Júlia Belardinelli Achutti
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Turtle shell
How the turtle got its shell: Amazing fossils are solving the mystery For years, the oldest turtle fossils we could find had fully formed shells. Now, more primitive fossils are revealing the strange tale of how turtle shells evolved FE 29 April 2020 By Riley Black [image: New Scientist Default Image] Dorling Kindersley Ltd/Alamy CONSIDER the floating fortress that is a sea turtle. It seems to fly gracefully through the water even though it is encased in heavy armour. This combination of poise and protection evolved like any wonder of the animal kingdom, yet until recently the fossils w... mais »
Neuroscience books
10 Amazing Books That Will Satisfy Your Neuroscience Curiosity Anatomy,
psychology, technology? There’s a bit of everything Stella Fidem in BrainChronicles[image: Member only content]6 min read
psychology, technology? There’s a bit of everything Stella Fidem in BrainChronicles[image: Member only content]6 min read
Sociopath x Narcissist
How to Tell a Sociopath from a Narcissist If you’re in an abusive relationship, learn whether your partner is a narcissist or sociopath and if things… Darlene Lancer in Narcissism and Abusive Relationships[image: Member only content]5 min read
Stoicism
The equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Musei Capitolini in Rome. Most Roman bronze statues were destroyed for salvage after the collapse of the Roman Empire. This one was saved because people believed it was a statue of Constantine, the first Christian Roman emperor. Marcus is depicted unarmed and unarmoured and riding a captured horse (the saddle is Sarmatian), he believed himself to be a bringer of peace (all his wars were defensive). (source: Wikipedia) Stoicism: Finding the courage to live a better life “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thought... mais »
Brain Death
Understanding Brain Death Robert D. Truog, MD, MA1,2; Erin Talati Paquette, MD, JD, MBe3,4; Robert C. Tasker, MA, MD, MBBS, DCH2,5 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. Published online May 1, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.3593 The concept of brain death, or the determination of death by neurological criteria, was first proposed by a Harvard committee in the United States in 1968,1 and then adopted into the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) in 1981.2 Although the UDDA was widely accepted and endorsed by medical professional organizations, in recent years the concept has c... mais »
Reputation age
Idea / Knowledge Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now Gloria Origgi – From the archive
Civilisation collapse?
Essay / The ancient world Do civilisations collapse? The idea that the Maya or Easter Islanders experienced an apocalyptic end makes for good television but bad archaeology Guy D Middleton – From the archive
‘beauty-symmetry-elegance heretic’
Video / Metaphysics ‘The whole thing is a monstrosity!’ How a symmetry heretic sees the Universe 8 minutes
Relationship with Nature
Essay / The environment We are nature Spinoza helps diagnose the bad ideas and sad passions which preclude us from a finer relationship with the natural world Beth Lord
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV : and DALAI LAMA
[image: Mikhail Gorbachev] MIKHAIL GORBACHEV When the Pandemic Is Over, the World Must Come *Together* [image: Dalai Lama] DALAI LAMA Why We Need to Fight Coronavirus With Compassion
Morning workouts
[image: This Is the Best Time of Day to Work Out, According to Science] This Is the Best Time of Day to Work Out, According to Science finding time to exercise can be challenging, and the most important thing is to squeeze in any amount of it whenever you can. But if you want to optimize your workouts to get the widest range of benefits, you might want to try exercising in the morning. Here’s what the science says about the best time of day to exercise — and what to expect if you opt for later workouts. Morning workouts have an edge Working out in the morning — especially on an empty s... mais »
Woman-Run Hospital 1918
How a Woman-Run Hospital Confronted the 1918 Flu Pandemic “Men died like flies, in the street one moment, then three days later, dead,” said nursing orderly Nina Last. “It was more like a plague than influenza.”
