CVD Burden US 1990-2016
The Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases Among US States, 1990-2016 Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases Collaboration Article Information JAMA Cardiol. 2018;3(5):375-389. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2018.0385 Download PDF editorial comment icon Editorial Comment - - Key Points *Question* How does the total burden of cardiovascular diseases vary across US states? *Findings* In this study using the Global Burden of Disease methodology, large disparities in total burden of CVD were found between US states despite marked improvements in CVD burden.
Food: Health
How Certain Foods Affect Cognition, Seizures, and Cardiometabolic DiseaseFood for Thought Rebecca Voelker, MSJ JAMA. 2019;322(18):1753-1754. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.16477 *Food for Thought periodically reports on nutrition research aimed at improving health and well-being.* The science behind food’s effects on human health is discovering some tasty benefits. Berries and Grapes Linked With Memory Boost As the world’s elderly population races toward an estimated 2 billion by 2050, memory loss is expected to take a substantial toll. But recent research shows that polyphenols from grapes an... mais »
new state of matter
This Is an Entirely New State of Matter Let's party. [image: image] By Caroline Delbert Nov 15, 2019 [image: image] Researchers believe they may have identified a new state of matter in the behaviors of Cooper pairs of electrons. Scientists from Brown University and several universities and consortia in China combined their efforts to study this “third state” phenomenon. “Between the superconducting and insulating regimes, we detect a robust intervening anomalous metallic state,” their abstract says. Cooper pairs are an enigmatic quantum phenomenon. These electron pairs are either ... mais »
TIME 100 Next
[image: The Brief - Special Edition] *A special feature from The Brief* *TIME 100 Next: The rising stars shaping the future of their fields* [image: time-next100] Meet the TIME 100 Next
Cancer Immunotherapy
A Major breakthrough in Cancer Immunotherapy Two New Yale Studies show great promise in enhancing the immune system’s response to the presence of Cancer [image: Faisal Khan] Faisal Khan Follow Oct 22 · 3 min read Cancer is rapidly becoming the leading cause of death in many countries. A major new study conducted in the high, middle & low-income countries has concluded that Cancer has actually overtaken cardiovascular diseases as the number one cause of death in high-income countries. Numerous studies have been conducted to find ways to effectively tackle & eliminate this deadly dise... mais »
The Parentes of Mathematics
The Parents of Mathematics Egypt 1900BC [image: Andrei Tapalaga ✒️] Andrei Tapalaga ✒️ Follow Oct 19 · 4 min read Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay We all think that mathematics is quite a new language however, many are not aware that this is one of the oldest technical tools to exist. Mathematics can be also used to explain how the pyramids were built, it did take an impressive amount of work as well as slaves, however, none of it would have been possible with the help of geometry.Geometry can be seen as a more simplistic form of mathematics from a second perspective, you need to ha... mais »
The tree of knowledge
The tree of knowledge is not an apple or an oak but a banyan Jonardon Ganeri [image: A banyan tree. Photo by thomas/Flickr
] A banyan tree. *Photo by thomas/Flickr* In European societies, knowledge is often pictured as a tree: a single trunk – the core – with branches splaying outwards towards distant peripheries. The imagery of this tree is so deeply embedded in European thought-patterns that every form of institution has been marshalled into a ‘centre-periphery’ pattern. In philosophy, for example, there are certain ‘core’ subjects and other more marginal, peripheral, ... mais »
] A banyan tree. *Photo by thomas/Flickr* In European societies, knowledge is often pictured as a tree: a single trunk – the core – with branches splaying outwards towards distant peripheries. The imagery of this tree is so deeply embedded in European thought-patterns that every form of institution has been marshalled into a ‘centre-periphery’ pattern. In philosophy, for example, there are certain ‘core’ subjects and other more marginal, peripheral, ... mais »
On Serendipity
*ON SERENDIPITY* *Sven Birkerst* is the former director of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He is the author of *The Gutenberg Elegies*, and, more recently, *Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age* (2015) and *The Other Walk: Essays* (2011). *Christopher Benfey* is the Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts. His latest book is *The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years* (2019). He is a frequent contributor to *The New York Times Book Review *and *The New York Review of Books. *He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. Edited by Sam Dress... mais »
Emil du Bois-Reymond
The Greatest Unknown Intellectual of the 19th Century *Emil du Bois-Reymond proclaimed the mystery of consciousness, championed the theory of natural selection and revolutionized the study of the nervous system. Today he is all but forgotten* - By Gabriel Finkelstein on November 10, 2019 [image: The Greatest Unknown Intellectual of the 19th Century] Emile du Bois-Reymond in 1882. Credit: Wikimedia Unlike Charles Darwin and Claude Bernard, who endure as heroes in England and France, Emil du Bois-Reymond is generally forgotten in Germany — no streets bear his name, no stamps portray... mais »
