Sunday Sermonette: Some good stuff!
And some weirdness. BTW I ' m going to start doing Wednesday Bible study as well or we ' ll never get through this. Anyway Leviticus 19, as I foretold, contains some rules for daily life which for the most part conform with our present ethical culture. There are however a few that seem arbitrary or weird, and at least one that is definitely not good. This is the New Revised Standard Version.19 TheLord spoke to Moses, saying:2 Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I theLord your God am holy.3 You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall ke...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 14, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: It's complicated
Yes, this is more complicated than it might appear. Incest taboos are pretty much a universal in human culture, with or without specific religious proscription. Incest is against civil law in all modern societies, although standards do vary about cousins. As far as I can tell sexual relations between cousins are not forbidden here. Since the Israelites are polygamous, however, some of these additional instructions are needed, and they ' re probably a very good idea to prevent jealousy and family violence. However, the real point of much of Leviticus 18 is to slander the other inhabitants of Canaan and justify the Israelite...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 7, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Economic Recovery in Egypt Should Include Women
Despite tremendous strides in educational attainment, women ' s engagement in the labor force in Egypt remains limited. Will Egypt ' s post-pandemic recovery further exacerbate structural barriers and inequities? Or could the current economic crisis be an opportunity to develop new opportunities to employ women and foster conditions for a more inclusive and diversified labor force? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - May 10, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Louay Constant Source Type: blogs
Two Supertypes of Coronavirus: “East Asian” and “European”
Andrei Illarionov andNatalya PivovarovaThe Los Alamos National Laboratory has posteda new study, as reported this weekby theWashington Post andtheLos Angeles Times, that finds that the strain of the novel coronavirus that emerged in Europe and has spread to much of the world is different than the strain of the virus at its origin in China. Those findingsare consistent with our research which we posted (in Russian) on April 15, 2020. Although we are not epidemiologists, we are posting our slightly updated analysis below in English in the interest of sharing what may be significant findings with a wider audience. We welcome ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 8, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Andrei Illarionov, Natalya Pivovarova Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: You are what you eat
Now we come to a part of Leviticus which is still in effect for observant Jews. I ' ve done a bit of reading to find out how people have tried to explain the origin of the dietary laws, but I ' m not going to give any links because nobody has a very good idea. Some have attempted to explain them as actually being hygienic, i.e. that there is a legitimate public health rationale to them, but obviously there is not. It is true that pork can harbor a parasite called trichinosis, but ruminants can also harbor parasites and they ' re all destroyed by cooking. Cultures that eat pig meat obviously don ' t have a problem. The best...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 5, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Upcoming: Virtual book tour to explore the frontier of Emotional Intelligence and Technology
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Dear SharpBrains community,
I hope you’re staying healthy and safe. As you may know, my memoir, Girl Decoded, published by Penguin Random House, comes out on April 21st. I’d planned numerous events across the U.S. and abroad to share my story with all of you. But, in light of the global health crisis surrounding COVID-19, everything is rightfully canceled.
In this time when we need to socially distance, I know I’m craving human connection more than ever. I still want to connect with you all on the themes discussed in my book.
Join me as I kick off my virtual book tour!
Starting tomorrow March 25th,...
Source: SharpBrains - March 24, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Rana el Kaliouby Tags: Author Speaks Series Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Technology AI book brain-book emotional-intelligence entrepreneur Girl Decoded Rana el Kaliouby scientist Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Gore, gore and more gore
You may have thought that we ' re done with the descriptions of killing animals, spilling their blood, carving them up, and burning their innards. Nope. Now that the priests have been ordained, they need to get to work. And that means more of the mind numbingly repetitious recitation of the details of the procedure. Note that the Hebrews have been sacrificing animals since Abel, but up to now it ' s been informal. There wasn ' t any priesthood and the people would just do it themselves. It was mentioned occasionally in Genesis and Exodus, usually for special occasions, and the details of the procedure were not spelled out....
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 22, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Senna: The True Ex-Lax
Constipation is one of those not-so-exciting subjects that affects both children and adults from time to time, but because it is so common, it warrants a closer look.
