Photos 2018 - NGM
Best photos of 2018 National Geographic's 100 best images of the year—curated from 107 photographers, 119 stories, and more than two million photographs.
The most beautiful theory of allA century ago Albert Einstein changed the way humans saw the universe. His work is still offering new insights today [image: Go to the profile of The Economist] The EconomistFollow Aug 8, 2017 “ALFRED, it’s spinning.” Roy Kerr, a New Zealand-born physicist in his late 20s, had, for half an hour, been chain-smoking his way through some fiendish mathematics. Alfred Schild, his boss at the newly built Centre for Relativity at the University of Texas, had sat and watched. Now, having broken the silence, Kerr put down his pencil. He had been searching for a ... mais »
How Memory Works
New Insight on How Memory Worksby Neuroscience News Study reports declarative memory depends upon conscious knowledge of what has been previously learned. Researchers discovered conscious knowledge is compromised in those with damage to the hippocampus. The findings shed new light on how the hippocampus controls the process of memory. Read more of this post [image: the hippocampus] The finding helps explain how the hippocampus controls the process of memory. NeuroscienceNews.com image is in the public domain.
Freud x Jung
Video / History of Ideas Sex, religion and envy – how Freud and Jung’s frenetic friendship tore itself apart 4 minutes
Visions of a Better World
Visions of a Better World Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Martin Rees and others answer the question: What’s your utopia? - By John Horgan on December 19, 2018 - 4 [image: Visions of a Better World] Credit: Kiratsinh Jadeja *Getty Images* Unless you are too stoned or enlightened to care, you are probably dissatisfied with the world as it is. In that case, you should have a vision of the world as you would like it to be. This better world is your utopia. That, at any rate, is the premise of a question I’ve been asking scientists and other thinkers lately: What’s your utopia? I pr... mais »
Capitalism
Why Amartya Sen remains the century’s great critic of capitalism Tim Rogan is a fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, where he teaches history. He is the author of *The Moral Economists: R H Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E P Thompson and the Critique of Capitalism *(2017 Edited by Sam Haselby *Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja* [image: Amartya Sen photographed in New Delhi, 2017. Photo by Priyanka Parashar/Mint/Getty] Amartya Sen photographed in New Delhi, 2017. *Photo by Priyanka Parashar/Mint/Getty* Critiques of capitalism come in two varieties. First, ther... mais »
Belly Fat
How Exercise Reduces Belly Fat in Humansby Neuroscience News According to researchers, interleukin 6 plays a critical role in how exercise helps to reduce body fat. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | December 27, 2018 at 1:05 pm | Tags: Cell Press, cholesterol, interleukin 6, tocilizumab, visceral fat tissue | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-dO4
Microbioma and Autism
Gut Bacteria May Offer a Treatment for AutismA common probiotic holds the key [image: Go to the profile of The Economist] The EconomistFollow Dec 6 *Autism *affects people’s social behaviour and communication, and may impair their ability to learn things. All this is well known. Less familiar to most, though, are the gastrointestinal problems associated with the condition. The intestines of children with autism often harbour bacteria different from those in the guts of the neurotypical. As a consequence, such people are more than three times as likely as others are to develop serious... mais »
Johannes Kepler
[image: Kepler, Johannes] 1571: German astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered three major laws of planetary motion, was born.
Louis Pasteur
[image: Pasteur, Louis] FEATURED BIOGRAPHY 1822 Louis Pasteur French chemist and microbiologistLouis Pasteur, born this day in 1822, made many valuable contributions to the history of science, including originating vaccines for rabies andanthrax and developing pasteurization .
50 years ago
[image: newsletter image] 50 YEARS AGO 50 years ago, astronauts orbited the moon for the first time Dec 27 2018 5:30 AM Fifty years ago, astronauts went to the moon and back for the first time.
