From MDPI: " It Runs in the Family: Testing for Longitudinal Family Flynn Effects "
https://www.mdpi.com/2177634:It Runs in the Family: Testing for Longitudinal Family Flynn EffectsThe Flynn effect refers to increases over time in measured (particularly fluid) intelligence of approximately 3 IQ points per decade. We define the Flynn effect at the family level, using longitudinal data and two new family-level cohort definitions. Multilevel growth curve analyses of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 data showed that children in families with later-born mothers had higher average PIAT math scores, and lower average reading comprehension scores and growth, in young and middle childhood. Children i...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - March 7, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
190 Tuesday Quotes to Give You Motivation and Plenty of Positive Energy
It’s Tuesday.
Maybe you’re tired after Monday. And you're ready to restart your week.
Or you might want something to help you to keep up the momentum after an energetic and focused start yesterday.
In today’s post I’d like to help you out no matter what headspace you're in right now. This is 190 of the best, most motivational and powerful Tuesday quotes.
I hope you’ll find something here to help you make this into a fun, fulfilling and excellent week.
And if you want even more uplifting inspiration for the week then check out this post with quotes on Wednesday motivation and this one filled with helpful Thursday...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - March 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Reality Is More Powerful Than God
Let’s explore why investing in a lifelong relationship with Reality directly is a more stable and empowering choice than basing your worldview on a relationship with a god or a religious or spiritual practice.
Reality Is Sensory
Reality doesn’t require belief or faith. It’s readily observable through your physical senses, all day every day.
You may ponder the nature of Reality in a variety of different ways, but its existence is never in doubt. The summation of your subjective perceptions suffices as a crisp enough definition of Reality.
That means this relationship is always stable. As long as you can pe...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - March 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Values Source Type: blogs
A human ’ s a human, no matter how small
Theodore Geisel, known by his pen name Dr. Seuss, wrote hundreds of children’s stories that continue to shape young children’s development to this day. Dr. Seuss was a lifelong Democrat and favored many of FDR’s New Deal policies. However, an NPR article notes his widow mentioned that she did not like it when his characters
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A human’s a human, no matter how small originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Michael McCutchen, MD, MBA Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: The distaff
In Chapter 22, a woman becomes the first (and last) queen of Israel. She accomplishes this by nefarious means and oesn ' t last long, but it prompted me to reflect on female characters in the Tanakh. It ' s a patriarchal society, obviously. Notable female characters are relatively scarce, and fewer still have much agency. Eve ' s only role in the plot is to succumb to the serpent ' s wiles and have three children, one of whom goes off to the land of Nod and finds a wife -- evidently somebody else was having his own creation there. Sarah is just Abraham ' s incestuous wife and half sister, who goes along for the ride. Lot '...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 26, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 27th 2023
This study tested the hypothesis that ischemic vascular repair in aging by Ang-(1-7) involves attenuation of myelopoietic potential in the bone marrow and decreased mobilization of inflammatory cells.
Young or Old male mice of age 3-4 and 22-24 months, respectively, received Ang-(1-7) for four weeks. Myelopoiesis was evaluated in the bone marrow (BM) cells by carrying out the colony forming unit (CFU-GM) assay followed by flow cytometry of monocyte-macrophages. Expression of pro-myelopoietic factors and alarmins in the hematopoietic progenitor-enriched BM cells was evaluated. Hindlimb ischemia (HLI) was induced by ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 26, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
140 Thursday Quotes for Motivation, Gratitude and a Boost of Energy
It’s Thursday.
Sometimes the most important day of the week as you are focused on getting what truly matters done before the weekend.
At other times the day of the week when you’re unmotivated and just wish it was Friday already.
No matter what Thursday you’re having this week I’d like to help by sharing 140 of the best and most inspiring Thursday quotes.
To give you a boost of energy. To help you focus again. And to let you to tap into gratitude, motivation and inspiration as you make one final push before the weekend is here.
And if you want even more uplifting and helpful advice then check out this post with Mo...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - February 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Goodbye and God Bless, Gail Kastorf
I learned today that autism support guru Gail Kastorf, has died. My heart hurts hearing this because Gail was my very first support group leader. Gail was the one who showed me I was not alone. Her pamphlet, from the Autism Support Center in Danvers (1993? 1994?) was the first hands-on information I had every been given about autism. I wrote about Gail in my first book, Making Peace With Autism, Shambhala, 2006):
Reaching Out
My next step was to locate other people like me. I called the local branch of the Department of Mental Retardation, [as Department of Developmental Services was called back then], which ran an ...
