Being queer in the jungle: The unique challenges of LGBTQ scientists working in the field
The Stonewall Riots occurred on June 28, 1969. It was this summer evening that sparked the Gay Rights Movement. Now, forty-eight years later, the world celebrates Pride Month every June to celebrate, honor, support, and fight for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community.
The queer community is resilient. No matter what obstacles they encounter, their battle to live, pursue their passions, and contribute to society endures. For many queer people that passion is science. Queer scientists such as Alan Turing who was crucial in ending World War II, and Sara Josephine Baker who made unprecedented br...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - June 28, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ben Ragen Tags: Uncategorized field research LGBTQ Source Type: blogs
Some things you might not know about corn
Corn (also known as maize) is among the oldest of cultivated grains, dating back 10,000 years to pre-Mayan times in South America. But corn didn’t make it onto European menus until 1493 when Christopher Columbus brought seeds to Spain. Corn was rapidly embraced, largely replacing barley and millet due to its spectacular yield per acre.
Widespread, habitual consumption of cornbread and polenta resulted in deficiencies of niacin (vitamin B3) and the amino acids lysine and tryptophan, causing epidemics of pellagra, evidenced as what physicians of the age called “The Four Ds”: dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, and death. E...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 14, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Corn Cornstarch Dr. Davis High-Fructose Weight loss Wheat Belly Lifestyle Wheat-Free Lifestyle gluten-free grain Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Some things you might not know about corn.
Corn (also known as maize) is among the oldest of cultivated grains, dating back 10,000 years to pre-Mayan times in South America, but corn didn’t make it onto European menus until 1493, when Christopher Columbus brought seeds to Spain. Corn was rapidly embraced, largely replacing barley and millet due to its spectacular yield per acre.
Widespread, habitual consumption of cornbread and polenta resulted in deficiencies of niacin (vitamin B3) and the amino acids lysine and tryptophan, causing widespread epidemics of pellagra, evidenced as what physicians of the age called “The Four Ds”: dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 14, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Corn Cornstarch Dr. Davis High-Fructose Weight loss Wheat Belly Lifestyle Wheat-Free Lifestyle gluten-free grain Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Hypocrisy on Election Interference
In his press conference last month, President Barack Obama sternlyvoiced concern about “potential foreign influence in our election process.”The goal may be a valid one, but it cloaks hypocrisy of staggering proportions. The United States has been assiduously intervening in foreign elections for decades —perhaps even for centuries.The central issue in the 2016 election was with some hacked emails, published by Wikileaks, indicating that some top members of the Democratic National Committee were rooting for Hillary Clinton to win their party ’s nomination for president. This seems to have been the extent of the “i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 4, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: John Mueller Source Type: blogs
Venezuela's Death Spiral, Dollarization Is The Cure
With the arrival of President Hugo Chávez in 1999, Venezuela embraced Chavismo, a form of Andean socialism. In 2013, Chávez met the Grim Reaper and Nicolás Maduro assumed Chávez’s mantle.
Chavismo has not been confined to Venezuela, however. A form of it has been adopted by Rafael Correa – a leftist economist who became president of a dollarized Ecuador in 2007.
Even though the broad outlines of their economic models are the same, the performance of Venezuela and Ecuador are in stark contrast with one another.
The most telling contrast between Venezuela’s Chavismo and Ecuador’s Chavismo Dollarized can be seen i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 28, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Steve H. Hanke Source Type: blogs
“The death toll from the earthquake that struck #Ecuador...
"The death toll from the earthquake that struck #Ecuador over the weekend rose to 350 today, as residents continued to dig through rubble and rescue crews from around the world arrived to help with the relief efforts. The magnitude 7.8 #earthquake, the strongest to strike the country in decades, left an area of ruin stretching hundreds of miles through provinces that border the Pacific coast, felling buildings, buckling highways and leaving thousands homeless. The photographer @meridithkohut, who is on assignment for @nytimes, took this photo of family photos on top of rubble inside home in Portoviejo, a city of nearly 300...
