Sunday, September 25, 2022

3.104 - AMICOR (25)

 3.104 AMICOR (25) 

Acho que foi em Kopenhagen em 1985

#Slide show AMICOR com fotos da Dra. Valderês (*13/06/1931+15/06/2021) 
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#NY Times

Researchers found that meaty conversations among several people can align beliefs and brain patterns — so long as the group is free of blowhards.


#National Geographic - Silphion
Our special report offers a rare look at life beneath the frozen continent—where penguins, seals, and exotic creatures thrive.
#Medscape

Descoberta a explicação biológica para todos nós termos um sósia
Andrea Jiménez 
Como acaba de demonstrar biologicamente o Instituto de Investigación contra la Leucemia Josep Carreras (IJC), todos temos um sósia no mundo. Uma fascinante afirmação concluída graças à equipe do centro catalão que descobriu que as pessoas extremamente parecidas, porém sem relação de parentesco, compartilham características genéticas nos genes responsáveis pela formação dos traços faciais./.../

#CHCSC

#HMV
✅ Histórias que Movem o Futuro - Trailer
Neste final de semana vamos lançar a campanha que celebra os nossos 95 anos, por meio da história de nossas pessoas. Acompanhem e participem!!!

Covering a range of angles of pandemics of tha past to help frame the COVID-19 crisis.


Enter an Archive of 7,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online

Josh Jones · Open Culture

We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children’s literature.

#You Tube
Four videos combined in a single video to make it easy to understand protein synthesis in a living cell. It is indeed a very complex process. Only reading texts often isn't enough for better understanding of the topic. #ProteinBiosynthesis #ProteinSynthesis video 1. https://youtu.be/gG7uCskUOrA 0:00 video 2. https://youtu.be/G8RYhV569xg 2:55 video 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BwWa... 8:42 video 4. https://youtu.be/TfYf_rPWUdY 16:02 #ProteinSynthesis #Animation
Ficamos tão maravilhados com as novas conquistas na exploração do Universo Macrocosmo e nos distraimos de olhar para nosso Universo Microcosmico...


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QUANTUM GRAVITY | ALL TOPICS

 

Physicists Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe

By CHARLIE WOOD

The past and the future are tightly linked in conventional quantum mechanics. Perhaps too tightly. A tweak to the theory could let quantum possibilities increase as space expands.

Read the article

QUANTIZED ACADEMY

 

How Big Is Infinity?

By PATRICK HONNER

Of all the endless questions children and mathematicians have asked about infinity, one of the most fascinating has to do with its size.

Read the column


Related: 
How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof
Moves Math Closer to an Answer.

By Natalie Wolchover (2021)

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY

 

Biologists Use Genetic Circuits to Program Plant Roots

By JOANNA THOMPSON

Synthetic biologists controlled the growth of plant roots for the first time.

Read the blog


Related: 
Simple Gene Circuits Hint at How
Stem Cells Find New Identities

By Veronique Greenwood

QUANTIZED COLUMNS

 

What We Know About Monkeypox

By TARA C. SMITH

Even though we’ve learned a lot about this relative of smallpox, some mysteries remain due to a lack of political will.

Read the column


Related: 
The Animal Origins
of Coronavirus and Flu

By Tara C. Smith

QUANTA SCIENCE PODCAST

 

Researchers Achieve ‘Absurdly Fast’ Algorithm for Network Flow

Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT;
Story by ERICA KLARREICH

Computer scientists can now solve a decades-old problem in practically the time it takes to write it down.


Listen to the podcast

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INSIGHTS PUZZLE

 

How Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura Overcame Astronomical Odds

By PRADEEP MUTALIK

Readers rescued a Star Trek crew from a probabilistic predicament armed only with the power of mathematical reasoning.

Read the puzzle solution

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Blob Hunting
A hot blob of gas is orbiting our galaxy’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, at nearly one third the speed of light, reports Harry Baker for Live Science. Since the first photo of SagA* was released early this year, the picture has provided new insights into how galaxies form. But it has also unveiled new puzzles. Thomas Lewton wrote about these for Quanta in August.
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VOICE OVER What is consciousness? And how can we better understand  



Saturday, September 17, 2022

3.103 AMICOR (25)

 AMICOR (25) 3.103 em construção

Da mesma viagem lembrada na semana passada...



#St. Thomas' Hospital UK
REF: HR/MED-004/06923
St. Thomas' Hospital UK is a large NHS teaching hospital in Central London, England. Following the COVID-19 outbreak, expansion and development in our hospital, we are currently recruiting and employing the services of Medical Professionals, if you are interested, let us know so we send you the areas of vacancies.
Agnes Cardella
Medical Recruitment Assistant
St. Thomas' Hospital Guy's & St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust London, United Kingdom

#LiveScience

In a 1st, scientists use designer immune cells to send an autoimmune disease into remission
(NANOCLUSTERING/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images)
Five patients with hard-to-treat lupus entered remission after scientists tweaked their immune cells using a technique normally used to treat cancer. After the one-time therapy, all five patients with the autoimmune disease stopped their standard treatments and haven't had a relapse.

