E-Cig
*What Do I Need to Know About e-Cigarettes? Do They Help People Stop Smoking?* [image: What Do I Need to Know About e-Cigarettes? Do They Help People Stop Smoking?] Download MP3 Subscribe to Podcast Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use, otherwise known as “vaping,” has been increasing since 2010. This podcast reviews research on the epidemiology and possible adverse health effects of e-cigarette and nicotine use, and the pitfalls associated with using e-cigarettes as a method to stop smoking. These issues are discussed by Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, PhD, a professor wit... mais »
Movies: 27 sellected from the decade
The Twenty-Seven Best Movies of the Decade By Richard Brody November 26, 2019 [image: Illustration featuring characters and elements from the films 'Get Out' 'Wolf of Wall Street' 'Holy Motors' 'The Grand...]From an artistic perspective, the past decade in movies is the decade of mumblecore. The movement of intimately scaled, often improvised, low-budget dramas and comedies that pull their actors from the lives and milieux of filmmakers who build stories around their personal experiences has become the energy-giving core of the American cinema. All decade long, aside from the reliab... mais »
US 1959-2017 Life expectancy and Mortality
*JAMA* *Life Expectancy and Mortality Rates in the United States, 1959-2017 * Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH; Heidi Schoomaker, MAEd
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill,
Winston Churchill PRIME MINISTER OF UNITED KINGDOM WRITTEN BY: - Herbert G. Nicholas See Article History *Alternative Title:* Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill *Winston Churchill*, in full *Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill*, (born November 30, 1874, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England—died January 24, 1965, London), British statesman, orator, and author who as prime minister (1940–45, 1951–55) rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory. [image: Churchill, Winston] *Churchill, Winston*Winston Churchill, phot... mais »
Maps - 100
MAPS 100 Amazing World Maps By Lissa Poirot, updated on October 10, 2019
Saudade: Presence of Absence
*Algumas considerações já ouvimos várias vezes (parece que há um certo orgulho de ter em nossa língua uma palavra secreta, intraduzível...).*Saudade: the untranslatable word for the presence of absence *Michael Amoruso* is a visiting assistant professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts. 1,000 words Edited by Sam Dresser [image: A fado singer in Porto, 2008. Photo courtesy Wikimedia
]I pray for friends I’ve lost, family, like my uncle who passed away,’ Bruno told me. We were chatting in the nave of the Church of the Santa Cruz of the Souls of the Hanged, a sm... mais »
]I pray for friends I’ve lost, family, like my uncle who passed away,’ Bruno told me. We were chatting in the nave of the Church of the Santa Cruz of the Souls of the Hanged, a sm... mais »
AHA 2019
[image: Dr.Nichols] AHA 2019: os estudos mais relevantes ISCHEMIA: intervenção coronariana percutânea e cirurgia vs. tratamento AHA investe pesado em campanha contra o vaping voltada para jovens COLCOT: colchicina parece promissora para a redução de eventos após IAM AHA 2019: o melhor do segundo dia Novos dados do estudo DAPA-HF Veja Mais
Complex Social Groups
The Human Brain Evolved to Form Complex Social Groups The more advanced the primate, the bigger its social network Douglas Rushkoff in Team Human[image: Member only content]2 min read
More on Nietzsch
Nietzsche’s three steps to a meaningful life The story of the camel, the lion, and the child [image: Steven Gambardella] Steven Gambardella Follow Oct 27, 2018 · 9 min read In 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche was a man who had known the depths of despair. Nietzsche had lived with a number of health problems, mental health issues, and post-traumatic stress syndrome from serving as a medical orderly in the Franco-Prussian War (during which he had also contracted diphtheria and dysentery). The final straw was that the woman he loved deeply, whom he had proposed to a number of times, had abandone... mais »
Inequality
[image: cover-image] Everybody knows that rich-world inequality has soared. People read about it in newspapers, hear about it from pressure groups and witness it in their daily lives. On both sides of the Atlantic politicians are building action against it into their campaigns. Yet our cover this week examines new research that suggests this growing inequality is not what it appears. Our cover story delves deep into the national account economists use to tease out the income and wealth of the top 1%, and trends in average wages and in how owners outearn workers. In each c... mais »
Planet resilence
[image: Aerial view of an aeroplane flying over a glacier in Alaska.] An aeroplane flies over a glacier in the Wrangell St Elias National Park in Alaska. (Frans Lanting/Nat Geo Image Collection) “The stability and resilience of our planet is in peril.” Evidence is mounting that abrupt and irreversible shifts in the Earth system — such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest or the West Antarctic ice sheet — are more likely than was thought. At worst, a global cascade of these tipping points could lead to a new, less habitable, ‘hothouse’ climate state. Seven climate scientists look at th... mais »
Heart Inflammation
[image: Haematopoietic stem cells isolated from human bone marrow] Cells taken from bone marrow are a common stem-cell therapy. (Dennis Kunkel Microscopy/SPL) How stem-cell therapies mend broken hearts Common stem-cell therapies improve heart function — but not by becoming heart-muscle cells themselves. Instead, research in mice shows that they trigger immune cells called macrophages to repair connective tissue in damaged regions of the organ. Swapping the stem cells with an inflammation-inducing chemical — or even bits of dead cells — worked, too, indicating that inflammation set of... mais »