Source: Kidney Notes - April 17, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Yellow Fever and Fame
Infectious Diseases continually shape human history, often through their impact on leaders in Science, Politics, War, Religion, Industry and Art. The death of a King, President or Pope from salmonellosis, plague or anthrax can affect us all, and serves as a useful paradigm in the appreciation of these conditions. For many, yellow fever (YF) remains a “rare tropical disease” which (as in the current Angolan outbreak) periodically appears in the developing world. Few realize that major YF outbreaks were recorded in the United States, Spain, Italy and even England as recently as the early twentieth century.
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Source: GIDEON blog - April 16, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Epidemiology VIPatients Yellow fever Source Type: blogs
Capitalism, Global Trade, and the Reduction in Poverty and Inequality
Drawing on a new World Bank study, Washington Post columnist Charles Lane today notes “a vast reduction in poverty and income inequality worldwide over the past quarter-century” – despite what you might think if you listen to Pope Francis, Bernie Sanders, and other voices prominent in the media.
Specifically, the world’s Gini coefficient — the most commonly used measure of income distribution — has fallen from 0.69 in 1988 to 0.63 in 2011. (A higher Gini coefficient connotes greater inequality, up to a maximum of 1.0.)
That may seem modest until you consider that the estimate’s author, former World Bank e...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 14, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Coral Bleaching Is Not a Tell-Tale Sign of Imminent Extinction
Climate alarmists seem to be working overtime these days to persuade the public to support legislation to combat dangerous climate change, which they claim will occur unless CO2 emissions are drastically reduced. And after nearly two decades of over-predicting global warming (there has been little to no global warming since the late 1990s), they are getting awfully desperate in their attempts to convince the public that there is an imminent climate catastrophe on the horizon.
The rhetoric-of-choice is good old-fashioned fear mongering. The latest example is a New York Times article by Michelle Innis entitled “Climate-Rel...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Craig D. Idso Source Type: blogs
Progress against cancer? Let's think about it.
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without reading an article proclaiming progress in the field of cancer research. Here is an example, taken from an article posted on the MedicineNet site (1). The lead-off text is: "Statistics (released in 1997) show that cancer patients are living longer and even "beating" the disease. Information released at an AMA sponsored conference for science writers, showed that the death rate from the dreaded disease has decreased by three percent in the last few years. In the 1940s only one patient in four survived on the average. By the 1960s, that figure was up to one in th...
Source: Specified Life - March 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer cure cancer statistics cancer treatments orphan diseases progress in cancer research rare diseases Source Type: blogs
Progress against cancer? Let's think about it.
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without reading an article proclaiming progress in the field of cancer research. Here is an example, taken from an article posted on the MedicineNet site (1). The lead-off text is: " Statistics (released in 1997) show that cancer patients are living longer and even " beating " the disease. Information released at an AMA sponsored conference for science writers, showed that the death rate from the dreaded disease has decreased by three percent in the last few years. In the 1940s only one patient in four survived on the average. By the 1960s, that figure was up to one i...
Source: Specified Life - March 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer cure cancer statistics cancer treatments orphan diseases progress in cancer research rare diseases Source Type: blogs
A Look at the Laron Syndrome Population
Laron syndrome is a form of dwarfism that occurs in a small human population all descended from a single mutant ancestor. It is of interest to aging researchers because the mutation is on the growth hormone receptor, analogous to that approach used to engineer the present record holder for mouse longevity, the growth hormone receptor knockout (GHRKO) lineage. These dwarf mice live 60-70% longer than their peers. However, as is the case for the differences in the long-term outcome of calorie restriction between mice and humans, there is no sign that Laron syndrome produces any meaningful lengthening of life. Human longevity...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 16, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Where did Zika virus come from and why is it a problem in Brazil?
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. (Source: The A and P Professor)
Source: The A and P Professor - January 27, 2016 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
“For most fans of soccer (or as many would call it,...
"For most fans of soccer (or as many would call it, football) around the globe, Barcelona is synonymous with @fcbarcelona. But in Ecuador, Barcelona is more commonly associated with a club founded in #Guayaquil, the country's largest city. How the immensely popular Barcelona Sporting Club performs on the field resonates in Ecuador much in the same way that the achievements and occasional failures of @leomessi and his teammates touch all of Spain. The clubs have played each other 3 times, though not since 1988. Each team's record includes a victory and a draw. But as @fcbarcelona has emerged as one of the most successful cl...
Source: Kidney Notes - January 20, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
