Urban Health

View this email in your browser Share Tweet Share More than half of the world’s population lives in cities and that number is growing. Cities are places where human health can either flourish or be destroyed. Keep your city healthy by continually creating and improving its physical and social environment. The solutions are often simple and affordable – reliable public transport, bike paths, car-free zones, safe green spaces for recreation.  WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, urges leaders to commit to healthier cities at WHO's European Healthy Cities Network Summit of Mayors. A healthy city is conscious of health and strives to improve it.  Healthy city checklist Copyright © 2018 World Health Organization, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates at the WHO website (www.who.int). Thanks for helping to make the world a little healthier. Our mailing address is: World Health Organization Avenue Appia 20 Geneva 27 1211 Switzerland Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

English Slang

Open Culture‏ @openculture

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue” http://bit.ly/2q3Wcmu 

7:01 AM - 14 Feb 2018

Congenital Heart Defects

Congenital Heart Defects Linked to Dementia by Neuroscience News

According to researchers, people with congenital heart defects have an increased risk of developing dementia later in life. Researchers report those born with congenital heart disease are 2.6 times more likely to develop dementia symptoms by the age of 65.

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Neuroscience News | February 13, 2018 at 11:15 am | Tags: CHD, congenital heart defect, congential heart disease | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-c9l

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Clues to Aging

Clues to Aging Found in Stem Cells’ Genomes by Neuroscience News

Study could help explain how our cells deteriorate over time.

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Neuroscience News | February 13, 2018 at 11:24 am | Tags: rDNA, ribosomla DNA, stem cell genome | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-c9r

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Repetitive chunks of rDNA genes (black boxes and red rectangles) sprinkled along a chromosome can fold around on themselves, causing rDNA genes to pop out. This loss of genetic material may be related to aging. NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to K. Lu et al./eLife 2018.

Computer and Telephone

1946:

The first general-purpose high-speed electronic digital computer, the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), was demonstrated to the public by its creators, J. Presper Eckert, Jr., and John W. Mauchly. 1876:     Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone.

Authoritarianism

Aeon‏Verified account @aeonmag 8h8 hours ago

Psychoanalysis explains how authoritarians energise the hatred, self-pity and delusion while promising heaven on Earth http://ow.ly/LTw130imGb7 

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Flowers Evolution

Debate Blooms over Anatomy of the World's First Flower

Some researchers say statistical prediction of the ancestral blossom yielded an unlikely structure

• By Heidi Ledford, Nature magazine on February 6, 2018

An ambitious effort to reconstruct the world’s first flower has seeded a debate over what forms a blossom can and cannot take.

The project, called eFLOWER, combined an unparalleled database of plant traits, reams of molecular data on evolutionary relationships, and complex statistical models to determine what the ancestor of all modern flowering plants might have looked like. When its results were published last August, they drew intense interest from academics and the media./.../

Alcohol and agressivity

Brain Scans Show Why People Get Aggressive After a Drink or Two by Neuroscience News According to a new study, the display of aggression following the consumption of alcohol is linked to a dip in activity in the prefrontal cortex. Read more of this post

Sibling Bullying

Sibling Bullying Makes Psychiatric Disorders 3 Times More Likely by Neuroscience News Researchers have discovered a link between sibling bullying and an increased risk of developing a psychiatric disorder during early adulthood. The study reports those who are bullied by siblings are three times more likely to be diagnosed with disorders, such as schizophrenia, by the time they reach adulthood. Those who are bullied at home and at school are four times more likely to develop psychiatric disorders, researchers note. Read more of this post Neuroscience News | February 12, 2018 at 7:29 am | Tags: sibling bullying, University of Warwick | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-c8Y Comment    See all comments

authoritarianism

Timi Olotu

Writer & full-time sceptic—especially when it comes to my own ideas. Views are mine only & have nothing to do with companies for which I’m employed to write.

Feb 11

The first victim of authoritarianism is language

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How have we ended up in a society where defender of the liberal cause, Jordan Peterson, can be widely (mis)characterised as a neo-nazi; transgender activist, Theryn Meyer, can be (mis)characterised as an enemy of transexuals; and Jewish Harvard professor, Steven Pinker, can be (mis)characterised as a supporter of anti-semites? Even the black writer of this article has been accused of being a “white person in virtual blackface” and “not really black”.

The anti-racism racist. The transphobic transgender. The jew-hating jew. The anti-black, fake-black white man.

Life Expectancy Dropped

3 Reasons Life Expectancy in America Has Dropped Dramatically Experts say drugs, alcohol and suicides are contributing to a drop in U.S. life expectancy, especially among middle-aged white Americans

China

Recomendado por amigo de Brasília Vitor Gomes Pinto
Impasse Demográfico Chinês

10 de fevereiro de 2018 Vitor Gomes Ásia, Mundo 0

As comparações entre China (1,4 bilhão de habitantes) e Índia (1,32 bilhão), após quatro décadas de políticas demográficas radicalmente distintas, são inevitáveis. Na faixa da população economicamente ativa – 15 a 60 anos – estima-se que em 2040 a média etária dos indianos será de 35 anos, contra 44 da envelhecida população chinesa. Com a economia em ruínas após a revolução cultural de Mao Tsé Tung, no fim da década de 1970 Deng Xiaoping, o criador do capitalismo de Estado chinês, implantou a política do filho único (vide http://mundoseculoxxi.com.br/2018/02/05/china-um-ou-dois-filhos/0) que já evitou 400 milhões de nascimentos. Como seus efeitos se mantém no longo prazo, estima-se que até 2060 o total, principalmente de mulheres, chegará a 1 bilhão de pessoas não nascidas. Desde 2015 a aposta do governo é de uma nova explosão demográfica graças à atual política de 2 filhos por casal. Na prática, em 2016 houve um aumento de 8% no número de nascimentos acrescentando mais 1,3 milhão à população total, mas mesmo com o aporte previsto de 30 milhões de pessoas nos próximos trinta anos o país permanecerá abaixo da taxa de reposição que é de 2,1 filhos por mulher./.../

Cosmopsychism

Cosmopsychism might seem crazy, but it provides a robust explanatory model for how the Universe became fine-tuned for life. Editors’ pick: https://t.co/hWmksslKMn pic.twitter.com/udox2e4zWi

— Aeon (@aeonmag) February 10, 2018

SCIENCE - 125

The most prestigious journal in physics turns 125 this year. https://t.co/pQsYKoD8Sj

— Science News (@ScienceNews) February 11, 2018