Professora Lia Maria Cechella Achutti
Estivemos em Santa Maria para concluir inventário de nossa irmã - *Professora Lia Maria Cechella Achutti *- que faleceu em 18/09/2019 aos 91 anos. Ela se dedicou à educação artística de crianças e criou a Escolinha de Artes da Universidade de Santa Maria. Em sua memória selecionamos imagens de 1965 de cartinhas que ela enviara para os sobrinhos. Nossa terceira filha só nasceu em 1967.
The Spirit of the Woods: Rebecca Hey
The Spirit of the Woods: Poet and Painter Rebecca Hey’s Gorgeous 19th-Century Illustrations for the World’s First Encyclopedia of TreesFrom the weeping willow to the oak, a watercolor serenade to the science and poetics of our ancient silent companions.BY MARIA POPOVA [image: The Spirit of the Woods: Poet and Painter Rebecca Hey’s Gorgeous 19th-Century Illustrations for the World’s First Encyclopedia of Trees] “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way… As a man is, so he sees,” William Blake wrote in his most beautif... mais »
Talidomida
Conheça a história da talidomida, que afetou a vida de milhares de pessoas e que, 60 anos depois, volta a assombrar as vítimasPessoas que nasceram com malformação devido ao uso do medicamento que foi muito popular em todo o mundo nos anos 1950 e 1960 estão com as pensões indenizatórias ameaçadas 10/01/2020 - 11h54minAtualizada em 10/01/2020 - 11h56min [image: Guilherme Justino] GUILHERME JUSTINO - - - - - - [image: André Ávila / Agencia RBS]Quatro vítimas: Rosvita Ely, Luis Carlos Santos, Maria da Graça Santos e Tina Felice, no ateliê desta última, em P... mais »
Luther L. Terry
Cigarettes in an ashtray. 1964: U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry announced that cigarette smoking is linked to lung cancer
Child Growth Failure
Local Burden of Disease - Child Growth Failure With this dynamic map visualization tool, explore local patterns in child stunting, wasting, and underweight across all low- and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2017. Observe trends at multiple spatial scales and search to view trends in specific countries and local areas. Interact with the data visualization
Insuficiência cardíaca 2019
[image: SBC Webinar 11/01/20 - O que mudou em 2019 na abordagem da IC? Parte 2 (Gratuito)][image: SBC Webinar 11/01/20 - O que mudou em 2019 na abordagem da IC? Parte 2 (Gratuito)]
Sustainable Development Goals
Get the Sustainable Development Goals back on track At the current rate, most of the goals will not be met. Here’s how the 2030 agenda can be put back on the right path. [image: A teacher leads a lesson at Katha Community School in the Govindpuri slum district of Delhi, India] Getting children into primary schools is within reach, but most of the Sustainable Development Goals will not be met by 2030 on current trends.Credit: Chris Jackson/Getty In 2015, world leaders met in New York at a landmark conference of the United Nations. Their aim: to end poverty, stop environmental destructio... mais »
Procardiol
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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
1839: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre of France proclaimed his invention of the daguerreotype, the first commercially successful form of photography . *Meu pai Bortolo Achutti e meu filho Luiz Eduardo, ambos se dedicaram à fotografia.* [image: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, lithograph.] *Louis Daguerre*, in full* Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre*, (born November 18, 1787, Cormeilles, near Paris, France—died July 10, 1851, Bry-sur-Marne), French painter and physicist who invented the first practical process of photography, known as the daguerreotype. Though the first permanent photograph fro... mais »
Simone de Beauvoir
[image: Simone de Beauvoir.] 1908: *Simone de Beauvoir*, French writer and feminist who gave a literary transcription to the themes of existentialism, was born in Paris. Schooled in private institutions, de Beauvoir attended the Sorbonne, where, in 1929, she passed her *agrégation* in philosophy and met Jean-Paul Sartre, beginning a lifelong association with him. She taught at a number of schools (1931–43) before turning to writing for her livelihood. In 1945 she and Sartre founded and began editing *Le Temps modernes,* a monthly review./.../
Listen
An Illustrated Ode to Attentiveness and the Art of Listening as a Wellspring of Self-Understanding, Empathy for Others, and Reverence for the Loveliness of LifeA sweet serenade to our shared belonging.BY MARIA POPOVA [image: An Illustrated Ode to Attentiveness and the Art of Listening as a Wellspring of Self-Understanding, Empathy for Others, and Reverence for the Loveliness of Life] “To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote as she contemplated the art of seeing. To listen takes time, too — to learn to hear and befriend the world within and the worl... mais »
Billionaires...