Alcoholism
A dose of ketamine could lessen the lure of alcoholThe hallucinogenic drug may help treat addiction by weakening past memories of drinking By Laura Sanders NOVEMBER 26, 2019 AT 11:27 AM [image: beer]A single dose of ketamine may cut down problematic drinking. Taken in the right context, the hallucinogenic drug may be able to weaken the pull of the cues that trigger people to drink beer, researchers report November 26 in *Nature Communications.* Ketamine’s influence on people’s drinking was modest. Still, the results might be a time when “small effects tell a big story,” says addiction ... mais »
black hole
[image: newsletter image] A newfound black hole in the Milky Way is weirdly heavy Nov 27 2019 1:00 PM A dark mass about 68 times as massive as the sun is locked in orbit with a star in our galaxy. Theory says that such black holes shouldn't get so big.
Hexavalent Chromium and Cancer
*Como será que andamos por aqui? Já foi dosado nos nossos aquíferos e no |Guaíba?* hexavalent chromium standards Data from nearly 1,400 drinking wells across North Carolina show excessive levels of carcinogen [image: areas of the state with the largest number of groundwater users] Some North Carolina wells contain levels of hexavalent chromium in excess of safety standards. - Credit and Larger Version November 21, 2019 A new study that combines measurements from some 1,400 drinking water wells across North Carolina estimates that more than half the wells in the state's central r... mais »
William Blake
William Blake BRITISH WRITER AND ARTIST WRITTEN BY: - G.E. Bentley LAST UPDATED: Nov 12, 2019 See Article History [image: William Blake, oil on canvas by Thomas Phillips, 1807; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.] *William Blake, oil on canvas by Thomas Phillips, 1807; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/REX/Shutterstock.coTo see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour.* *William Blake*, (born Nov. 28, 1757, London, Eng.—died Aug. 12, 1827... mais »
Claude Lévi-Strauss
[image: Claude Lévi-Strauss.] 1908: French social anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, a leading exponent of structuralism, was born in Belgium.
Blue wahle
Extreme bradycardia and tachycardia in the world’s largest animal View ORCID ProfileJ. A. Goldbogen, View ORCID ProfileD. E. Cade, J. Calambokidis, M. F. Czapanskiy, J. Fahlbusch, A. S. Friedlaender, W. T. Gough, S. R. Kahane-Rapport, M. S. Savoca, K. V. Ponganis, and P. J. Ponganis PNAS first published November 25, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914273116 1. Edited by Nancy Knowlton, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and approved October 25, 2019 (received for review August 16, 2019) - Article - Figures & SI - Info & Metrics - PDF Significanc... mais »
;;;Through Loss
Brain Pickings by Maria PopovaFROM THE ARCHIVE | Living and Loving Through Loss: Beautiful Letters of Consolation from Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists *“Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be,”* Joan Didion wrote in her classic memoir of loss. But however uncertain its guise may be, its arrival is one of the central certainties of existence — no human life is unplundered by loss, in one form or another, at one time or another. And when grief does come, when its tidal force anneals us to the rawest axis of our being, it seems like nothing at all can unmoor us... mais »
Great Books
*Great Books of the Western World* From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search For the Learning Channel's Great Books series, see The Learning Channel's Great Books. The *Great Books* (second edition) *Great Books of the Western World* is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the Great Books in a 54-volume set. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series: the book must be relevant to contemporary matters, and not only important in its historical context;... mais »
Tolstoy and Medicine
November 27, 2019 Tolstoy in Medicine Rola Khedraki, MD1 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA Cardiol. Published online November 27, 2019. doi: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2019.4545 Many people liken the field of heart failure to oncology. Both fields treat a heterogenous group of diseases simplistically referred to as heart failure or cancer. Both share the extremes of victory and loss. Both offer an opportunity for intense patient-physician bonds that are sometimes counterbalanced by difficult end-of-life conversations. Both sometimes force us to engage in uncomforta... mais »
On Recomendations for Hypertension
Views 2,516 39 Comments - PDF - More - - Original Investigation Health Policy November 22, 2019 Consistency of Recommendations for Evaluation and Management of Hypertension Brian S. Alper, MD, MSPH1; Amy Price, DPhil2,3; Esther J. van Zuuren, MD4; et alZbys Fedorowicz, PhD, MScDPH, BDS5; Allen F. Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd6 ; Peter Oettgen, MD7; Glyn Elwyn, MD, PhD8; Amir Qaseem, MD, PhD, MHA9; Ilkka Kunnamo, MD, PhD10; Urvi Gupta, BS2; Deborah D. Carter, DrPH11; Michael Mittelman, MBA12 ; Carla Berg-Nelson13; Martin Mayer, DMSc, MS, PA-C14 Author Affiliatio... mais »
Nobel Prizes
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Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener AMERICAN MATHEMATICIAN WRITTEN BY: - The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica LAST UPDATED: Nov 22, 2019 See Article History *Norbert Wiener*, (born Nov. 26, 1894, Columbia, Mo., U.S.—died March 18, 1964, Stockholm, Swed.), American mathematician who established the science of cybernetics. He attained international renown by formulating some of the most important contributions to mathematics in the 20th century. [image: Norbert Wiener.]
