8 Skills to Learn
[image: The Startup] Follow [image: Aloyzio Achutti] - HOME - WRITE FOR US - GET SMARTER AT BUILDING STARTUPS 8 Timeless Skills to Learn Now in Under 8 Hours to Change your Life Forever Spend under 64 Hours to Learn These 8 Timeless Skills that Will Change your Life Forever Danny Forest in The Startup[image: Member only content]17 min read
Multiverse
You probably live in a parallel universe. Here’s why. [image: Go to the profile of Jeremie Harris] Jeremie HarrisFollow Jun 6, 2018 Multiverses are everywhere. Movies, popular science articles, philosophical debates, Family Guy episodes. At one time or another, we’ve all been invited to imagine copies of ourselves running around in some other dimension, living out a life almost but not quite identical to our own. But why do people think multiverses exist in the first place? As it happens, I spent the first half of my time in grad school trying to figure out the answer to this question... mais »
2018/fevereiro - Retrospecto
*SELEÇÃO RETROSPECTIVA 2018/FEVEREIRO* Doctor Scientist and ActivistDoctors, Revolt! By RICH JOSEPHFEB. 24, 2018 Continue reading the main storyShare This Page - Share - Tweet - Email - More - Save Phot 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 TimesBoston — 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. Causes of the structu...mais »
Autism Spectrum
*JAMA Psychiatry* *Patterns of Nonsocial and Social Cognitive Functioning in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis * Tjasa Velikonja, PhD; Anne-Kathrin Fett, PhD; Eva Velthorst, PhD
Photosynthesis
[image: main article image] (RIPE Cassava SoyFACE Field Trials) NATURE Scientists Fix a Crucial Photosynthesis 'Glitch', Boosting Crop Growth by 40% MIKE MCRAE 4 JAN 2019 Scientists have fixed a natural flaw in photosynthesis, and as a result have boosted plant productivity by an incredible 40 percent compared to wild relatives. Photosynthesis is the chemical reaction that lets plants turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into food, and this new hack could result in enough calories to help feed another 200 *million *people on our planet, from the same volume of crops.
Luiz Eduardo e Eduardo
Nosso filho *Luiz Eduardo Robinson Achutti*, professor da UFRGS e seu filho - nosso neto -* Eduardo Belardinelli Achutti* comemoram aniversário no mesmo dia (04 de janeiro). O pai entrou hoje para o grupo dos sexagenários e o filho aparece na foto da passagem do ano e na outra quinze anos atrás, Parabéns a ambos e um abraço.
Monteiro Lobato (1882-1948)
A propósito de um artigo publicado na ZH *"O ano de Monteiro Lobato"* conversei hoje com minha irmã *Maria Helena*. Esses livros povoaram nossa infância.
Isaac Newton
[image: Newton, Sir Isaac] FEATURED BIOGRAPHY 1643 Isaac Newton Isaac Newton, born in England this day in 1643, was a leader of the scientific revolution whose *Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy* (1687) is among the most important single works in the history of modern science .
paxilline
Living a Stronger and Longer Lifeby Neuroscience News Researchers have identified a molecule that causes the decline of motor function and increased frailty in nematodes. Targeting the molecule with paxilline helps improve motor function and longevity. Read more of this post
Bernardo Turkenitch +31/12/2018
Mais um colega de nossa turma de 88 formandos em Medicina da UFRGS de 1958 nos deixou. *Bernado Turkenitch *casou com *Clarita Galbinski *(também falecida), aluna da mesma turma de Medicina de minha Esposa *Valderês Antonietta Robinson*, formadas dois anos depois de nós (1960). A foto foi copiada de postagem do Facebook feita por seu neto. Fica sua memória e nossa saudade. *https://www.facebook.com/100000054803529/posts/2268794146465723/* [image: A imagem pode conter: 2 pessoas, incluindo Bernardo Turkenitch, pessoas sorrindo, pessoas sentadas] Querido vô Benhe!! Infelizmente a vida é... mais »
Izar Maria Aparecida de Moraes Xausa (26/06/1932-31/12/2018)
A *Professora Izar* *Aparecida de Moraes* era viúva de *Leônidas Xausa* e mãe do *Leônidas Xausa Fo.* meu afiliado. Era grande amiga e colega de minha esposa *Dra. Valderês Antonietta Robinson* no Internato do Colégio Santíssima Trindade em Cruz Alta, onde se formaram no Curso Normal em 1950. No dia do Professor de 2018 publiquei algumas fotos e notas em homenagem à ambas as professoras. *https://amicor.blogspot.com/2018/10/dia-doa-professora.html* No Facebook, sua filha* Regina* publicou um texto de *Thiago Aquino *fazendo belo retrospecto de sua vida: *https://www.facebook.com/10000... mais »
