Há 50 anos...
*50 anos da primeira visita à Lua* *https://amicor.blogspot.com/2019/07/apollo-11.html* *Geographic Magazine*
Epicurus
Why Epicurean ideas suit the challenges of modern secular life Temma Ehrenfeld is a freelance journalist who covers psychology, health and personal finance. Her work has appeared in *Newsweek*, the *LA Review of Books *and *The Wall Street Journal*, among others. She lives in New York. 1,100 words Edited by Pam Weintraub [image: A messy life. Detail from The Netherlandish Proverbs (1559) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Image courtesy Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
] A messy life. Detail from *The Netherlandish Proverbs* (1559) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. *Image courtesy ... mais »
] A messy life. Detail from *The Netherlandish Proverbs* (1559) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. *Image courtesy ... mais »
Language and Internet
Review: The Internet Is Changing the English Language. Is That a Good Thing?
Wernher von Braun
How Historians Are Reckoning With the Former Nazi Who Launched America’s Space Program In the years since the original Space Race has ended, historians have begun to reassess Wernher von Braun’s legacy
Atrial Fibrillation Management AHA_ACC
AHA/ACC/HRS Guidelines on Atrial Fibrillation Management Key Points *Question* How have the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/Heart Rhythm Society clinical practice guidelines on atrial fibrillation changed over time with respect to the distribution of recommendations across classes of recommendations and levels of evidence? *Findings* This review of guideline recommendations found that despite a significant increase in atrial fibrillation research from 2001 to 2014, there was a nonsignificant increase in the use of level B evidence, an insignificant decrease... mais »
Azardous Chemicals
*Material enviado pela AMICOR Berenice Goelzer* Hazardous Chemicals in Helath Care “Documentation of chemicals present in health care personnel will increase awareness of chemical exposure among health care workers and will help us understand more about the effectiveness of exposure reduction efforts, and treatments.” — Anna Gilmore Hall, RN, CAE
BrainSides
*Empresa de amigo meu, autor do programa SAME/ACTUAL que já teve ligações com a Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia e que até hoje serve como Prontuário Informatizado em nosso consultório.* *No próximo Congresso da SBC será lançada nova versão para uso também em Smartphone.* [image: brainsides_outlook] *Pedro Etcheverria Lima* *BrainSides* | digital solutions pedro.etc@brainsides.com www.brainsides.com +55 51 3273-4067 +55 51 99987-3069
AD prevention
- *Multiple Healthy Lifestyle Factors Reduce Risk * - “While there is no proven cure or treatment for Alzheimer’s, a large body of research now strongly suggests that combining healthy habits promotes good brain health and reduces your risk of cognitive decline,” said Maria C. Carrillo, PhD, Alzheimer’s Association chief science officer. “The research reported today at AAIC gives us attainable, actionable recommendations that can help us all live a healthier life.”
Apollo 11
Experience Apollo 11 in real time If the 50th anniversary coverage of the first Moon landing is getting you inspired, step back in time to the real thing. Apollo 11 in Real Time is a website that will drop you into the mission in progress at that very second, exactly 50 years ago (as I write this, I’m 16 minutes from the nail-biting launch). The website streams photos, television broadcasts, film shot by the astronauts and transcripts of the mission in real time — including, for the first time, 50 channels of mission-control audio. Apollo 11 in Real Time | 9 days of real-time fun On J... mais »
Leonardo da Vinci
[image: Studies of Turbulent Water shows Leonardo’s understanding of how vortices move.] Studies of Turbulent Water shows Leonardo’s understanding of how vortices move.(Leonardo da Vinci, Studies of Turbulent Water, Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019) Leonardo da Vinci’s studies in flow On the 500th anniversary of the Renaissance icon’s death, historian Martin Kemp looks anew at Leonardo da Vinci’s voracious explorations of fluid dynamics through his drawings of water and blood. “He saw the human body as a ‘lesser world’, mirroring the forms and functions of... mais »
First Atomic Bomb
[image: The first atomic bomb test, near Alamogordo, N.M., July 16, 1945.] FEATURED EVENT 1945 First atomic bomb exploded near Alamogordo, New Mexico READ MORE
Overrated Medicine
