by Neuroscience NewsThe researchers found that by keeping KYNA levels low throughout the worm’s life, they could prevent the onset of age-related decline – the worms kept learning. In older worms already impaired, lowering KYNA levels could counteract the impairments – raising hope that interventions later in life may be effective in reversing neurological decline. NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to UCSF. |
Tuesday, February 06, 2018
kynurenic acid (KYNA) and pericytes
Eiffel's Tower
THE EIFFEL TOWER, "A 300 METRE FLAGPOLE" -- 2/06/18
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Today's selection -- from The Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne. During the Belle Epoque Paris, experienced a surge in technological innovation and a revitalization in architecture. The 1889 Exposition Universelle highlighted these achievements, and rising above them all was Eiffel's Tower:
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Death
‘Death: A Graveside Companion’ offers an outlet for your morbid curiosity
New book explores the how humans have tried to understand death through the ages
Death: A Graveside Companion
Joanna Ebenstein (ed.)
Thames & Hudson, $40
Joanna Ebenstein (ed.)
Thames & Hudson, $40
Death: A Graveside Companion makes for an unusual coffee-table book, with its coppery etched Grim Reaper on the cover. Yet you may be surprised by how much fun it is to pore through the book’s lavish artwork of skulls, cadavers and fanciful imaginings of the afterlife.
BEAUTY AND DECAY Vanitas art, which explores the vanity of life and inevitability of death, became popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. Adriaen van Utrecht’s 1642 Vanitas Still Life With Flowers and Skull is shown.
A. VAN UTRECHT, ANDREAGROSSMANN/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Wikipedia
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SCICURIOUS
Wikipedia has become a science reference source even though scientists don't cite it
FEB 05 2018 7:00 AM
Wikipedia is everyone's go-to source. Even scientists. A new study shows how science on Wikipedia may end up forwarding science itself. Read More
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Influenza e Doença Coronária
A AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja está apresentando em Taos, New Mexico, apresentando minha hipótese sobre Influenza e variações na ocorrência de Doença Isquemica do Coração num Keystone Simposia sobre Aterosclerose chamado Lessons Learned and Concepts Challenged..
Quinta vou fazer uma apresentação oral.
A receptividade está sendo legal, especialmente de mais jovens... Ficam surpresos... nunca ouviram nada assim... 
Monday, February 05, 2018
De Platão a Foucault:
De Platão a Foucault: 136 curtas de animação para aprender tudo sobre filosofia, sociologia e polÃtica
A empresa especializada em educação online Macat produziu uma série de animações curtas sobre as principais teorias de grande pensadores da humanidade. Ao todo, são 136 vÃdeos com duração de aproximadamente três minutos cada. Todos eles foram disponibilizados gratuitamente no canal da instituição no Youtube. Os temas abordados são bastante amplos, contemplando desde filosofia clássica, com os pensamentos de Platão e Aristóteles, até a filosofia moderna, de Foucault e Judith Butler.
Polyphenols (DHCA and Mal-gluc
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Researchers have identified two compounds derived from grapes that might help to treat those with major depressive disorder.
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Optimism
Viewing Ourselves, and Others, Through Rose Tinted Glassesby Neuroscience News |
People are more likely to change their beliefs about others when hearing good news, but hardly change their beliefs following bad news, a new study reports.
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Sunday, February 04, 2018
Women Physician Leaders and Pioneers
"If society will not admit of a woman’s free development, then society must be remodeled." - Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
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