Walt Whitman
Every Atom Belonging to Me as Good Belongs to You: Whitman’s Immortal Words, Illustrated in Stunning Cyanotype [image: whitman_galaxy.jpg?fit=320%2C320] “Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” Walt Whitman wrote in one of his profoundest verses, in a golden age of science and social change, yet an era at least as divisive as ours. The sentiment became a focal point for *Figuring* and inspiration for *The Astronomy of Walt Whitman* — the special pop-up edition of *The Universe in Verse*, taking place on Governors Island on October 26, 2019. In the generous spirit of the sh... mais »
Dia do Médico
*18 de outubro: Dia do Médico* *Na lembrança do Mário Antônio agradeço a todos os pacientes, motivo, razão e recompensa de nossa atividade profissional durante tantos anos.*
Universe
Levity Theory Dark Energy Hypotheses Jos The Mysterious Source of Extragalactic Cosmic Rays The particles that shouldn’t exist Ella Alderson[image: Member only content]6 min read In case you missed it How The Planck Satellite Forever Changed Our View Of The Universe Humanity’s greatest-ever view of the Big Bang’s leftover glow has just released their final analysis. Here’s… Ethan Siegel in Starts With A Bang!7 min read Hubble Finds Black Hole that Shouldn’t Exist The Hubble Space Telescope just found a black hole that doesn’t follow the rules. The Cosmic Companion in The Cosmic Companio... mais »
Brain and Lifespan
The More Active Your Brain, the Shorter Your Lifespan May Be, a New Study Says Y JAMIE DUCHARME OCTOBER 16, 2019 There are many factors that influence how long somebody lives. Some, like their genes, are out of their control. Others, like their lifestyle and environment, are a bit easier to alter. A new paper published in *Nature *finds another factor that falls somewhere in between those extremes. It suggests that excessive neural activity in the brain is linked to a shorter lifespan, and that suppressing that extra activity could prolong it. The finding is preliminary, and will re... mais »
'The New Polio'
*Acute Flacid Myelitis* BY JEFFREY KLUGER OCTOBER 9, 2019 Carter Roberts’ motorized wheelchair didn’t arrive until the day he died. It had been a long time coming and his parents had fought hard to get it. The chair cost more than $32,000 and the insurance companies wouldn’t cover it, so the family went to court. One insurer eventually agreed to pay for some components of the chair but not the whole thing. And then none of it mattered anyway. On Sept. 22, 2018, the Roberts’ doorbell rang and the chair was delivered. Also on Sept. 22, 2018, Carter died, just three months shy of his s... mais »
Blob
Organismo apelidado Blob apresenta características surpreendentesPor Liliane Jochelavicius, em 18.10.2019 O Jardim Zoológico de Paris colocou em exibição um organismo amarelo apelidado de Blob, que parece com um fungo, mas age como animal. Seu nome científico é Physarum polycephalum, que quer dizer bolor de várias cabeças. O organismo não tem cérebro, nem boca, mas detecta alimento e faz digestão, consegue se locomover e se curar quando cortado. Blob tem quase 720 sexos e é classificado no Reino Protista. Esse nome foi escolhido devido ao filme de 1958 “The Blob”, no qual um ser ali... mais »
Hospital Moinhos de Vento - Galeria
[image: Galeria da Excelência Médica 2019]
Photographie
La photographie et la préservation des monuments Publié le : 4 Octobre 2019 La photographie joue un rôle essentiel vis à vis du patrimoine architectural, en apportant un témoignage visuel de son état, de ses évolutions et transformations, plus particulièrement à l'heure où se pose la question de la reconstruction ou de la restauration. Mémoire d'une importante primordiale du patrimoine architectural, la photographie laisse aussi entrevoir l'esprit immuable et intemporel des édifices. En voici la preuve en images... A la suite de la démolition de la Bastille, l'idée de conserver la mém... mais »
Heat Equation
The Heat Equation, explained Your first PDE. Bonus: Fourier series. Panda the Red in Cantor’s Paradise[image: Member only content]9 min read
Bees, the Most Important Beings
Bees Are Now Officially Declared To Be The Most Important Beings On Earth Insects send a chill down a lot of people’s spines. Hence, it’s quite fitting for Internauts to refer to spiders as “nopes” and centipedes as “nope rope nopes”—when you see one, you are certain to say “nope”! However, all is not lost as Mother Nature has given us some adorable insects like butterflies, ladybugs, and, of course, bees. Yes, you do get the occasional bee sting every once in a while, but they outweigh your discomfort of its self-defense by being a vital component in the planet’s ecosystem. Open fu... mais »
cefiderocol