Physical activity
*The health benefits of physical activity: * Dear Aloyzio, *Monica is a 37 year old mother of 3 children. She works full time and finds her life increasingly stressful as she has to bring work home with her, and this is now affecting her home life and marriage*. She notices that she is becoming increasingly anxious about her children’s health and is seeing her GP for minor ailments and problems with her sleep. One day she sees you on her own and breaks down in tears saying that she is finding things very difficult. How might you approach this scenario and do you think that physica... mais »
Electron Shape
What a Tiny Electron Reveals About the Structure of the Universe By Alexey Petrov Professor of Physics, Wayne State University | January 2, 2019 06:55am ET [image: What a Tiny Electron Reveals About the Structure of the Universe] Credit: Shutterstock What is the shape of an electron? If you recall pictures from your high school science books, the answer seems quite clear: an electron is a small ball of negative charge that is smaller than an atom. This, however, is quite far from the truth./.../
'Missing' Dark Matter
Scientists Find the 'Missing' Dark Matter from the Early Universe By Mara Johnson-Groh, Live Science Contributor | January 2, 2019 06:50am ET - [image: Scientists Find the 'Missing' Dark Matter from the Early Universe] Credit: Shutterstock Dark matter, it seems, has been clinging to galaxies for a very long time. Most galaxies that existed 10 billion years ago had about as much dark matter as galaxies do today, contradicting earlier studies that suggested less dark matter lurked around galaxies in the early universe./.../
Plants domestication
*Today's encore selection -- from Big History: From Big Bang to the Present by Cynthia Stokes Brown.* The significance of plant domestication and the fifteen most important plants: "In the long view of time, the domestication of plants ... occurred nearly simultaneously in various parts of the world. In the short view of time, however, within a few thousand years some areas lagged behind others with fateful consequences. Because people in the Americas had no suitable grains and animals for early domestication, the evolution of complex societies there began 3,000 to 4,000 years lat... mais »
Vitamins and Minerals
More This Issue Views 288,355 Citations 5 2225 Viewpoint March 6, 2018 Vitamin and Mineral SupplementsWhat Clinicians Need to Know JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH1,2; Shari S. Bassuk, ScD1 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. 2018;319(9):859-860. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.21012 Dietary supplementation is approximately a $30 billion industry in the United States, with more than 90 000 products on the market. In recent national surveys, 52% of US adults reported use of at least 1 supplement product, and 10% reported use of at least 4 such products.1 Vitamins and minerals are among... mais »
Medicine 2018
Eric Topol's Top Advances in 2018 That Are Shaping Medicine Eric J. Topol, MD DISCLOSURES December 27, 2018 - 6Read Comments - - - - - - - - Add to Email Alerts In the past several years, I have prepared a "top 10" list of biomedical advances. For 2018, I am instead highlighting a few areas that are fast- moving, are attracting considerable attention, and have transformative potential. Those three areas are genome editing, artificial intelligence, and the gut microbiome. Genome Editing There has been steady progress with illum... mais »
AD Rising Storm
Is the Rising Storm of Alzheimer's Disease Stoppable?Zaven Khachaturian, PhD, on the surprisingly strong prospects for conquering this scourgeby Zaven S. Khachaturian, PhDDecember 30, 2018Current forecasts indicate that a looming tidal wave of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is inevitable. If the ongoing trend in the escalating numbers of people touched by this disease continues unabated, this global public-health problem is destined to be the major contributor of the future insolvency of healthcare financing systems, e.g., Medicare. Therefore, this blog will describe the 40-year struggle t... mais »
Empty Space.