*Billionaires Beware* *Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury* SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 07 (IPS) - The latest November 2019 UBS/PwC Billionaires Report counted 2,101 billionaires globally, or 589 more than five years before. Earlier, Farhad Manjoo had seriously recommended, ‘Abolish Billionaires', presenting a moral case against the super-rich as they have and get far, far more than what they might reasonably claim to deserve. Manjoo also argues that unless billionaires' economic and political power is cut, and their legitimacy cast in doubt, they will continue to abuse power t... mais »
Cardiologia e Cirurgia CV Pediátrica
[image: Congresso Brasileiro de Cardiologia e Cirurgia Cardiovascular Pediátrica]
AD Vaccine
Testing a MultiTEP-based combination vaccine to reduce Aβ and tau pathology in Tau22/5xFAD bigenic mice - Hayk Davtyan, *Alzheimer's Research & Therapy* volume 11, Article number: 107 (2019) Cite this article - 7680 Accesses - 421 Altmetric - Metricsdetails Abstract Background Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by the accumulation of beta-amyloid (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated tau, which together lead to neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. Current therapeutic approaches have primarily aimed to reduce pathologica... mais »
Human Attention
The Human Attention Span [INFOGRAPHIC] Web Desk Monday, September 10, 2018
pregnancy and birth
*The Body* by Bill Bryson. *Lembrei-me de minha bisavó Maria link Cechella, parteira famosa em Santa Maria, Partejou muita gente importante, alguns respeitáveis médicos quando cresceram (Marsiaij, Beck...). Lembrei da alimentação e cuidados peri-natais e do AMICOR Cesar Gomes Victora* The risks of childbirth: "The business of pregnancy and birth has never been easy. However tedious and painful childbirth is now, it was much worse in the past. Until the modern era, levels of care and expertise were often pretty appalling. Just determining whether a woman was pregnant was a long-standi... mais »
world’s newest country?
[image: How to travel to what could be the world's newest country]The world’s newest country? That could be the South Pacific’s Bougainville island group, whose 25,000 residents voted overwhelmingly last month for independence from Papua New Guinea. The volcanic islands and atolls are about half the size of Fiji. *Lonely Planet* tells you how to get there.
Tomorrow's Medicine
[image: Tomorrow's Medicine] Tomorrow's Medicine One hundred years ago, many common medical treatments were found in the pages of science fiction novels, whereas today, medical journals often sound like science fiction. This eBook looks at the most promising areas where technology could transform health, including cybernetics, regenerative medicine, nanotechnology and genetically tailored treatments. Although many of these advances may not be ready to treat humans for many years, some of them may someday profoundly change—and extend—our lives.
Acessibilidade. Big Data.
Uber. Disparidade urbana
AMICOR - Há 5 dias*UBER* Do AMICOR Roger dos Santos Rosa [image: Anexos]11:39 (há 4 horas) Vejam que artigo interessante produzido a partir de Big Data do Uber sobre as relações de acessibilidade com taxa de residentes não-brancos, quilometragem de linhas de ônibus, densidade populacional, etc. E pesquisa realizada com dados brasileiros, “acessíveis a partir do site da empresa” (!?).
Microbioma
The Next Frontier of Microbiome Transplants May Be the Vagina Don’t try this at home Dana G Smith in Elemental[image: Member only content]5 min read
Toxoplasma x AD
The ‘Crazy Cat Person’ Parasite Could Help Treat Degenerating Brains Infection with Toxoplasma gondii has unexpectedly protective effects in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease. Hannah Thomasy[image: Member only content]5 min read
New Cinese Virus
A Mysterious Virus in Central China Has Infected Dozens, Raising Fears of a New Epidemic. Here’s What to Know
Epiphany
[image: Adoration of the Magi]FEATURED EVENTTodayEpiphany Celebrated annually this day, Epiphany is a major feast that commemorates, for Western Christians, the coming of the Magi and, for Eastern Orthodox Christians, Jesus' birth, baptism by John, and first miracle. READ MORE
Inside the Atom
[image: There's a Giant Mystery Hiding Inside Every Atom in the Universe] There's a Giant Mystery Hiding Inside Every Atom in the Universe Read MoreInside the Atom
Science Conferences??
[image: Albert Einstein speaking at a podium in an auditorium] *OPINION* *Science Conferences Are Stuck in the Dark Ages* *BY ESTHER NGUMBI* Exhausting, expensive, and exclusive, these conferences needs to be modernized. The future of science depends on it.
interconnectedness
Figures of Thought: Krista Tippett Reads Howard Nemerov's Mathematical-Existential Poem About the Interconnectedness of the Universe [image: nemerov_collectedpoems.jpg?fit=320%2C483] “A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars,” Walt Whitman wrote in one of his most beautiful poems in the middle of the nineteenth century, just as humanity was coming awake to the glorious interconnectedness of nature — to the awareness, in the immortal words of the great naturalist John Muir, that “when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in t... mais »
Non-Dualism
The Art of Centering: Potter and Poet M.C. Richards on What She Learned at the Wheel About Non-Dualism, Creative Wholeness, and the Poetry of Personhood [image: centering_richards.jpg?fit=320%2C391] Looking back on the first thirteen years of *Brain Pickings*, I termed my thirteen most important life-learnings “fluid reflections on keeping a solid center.” But how exactly do we locate our center and master its osmotic balance between fluidity and solidity? That is what poet, potter, and manual philosopher *M.C. Richards* (July 13, 1916–September 10, 1999) explores in her 1964 counterc... mais »
Nós
*Lembrei-me que enquanto escoteiro, uma das provas de abilidade era sobre NOS* Color-changing fibers help reveal mysteries of how knots work Experiments with colorful fibers helped scientists discover a few simple rules behind knots’ varying strengths. Read More
anniversaries in 2020
Top 10 science anniversaries in 2020 2020 marks anniversaries of the discovery of electromagnetism and X-rays, plus the first atomic bomb. Read More
Nicotine addiction
TODAY'S TED TALK The past, present and future of nicotine addiction 17:30 minutes · TEDxMidAtlantic Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, killing more people each year than alcohol, AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, murder and suicide combined. Follow health policy expert Mitch Zeller into the murky depths of the tobacco industry as he details the sordid history of nicotine addiction -- and invites us to imagine a world where policy change helps stop people from becoming addicted in the first place. Watch now »
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