Club
Eastern Sports and Western BodiesThe “Indian Club” in the United States By Daniel Elkind Although largely forgotten today, exercise by club swinging was all the rage in the 19th century. Daniel Elkind explores the rise of the phenomenon in the US, and how such efforts to keep trim and build muscle were inextricably entwined with the history of colonialism, immigration, and capitalist culture. PUBLISHED April 1, 2020 [image: indian club swinging] The oldest film included on the National Film Registry of the US Library of Congress features a pale boy calmly swinging a pair of wooden... mais »
Spoken languages in the US
Most Spoken Languages in the U.S. By Lissa Poirot on April 28, 2020 In the United States, 121,520,180 households speak English, and of those, 94,970,700 households *only* speak English. That means more than 26 million people speak a second language at home. Additionally, 8 percent of the U.S. population is considered limited-English proficient, meaning they more commonly speak another language. In fact, you may be surprised to learn there are 20 different languages commonly spoken across our 50 states. Read on to discover the 20 most spoken languages in the U.S., as defined by the U... mais »
Dying soon
Would most covid-19 victims have died soon, without the virus? new study suggests not “Sacrifice the weak”, urged a sign at a protest against Tennessee’s lockdown on April 20th—though whether the person holding it was trolling the other protesters is unknown. Some claim social distancing is pointless, since covid-19’s elderly victims would soon have died of other causes. In Britain many pundits have said that two-thirds of the country’s dead were already within a year of passing away. They cite an estimate made in March by Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London ... mais »
solitude
Solitude has always been both a blessing and a curse Two timely books spell out its dangers and perennial allure In his “politics” Aristotle argued that, thanks to the gift of language, man is destined to be a social and therefore a political animal. Yet the human instinct to socialise has always been balanced by an urge to withdraw into solitude. A few hermits make their lives in isolation, but many ordinary folk believe society is only tolerable if punctuated by frequent spells on their own. “There are many modern thinkers who emphasise the individual’s dependency upon society,” J... mais »
Éduard Manet
[image: Édouard Manet: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère]FEATURED BIOGRAPHYÉdouard Manet READ MORE
Philosophy
Philosophy Has Lost Its Way We need philosophy more than ever, but it has drifted too far from the issues that matter More To That in Human Parts[image: Member only content]13 min read
Pandemic Glossary
A Glossary for the Strangeness of Pandemic Life Words to help you make sense of your experience [image: Forge Editors] Forge Editors Follow Apr 30 · 6 min read Photo: Isabel Pavia/Getty Images Somany things have been feeling upside-down lately: Introverts are discovering that they’ve been extroverts all along. Time isn’t working the way it’s supposed to. Everyone is annoying, and your Zoom face doesn’t even look like you. Over the past couple months, the strangeness of this moment has seeped into every nook and cranny of our daily lives, exposing, among other things, the limits of our ... mais »
Covid toes?
Are 'covid toes' a real symptom of the coronavirus? By Laura Geggel - Associate Editor 2 hours ago A *frostbite*-like rash on a person's toes might be a *symptom of the new coronavirus*, according to anecdotal evidence from dermatologists around the world. However, research is needed to determine whether this peculiar rash is truly caused by COVID-19. The pinkish-reddish rash can turn purple over time, and causes a burning sensation in some people, Dr. Esther Freeman, a dermatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, *told The Washington Post*. But the inflammation tends... mais »
Pandemias Histórias
Venice’s Black Death and the Dawn of Quarantine Archaeological research is unearthing Venice’s quarantine history to illuminate how the Italian city created a vast public health response 700 years ago and helped lay the modern foundation for coping with pandemics. *READ MORE* [image: Image] Why People in Ancient Times Didn’t Get the Plague People were contracting and dying from plague at least 3,000 years before there’s any archaeological or historical evidence for an epidemic. Why didn’t these earlier infections lead to devastating outbreaks like the Black Death? *READ MORE*
Medical response to Crisis
Free from NEJM: History of Medicine: A National Medical Response to Crisis — The Legacy of World War II J. Barr and S.H. Podolsky DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2008512 | April 29, 2020 [image: FREE] History in a Crisis — Lessons for Covid-19 D.S. Jones N Engl J Med 2020;382:1681-1683 | Published Online March 12, 2020 [image: FREE] [image: Slideshow]
Universe
