Big Ideas
Where Are The Big Ideas in Neuroscience? (Part 1) By Neuroskeptic | April 19, 2015 11:03 am Share on twitterShare on facebookShare on emailMore Sharing Services354 Why are there no big ideas in neuroscience? [image: unsolved_brain] By “big” ideas, I mean schools of thought, philosophies, or movements. *Psychology* has had, and continues to have, plenty of them: behaviorism, cognitivism, Freudianism, social constructionism, to name a few. But whenever I’ve tried to think of the neuroscience equivalents of these big ideas, I’ve drawn a blank. Neuroscientists don’t seem to disagree on the bi... mais »
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Hubble
SCIENCE - OUT THERE[image: Video] VIDEO: Hubble Reflects the Cosmos After 25 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still surprising us. Hubble has been called the most important advance in astronomy since Galileo, and its greatest discoveries might still be ahead. [image: .] Related ArticleHubble Reflects the Cosmos BY Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Corum and Jason Drakeford | Apr. 24, 2015 | 3:02 After 25 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still surprising us. Hubble has been called the most important advance in astronomy since Galileo, and its greatest discoveries might still be ahead. Rel... mais »
Cidades
*QUANDO NASCEM AS CIDADES* Qualquer pessoa que se interesse pela História do Brasil provavelmente já gastou alguns minutos tentando imaginar como seria uma cidade atual nos tempos da Colônia (por exemplo, aquela em que vive). Quantas pessoas moravam nessa cidade? Como seriam as casas dos moradores? E a igreja? Onde ficava a sede do governo municipal? Seria mesmo ali, naquela rua onde hoje está um shopping center? São perguntas que podem ser respondidas através da pesquisa histórica, principalmente a partir dos documentos da época. O Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo guarda, dent... mais »
Mammoth
Scientists Have Sequenced the Entire Genome of a Woolly Mammoth - Helen Regan @hcregan 12:22 AM ET [image: Woolly Mammoth]Science Picture Co/Getty Images/Collection Mix: Subjects RMWoolly MammothGenetic factors may have been responsible for their disappearance/.../
Amazon
The rise of Amazon Web Services Amazon released sales numbers for its fast-growing Amazon Web Services cloud business for the first time on Thursday, April 23, 2015. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images) By Amrita Jayakumar April 23 at 7:41 PM Nearly a decade after it started as an internal project for a group of engineers, Amazon.com’s cloud services unit has turned into the online retailer’s fastest-growing business./.../
O Museu das Águas
21/abr/2015, 9h39min *A cidade, as águas e o museu (por Luiz Antonio T. Grassi)* Estou em Yasd, no Irã, cidade de uma região em que a precipitação pluviométrica média é de cinco milímetros por ano (dois ou três por cento do que chove no Rio Grande do Sul). Visito Museu da Água, em uma antiqüíssima casa, onde documentos, artefatos, maquetes e reproduções traçam a história e a importância da água para aquela sociedade. A convivência com a escassez milenar torna natural o respeito à história de como a sociedade local soube enfrentar os desafios e os conflitos decorrentes da falta de ág... mais »
Poetas patronos
Neste ano de 2015, a Feira do Livro de Santa Maria será aberta no próximo dia 25 de abril, sábado, e será encerrada em 10 de maio. O nosso maior evento literário tem assim sua 42ª edição, considerando todas as edições, desde a I Feira do Livro de Santa Maria, aberta em 25.5.1962. Em 27.4.1968, foi aberta a III Feira do Livro de Santa Maria, na verdade sua quarta edição, considerando a Feira Internacional do Livro/UFSM, em 1967. Naquela edição de 1968, os organizadores instituíram o patronato da Feira para homenagear escritores quase sempre santa-marienses. Desde que foi insti... mais »
Laurita Pereira Donadio (*22/04/1905) hoje 110 anos.