Bowel movements tend to occur about once a day after children have reached the age where their diet is largely comprised of solid food. Starchy foods, such as bananas, rice, grains, and flour, tend to make stools firmer. Foods high in fiber like peaches, plums, and apricots have more of a softening effect. In a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, a balance is struck between different foods to create stools that are soft enough to pass comfortably without bein...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - March 15, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Constipation Herbal Source Type: blogs
History of Pressure Injury Treatment at the New York Academy of Medicine
I was recently honored to present at the New York Academy of Medicine’s 11th Annual History of Medicine Night, along with five other distinguished lecturers. My topic was entitled Bed-Sore Treatment by Suspension: A Case Report from WWII. While perusing old journals for historical tidbits on pressure injury treatment I came across the 1946 article in British Medical Journal upon which this presentation was based.
My paper recounts the story of a British physician named Captain James Fulton Neil who endured several bloody battles including Anzio and Normandy to participate in the post-war occupation of Germany. To c...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - March 14, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Featured Medical Articles Medical History Pressure Injuries & Wound Care bedsores decubiti geriatrics gerontology Healthcare Quality Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD pressure sore pressure sores pressure Source Type: blogs
Pricardial effusion associated with Infective Endocarditis : Incidence , mechansim and clinical Implication.
Pericardial effusion is often detected in patients with Infective endocarditis. Incidence can be as high as 25% . Most often it is mild, can be moderate in few.
Mechanism
Sympathetic effusion in response to endocardial infection. It’s never more than minimal. (Evidence ? it’s only an assumption)
IE related cardiac failure (Raised systemic venous pressure to which pericardial veins drain)
Local sepsis, Abcess formation tracks to pericardial space through transmural lymphatics
Fungal , granulomatous , Tuberculous IE (Rare) Here IE and PE share the same pathology
Part of systemic sepsis activated Immune mechan...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - January 28, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: cardiology -Therapeutics Cardiology -unresolved questions Infrequently asked questions in cardiology (iFAQs) pericardial disease pericardial effusion Pericardium infective endocarditis pericardial effusion in infective endocarditis Source Type: blogs
Pericardial effusion associated with Infective Endocarditis : Incidence , mechansim and clinical Implication.
Pericardial effusion is often detected in patients with Infective endocarditis. Incidence can be as high as 25% . Most often it is mild, can be moderate in few.
Mechanism
Sympathetic effusion in response to endocardial infection. It’s never more than minimal. (Evidence ? it’s only an assumption)
IE related cardiac failure (Raised systemic venous pressure to which pericardial veins drain)
Local sepsis, Abcess formation tracks to pericardial space through transmural lymphatics
Fungal , granulomatous , Tuberculous IE (Rare) Here IE and PE share the same pathology
Part of systemic sepsis activated Immune mechan...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - January 28, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: cardiology -Therapeutics Cardiology -unresolved questions Infrequently asked questions in cardiology (iFAQs) pericardial disease pericardial effusion Pericardium infective endocarditis pericardial effusion in infective endocarditis Source Type: blogs
A skein for a friend – a truly wild goose chase
In Stephen Rutt’s second book, Wintering, we follow him on a journey around the British Isles to find the elusive species and sub-species of what might at first light seem a rather dull and innocuous class of birds, the geese. The geese, you say? As in “what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander”? What could be more interesting?
Well, hang fire, Rutt’s tale takes back through mediaeval droves to the ancient Greeks and the ancient Egyptians even, by way of the marshlands and reedy wetlands of Suffolk, Northumberland, and the wide rivers of the Scottish borderlands. It also takes us bac...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 25, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Exiting Exodus
We ' ve finally come to the end of the incredibly long, detailed, multiply repetitious tale of the tabernacle. This obviously seemed very important to the people who wrote it down (and wrote it down, and wrote it down . . . .) but it is not at all obvious why. In the final chapter it gets switched on, as it were. While this is said to happen on the first day of the first month, we don ' t know immediately when that actually is. The Jewish calendar has multiple " first months " for different purposes. Nisan is the first month of the ecclesiastical calendar, from which the dates of festivals are counted. Passover is on 15 Ni...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 19, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Brain Parasites And Super-Recognisers: The Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
Researchers from tech company DeepMind have drawn inspiration from their own AI research to develop a new theory of how reinforcement learning works in the brain. Dopamine neurons respond to the difference between a predicted reward and the reward that an animal actually receives: so if the reward is greater than predicted, for instance, more dopamine will be released. But the team found that dopamine neurons in mice don’t all produce the same level of response, reports Donna Lu at New Scientist — instead, they show a distribution of response...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs
