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#Com Dra. Valderês A. Robinson Achutti (*13/06/1931+15/06/2021)
#Republicando artigos Antigos meus
Para melhor viver e compreender tantas questões polêmicas, como a do controle da venda de antibióticos para evitar a resistência bacteriana, a da proteção do equilíbrio ambiental, e a do convívio dentro desta extensa e conturbada colônia humana, é preciso pensar na resposta para a pergunta sobre quem realmente somos procurando uma inserção mais compatível no contexto global.
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#Le TEMPS Le fait du jour: Emmanuel Macron fait un clin d’œil |
Resonance made visible with black seeds on a harpsichord soundboard |
“After their discovery, Stanford University tweeted out the quilt-like image and asked: Is it art or is it science?
“It is, wonderfully, both. Researchers are removing the ‘or’ to make it ‘and.’ Art and science together are potent medicine, capable of radically transforming our physical health.
“Think about this experiment the next time you feel moved by your favorite song. You are literally changed, on a cellular level, by aesthetics. In the case of the red quilt, sound caused heart cells to move. All stimuli that we encounter--visual, auditory, somatosensory, gustatory, olfactory, and others--change the structure and function of cells within our brains and bodies. They do so in fundamental ways, including altering cell cycle, proliferation, viability, and binding of hormones. And when we make those aesthetic inputs multidimensional, we open the door for healing to occur.
“One of the most important developments in the arts-meets-science approach to physical health has been the ways in which researchers have begun to identify key neurobiological mechanisms. Mechanisms are the many chemical and physical activities that underlie how things work in your body. Digesting your latest meal, for instance, happens because of multiple mechanisms, from saliva production in the mouth to chemicals in the stomach to the ways nutrients are absorbed. We understand how and why the body digests food. And by better understanding the mechanisms engaged when using the arts, practitioners are able to design and enhance interventions with greater precision.
“In a 2021 study published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry, Daisy Fancourt and her team studied the mounting evidence for the benefits of leisure activities, such as participating in the arts, on human health. They identified and mapped more than 600 mechanisms--from improving respiratory and physical function to enhancing immune function and developing group values--that occur both in our individual bodies, as well as at the group and societal level. These mechanisms are broadly grouped into psychological, biological, social, and behavioral.
“Another critical point that Daisy and her fellow researchers made in this study about arts and mechanisms is related to the idea of complexity science. ‘People have often viewed the field of arts and health as needing to operate like the field of pharmacology,’ Daisy explained. For example, a drug has an active ingredient with maybe one or two biological mechanisms of action and these have predictable outcomes. ‘Whereas, our clear point in this paper is that in complexity science, you recognize that there are hundreds of ingredients, hundreds of mechanisms. They all work bidirectionally, not just unidirectionally and they're moderated by external factors.’
“This summarizes quite nicely why the arts have such a potent effect on our health: Whereas a pharmacological treatment works on one, maybe two, pathways, the arts have the ability to trigger hundreds of mechanisms that work in concert.
“‘This point is really important to get across,’ Daisy says, ‘because sometimes people have seen the complexity and the 'messiness' of arts and health mechanisms as a weakness where in fact, it is the very heart of why the arts work. It's just that we've been applying an overly simplistic biomedical lens on something that needs to be seen with a complexity science lens.’
“Today, the arts are being used in at least six distinct ways to heal the body: as preventative medicine; as symptom relief for everyday health issues; as a treatment or intervention for illness, developmental issues, and accidents; as psychological support; as a tool for successfully living with chronic issues; and at the end of life to provide solace and meaning."
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The Universe in Verse: Regina Spektor Reads “Theories of Everything” by Astronomer, Poet, and Tragic Genius Rebecca Elson
BY MARIA POPOVA
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, and poetry, the language of meaning — into something that enlarges both, expanding the horizons of beauty and understanding in the mind beholding the fusion./.../
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Sebastião Salgado
Photographer
Marcos del Mazo—LightRocket/Getty Images
Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian photographer and co-founder of nonprofit
Instituto Terra, which works to restore the country’s Atlantic forest. The project
was initially launched on his parents’ cattle ranch in eastern Brazil; Salgado
used his photographs to raise funding for a seedling nursery, laboratory, and
training center, which allowed the project to plant about 300 different species of
native trees and to restore 2,000 natural springs. In 2022–23, it launched
“Empresa Amiga,” a program that will raise funds from nearly a dozen corporate
partners for forest and water basin restoration.
What is the single most important action you think the public, or a specific company or government, needs to take in the next year to advance the climate agenda?
There is only one way to move the climate agenda forward in the world, at personal, company and state level, and that is to plant trees. There is no
machine on the planet capable of sequestering carbon dioxide. Only trees
can do this through photosynthesis. By planting trees we will solve the
planetary carbon problem and, more importantly, we will rehabilitate
local biodiversity. In the last 40 years, Germany has lost 70% of its
biodiversity. What’s more, by planting forests we also restore water
sources by retaining humidity in the soil. That’s the primordial action
I would advise: planting trees.
What sustainability effort do you hope will gain popularity
with the general public this year, and why?
We should focus on the integration of the world of land, rural
landowners, Indigenous and peasant communities into the global
debate on ecology.
The rural world is not integrated into this debate, which is 95%
dominated by the urban sector. And urban people don’t know the
land and the planet.
If we have to plant forests, we won’t do it in the cities, but in the countryside.
Where should climate activism go in the next year?
Climate activism should focus on a reorientation of carbon credits.
We have to separate what carbon is recovered in industries by
reducing carbon emissions, and the real carbon sequestration
that comes from planting forests. Organizations around the world
have to fight for there to be a sufficient financial return for rural landowners to have an alternative use for their land between
livestock, agriculture, and forestry. Otherwise, they will never
plant forests. We must fight for a real carbon fund for planting
trees.
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