This treatment, known as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, needs to be tested in larger groups of lupus patients before it can be approved for widespread use. But if the results hold up in larger trials, the therapy could someday offer relief to people with moderate to severe lupus.

 Full Story: Live Science (9/17) 

#Quanta Magazine


#Nature
“Republicans and Democrats overestimate the extent to which the other side dehumanizes them by 50–300%, and debunking these misperceptions can reduce rates of animosity.”

Correcting misconceptions about how we are seen by the ‘other side’ is one intervention that can successfully reduce extreme political sectarianism, write 12 psychologists and political scientists. (Nature Human Behaviour paper | 46 min read)

#WHO

#Obituário Dr. Marcelo Blaya Perez

#Museu de Arte POA com Luiz Eduardo Robinson Achutti



#Pathocenose - Mirko Gremerk
Pedro Martin Achutti Olivé trouxe-me hoje este novo conceito que foi apresentado na década de 70. Seria uma visão ecológica da interação entre seres vivos, e uma das explicações para as doenças e suas flutuações epidemiológicas. Seria uma visão especial da Biocenose. De interesse maior na conjuntura Pandêmica atual.

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CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS | ALL TOPICS

 

High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last

By CHARLIE WOOD

A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity seen in cuprate crystals, confirming a 35-year-old theory.

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MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

 

Studies Hint at How Fireflies Flash in Sync

By JOSHUA SOKOL

Field research suggests a new answer for how the insects glow in sync and confirms a type of synchrony rarely seen in nature.

Read the article

Related: 
Scientists Discover Exotic
New Patterns of Synchronization

by Natalie Wolchover (2019)

GEOMETRY

 

The New Math
of Wrinkling

By STEPHEN ORNES

A comprehensive mathematical framework treats wrinkling patterns as elegant solutions to geometric problems.

Read the article


Related: 
A Grand Theory of Wrinkles

by Sarah Lewin (2015)

INFORMATION THEORY

 

How Curves Power Cryptography

By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ

A simple geometric idea has been used to power advances in information theory, cryptography and even blockchain technology.

Read the article

Related: 
Old Problem About Mathematical
Curves Falls to Young Couple

by Jordana Cepelewicz

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

 

One Man's Mission to Unveil Math's Beauty

Video by EMILY BUDER

"Students haven't been taught that math is discovery," says Richard Rusczyk, founder of Art of Problem Solving. "Math is a creative discipline—you're creating castles in the sky." Rusczyk has a vision for bringing “joyous, beautiful math” — and problem-solving — to classrooms everywhere.

Watch the video

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Past Quanta Coverage of 2023 Breakthrough Prize Winners
The 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to four pioneers of quantum information science: Charles Bennett, Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch and Peter Shor. Dan Garisto reports on the awards for Scientific American.
• Among his many contributions to physics, Charles Bennett solved the longstanding paradox of Maxwell’s demon, as Jonathan O’Callaghan explained for Quanta in 2021. Bennett’s insights linked the studies of information and thermodynamics as disciplines.
• David Deutsch contributed immensely to our understanding of quantum mechanics and the universe. In May, Philip Ball wrote for Quanta about his most recent accomplishment: Deutsch rewrote the laws of physics in terms of simple statements about what is possible.
• Peter Shor’s discoveries revolutionized quantum computing. In consecutive years, he devised his famous encryption-breaking algorithm and figured out how quantum computers will correct their errors. In 2021 Katie McCormick explained how Shor’s error-correction scheme work.

The 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics was awarded to the computer scientist Daniel Spielman for multiple discoveries in theoretical computer science and mathematics. Spielman spoke with Quanta about his work this past summer.

Three 2023 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences were also announced yesterday, honoring three pairs of scientists for their work: Clifford P. Brangwynne and Anthony A. Hyman, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, and Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa. Amanda Heidt reports on the awards for The Scientist.
• Brangwynne and Hyman were recognized for their studies that showed the importance of liquid-liquid phase separation as a means for organizing cellular contents without membrane barriers. Viviane Callier wrote for Quanta about their work in 2021.
• Yanagisawa and Mignot were recognized for their discovery of the genetic switches that cause the brain to sleep, and which malfunction in narcolepsy. Veronique Greenwood wrote about their work for Quanta in 2017.
• Hassabis and Jumper were honored for developing the program AlphaFold, which revolutionized the prediction of protein structures. Stephen Ornes wrote about the transformer neural networks that are an important component of AlphaFold in March.
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Child mortality: an everyday tragedy of enormous scale that we can make progress against

Child mortality is an everyday tragedy of enormous scale that rarely makes the headlines. We live in a world in which 5.4 million children die every year. That’s 10 dead children every minute.

But progress against child mortality is possible. In this article from July 2021, we describe how child mortality has decreased across all countries in the world — but there is large inequality between rich and poor countries, and much progress still to make.