Today’s highlights How to Travel Faster Than Light Without Really Trying It’s often said that nothing can travel faster than light, but that’s only part of the story. Brian Koberlein in Starts With A Bang![image: Member only content]7 min read Why the Cold Spot Remains a Mystery The anomaly from our universe’s past that still refuses to be solved Ella Alderson in Predict5 min read
Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Terrible-Russia’s Worst Tsar? Was the founder of the Tsardom of Russia really as terrible as his name suggests? Calin Aneculaesei in History of Yesterday[image: Member only content]6 min read
Dark Matter
A long-lost type of dark matter may resolve the biggest disagreement in physics By Rafi Letzter - Staff Writer 4 hours ago This stuff would have existed for thousands of years before disappearing. - - - - - - Comments (0) [image: A map of the sky shows the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), a remnant of the period of the early universe when this lost dark matter might have existed.] A map of the sky shows the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), a remnant of the period of the early universe when this lost dark matter might have existed. (Image: © ESA ... mais »
Quantum Mechanics 2
The Essence of Quantum Mechanics Part 2: Complex Numbers In the first article in this series we outlined some basic physical intuition and described some of the ways… Panda the Red[image: Member only content]10 min read
Military Metaphors
BEHAVIOR & SOCIETY Military Metaphors Distort the Reality of COVID-19 [image: Military Metaphors Distort the Reality of COVID-19]The rhetoric of war implies a heedless approach that undermines the practice of medicine By Adina Wise
Human Development and COVID-19
Human Development Newsletter - Special Edition [image: Twitter] [image: Facebook] [image: LinkedIn] COVID-19: New UNDP data dashboards reveal huge disparities among countries in ability to cope and recover Indicators such as the level of poverty, healthcare capacity, access to internet and social protection can portray how severe the effects of the COVID-19 crisis might be in each of 189 countries. Click here for Spanish and French New York, April 29, 2020 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today released two new data dashboards that highlight the huge disparities... mais »
Snorkeling Mask
April 28, 2020 Dear Reader, This week, we have another article about innovation in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the need for ventilators increases, some hospitals are instead trying out a less invasive breathing aid made from a snorkeling mask. For another story of how this swim gear can be repurposed, check out the archive tale of how a teenage chemist snatched up a similar mask to protect himself from an experiment gone wrong. In other coronavirus-related news, the gene editing technique called CRISPR could accelerate our ability to test for infections. And for something... mais »
Black Death
HISTORY MAGAZINE Fast and lethal, the Black Death spread more than a mile per day Roughly one out of three people died as this medieval plague quickly traveled along European trade routes, devastating communities along the way.
Universe: Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis
A century ago, astronomy’s Great Debate foreshadowed today’s view of the universeThe argument between Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis was ultimately settled by Edwin Hubble [image: Tom Siegfried] By Tom Siegfried Contributing Correspondent APRIL 24, 2020 AT 6:00 AM [image: Harlow Shapley, Heber Curtis] On April 26, 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley (left) and Heber Curtis (right) presented their views on the scope of the cosmos. FROM LEFT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ARCHIVES, ACCESSION 90-105, SCIENCE SERVICE RECORDS, IMAGE NO. SIA2008-5931; ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY Counting universes ought t... mais »
World-class communication
What world-class communicators do differently: 3 lessons from neuroscience Can’t get through to people? Perhaps you are talking to the wrong brain. Elitsa Dermendzhiyska in Mission.org[image: Member only content]11 min read
COVID -1 Neuropsychiatric aftereffects
Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Might Have Neuropsychiatric Aftereffects “Are we facing a crashing wave of neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19?” psychiatrists ask — and why immune… Shin Jie Yong in Microbial Instincts[image: Member only content]5 min read
Everything Theory
Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics…and It’s BeautifulApril 14, 2020 Website: Wolfram Physics Project Technical Intro: A Class of Models with the Potential to Represent Fundamental Physics How We Got Here: The Backstory of the Wolfram Physics Project [image: Visual summary of the Wolfram Physics Project] I Never Expected This It’s unexpected, surprising—and for me incredibly exciting. To be fair, at some level I’ve been working towards this for nearly 50 years. But it’s just in the last few months that it’s finally come together. And it’s much more wonderful... m
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