first-line antihypertensive
Comprehensive comparative effectiveness and safety of first-line antihypertensive drug classes: a systematic, multinational, large-scale analysisUsing 4·9 million patients, we generated 22 000 calibrated, propensity-score-adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) comparing all classes and outcomes across databases. Most estimates revealed no effectiveness differences between classes; however, *Thiazide or thiazide-like diuretics showed better primary effectiveness* than angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors: acute myocardial infarction (HR 0·84, 95% CI 0·75–0·95), hospitalisation for heart fa... mais »
The Right To Go Topless
Women Win The Right To Go Topless in 6 States [image: Elle Beau] Elle Beau Follow Sep 23 · 3 min read One of the reasons that the 10th Circuit overturned the ban was the expert testimony of the head of psychology at Colorado College, Tomi-Ann Roberts, who testified to this harmfulness. Some of her areas of research include “Social psychology of emotion, gender, and the body; psychological consequences of the sexual objectification of women and girls; gender differences in self-evaluation, self-conscious emotions, and perceptions of bodily states.” *"Lembrei-me de uma história de meu... mais »
Nouveau tabac
Nouveau tabac et lobbyisme à l’ancienne OPINION. Trente ans après que l’on a découvert les mensonges des cigarettiers sur les effets de leurs produits, les débats réglementaires mériteraient que l’on s’en souvienne - Partager - Tweeter - Partager - - Ils ne pouvaient pas rester sans rien faire. Face au lent mais inexorable déclin des ventes de cigarettes traditionnelles, les géants du tabac devaient trouver de nouveaux produits. Ainsi, depuis quelques années, ils proposent aux fumeurs de changer leur façon de consommer de la nicotine. Ils les invitent à se con... mais »
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality In Healthcare Will Be Revolutionary: 9 Examples Augmented RealityFuture of MedicineHealth Sensors & Trackers Augmented reality is one of the most promising digital health technologies at present – look at the success of Pokémon Go – and it has the potential to change healthcare and everyday medicine completely for physicians and patients alike. By now, it is official: Pokémon Go conquered the world. TechCrunch reported that on the day when the game was launched, it immediately surpassed the daily time usage of Facebook, SnapChat or Twitter by the average iOS user on ... mais »
Computation Explorer
"Get inside the head of one of our era's most creative and influential minds as he explores everything from communicating with extraterrestrial life to finding the fundamental underpinnings of reality. *Adventures of a Computational Explorer* is a deep and delightful intellectual odyssey." — Brian Greene Bestselling Author of *The Elegant Universe* and *The Fabric of the Cosmos * "Stephen Wolfram is a genius. But that's not the most uncommon of his attributes. He is fiercely and fully independent, in every possible sense of the word. Wolfram does everything, literally everyth... mais »
Neutrinos:Mathematics
[image: Neutrinos and matrices] *Neutrinos and Mathematics* After breakfast one morning in August, the mathematician Terence Tao opened an email from three physicists he didn’t know. The trio explained that they’d stumbled across a simple formula that, if true, established an unexpected relationship between some of the most basic and important objects in linear algebra. The formula “looked too good to be true,” said Tao, who is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, a Fields medalist, and one of the world’s leading mathematicians. “Something this short and simple —... mais »
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imaginative thinking
Economics in our thoughts We are economic beings, and much of our own economics happens between our ears [image: Koen Smets] Koen Smets Follow Nov 8 · 7 min read Picture your favourite artist or band, performing your favourite song, live on stage. Now, how much more would you be prepared to pay for *actually* being there, rather than watching a video of the concert? If you are like most people, market prices will tell us the answer. Almost everyone will pay a lot more for a ticket to see a live performance, than to buy (let alone see) a recording — often ten or even twentyfold. Nothin... mais »
Economics
Against Economics David Graeber DECEMBER 5, 2019 ISSUE Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics by Robert Skidelsky Yale University Press, 492 pp., $35.00 [image: Men’s Retreat, 2005; painting by Dana Schutz]Dana Schutz/Petzel, New York City Dana Schutz: Men’s Retreat, 2005 There is a growing feeling, among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies, that the discipline of economics is no longer fit for purpose. It is beginning to look like a science designed to solve problems that no longer exist. A good example is the obsession with inflation. Economi... mais »
Number Theory
Number Theory — History & Overview Part I — What Is Number Theory & Why Is It Relevant Today? Jesus Najera in Towards Data Science[image: Member only content]5 min read
Air Pollution
Air pollution nanoparticles linked to brain cancer for first time Air pollution particles linked to brain cancer for first time Exclusive: Produced by traffic, nanoparticles are already known to invade the brain and can carry carcinogens theguardian.com 2:07 PM · Nov 13, 2019
SBC 20-21
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50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
