Wheatear aka Le Cul-blanc
The Wheatears are on the move, there were a couple of females that took a pitstop along the Cottenham Lode on the outskirts of our village while on passage south. They were first spotted on 18th August by friend Josh C, and Mrs Sciencebase and myself saw them on the 21st, although it was drizzly so I wasn’t carrying my camera. Here’s a male I snapped in May 2017 in Aldeburgh. Suffolk.
By the way, the name Wheatear has nothing to do with wheat, ears, nor ears of wheat, even. It’s from the 16th Century name meaning “white arse” as the bird famously has a white rump. The French call it the Cul-b...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 22, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Wheatears have nothing to do with ears of wheat, they just have a white rump
The Wheatears are on the move, there were a couple of females that took a pitstop along the Cottenham Lode on the outskirts of our village while on passage south. They were first spotted on 18th August by friend Josh C, and Mrs Sciencebase and myself saw them on the 21st, although it was drizzly so I wasn’t carrying my camera. Here’s a male I snapped in May 2017 in Aldeburgh. Suffolk, Le Cul-blanc.
By the way, the name Wheatear has nothing to do with wheat, ears, nor ears of wheat, even. It’s from the 16th Century name meaning “white arse” as the bird famously has a white rump. The French cal...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 22, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Why it is essential to prioritize universal coverage [PODCAST]
“Looking to other countries that provide universal coverage to see what works and what would fit well for the U.S. is an option. Countries like France, Australia, and England provide universal coverage and rank their health care systems very highly, and are culturally and socioeconomically similar to the U.S. Whatever health care direction the countryRead more …Why it is essential to prioritize universal coverage [PODCAST] originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 12, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
The End of Bretton Woods, Jacques Rueff, and the “Monetary Sin of the West”
Lawrence H. WhiteAugust 15, 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the day President Richard Nixon “closed the gold window,” ending the postwar Bretton Woods international monetary system. It is an appropriate moment to reconsider the internal inconsistencies of the Bretton Woods system. As its contemporary critics understood, Bretton Woods was doomed to fail if it could not be fundamentally reformed. One of its chief contemporary critics was the French economist, Jacques Rueff.Jacques RueffRueff (1896 –1978) was the most important French classical liberal economist of his generation. As a young economist, he worked unde...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 10, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Lawrence H. White Source Type: blogs
… of all the Leps I ’ ve photographed
My Mothematics Gallery can be found on my Imaging Storm photography site along with other invertebrates, flora and fauna, etc. I’ve written about several of the species I’ve seen for various outlets, but haven’t yet got around to adding all of the links to this list #bearwith
Moths
Aethes francilana/beatricella (Walsingham, 1898/Fabricius, 1794)
Agapeta hamana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Agonopterix heracliana-ciliella agg NFM 2020
Agonopterix purpurea (Haworth, 1811) NFM 2021 (MYO lure)
Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa, Linnaeus, 1758)
Arches, Buff (Habrosyne pyritoides, Hufnagel, 1766)
Arches, Dark (Apamea m...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 10, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
Following up on we're number last . . .
.The U.S. not only has the lowest life expectancy among the wealthy countries, it also has lower life expectancy than many low and middle income countries. In fact life expectancy in Cuba is higher than life expectancy in the U.S. Here ' s a snapshot of part of the list. (I expect that given its recent catastrophic problems, Lebanon has slipped. The country with the longest life expectancy at birth is Japan. I didn ' t know either -- Mayotte is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, an overseas department of France.) Cuba, despite being obviously a poor country and despite its governments many failings, has univers...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 5, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 2nd 2021
This study aimed to determine the association between: (i) cognitive decline and bone loss; and (ii) clinically significant cognitive decline on Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) over the first 5 years and subsequent fracture risk over the following 10 years. A total of 1741 women and 620 men aged ≥65 years from the population-based Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study were followed from 1997 to 2013. Over 95% of participants had normal cognition at baseline. After multivariable adjustment, cognitive decline was associated with bone loss in women but not men. Approximately 13% of participants experienced sign...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 1, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
All Too Much of the Demographic Data on Survival to Extreme Old Age is of Poor Quality
There are many challenges inherent in trying to learn something about aging through analysis of the demographics of extreme human longevity. First of all, there are just not that many supercentenarians, making it very hard to obtain enough data to make statistically sound inferences about health, tied as it is to the many complex and varied processes of aging. Secondly, and as illustrated by the paper here, much of the data that might otherwise be useful is of poor quality due to issues of fraud and lax recordkeeping.
