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#Dra. Valderês A. R. Achutti (*13/06/1931+15/06/2021)

Visitando a Pequena Sereia em Kopenhagen...

Dia 15 fez três meses que ela partiu, mas deixou semente...

#Da: Academia Sul-Riograndense de Medicina

reunião Cultural de amanhã, 14 de setembro, às 18h. (link de acesso abaixo).

O palestrante da Sessão será o Jornalista Ricardo Chaves, fotógrafo, cujo mini-currículo foi citado no card enviado na última sexta-feira.

Miriam Oliveira

Diretora Cultural da ASRM

Gestão Luiz Lavinsky (2021-2022)

 Aplicativo ZOOM

ID Sessão Cultural: 856 3939 7843

Link de acesso: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85639397843

#de: Sociedade, Cultura e Poder (Porto, Portugal)

#Da: BBC
Fita de Möbius

August Ferdinand Möebius (+26/09/1868)

#From: NSF
Launch of SpectrumX, an  Spectrum Innovation Center

#From: NEJM

PERSPECTIVE ROUNDTABLE

Race in Medicine  — Genetic Variation, Social Categories, and Paths to Health Equity Watch the new Perspective Roundtable on Race in Medicine, in which experts from diverse clinical and biomedical fields discuss complex questions about race in medicine and how to build a system of equitable health for all. View the video, listen to the audio, or read the transcript. Read more articles from the Race and Medicine collection. #From:JAMA Emoji for the Medical Community—Challenges and Opportunities Debbie Lai, BA1; Jennifer 8. Lee, BA2; Shuhan He, MD3,4,5 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. 2021;326(9):795-796. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.8409 In 2010 emoji were officially introduced to the global lexicon as part of Unicode, the computing standards adhered to by most of the world's word processing systems. Today an emoji occupies the same status in Unicode as the Latin letter A, or Chinese character 愛, or Arabic غ, and an estimated 5 billion are used every day on Facebook and in Facebook Messenger alone.1 Emoji set curation is overseen by Unicode Consortium, a Silicon Valley–based nonprofit tasked with maintaining text standards across computers, whose members include representatives from Microsoft, Apple, and Google, among others. Anyone can propose new emoji, but each submission is reviewed via a formal and lengthy consortium process. As of 2020 there were 3521 emoji in the Unicode Standard, roughly 30 of which could be considered relevant to medicine, excluding generic body part images (eg, ear 👂, hand 🖐, leg 🦵, and foot 🦶). The current set of medical emoji is the result of ongoing, if erratic, efforts over the last 5 years. The first, introduced in 2015, were syringe 💉 and pill 💊. In 2016, efforts to expand the representation of professions brought male health worker 👨 and female health worker 👩. In 2017 Apple added emoji to better represent individuals with disabilities, collaborating with the American Council of the Blind, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, and the National Association of the Deaf to introduce the white cane 🦯, mechanical arm 🦾, mechanical leg 🦿, and hearing aid 🦻 emoji, among others. Stethoscope 🩺, blood drop 🩸, bone 🦴, tooth 🦷, and microbe 🦠 (often used to represent viruses) followed in 2019. In 2020, 2 of the authors (D. L. and S. H.) worked with a member of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to win Unicode approval of the anatomical heart and anatomical lung (Figure 1). #Da:ASRM     ACADEMIA SUL-RIO-GRANDENSE DE MEDICINA      É com grande pesar que comunicamos o falecimento de nosso Membro Honorário Werner Paul Ott. Filho de August Paul Ott e Emma Matilde Ott, nasceu em 1934 em Stuttgart (Alemanha), e foi naturalizado brasileiro em 1964. Formou-se em Medicina pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) em 1966, fez mestrado em Pneumologia e se especializou em Saúde Pública. Co-fundador e ex-presidente da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia e Membro Titular da Federação Brasileira das Sociedades de Tuberculose e Doenças Respiratórias e da União Internacional contra a Tuberculose, de 1969 a 1978, tendo dedicado sua vida profissional no controle da tuberculose a nível local (Santa Casa, Secretaria da Saúde e Hospital de Clínicas) e internacional (OMS). Sua perda deixa a Academia enlutada, mas com a forte lembrança de uma pessoa e um Médico amável e incansável de seu objetivo de erradicação da tuberculose. Seu velamento está ocorrendo na Capela 2 do Memorial Angelus, na Av. Porto Alegre, 320, até as 14h30min. de hoje.  #From: MEDIUM 23 Great books to Read Rafael Rodriguez Egui Although 2020 was a year that took many precious things like our freedom and emotional stability, it gave us many other invaluable things. The one I believe has caused the biggest impact on us is that this pandemia has allowed us to get to know ourselves better. We have learned to fill the void that used to be satisfied by the social distractions that consumed our weekends. For me, reading was the hobby that gave me multiple benefits during the quarantine. It kept me motivated, helped me reduce the stress caused by being unable to go out of my apartment, and allowed me to sleep better by putting my mind and body at ease before getting into bed. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss

#From: The LANCET
Brain health and its social determinants
Published:September 18, 2021DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02085-7
Opinions about the relative importance of the biological and sociological causes of mental ill health have moved wildly from one extreme to another over the past 50 years. So, when Vivian Pender, the newly elected President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), pronounced in July that “we need to be more aware of the broader context in which that illness occurred and how that context has shaped the health outcome”, cynics could be forgiven for thinking it just another swing of the pendulum. However, perhaps this time Pender—and many others, for she is not alone—has got it right./.../

From QUANTA Magazine

CELL BIOLOGY | ALL TOPICS   Biologists Rethink the Logic Behind Cells’ Molecular Signals By PHILIP BALL The molecular signaling systems of complex cells are nothing like simple electronic circuits. The logic governing their operation is riotously complex — but it has advantages. Read the article

GEOPHYSICS   A Massive Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s Surface By ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS Deep in the mantle, a branching plume of intensely hot material appears to be the engine powering vast volcanic activity. Read the article Related:  Continents of the Underworld Come Into Focus by Joshua Sokol (2020) QUANTIZED COLUMNS   The Journey to Define Dimension By DAVID S. RICHESON The concept of dimension seems simple enough, but mathematicians have struggled for centuries to precisely define and understand it. Read the column Related:  3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems by Kevin Hartnett (2017) NUMBER THEORY   How Ancient War Trickery Is Alive in Math Today By LAKSHMI CHANDRASEKARAN Legend says the Chinese military once used a mathematical ruse to conceal its troop numbers. The technique relates to many deep areas of modern math research. Read the blog Related:  Smaller Is Better: Why Finite Number Systems Pack More Punch by Kevin Hartnett (2019) QUANTA SCIENCE PODCAST   DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth. Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT; Story by JORDANA CEPELEWICZ The DNA of some viruses doesn’t use the same four bases found in all other life. New work shows how this exception is possible and hints that it could be more common than we think. Listen to the podcast Read the article Around the Web Starlight Takes a Detour Astronomers were treated to three views of the same supernova because of massive sources of gravity that sent the starlight on detours. The next replay, which may come in 2037, could help cosmologists nail down the universe’s controversial expansion rate, Ken Croswell reports for Science News. Diverted light has become a major tool for studying the universe in recent years. Distortions of distant galaxies caused by dark matter have hinted at weaknesses in the leading theory of cosmology, Charlie Wood reported for Quanta last year.  Rebuilding Math With Infinity Categories “Infinity categories” is a dizzying and novel new branch of mathematics. Emily Riehl, one of the mathematicians leading the development of this young field, has written an introduction to it for Scientific American. Infinity category theory takes on the ambitious task of rebuilding math from the ground up. As Kevin Hartnett reported for Quanta in 2019, it may encourage mathematicians to abandon the equals sign for the squishier but more comprehensive concept of “equivalence.”  The Long Trek Toward Humanity Where did we humans come from? Our evolution hasn’t been a steady march from tree dwellers to tool users, Erin Wayman writes for Science News. Rather, we are the last twig of a surprisingly bushy hominin tree. Powerful new genetics tools have played a major role in revealing our ancestors’ migrations out of Africa and the interactions they had with our hominin cousins along the way, Jordana Cepelewicz reported for Quanta in 2019.

#FROM THE TIME VAULT

Today in 1996: Bill Gates Aims at the Internet “For two years the rapidly expanding global computer matrix called the Internet had nagged at Gates like a low-level headache. Even as his company shipped Windows 95 last fall—an 11-million-line program that solidified Microsoft's PC hegemony—Gates worried about what lay ahead. Microsoft had long dominated the world of personal computing by providing the software that controlled the way users interacted with their machines—a program called an operating system. Microsoft's operating systems, first DOS in 1980 and then Windows 10 years later, had given the company intimidating control over PC software. And lush profits, enough to vault Gates to the top of the list of the richest Americans. But the Internet could undo all that.” (Sept. 16, 1996) READ MORE »

#From: CME Institute

#From: TED

When your beliefs are being challenged What do you do when your beliefs and understanding of the world have been challenged, unraveled or even destroyed? Take a deep breath and learn from TED's best on how to approach these moments with grace and fortitude. Watch »»