My Son ’s Tutor Slipped Me Entrance-Exam Questions. Should I Report Him?
From the New York Times on 01/22/19"With some ambivalence, I took him to a well-regarded (and expensive) tutor to help him prepare for the Specialized High School Admission Test. After his session, the tutor asked if my son was also taking the entrance test for a different coveted public high school in the city. When I said yes, he gave me a handwritten paper, explaining that it was a copy of most of the test questions, which he got from “spies” he sent to take the exam. He asked me not to tell others about it. I was shocked and horrified and left with the test. I did not look at it or allow my son to, as I would consi...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 28th 2019
In this study, we show that calorie restriction is protective against age-related increases in senescence and microglia activation and pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in an animal model of aging. Further, these protective effects mitigated age-related decline in neuroblast and neuronal production, and enhanced olfactory memory performance, a behavioral index of neurogenesis in the SVZ. Our results support the concept that calorie restriction might be an effective anti-aging intervention in the context of healthy brain aging.
Greater Modest Activity in Late Life Correlates with Lower Incidence of Dementia
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Source: Fight Aging! - January 27, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Sequencing Giant Tortoise Genomes in Search of Determinants of Longevity
Sequencing notably long-lived species has produced a number of interesting findings regarding the large variations in longevity between species. Long-lived species tend to exhibit one or more of exceptional DNA repair, exceptional cancer suppression mechanisms, exceptional regenerative and tissue maintenance capacity, exceptional control over inflammation, or the like. This short list is probably just scratching the surface, even given the great diversity of specific mechanisms in each category. For each of these discovered mechanisms it remains a question mark as to whether or not there is any way to safely port them over...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 24, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Blinded By Ideology: People Find It Difficult To Think Logically About Arguments That Contradict Their Politics
This study can’t contribute to the debate over whether liberals or conservatives are more likely to commit such errors, the researchers write, because the stimuli weren’t constructed to be equally polarising to the two “sides” (though some prior research suggest both tribes are equally vulnerable). It also doesn’t tell us what can be done about this sort of ill-formed reasoning. Though on that front, at least, Gampa, Wojcik, and their colleagues do have some ideas: “A takeaway from this research… may be that reasoners should strive to be epistemologically humble. If logical reasoning is to serve as the antido...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cognition Political Thought Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 528
Answer toCase 528: Botfly larva; clinical presentation is consistent with furucular myiasis. As Blaine and others have mentioned, " the epidemiology supports this being the ' Tumbu fly ' ,Cordylobia anthropophaga.Cordylobia rodhaniis also in Tanzania but less-commonly documented as a source of human myiasis. " From a clinical standpoint, the presence of multiple furuncular lesions is also consistent withC. anthropophaga; this fly lays eggs its eggs on soil or damp clothing (e.g. those hanging on a line to dry). The eggs hatch when they come into contact with the skin of the host, and the larvae burrow into the skin t...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - January 21, 2019 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Solving Humanity ’ s Trust Problem
For the new Submersion deep dive, which is about exploring the Matrix-like nature of reality, I actually considered that some form of AI might consume it in future years. So I’ve been designing it to be relevant for all sentient beings, not just biological humans. It is an AI-friendly course.
This might sound silly, but eventually it won’t sound silly. I’m actually serious.
For a few years now, I’ve been thinking about what value I might provide that could still be relevant and worthwhile for AI in the future. Assuming that it’s super intelligent, it may be a conceit to presume I could hope to...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Source Type: blogs
Nicknames for birds
Some birds have several names (think Peewit, Green Plover, and Northern Lapwing, all Vanellus vanellus). The scientific binomial is usually the definitive name, but even that can change especially in the age of DNA analysis. Either way, there are common names, colloquial names, and others that can add to the rich tapestry of birding life. I asked the members of the UK Bird Identification group on Facebook for a few of their favourite examples, having myself offered Bonxie (the Great Skua), Yaffle (Green Woodpecker), and Spuggie (House Sparrow), as some of my favourites.