Source: Susan's Blog - February 23, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Susan Senator Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Tuned Receives $3.5 Million in Funding to Shape the Future of Hearing Wellness
With a dedicated focus on hearing care, the funding will strengthen Tuned’s ability to bridge the gap between audiologists and the general public as a key employee benefit
Tuned, a digital hearing health company focused on providing hearing care for all, today announced that it raised $3.5 million in funding led by Distributed Ventures with participation from Idealab NY and Elements Health Ventures. The funding will support Tuned’s mission to make comprehensive hearing care as affordable and accessible as possible while enabling the platform to be offered as a key employee benefit from 2023 onward.
“This funding...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Affordable Care Affordable Healthcare Audiology Danny Aronson Digital Health Digital Hearing Health Distributed Ventures Elements Health Ventures FDA Food and Drug Administration Health IT Funding Source Type: blogs
105 Regret Quotes to Help You Let Go and Move on With Your Life
Regret can get you stuck in the past.
In a memory that you keep turning and turning in your head. Without being able to move on.
In today’s post I’d like to share the 105 of the most powerful regret quotes. To help you to let go of that dark and heavy cloud hanging over your head.
I hope these timeless thoughts will help you to create a better today and go forward towards a happier, lighter and more successful tomorrow.
And if you want even more timeless wisdom and motivation then check out this post with quotes on inner peace and this one filled with Wednesday motivation quotes.
Helpful Regret Quotes
“One of the gr...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - February 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
100 Ungrateful Quotes to Help You Deal with Negativity
When you try your hardest and you’re only met with indifference or an ungrateful response then that can knock the wind out of your sails.
And when someone else in your life really steps up and you aren’t appropriately appreciative then that can lead to conflict or to you feeling guilty later on and like you're a bad friend or partner.
So to help you to deal with both sides of this issue I’ve put together 95 of the best ungrateful quotes.
I hope these timeless thoughts and tips will help you live a happier, kinder and more appreciative life where you count your blessings and let the negativity of others roll off...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - February 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 13th 2023
This study investigated whether taller Polish adults live longer than their shorter counterparts. Data on declared height were available from 848,860 individuals who died in the years 2004-2008 in Poland. To allow for the cohort effect, the Z-values were generated. Separately for both sexes, Pearson's r coefficients of correlation were calculated. Subsequently, one way ANOVA was performed.
The correlation between adult height and longevity was negative and statistically significant in both men and women. After eliminating the effects of secular trends in height, the correlation was very weak (r = -0.0044 in men and ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Sharing " Rethinking Executive Functions in Mathematical Cognition " via BrowZine
Rethinking Executive Functions in Mathematical CognitionMedrano, Josh; Prather, Richard W.Journal of Cognition and Development: Articles In Press, 2023.10.1080/15248372.2023.2172414New perspectives on executive functions propose a greater involve- ment of context. These perspectives have implications for research in mathematical cognition. We tackle the problem that although indivi- duals clearly exercise inhibitory control in mathematical contexts, researchers find that the relations between inhibitory control and mathematics are sometimes"weaker than expected." In this review, we identify how children and adult...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - February 9, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Career Conversations: Q & A with Evolutionary Biologist William Ratcliff
Dr. William Ratcliff. Credit: Courtesy of Dr. William Ratcliff.
“Being a researcher is special because there aren’t many jobs that allow you to spend the majority of your time thinking about the things you find the most interesting in the whole world,” says William Ratcliff, Ph.D., an associate professor of biological sciences and the director of the interdisciplinary graduate program in quantitative biosciences at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta. We talked with Dr. Ratcliff about his career path, research on yeast, and advice to budding scientists.
Q: How did you first become intereste...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Tools and Techniques Cool Tools/Techniques Evolutionary Biology Profiles Source Type: blogs
Aging as a Disease: a Zoo Contains Animals, But is Not Itself an Animal
The author of today's open access commentary is quite prolifically opinionated on the topic of mTOR and its status as a central pillar of programmed aging, particularly the hyperfunction version of programmed aging theories. Nonetheless, he sometimes has interesting things to say, as is the case here on the topic of whether aging is a disease. A great deal of ink has been spilled of late on the question of whether or not aging is a disease. This is the case not because everyone suddenly developed an interest in semantics, but rather because it directly affects the regulation of medical development, and thus the flow of fun...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 6, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