Is Medicine Overrated? Given medicine’s poor record, physicians should prescribe and patients consume far fewer medications, a new book argues.[image: Is Medicine Overrated?] Many widely consumed medications are “barely effective and have many harmful side effects,” according to Medical Nihilism, a book by philosopher Jacob Stegenga. Credit: Peter Dazeley *Getty Images* By John Horgan on July 1, 2019 For years I have ranted about the flaws of medicine, especially when it comes to mental illness and cancer. But my complaints are mild compared to those of Jacob Stegenga, a philosopher o... mais »
Spaceflights
See the Past, Present and Future of American Spaceflight in 4 Minutes 50 years ago, humankind took its first steps on an otherworldly body, opening the door to the decades of space exploration that have followed
Jacques Derrida (1930+2004)
Jacques Derrida [image: Derrida, Jacques]FRENCH PHILOSOPHER WRITTEN BY: - The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica LAST UPDATED: Jul 11, 2019 See Article History *Alternative Title:* Jackie Derrida *Jacques Derrida*, (born July 15, 1930, El Biar, Algeria—died October 8, 2004, Paris, France), French philosopher whose critique of Western philosophy and analyses of the nature of language, writing, and meaning were highly controversial yet immensely influential in much of the intellectual world in the late 20th century. [image: David Hume, oil painting by Allan Ramsay, 1766. In the... mais »
[image: Evan Williams (left) and Biz Stone, founders of Twitter, using the social networking service at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, April 13, 2009.] 2006: The online microblogging service Twitter was publicly launched, and within the following decade it had more than 300 million users.
OSPA Jovem Parabéns Antônio!
*Nosso Neto Antonio Achutti Olivé apresentou-se hoje novamente como componente da OSPA Jovem (Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre)*
Leadership
*Forbes* | the Era’s Most Influential: tech industry leader in print | no. 9 • Ray Kurzweil July 1, 2019
Changing Text size
quick steps | for changing text size An easy help guide. July 1, 2019 quick steps | for changing text size on a personal computer with Microsoft Windows -or- Google Chrome • on your keyboard — hold down button labeled control • (ctrl) • at same time — hold down the plus sign (+) to increase • at same time — hold down the minus sign (-) to decrease on a personal computer by Apple • on your keyboard — hold down button labeled command • (cmd) • at same time — hold down the plus sign (+) to increase • at same time — hold down the minus sign (-) to decrease
78 years before Guttenberg bible
The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: *Jikji*, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online in *Books, History* | July 11th, 2019 4 Comments The history of the printed word is full of bibliographic twists and turns, major historical moments, and the significant printing of books now so obscure no one has read them since their publication. Most of us have only the sketchiest notion of how mass-produced printed books came into being—a few scattered dates and names. But every schoolchild can tell you the... mais »
Vaping
@HopkinsMedicine FollowingFollowing @HopkinsMedicine More Vaping and e-cigarettes are sometimes promoted as ways to help cigarette smokers quit. Can vaping lead to regular cigarette smoking later on? A Johns Hopkins cardiologist shares his insights on the potential dangers of vaping. http://bit.ly/2lpQYRv 4:03 PM - 14 Jul 2019
truth and meaning
Lyrical reflections at the crossroads of truth and meaning.BY MARIA POPOVA [image: The Universe in Verse: Regina Spektor Reads “Theories of Everything” by Astronomer, Poet, and Tragic Genius Rebecca Elson] In her haunting ode to the Hubble Space Telescope, Adrienne Rich serenaded “the ex-stasis of galaxies / so out from us there’s no vocabulary / but mathematics and optics / equations letting sight pierce through time / into liberations, lacerations of light and dust.” It is a peculiar meta-miracle, to fuse these complementary modes of sensemaking — mathematics, the language of truth,... mais »
Global Population 2050
World’s population will continue to grow and will reach nearly 10 billion by 2050 - EMI SUZUKI |JULY 08, 2019 This page in: - English - Français - Español - 中文 There has been tremendous growth in the size of the world’s population in the last half century. Global population was around 3 billion in 1960. By 1987, in less than three decades, it had surpassed 5 billion and there were around 7.6 billion people in the world in 2018. This growth varies greatly across regions. Since 1960, the largest relative growth has taken place in Sub-Saharan Africa where the popul... mais »
Unprecedented Women
MEET THE WOMENDiscover Unprecedented Women and their Unparalleled Achievements
1789_Jul_14 - Bastille stormed
[image: Bastille] FEATURED EVENT 1789 Bastille stormed by Paris mob READ MORE
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