Cefiderocol in Urinary Tract InfectionsBut boxed warning needed, along with more data on uses for other hard-to-treat infections - - by Molly Walker, Associate Editor, MedPage TodayOctober 16, 2019 SILVER SPRING, Md. -- An FDA advisory panel voted 14-2 to recommend approval for cefiderocol, a novel antibiotic for complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI), including pyelonephritis, in patients with limited or no other treatment options. While members of the FDA's Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee were mostly impressed by the data submitted for the drug, they raised con... mais »
Angiotensin drugs linked to suicide
Certain Heart Meds Linked to SuicideResearchers suggest 'preferential use' of ACE inhibitors - share to facebook - share to twitter - share to linkedin - - email article - by Nicole Lou, Contributing Writer, MedPage TodayOctober 16, 2019 Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) were associated with a higher risk of death by suicide compared with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, according to a Canadian population-based study of seniors. The excess risk (adjusted OR 1.63, 95% CI 1.33-2.00) persisted even after a sensitivity analysis excluding peo... mais »
Anarchism and Health
*Anarchism and Health* Scott, Niall William richard Available at http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/22158/ Scott, Niall William richard [image: UCLan Logo]ORCID: 0000000151204132 (2018) Anarchism and Health. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 27 (02). pp. 217227. ISSN 09631801 It is advisable to refer to the publisher’s version if you intend to cite from the work. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963180117000561 For more information about UCLan’s research in this area go to http://www.uclan.ac.uk/researchgroups/ and search for
Nobels
Boosting inclusivity in the Nobels *Nature *contacted three of the world’s largest international scientific networks that include academies of science in developing countries and asked if they had been invited to nominate people for the Nobel prizes. All three said no. The finding hints at one reason why the Nobels in chemistry, medicine and physics continually fail to acknowledge the achievements of diverse scientists, argues a *Nature *editorial. It’s time to open up the prize’s nomination process and its archives to get to the bottom of what’s going on. Nature | 4 min read
Pandemics
How pandemics shaped society In his new book, historian Frank Snowden argues that infectious diseases have shaped social evolution no less powerfully than have wars, revolutions and economic crises. Reviewer Laura Spinney notes that we still seem to be repeating many of the mistakes that triggered or exacerbated epidemics in the past. Nature | 5 min read
Cell competition
[image: Cartoon illustration of cells eliminating a rival] (Illustration by Acapulco Studio) The secret battles between your cells Cells use a variety of ways to eliminate their rivals, from kicking them out of a tissue to inducing cell suicide or even engulfing them and cannibalizing their components. It’s called cell competition, and it works a bit like natural selection, in that fitter cells win out over their less-fit neighbours. Biologists are looking for ways to fight cancer and ageing by reining in the process or helping it along. Nature | 11 min read
Dementia and Anticholinergics
Anticholinergic Drug Exposure and the Risk of DementiaA Nested Case-Control Study Carol A. C. Coupland, PhD1; Trevor Hill, MSc1; Tom Dening, MD2; et al Richard Morriss, MD2; Michael Moore, MSc3; Julia Hippisley-Cox, MD1,4 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA Intern Med. 2019;179(8):1084-1093. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.0677 editorial comment icon Editorial Comment - *Conclusions and Relevance* Exposure to several types of strong anticholinergic drugs is associated with an increased risk of dementia. These findings highlight the importance of reducing exposure to anti... mais »
Academias SP e RS
*XXIV Congresso de História da Medicina e **I** Encontro das Academias de Medicina de São Paulo e do Rio Grande do Sul* *Local: Associação Paulista de Medicina – APM* *Avenida Brigadeiro Luís Antonio, 278 – São Paulo/SP* *Mais informações: www.apm.org.br/congressohistoriamedicina* *Flávia Negrão*Cultural Coordenadora Cultural Fone: (11) 3188-4305 *www.apm.org.br*
Turma médica 1960
Turma Médica completando 60 anos de formados no próximo ano. Foto gentilmente enviada pelo *Dr. Valério Garcia*, colega da *Dra Valderês Robinson*, na época minha noiva. Guria com o mais belo sorriso na extrema direita com uma pasta na mão. Alunos da cadeira de Patologia Geral do *Professor Walter Castilhos* que, se não me engano se aposentava naquele ano, 1956.
Dancing Brain
Dancing can reverse the signs of aging in the brain *Nossa filha Lúcia Helena recomendou o artigo* by Frontiers [image: brain]Credit: CC0 Public Domain As we grow older we suffer a decline in mental and physical fitness, which can be made worse by conditions like Alzheimer's disease. A new study, published in the open-access journal *Frontiers in Human Neuroscience*, shows that older people who routinely partake in physical exercise can reverse the signs of aging in the brain, and dancing has the most profound effect.
The First Cell
[image: The First Cell] The First Cell And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last by Azra Raza *A world-class oncologist’s devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer* We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet —... Read More Genre: On Sale: October 15th 2019 Price: $28 / $35 (CAD) Page Count: 368 ISBN-13: 9781541699526
Cuban insurgency
Today's selection -- from *President McKinley* by Robert W. Merry. In both 1868 and 1895, many decades before Fidel Castro, rebels in Cuba rose up against its government: "Cuba was threatened by an insurgency that began in February 1895 with the aim of ripping this 'ever faithful isle,' as it was called in Madrid, from Spanish dominion and giving it sovereign independence. Spain almost lost the island during an earlier rebellion, from 1868 to 1878, that claimed almost 260,000 lives on both sides. But eventually a new government in Madrid, product of a Spanish revolution that replace... mais »
Slow walking
Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing' By Philippa RoxbyHealth reporter, BBC News - 12 October 2019 [image: Commuters walking quickly]Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionSlow walkers have 'older' brains and bodies, the study found How fast people walk in their 40s is a sign of how much their brains, as well as their bodies, are ageing, scientists have suggested. Using a simple test of gait speed, researchers were able to measure the ageing process. Not only were slower walkers' bodies ageing more quickly - their faces looked older and they had smaller brains. The inter... mais »
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENTIST WRITTEN BY: - The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica LAST UPDATED: Oct 10, 2019 See Article History *Hannah Arendt*, (born October 14, 1906, Hannover, Germany—died December 4, 1975, New York, New York, U.S.), German-born American political scientist and philosopher known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her study of totalitarianism. Arendt grew up in Hannover, Germany, and in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Beginning in 1924 she studied philosophy at the University of Marburg, the Albert Ludwig Universit... mais »
Human Brain
8 Science Documentaries That Explain the Human Brain A bedridden doctor turns the camera on herself, a long-running medical column hits the small screen, and a neuroscientist explores the human stories behind creativity. [image: Elysium Health] Elysium Health Following Oct 12 · 5 min read Photography by Chloe Cushman
Quantum Uncertainty
The Bizarre Nature Of Quantum Uncertainty! In 1952, Erwin Schrödinger gave a lecture in which he jocularly warned his audience that what he was about to… Gautam Nag[image: Member only content]6 min read
Meat Guidelines
Meat Guidelines Are Exposing the Fault Lines in Nutrition AdviceThe Skeptical Cardiologist has one important reminder - share to facebook - share to twitter - share to linkedin - - email article - by Anthony Pearson, MDOctober 07, 2019 The Skeptical Cardiologist was recently greeted by headlines announcing that an international panel of 14 unbiased researchers had concluded that it was OK for humans to continue eating red meat and processed meat at current levels. The startling news was a reversal of what the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the American Heart A... mais »
Goethe’s Aphorisms
The Best of Goethe’s Aphorisms READING TIME: 4 MINUTES Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s (1749–1832) *Maxims and Reflections* is a terrific source of philosophical wisdom. The German writer, statesman, lawyer, playwright, and polymath was brilliant at distilling complex questions and concepts into simple, reflective statements. His wisdom was derived from a life spent learning, thinking, and transmitting knowledge across a wide variety of fields. He crafted volumes of poetry, dramas, and thought pieces on botany, human anatomy, and even the science of color. From his 590 aphorisms, here a... mais »
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