Today's encore selection -- from *The Fabric of the Cosmos *by Brian Greene. *Delanceyplace.com End of Year Selections: Space* If all of the protons, neutrons, and electrons, the very things we think of as most important, were completely removed, the total mass/energy of the universe would be only slightly diminished. And 100 billion years from now, the universe will be a largely empty place: "In the 1990s, two groups of astronomers, one led by Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the other led by Brian Schmidt at the Australian National University, set ... mais »
about Viruses
[image: Going Viral: 6 New Findings about Viruses] *Going Viral: 6 New Findings about Viruses*
2902 - AMICOR 21 - Seleção Retrospectiva 2018
*Para finalizar o ano tive ideia de fazer uma retrospectiva a partir das 1340 postagens do ano, entretanto estou com dificuldade de fazer uma seleção enxuta. Só do mês de janeiro já separei quatro de 107!?...Selecionei outras de outros meses mas esqueci de salvar a seleção. De qualquer forma estava ficando extenso demais.* *Agora temos aí uma listagem que corresponde aos meses de Dezembro e Janeiro de 2018. Penso que pode ser mais uma oportunidade para muitos de meus amigos que não tiveram tempo de olhar com calma o que foi publicado. * *Acho que nas próximas publicações vou continu... mais »
“The Seven Storey Mountain,”
Thomas Merton, the Monk Who Became a ProphetFifty years after his death, Merton’s contradictions have made his work all the more instructive. By Alan Jacobs December 28, 2018 Merton was the person in motion who seeks stillness; the monk who wants to belong to the world; the famous person who wants to be unknown. Photograph by Sibylle Akers / Merton Legacy Trust / Thomas Merton CenterOn December 10, 1941, a young man named Thomas Merton was received as a novice by a monastery in Kentucky, the Abbey of Gethsemani. Precisely twenty-seven years later, he died by accidental electrocution ... mais »
Health Care Spending in US
Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries Irene Papanicolas, PhD1,2,3; Liana R. Woskie, MSc1,2,3; Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH1,2 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. 2018;319(10):1024-1039. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.1150 - - - - - - - - - Audio Interview(18:22) Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries Video(MM:SS) Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries Video(6:00) The Top JAMA Network Articles of 2018 Key Points *Question* Why is health care sp... mais »
Physical Activity Guidelines
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Katrina L. Piercy, PhD, RD1; Richard P. Troiano, PhD2; Rachel M. Ballard, MD, MPH3; et alSusan A. Carlson, PhD, MPH4; Janet E. Fulton, PhD 4; Deborah A. Galuska, PhD, MPH4; Stephanie M. George, PhD, MPH3; Richard D. Olson, MD, MPH1 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. 2018;320(19):2020-2028. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.14854 - Video(3:19) Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd Edition Video(1:33) Highlights Of The 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd Edition Abstract *Importance* Approximately 80% of US ... mais »
New Horizon
Get live updates on New Horizons’ flyby of a distant Kuiper Belt object The spacecraft will zoom past a space rock called MU69 or Ultima Thule on New Year's Day BY LISA GROSSMAN 6:00AM, DECEMBER 30, 2018 [image: New Horizons trajectory] KEEP UP The New Horizons spacecraft is going to catch up to a tiny rock in the Kuiper Belt on January 1, just 33 minutes in to 2019. NASA, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV. APPLIED PHYSICS LAB, SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE - *Editor’s note: This story will be updated December 31*–*January 1 with dispatches from astronomy writer Lisa Grossman, who will be at t... mais »
Science Stories 2018
ICYMI: The Top 10 stories of 2018 2018 was a year all about impact — on the planet, on solving crimes, on mosquito populations, on reversing paralysis, and more. Read More
Titus Flavius Vespasianus
*[image: Marble bust of Titus.]Titus*, in full *Titus Vespasianus Augustus*, original name *Titus Flavius Vespasianus*, (born Dec. 30, 39 CE—died Sept. 13, 81 CE), Roman emperor (79–81), and the conqueror of Jerusalem in 70. After service in Britain and Germany, Titus commanded a legion under his father, Vespasian, in Judaea (67). Following the emperor Nero’s death in June 68, Titus was energetic in promoting his father’s candidacy for the imperial crown. Licinius Mucianus, legate of Syria, whom he reconciled with Vespasian, considered that one of Vespasian’s greatest assets was to ha...mais »
Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin
[image: Rasputin, Grigory Yefimovich] *1916: Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin *was murdered by Russian conservatives—who reportedly poisoned, shot, and then drowned the Siberian mystic—in an effort to halt his influence over Empress Alexandra and the royal family.
USSR - 1922
[image: Flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1922–91.] FEATURED EVENT 1922 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, formed this day in 1922 with its capital in Moscow, eventually incorporated 15 republics and constituted (in area) the largest country in the world until its dissolution in 1991.
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