My new moths of 2022
UPDATE: 2 Sep 2022 We (I) took the LepiLED with a portable trap to the New Forest in August and added 12 or so moths to the list, when we returned from our trip, first night lighting up we saw a Convolvulus Hawk-moth turn up to nectar on the Nicotiana (garden tobacco plants) before diving into the home garden moth trap. Another turned up later that evening and another on night of 1st September.
One of 2 or 3 seen in the garden this year for the first time – Convolvulus Hawk-moth
It was four years in July 2022 that I had been mothing in our back garden with a 40W actinic/UV trap. In that time I’ve photographed w...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 11, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 20: The Phantom Depression
George SelginIt was supposed to be a debacle.As the Second World War drew to a close, the nation’s leading economists feared that, once the armed services demobilized, at least 8 million men and women, perhaps many more, would be unemployed. That meant an unemployment rate of 12 percent—almost as high as the rate before Hitler raided the Low Countries, setting off the “ wartime boom.” If their forecasts were reliable, they meant that the postwar economy could end up being no closer to recovery than the prewar economy had been.A Worst ‐Case ScenarioOf course, such dire predictions weren ’t unconditional....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
How to Win Against Your Favorite Distractions
What can you do when you realize that you’ve been wasting a lot of time succumbing to distractions, like endless social media or consumption-based activities, and it’s making you feel empty, hollow, disappointed, or even ashamed of yourself? How can you reboot and get your life (and your character development) back on track?
A key here is to raise your awareness of how this behavior pattern is punishing you and what you’re missing out on. And that’s the truth – you’re missing out on tons that life has to offer when you stick with the low-hanging fruit of repetitive but unfulfilling action...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - August 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Plagiarism
It ' s a bit puzzling, but 2 kings 19 and Isaiah 37 are essentially identical. Isaiah is a bit player here, but he gets a whole book later on, and this chapter is in it. I ' m not into the weeds of biblical scholarship, but as I understand it the Book of Isaiah is cobbled together, apparently by three different authors, and one of them lifted this. As I said last time, there is no historical record of an outright defeat of Sennacherib in his Levantine campaign, but there is some indication that sickness in his camp may have discouraged him from actually entering Jerusalem. Just a reminder that until the last few chapters, ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 3, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
160 Kindness Quotes to Help You Live a Happier and Kinder Life
A simple but often underappreciated way to live a happier life is through kindness.
So in this post I’d like to share the most powerful and best kindness quotes I’ve found in the past 10+ years. Thoughts from the past 2500 years about kindness and care for others but also towards yourself.
But first, why is kindness so powerful?
Well, here’s three of my favorite reasons that I keep in mind and that helps me to try to be a kinder person:
1. I get what I give.
Most people will over time tend to treat you as you treat them.
2. If I'm kinder towards others then I tend to be kinder towards myself.
I’ve found that the...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - August 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Magnetic Activation of Specific Brain Circuits
Scientists at Rice University developed a system to wirelessly and rapidly activate specific brain circuits using magnetic fields. The technology has been developed in fruit flies, a common experimental animal, but the researchers hope that it could help in understanding the brain and to develop new treatments for neurological disorders in humans.
The technology involves genetically modified fruit flies that express heat sensitive ion channels in specific brain circuits. The researchers inject magnetic nanoparticles into the flies and then cause them to heat up using magnetic fields. This heat activates the ion channels...