The concentration of remarkable-aged individuals, within geographic regions or 'blue zones' or wi...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 26, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Treating Aging as a Medical Condition Should Long Have Been a Priority
Aging kills most people in the world, and near all people in the wealthier parts of the world. It doesn't just kill, but also produces decades of declining health and capabilities, increased pain and suffering. Addressing the causes of aging, uncovering the mechanisms of aging and treating them, should have been the top priority in medicine ever since the advent of modern antibiotics allowed for control over the majority of infectious disease. Decades in which meaningful progress could have taken place have been wasted, and work on the mechanisms of aging is still only a small field within the life sciences, a small indust...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 23, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Health Care Should Go (Micro) Nuclear
By KIM BELLARD
I think of hospitals as the healthcare system’s nuclear power plants. They’re both big, complex, expensive to build, beset with heavy regulatory burdens, consistently major components of their respective systems (healthcare and electric generation) yet declining in number. Each is seen to offer benefits to many but also to pose unexpected risk to some.
Interestingly, there’s a “micro” trend for each, but aimed towards different ends.
Micro hospitals have been with us for several years. They usually have only around ten beds, along with an emergency room, lab and imaging.&...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard nuclear power Source Type: blogs
Making Sense of the Novo Nordisk-Walmart Partnership to Sell Some Discounted Insulin Analogues
On June 29, 2021, Walmart Inc. and the American business unit of Novo Nordisk A/S (which is based just outside of Princeton, New Jersey known as Novo Nordisk Inc.) dropped what was intended to be a news bombshell coming just as the ADA Scientific Sessions was coming to a close. In fact, the insulin makers had hardly any big news coming from the ADA Scientific Sessions themselves this year (in fact, Novo Nordiskacquired a UK-based company known as Ziylo in 2018 to use its technology to try and develop glucose-responsive insulin, but it still has a long while before it is ready for commercialization ... if ever), becaus...
Source: Scott's Web Log - July 15, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Aspart Novo Nordisk Novolog Walmart Source Type: blogs
Making Sense of the Novo Nordisk-Walmart Partnership to Sell Some Discounted Insulin Analogues
On June 29, 2021, Walmart Inc. and the American business unit of Novo Nordisk A/S (which is based just outside of Princeton, New Jersey known as Novo Nordisk Inc.) dropped what was intended to be a news bombshell coming just as the ADA Scientific Sessions was coming to a close. In fact, the insulin makers had hardly any big news coming from the ADA Scientific Sessions themselves this year or for the past several years (about the biggest news was from 2018 when, Novo Nordiskacquired a UK-based company known as Ziylo to use its technology to try and develop glucose-responsive insulin, but that still has a long whil...
Source: Scott's Web Log - July 15, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Aspart Novo Nordisk Novolog Walmart Source Type: blogs
Why Do Some People Without Mental Health Problems Experience Hallucinations? Replication Study Casts Doubt On Previous Theories
By Emma Young
Hallucinations are a common symptom of schizophrenia and related disorders, but mentally well people experience them, too. In fact, work suggests that 6-7% of the general population hear voices that don’t exist. However, exactly what predisposes well people to experience them has not been clear. Now a major new study of 1,394 people native to 46 different countries, led by Peter Moseley at Northumbria University, provides support for two hypotheses from earlier, smaller studies — namely, that a history of childhood trauma and a propensity to hear non-existent speech among background noise are both...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 12, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Perception Replications Source Type: blogs
TikTok, Schrems II, and Cross ‐Border Data Flows
Julian SanchezInformation —you may have heard this one before—wants to be free, and on the global Internet, it flows more freely than ever. Governments are frequently less than sanguine about this fact—often for bad and censorious reasons, but also on occasion with perfectly valid motives, such as the desire to protect national security or the personal privacy of their citizens, which are in many cases overlapping interests. The past month saw developments in two fronts of the perennial struggle to reap the benefits of a borderless network while still maintaining a modicum of control over private data—and I bel iev...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 6, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Julian Sanchez Source Type: blogs
The Fable of the Cats
George SelginThe comparison has by now been made so often that it may qualify as a platitude. I mean that between stablecoin issuers and “wildcat” banks, the fly‐by‐night scams that supposedly flooded the antebellum United States with notes nominally worth some stated amount of gold or silver, but actually worth little more than the rag paper they were made of.Such disreputable stuff, we keep hearing, is what “private” currency always tends to be like. The paper sort survived until federal authorities nationalized the nation’s paper money during the Civil War. And (we are told), digital currency will...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 6, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