Cure for Cancer?
A cure for cancer? Israeli scientists may have found one“Our results are consistent and repeatable.” By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN JANUARY 28, 2019 23:14 [image: Cancer cells [illustrative] (photo credit: PIXABAY)] A small team of Israeli scientists think they might have found the first complete cure for cancer. “We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer,” said Dan Aridor, of a new treatment being developed by his company, Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi), which was founded in 2000 in the ITEK incubator. AEBi developed the SoAP platform, which... mais »
World Economy
World Economic Forum @wef · 14h The $86 trillion world #economy – in one chart https://wef.ch/2lIqWJk [image: Image] 4 186 352
Peptides
Frontiers @FrontiersIn Researchers discussed desirable characteristics of #peptides demonstrating dual activity against #microbial #infections & #cancer, & those in clinical trials. Free review in @FrontChemistry : https://fro.ntiers.in/9qRx Sign up to #chemistry article alerts: https:// fro.ntiers.in/fchem [image: Image] 3:00 AM · May 1, 2019·Salesforce - Social Studio Promoted by Frontiers 133 Retweets 191 Likes
Julia Robins
How Julia Robinson helped define the limits of mathematical knowledge “Rather than being remembered as the first woman this or that, I would prefer to be remembered, as a mathematician should, simply for the theorems I have proved and the problems I have solved.” — Julia Robinson, born 100 years ago
Lab Big Bang
A 2013 map of the background radiation leftover from the Big Bang — Image: © ESA & the Planck Collaboration Researchers accidentally create a ‘Mini Big Bang’ in the Lab This may lead to a better understanding of the most commonly accepted theory about the creation of the Universe [image: Faisal Khan] Faisal Khan Follow Nov 15 · 3 min read Big Bang theory is considered as the leading explanation behind the creation of the Universe. For the most part, though, it still remains a mystery — All we “know” is that the Cosmos started from a singularity roughly 13.8 billion years ago with a... mais »
2019 Best Inventions
[image: The Brief - Special Edition] *A special feature from The Brief* *The 100 Best Inventions of 2019* [image: best-inventions] Read the story
Baruch (Benedict or Bento) de Spinoza
Benedict de Spinoza DUTCH-JEWISH PHILOSOPHER [image: Benedict de Spinoza.] WRITTEN BY: - Richard H. Popkin LAST UPDATED: Nov 20, 2019 See Article History *Alternative Titles:* Baruch Spinoza, Bendictus Spinoza, Bento de Espinosa *Benedict de Spinoza*, Hebrew forename *Baruch, *Latin forename *Benedictus, *Portuguese *Bento de Espinosa*, (born November 24, 1632, Amsterdam—died February 21, 1677, The Hague), Dutch Jewish philosopher, one of the foremost exponents of 17th-century Rationalism and one of the early and seminal figures of the Enlightenment. His masterwork is the trea... mais »
Evolution
*Dois eventos aparentemente não relacionados, mas pode-se pensar no esforço em reconhecer a evolução natural e das espécies, e em também a tentativa humana de interferir nesse desenvolvimento, priorizando o desenvolvimento de algumas e limitando sua mobilidade e acesso ao território...* [image: Barbed wire used for fencing, 19th century; from the collection of Jesse S. James] 1874: American inventor Joseph Farwell Glidden patented the first commercially successful barbed wire. *[Read our list of Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution .]* [image: Darwin, Charles: On the... mais »