Source: Medgadget - July 29, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery riceuniversity Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 28, 2022 Edition-----Sadly the war drags on, Biden seems to be pretty impotent on most policy fronts and the US seems to be heading into a recession. Not good,In the UK the choosing the next PM is off and running as the country and Europe are cooling down after a heatwave (for them) of biblical proportions!In OZ Parliament is meeting which is when the rubber will really hit the road as a new virus wave runs out of control still! We need to do more to control it as we realise just how bad long COVID is!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/how-a-nobel-laureate-got-australian-economists-offside-...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 28, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Forbidden Fruit Juice: Adding GST on Groceries to the Tax Base in Canada
Graham Purse (University of Regina), The Forbidden Fruit Juice: Adding GST on Groceries to the Tax Base in Canada, SSRN (2022): GST/VAT should apply to groceries in Canada. Misconceptions have led many Canadians to oppose taxing groceries or special interest... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 19, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 14, 2022 Edition-----The biggest news this week was the assassination of the ex-PM of Japan – Shinzo Abe – who was a good friend to OZ incidentally.In the US we have had a wind-up to a busy summit season – NATO etc – and the ongoing war in Ukraine which is becoming a deepening, protracted and horrible situation which it seems hard to resolve sadly.In the UK Boris is out but not gone and the battle for the succession is off and rolling.In OZ we have Albo back and we need to work out what to mitigate these various natural disasters and actually get on with it!!!! The response has been pathetic so far I reckon!--...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
This Fruit Boosts Weight Loss 50%, Research Finds
People eating this fruit lost four pounds in 12 weeks without making other changes to diet or lifestyle. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - July 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
The Hard Problem of Abortion Rights
ConclusionIn sum, reasonable minds —including reasonable libertarian minds—can disagree about the moral nature of abortion itself, the constitutional status of abortion rights, and the proper legal framework with which to evaluate asserted claims of a right to abortion access in particular circumstances. Likewise, critics of the Court’s abortion cases can reasonably disagree on the most principled way to address precedents whose reasoning arguably has not withstood the test of time.In the aftermath ofDobbs, some states may well attempt to regulate abortion in ways thatdo pose grave concerns for libertarians generally...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 24, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Neily, Jay Schweikert Source Type: blogs
poem
My SonWhen a young dad saysmy sonHe means it mostly in the possessiveSelf enhancing sense:Fruit of my loins!Bearer of hopes and dreamsRedeemer of past sinsContinuation of my nameThe boy as object: As silver Porsche As plasticine trophy wife As wall of degrees As go rake the leavesAs, here ’s a word of advice young manwhen I was a kid I used toHandle thingsAs vassalAs once and future king It ’s the bombastic bellow of the man in fullJust before an untimely fall:Behold my boy!But the older dad whispersIt with a whiff of apologetic Ruefulness. It ’s not solely ...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - June 23, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 20th 2022
This study showed a negative relationship between the gaps and the number of senescence cells. Moreover, we found a similar reduction in 30-month-old naturally and 7-month-old D-gal-induced aging rats. Given these consistent data from different eukaryotic organisms, it suggests that the Youth-DNA-GAP is a marker of phenotype-related aging degree
Towards Scaffold-Based Regeneration of Dental Pulp
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/06/towards-scaffold-based-regeneration-of-dental-pulp/
Researchers are working towards the ability to regenerate the dental pulp inside teeth. Full regeneration of teeth ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 19, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Five Reasons Why Restrictive Diets Do More Harm Than Good
If you’re anything like the vast majority of the population, you started this year with one of these goals as a top priority: “get in shape”, “lose weight”, “get fit” or “get healthy”.
I get it. For the longest time my Januarys started with a rigid healthy eating plan to get back in shape and lose the holiday bulge.
Having tried almost every diet imaginable, it’s clear that most diets we follow do one of two things, they either restrict calories or restrict food groups. Even so-called it’s not a diet but a lifestyles are still a diet because you cut the amount of food, or food groups (despite th...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: drlarazib Tags: diet featured health and fitness self-improvement Source Type: blogs
Vision Influences Circadian Rhythms to Interact with Calorie Restriction and Aging
Circadian mechanisms have been found to influence aging in short-lived species, though the degree to which this is relevant to treating aging in longer-lived species such as our own is up for debate. All too much of the metabolic response to stress, and items such as circadian rhythms that have an impact on that response, have far larger effects on the pace of aging in short-lived species than in long-lived ones. The work here, in which vision is found to alter circadian mechanisms and thus also the beneficial calorie restriction response, is interesting in the academic sense, in the same way that it is interesting that sc...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 14, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
