Sunday, January 03, 2021

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Weekend Roundup:
Shaken Nation Needs To Renovate Democracy
How to mend the breach of distrust between the public and institutions of self-government.

Nathan Gardels, Noema Editor-in-Chief

The surreal insurrection in Washington this week brought two thoughts immediately to mind. First, President Donald Trump’s incitement of the sharpest edge of his base to assault the constitutional handover of power taking place in the halls of the U.S. Capitol reminded me of Mao Zedong exhorting another mass delusionary movement, the young Red Guards, to “bombard the headquarters” as he instigated the Cultural Revolution in China./.../


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NUMBER THEORY ALL TOPICS

 

How I Learned to Love and Fear the Riemann Hypothesis

By ALEX KONTOROVICH; Video by EMILY BUDER

A number theorist recalls his first encounter with the Riemann hypothesis and breaks down the math in a new Quanta video.

Read the essay | Watch the video

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

 

A Newfound Source of Cellular Order in the Chemistry of Life

By VIVIANE CALLIER

Recent research suggests that droplets of biomolecules inside cells may play an important role in the expression of genes, cell division and other processes.

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Related: 
The Shape-Shifting Army Inside Your Cells
by Alla Katsnelson (2017)

ABSTRACTIONS BLOG

 

Galaxy-Size Bubbles Discovered Towering Over the Milky Way

By CHARLIE WOOD

For decades, astronomers debated whether a particular smudge was close-by and small, or distant and huge. A new X-ray map supports the massive option.

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Related: 
The New History of the Milky Way
by Charlie Wood (2020)

#From Aeon/Psiché Magazzine
Personality disordersIdea
What the new science of narcissism says about narcissists
by W Keith Campbell and Carolyn Crist


PoetryIdea
Love’s contradictions: Catullus on the agony of infatuation
by Armand D’Angour















# Stephen William Hawking,
(born January 8, 1942, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England—died March 14, 2018, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire), English theoretical physicist whose theory of exploding black holes drew upon both relativity theory and quantum mechanics. He also worked with space-timtime singularities.
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#Vaccinated but Sick With COVID-19 
Reports of post-vax infection a reminder to keep on masking and distancing, experts say
A doctors hand holding a pen over a COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card with vials of COVID-19 vaccine vials

Some healthcare workers have reported falling ill with COVID-19 after getting their first vaccine dose -- but that's not a surprise, as protection can take as long as 2 weeks to kick in, researchers said.


# Viruses Can Help Us as Well as Harm Us 
Experts are figuring out how to exploit the 380 trillion viruses that make up the human virome
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# From Maria Popova Brain Pickings: Elevating Resolutions for the New Year Inspired by Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds

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What if we could augment the bucket-list of typical New Year’s resolutions, dominated by bodily habits and pragmatic daily practices, with higher-order aspirations — habits of mind and spiritual orientations borrowed from some of humanity’s most timelessly rewarding thinkers? After last year’s selection of worthy resolutions inspired by such luminaries as Seneca, Maya Angelou, Bruce Lee, and Virginia Woolf, here is another set for the new year borrowed from a new roster of perennially elevating minds.


Fórum Social Mundial Virtual 2021, a ser realizado de 23 a 31/01


# Alzheimer's / Dementia
Apathy may precede dementia years before other symptoms
A new study has found that in people with a genetic risk of frontotemporal dementia, apathy predicts the development of other symptoms years later.

#Best of Starts With A Bang! for you
Einstein has passed every test so far. That’s why it’s so vital to keep testing it!
Ethan SiegelMember only content10 min read

#A guide to vaccinology: from basic principles to new developments | Nature Reviews Immunology

Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja

# Luiz Alberto Gómez de Souza - 1935+2020


Mais um amigo de velhos tempo de JUCnos deixa, com muita saudade e recordações. Um de seus irmãos era o Ator Paulo José, e outro, chamado Arlindo, era professor da FIOCRUZ 

#04/01 - Aniver4sários de nosso primeiro filho e seu filho, nosso último neto; Luiz Eduardo lembrou mensagem que eu havia lhe enviado em 2010






# "Placebo" vs. "Nocebo": Which One Is Which
A cup of tea can do wonders for your mood and health. Is that a placebo or nocebo? Turns out there are many ways for mind over matter to have an effect.
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# Bach - The Best Organ Music

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