[image: 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: October 2019] POLICY & ETHICS 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago 278 articles archived since 1845 [image: Lunar Geology in 1969; Heaven "Located" in 1869] SPACE Lunar Geology in 1969; Heaven “Located” in 1869 Innovation and discovery as chronicled in *Scientific American* September 21, 2019 — Daniel C. Schlenoff
Vaping and Heart
Vaping May Be Worse for Heart Health Than Tobacco Cigarettes, New Study Finds
cyberwar
When cyberwar struck its first civilian target Sandworm is a hacking group, linked with Russian military intelligence, that has attacked election infrastructure in the United States, Ukraine’s power grid, and international treaty organizations such as the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. A new book by technology journalist Andy Greenberg explores the hunt for the group’s members and how cyberthreats are shaping our world. Nature | 5 min read
Einstein as a Icon
The Little Known Event that Made Einstein a Legendary Icon [image: Greg Satell] Greg Satell Follow Mar 23 · 6 min read Einstein and Weizmann arrive in New York Wikimedia Commons On April 3rd, 1921, a handful of journalists went to interview a relatively unknown scientist named Albert Einstein. When they arrived to meet his ship they found a crowd of thousands waiting for him, screaming with adulation. Surprised at his popularity, and charmed by his genial personality, the story of Einstein’s arrival made the front page in major newspapers. It was all a bit of a mistake. The people in th... mais »
(Inter)Facing Death
20% Discount with this flyer! (Inter)Facing Death Life in Global Uncertainty Sam Han, University of Western Australia, Australia Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory (Inter)Facing Death analyzes the nexus of death and digital culture in the contemporary moment in the context of recent developments in social, cultural and political theory. It argues that death today can be thought of as "interfaced," that is mediated and expressed, in various aspects of contemporary life rather than put to the side or overcome as many narratives of modernity have suggested. Employing co... mais »
Health Equity Charter
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Psychiatry’s Identity Crisis
Medicine and the Mind — The Consequences of Psychiatry’s Identity CrisisList of authors. - Caleb Gardner, M.D., - and Arthur Kleinman, M.D. Comments open through November 6, 2019 About 100 years ago, the psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers observed that biologic and psychological investigations of the mind were like “the exploration of an unknown continent from opposite directions, where the explorers never meet because of impenetrable country that intervenes.”1 Since then, it has been the work of psychiatry to push further into the interior while also attempting to... mais »
Crematorium
BURNING OUT: WHAT REALLY HAPPENS INSIDE A CREMATORIUM *Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of Americans were cremated. Now that figure stands at nearly 50 percent. This is how cremation actually works, and the story of what happens to a culture when its attitudes about memorializing the dead undergo a revolution.* [image: image] By Caren Chesler Nov 8, 2019 Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey, is awash in small-town trappings: tree-lined roads, rolling lawns, and street signs at every corner. On this Wednesday midsummer morning, the familiar routine of loss plays out across the ... mais »
Self-Consciousness
The Paradox of Self-Consciousness*A Conversation with Markus Gabriel**I have been trying, under the banner of "New Realism," to reconcile various philosophical and scientific traditions. I'm looking for a third way between various tensions. There's more to a human being than the fact that we are a bunch of cells that hang together in a certain way. Humans are not strictly identical to any material energetic system, even though I also think that humans cannot exist without being, in part, grounded in a material energetic system. So, I am rejecting both brutal materialism, according t... mais »
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche: Why Life Isn’t Meaningless In 1900, one of the most profound thinkers of his day was buried in a small town in Germany. Zat Rana[image: Member only content]6 min read
How to Lose Weight
How to Lose Weight, Mathematically The Harris-Benedict Equation [image: Jørgen Veisdal] Jørgen Veisdal Follow Nov 4 · 9 min read The amount of energy expended by animals at rest, including humans, is known as the basal metabolic rate, or BMR. Think of it as the amount of fuel burned every 24 hours to keep your body at 37°C degrees as you sleep. We can estimate the rate for each individual by using the so-called Harris–Benedict equation (Mifflin and St. Jeor, 1990):
Western individualism
The medieval Catholic Church may have helped spark Western individualism Early Catholic Church decrees transformed families and may help explain why Western societies today tend to be individualistic and nonconformist. Read More
Martin Luther
[image: Martin Luther, oil on panel by Lucas Cranach, 1529; in the Uffizi, Florence.] BORNNovember 10, 1483 Eisleben, Germany (Born on this day) GERMAN RELIGIOUS LEADER WRITTEN BY: - Hans J. Hillerbrand LAST UPDATED: Nov 6, 2019 See Article History *Martin Luther*, (born November 10, 1483, Eisleben, Saxony [Germany]—died February 18, 1546, Eisleben), German theologian and religious reformer who was the catalyst of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. Through his words and actions, Luther precipitated a movement that reformulated certain basic tenets of Christian belief a... mais »
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