angelo Domingos Pretto
Amigos e clientes nossos, fui abraçá-los ontem na Câmara
Evelyn Berezin
last Monday · 6 minutes reading time Evelyn Berezin, Computer Pioneer Who Built First Word Processor, Dies at 93 By ROBERT D. McFADDEN Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter nearly a halfcentury ago by building and marketing the first computerized word processor, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 93. Marc Berezin, a nephew, confirmed her death, at the Mary Manning Walsh Home. He said she had learned that she had lymphoma several months ago but had chosen to forgo treatment. In an age when computers were in t... mais »
Edvard Munch
[image: Munch, Edvard: The Scream] FEATURED BIOGRAPHY 1863 Edvard Munch Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, whose painting *The Scream* (1893) can be seen as a symbol of modern spiritual anguish and whose works greatly influenced German Expressionism in the 20th century, was born this day in 1863.
Flu
*Flu Shot Tied to Heart Failure Survival* - by Ashley Lyles, Staff Writer, MedPage TodayDecember 11, 2018 Getting the flu shot each year is associated with better survival outcomes for heart failure (HF) patients, a large, Danish cohort study found. After adjustment for education, household income, prescriptions, comorbidities, and inclusion date, patients getting at least one influenza vaccination during the median 3.7 years of follow-up had an 18% lower risk of all-cause mortality (HR 0.82, 95% CI 0.81-0.84) and death from cardiovascular causes (HR 0.82, 95% CI 0.81-0.84). The m... mais »
Subterranean biosphere
Subterranean biosphere contains billions of tonnes of life Samples taken from boreholes 5 kilometres deep suggest that the underground ecosystem contains 70% of Earth’s bacteria and archaea. Scientists estimate that between 15 billion and 23 billion tonnes of micro-organisms live in this virtually unexplored region. Some of the microbes have been alive for thousands of years, and survive on methane in the absence of sunlight. “It’s like finding a whole new reservoir of life on Earth,” says microbiologist Karen Lloyd. The Guardian | 7 min read
Voyager 2
Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space After 41 years of exploring the Solar System, NASA’s Voyager 2 has crossed into interstellar space, sailing beyond the reach of the Sun’s influence. Signals from the craft suggest that it crossed the boundary of the heliosphere on 5 November. It now joins its twin, Voyager 1, which made the passage in 2012. Nature | 2 min read
Bacteria to treat clinical depression
These Bacteria May Be the Key to Treating Clinical Depressionby Neuroscience News Researchers report low levels of GABA producing bacteria is associated with brain signatures of depression. They believe it may be possible to treat clinical depression by increasing GABA producing bacteria. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | December 11, 2018 at 8:59 am | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-dKp
Thoughts Control
Editing Consciousness: How Bereaved People Control Their Thoughts Without Knowing It [image: Neuroscience News]NEUROSCIENCE NEWSDECEMBER 10, 2018 *Summary: Using machine learning to analyze fMRI brain scans of grieving people, researchers shed light on how unconscious suppression occurs.* *Source: Columbia University.* *People who are grieving a major loss, such as the death of a spouse or a child, use different coping mechanisms to carry on with their lives. Psychologists have been able to track different approaches, which can reflect different clinical outcomes. One approach that is... mais »
Happy Birthday Britannica (250th)
To view this email as a web page, click here. [image: Celebrate our 250th Anniversary with Curiosity Compass] On our *250th anniversary*, we wanted to give our readers the gift of exploring their own minds and the great minds of history. That’s why we’re introducing the *Britannica Curiosity Compass*, an experience that supercharges your curiosity and inspires you to be true to yourself. *Discover your Curiosity Type* through a series of thought-provoking and engaging questions meant to energize your spirit. Our *Curiosity Quiz *will reveal if your type is an Artist, Inventor, Explo... mais »
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
Ada Lovelace BRITISH MATHEMATICIAN WRITTEN BY: - The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica LAST UPDATED: Dec 6, 2018 See Article History *Alternative Titles:* Ada King, countess of Lovelace, Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Byron *Ada Lovelace*, in full *Ada King, countess of Lovelace*, original name *Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Byron*, (born December 10, 1815, Piccadilly Terrace, Middlesex [now in London], England—died November 27, 1852, Marylebone, London), English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been ... mais »
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