Mick pointed out that his word for a Spuggie is a Sp...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - December 5, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Share Buybacks: Mismeasured and Misunderstood
In March of this year,Forbespublished an article with the following lede:The Economist has called them “an addiction to corporate cocaine.” Reuters has called them “self-cannibalization.” The Financial Timeshas called them “an overwhelming conflict of interest.” In an article that won the HBR McKinsey Award for the best article of the year, Harvard Business Review has called them “stock price manipulation.” These influential journals make a powerful case that wholesale stock buybacks are a bad idea—bad economically, bad financially, bad socially, bad legally and bad morally.There is no shortage of ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 30, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Derek Bonett Source Type: blogs
Be Careful When Calling Those Addiction Treatment Hotlines
You have to love a guy dressed up in surgical scrubs with a stethoscope trying to sell you addiction treatment services. You know, those seedy inpatient rehab facilities that claim they can self-police their own horrible, terrible marketing practices.
But as this television commercial, that’s been airing for years on cable TV, clearly demonstrates, there remains very little that’s ethical about addition treatment marketing. That’s especially true if you get suckered into calling one of those addiction treatment hotlines you see on TV or on a website.
As we noted in August 2018, the rehab industry still n...
Source: World of Psychology - October 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Addiction General Minding the Media Substance Abuse Treatment addiction marketing Addiction Treatment bad surgeon treatment marketing Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 506
Answer: Hard tick, Hyalommasp.As many of you noted, this is one of the " Old World " ticks found in many parts of North Africa, South Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.Here are a few important facts about this tick :They are one of the most medically important ticks in the Old World. Important species includeHyalomma marginatum(MediterraneanHyalomma), H. trucantum, H. asiaticum, H. excavatum, H. aegyptium, H. scupense andH. rufipes. They are vectors for several important disease agents, including Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, several Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma phagoc...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - August 12, 2018 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
A Libertarian ’ s Case Against Free Markets in Healthcare
By ROMAN ZAMISHKA
In the final act of Shakespeare’s Richard III the eponymous villain king arrives on the battlefield to fight against Richmond, who will soon become Henry VII. During the battle Richard is dismounted as his horse is killed and in a mad frenzy wades through the battlefield screaming “A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!” Richard shows us how market value can change drastically depending on the circumstances, or your mental state, and even the most absurd exchange rate can become reasonable in a moment of crisis.
This presumably arbitrary nature of prices should be the first thing a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Economics Source Type: blogs
A Libertarian ’ s Case Against Free Markets in Health Care
By ROMAN ZAMISHKA
In the final act of Shakespeare’s Richard III, the eponymous villain king arrives on the battlefield to fight against Richmond, who will soon become Henry VII. During the battle, Richard is dismounted as his horse is killed and in a mad frenzy wades through the battlefield screaming “A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!” Richard shows us how market value can change drastically depending on the circumstances, or your mental state, and even the most absurd exchange rate can become reasonable in a moment of crisis.
This presumably arbitrary nature of prices should be the first thing...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Economics Free Market health economics Libertarian Source Type: blogs
Some Things a Central Bank's Banker Doesn't Know about Monetary History
In February 2018 Agustin Carstens, the General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, gave a speech at Goethe University in Frankfurt entitled “Money in the digital age: what role for central banks?” The speech quickly became notorious in the cryptocurrency community for its brusque dismissal of Bitcoin and other cryptoassets. Among other things, Carstens there called Bitcoin “a combination of a bubble, a Ponzi scheme and an environmental disaster.” A combination? One may judge the price of Bitcoin a bubble, but there is no other sense in which Bitcoin is a “Ponzi scheme.” The BIS being the...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 26, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Lawrence H. White Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 245
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 245
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 20, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mark Corden Tags: Frivolous Friday Five George Otto Gey Glanzmann's thrombasthaenia Hela cells Henrietta Lacks NEJM new england journal of medicine Sildenafil smallpox viagra Source Type: blogs