Laurita Pereira Donadio (*22/04/1905) hoje 110 anos. [image: 712-F.jpg] É cliente nossa desde 02 de setembro de 1963, (desde que ficou viúva e primeiro registro em nossos arquivos) Tem nos dado o privilégio e a honra de acompanha-la todo esse tempo. É a paciente mais idosa que já atendemos durante toda nossa experiência médica (57 anos mais seis de faculdade). Que eu lembre também nunca conheci ninguém que tivesse chegado a essa idade, mesmo fora da atividade profissional. Já tivemos várias clientes centenárias, hoje ela é a única representante desse grupo. Sempre foi muito comunicat... mais »
activating brain stem cells
Drugs that activate brain stem cells may reverse multiple sclerosis NIH-funded study identifies over-the-counter compounds that may replace damaged cells [image: Print this page]Share on emailShare on facebookShare on twitter Two drugs already on the market — an antifungal and a steroid — may potentially take on new roles as treatments for multiple sclerosis. According to a study published in Nature today, researchers discovered that these drugs may activate stem cells in the brain to stimulate myelin producing cells and repair white matter, which is damaged in multiple sclerosis. The... mais »
Cognitive Aging
Cognitive AgingA Report From the Institute of Medicine FREE ONLINE FIRST Dan G. Blazer, MD, MPH, PhD1; Kristine Yaffe, MD2; Jason Karlawish, MD3 [+] Author Affiliations *JAMA*. Published online April 15, 2015. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.4380 Text Size: A A A Article References The Institute of Medicine recently released a report entitled *Cognitive Aging: Progress in Understanding and Opportunities for Action*, which addresses the emerging concept of cognitive aging, the importance of this issue for the nation’s public health, and actions the nation needs to take to better understand and mai... mais »
The Golden Ratio
The Golden Ratio: Design's In the world of art, architecture, and design, the golden ratio has earned a tremendous reputation. Greats like Le Corbusier and Salvador Dalí have used the number in their work. The Parthenon, the Pyramids at Giza, the paintings of Michelangelo, the Mona Lisa, even the Apple logo are all said to incorporate it. It's bullshit. The golden ratio's aesthetic bona fides are an urban legend, a myth, a design unicorn. Many designers don't use it, and if they do, they vastly discount its importance. There's also no science to really back it up. Those who believ... mais »
EmotionalIntelligence
Emotional Intelligence: The Social Skills You Weren't Taught in School 752,951 87 [image: ericravenscraft] Eric RavenscraftProfileFollow Eric Ravenscraft Filed to: MIND HACKS - PSYCHOLOGY - SOCIAL GPS - SOCIALIZATION - COMMUNICATION - EMOTIONS - EDITOR'S PICKS 4/14/15 8:00am - Share to Kinja - Share to Facebook - Share to Pinterest - Share to Twitter - Go to permalink [image: Emotional Intelligence: The Social Skills You Weren't Taught in School] You’re taught about history, science, and math when you’re growing up. Most of us, however, aren’t taught ... mais »
Every day water
*1 gallon = 3.7854 liters* 17 Everyday Items That Use a Whole Lot of Water —By Gabrielle Canon | Tue Apr. 21, 2015 6:45 AM EDT - - - Email 32 If you live in the West, particularly in California, where Gov. Jerry Brown has ordered a 25 percent mandatory reduction in household water use, you may have started taking shorter showers. Perhaps a spiky array of cacti now dwells where your lawn used to be. Maybe you've even stopped drinking almond milk./.../
BRCA
New Genetic Tests for Breast Cancer Hold Promise | A Silicon Valley start-up with some big-name backers is threatening to upend genetic screening for breast and ovarian cancer by offering a test on a sample of saliva that is so inexpensive that most women could get it, Andrew Pollack writes.At the same time, the nation's two largest clinical laboratories, Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, normally bitter rivals, are joining with French researchers to pool their data to better interpret mutations in the two main breast cancer risk genes, known as BRCA1 and BRCA2. Other companies and lab... mais »
DEVINFO
- Principal - Sistemas de Indicadores - Sistema DevInfo [image: Sistema de Indicadores - Devinfo]SAIBA MAIS SOBRE O DEVINFO CLICANDO AQUI! DevInfo - Portal ODM - Abertura por O_Orbis. Sistema Devinfo Com ele você pode visualizar informações e criar seu próprio sistema de indicadores personalizado. *Versão Usuário:* Utilizado para visualização das bases de dados MODELO e PORTAL ODM. - Devinfo - Acessar Devinfo *Versão Administrativa:* Utilizado para criação e personalização de sua própria base de dados. - Devinfo - Acessar Devinfo Documentação Dev... mais »
Yearly Mammograms
Most Women Should Not Get Yearly Mammograms, Group Says - Alexandra Sifferlin @acsifferlin April 20, 2015 [image: 157696202]Getty ImagesA U.S. panel of experts reaffirms its recommendationsSix years ago, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) caused a stir when it changed long-held breast-cancer-screening recommendations and advised women to wait until age 50 rather than 40 to start getting mammograms. The task force also said women should do it every other year, and women under age 50 were told that the choice to get mammograms at their age was an individual one./.../
Einstein's Brain
Yes, I Found Einstein’s BrainIt is 60 years since our most famous scientist’s death, an event now associated with the weird saga of his brain. Here’s how I got involved. Sixty years ago: Thomas Harvey, Chief Pathologist at the Princeton Hospital tells reporters how he performed the autopsy on Albert Einstein. in Backchannel, by Steven Levy 15 min read In April of 1955, Albert Einstein was 76 years old. Three years earlier, he had turned down an offer to be president of Israel. He was living in Princeton, working at the Institute for Advanced Study, trying to perfect a theory of gra... mais »
Age Friendly City
2nd WHO Consultation on Developing Age-friendly City Indicators, 8 September 2013, Québec City, Canada The WHO Centre for Health Development (WKC) conducted the 2nd Consultation on Developing Age-friendly City Indicators on 8 September, 2013 in Québec City, Canada. This consultation is part of a series of consultations, started in 2012, organized by WKC in an effort to develop new technical guidance on monitoring the “age-friendliness” of cities. The objective of this consultation was to obtain expert opinion on how to advance the development of an age-friendly city monitoring framew... mais »
Global ageing
A billion shades of greyAn ageing economy will be a slower and more unequal one—unless policy starts changing nowApr 26th 2014 | From the print edition - [image: Timekeeper] - - WARREN BUFFETT, who on May 3rd hosts the folksy extravaganza that is Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders’ meeting, is an icon of American capitalism (see article). At 83, he also epitomises a striking demographic trend: for highly skilled people to go on working well into what was once thought to be old age. Across the rich world, well-educated people increasingly work longer than the less-sk... mais »
Picture Books Celebrating the Lives of Great People
Creative Courage for Young Hearts: 15 Emboldening Picture Books Celebrating the Lives of Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists *NOTE: This article is too long for email and has been truncated – you can read it in full on the site*. Margaret Mead extolled the value of "spiritual and mental ancestors" inhow we form our identity – those people to whom we aren't related but whose values we try to cultivate in ourselves; role models we seek out not from our immediate genetic pool but from the pool of culture the surrounds us, past and present. Seneca saw in reading, one of the oldest and ... mais »
Snoring and Dementia
The Scary Connection Between Snoring and Dementia - Alice Park @aliceparkny April 15, 2015 Sleep disorders, including sleep apnea and snoring, can have harmful effects on the brain over the long term If you don’t snore, you likely know someone who does. Between 19% and 40% of adults snore when they sleep, and that percentage climbs even higher, particularly for men, as we age. It’s a nuisance for bed partners, but researchers say we shouldn’t be so quick to write off snoring or other forms of disrupted breathing while asleep as mere annoyances; instead, they could be affecting t... mais »
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