E-Cig
E-cigarettes caught fire among teens U.S. Food and Drug Administration set new limits on sales BY AIMEE CUNNINGHAM 6:00AM, DECEMBER 19, 2018 [image: hand holding an e-cig] CONCEALED WEAPON Juul e-cigs are easy to conceal and have become popular among U.S. teens. On November 15, Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, announced new sales restrictions on certain e-cigarette flavors preferred by teens. The move was a response to a worrying rise in vaping among adolescents in the last year. “E-cigs have become an almost ubiquitous and dangerous trend among... mais »
New nerve cells
The battle over new nerve cells in adult brains intensifies New methods are needed to settle the debate BY LAURA SANDERS 7:00AM, DECEMBER 20, 2018 [image: nerve cells] NO SIGNS In a study of human brains, young nerve cells (green) were visible in the memory-related hippocampus of a newborn (left), but were rare in a sample from a 13-year-old (center). None were seen in adult brains, including this sample from a 35-year-old (right). Just a generation ago, common wisdom held that once a person reaches adulthood, the brain stops producing new nerve cells. Scientists countered that depr... mais »
Blog?
This blog is dead. Long live the blog. This will be the last post from Scicurious BY BETHANY BROOKSHIRE 1:00PM, DECEMBER 20, 2018 [image: The End carved in sand on the beach] This blog is washing away, in the high tide of the internet. But the definition of a blog? That’s just a line in the sand. To blog, or not to blog? Young scientists and aspiring writers and communicators ask me this question frequently. If they want to try their hand at science writing, science communication and science journalism, shouldn’t they start a blog? Shouldn’t they start producing content immediately? ... mais »
Por onde sai a gordura?
Você não vai acreditar por onde a gordura “queimada” sai do seu corpoPor Juliana Blume, em 26.12.2018 O cientistas australiano Ruben Meerman, mais conhecido como O Cientista Surfista, foi surfar em uma praia de Fiji em 2012. Ele se divertiu bastante, tirou muitas fotos, e em uma delas notou que sua barriga estava muito maior do que ele gostaria. “Então eu fiz o que eles mandam, e comi menos e me mexi mais, e em apenas três meses descobri que perdi 6kg”, conta ele em uma palestra do TEDxQUT. Mas para onde foi a massa que ele perdeu? Todo mundo aprendeu nas aulas de química que “nada ... mais »
"Santa Claus"
IArt está com Pinku Alam e outras 4 pessoas. 24 de dezembro às 14:00 · "Santa Claus" 👨🎨Artist: Pablo Picasso 24 December 1959 wax coloured pencil on paper ...Ver mais [image: Nenhum texto alternativo automático disponível.]
Universe: Primordial Soup
Proton-Size Droplets of Primordial Soup May Be the Tiniest in the Universe By Marcus Woo, Live Science Contributor | December 17, 2018 03:17pm ET [image: Proton-Size Droplets of Primordial Soup May Be the Tiniest in the Universe] Researchers have created what may be the tiniest droplets of fluid in the universe, in a primordial soup that's trillions of degrees and swishes around at nearly the speed of light. Credit: Shutterstock By smashing particles together, physicists may have created the smallest droplet of fluid in the universe — a proton-sized bead of hot, primordial soup. This p... mais »
Brain 2018
[image: 10 Things We Learned About the Brain in 2018] *10 Things We Learned About the Brain in 2018* See
Commercial DNA Tests
I Took 9 Different Commercial DNA Tests and Got 6 Different Results LiveScience
Carpe Diem
Alertado por uma mensagem recebida da Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja O *Carpe Diem* é um tema que vinha já da Antiguidade, mas no *Barroco* foi desenvolvido de forma angustiada, pois era uma tentativa de fundir os opostos, de conciliar o que, no fundo, é inconciliável: a razão e a fé, a matéria e o espírito, a vida carnal e a vida espiritual. (https://www.significados.com.br/carpe-diem/)
Christmas
[image: Merry Old Santa Claus by Thomas Nast.] FEATURED EVENT Today Christmas celebrated worldwide Though the precise origin of the date is unclear, Christmas, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, is celebrated on this day, having been first identified as the date of Jesus' birth by Sextus Julius Africanus in 221.
Notre Dame
[image: Imagem] *Para iluminar nosso Natal:* Nossos dois netos - Júlia e Eduardo - com a mãe deles Maria Cristina, hoje na Notre Dame de Paris.
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