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
Podcast: Transforming Trauma Into Wholeness and Healing
Trauma eventually comes for all of us. It isn’t just stereotypical things like war or assault that are traumatic, there is also the everyday realities of things like illness or job loss. As painful as it is, trauma can be an invitation to a process of growth and change.
Join us as today’s guest, Dr. James Gordon, explains some of the techniques of trauma healing, including some surprising ones, like laughter and spending time with animals. Dr. Gordon also shares with us how he personally handles his own trauma and the programs most often used by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine.
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Source: World of Psychology - January 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: General Interview Mental Health and Wellness The Psych Central Show Trauma Source Type: blogs
Diabetes as the Trojan Horse of Digital Health
Originally, a Trojan horse referred to the wooden horse used to cunningly penetrate and conquer the city of Troy by the Greeks. In our era, the term has been adapted to describe disguised malwares that attack unsuspecting users’ computers and wreak havoc once inside. Judging by the title of this article, how then can a condition as serious as diabetes help move the digital health agenda forward?
Computer generated 3D illustration with the Trojan Horse at Troy, source: http://codingtidbit.com/
Once upon a time, empowered patients started a revolution…
It all begins with a crippling speed of bureaucra...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 7, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: E-Patients Future of Medicine Healthcare Design diabetes digital health diabetes management patient design Source Type: blogs
Exploring Use of Hippotherapy as a Treatment Tool
Hippotherapy (hippo is Greek for horse) continues to gain recognition in our profession, but several misconceptions exist about this approach used by speech-language pathologists and other clinicians. Hippotherapy is a treatment tool—it is not a type of treatment. Compare it to using a swing or ball or other similar tool in sessions.
Also used by occupational therapists and physical therapists, the tool involves placing clients on horses while providing intervention. The approach aims to engage sensory, neuromotor, and cognitive systems to enhance outcomes, according to the American Hippotherapy Association (AHA). A numb...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - December 11, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Ruth Dismuke-Blakely Tags: Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Feeding Disorders Language Disorders Speech Disorders Swallowing Disorders Voice Disorders Source Type: blogs
Tik Tok, TikTok, what you waitin ’ , what you waitin ’ for?
My friend Dr Lucy Rogers tweeted something she’d posted on Tik Tok, a short clip of an English oak in its autumnal finery. Very nice I thought…
…more fool me. Ten minutes later I had re-registered on Tik Tok and was scrolling through vids like a man possessed. If Youtube was the previous tech generation’s cocaine, then Tik Tok is basically crack. If it’s not crack cocaine to Youtube’s cocaine, then it’s definitely its crystal to Vimeo’s meth, or perhaps it’s just “tirami” to Vine’s “su”.
Needless to say I have now posted a few snippets t...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 27, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Top Diabetes Companies On The Way To The Artificial Pancreas
Connected continuous glucose sensing technologies, sensors inserted under the skin, digital skin patches, and many more innovations appeared on the market in the last years to make diabetes management as easy as possible. Here, we collected the flagship companies on the way to ultimately building the artificial pancreas or offering solutions to turn diabetes into an invisible condition.
From honey urine to DIY artificial
pancreas
Diabetes
has been around for centuries, if not even for thousands of years. In ancient
China, India, or Greece, doctors already described the condition. In India, people
discovered that the...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 24, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine blood blood sugar CGM connected health diabetes diabetes management digital digital health glucose insulin monitoring technology Source Type: blogs
A Slumbering European Crisis Awakens: Catalonia
Ted Galen CarpenterA troubling development that has largely fallen through the cracks while media and public attention is focused on Syria ’s turmoil, is the revival of serious political tensions in Spain’s Catalonia region.Pro-independence Catalans pressed their agenda in 2017, attempting to hold a referendum on secession from Spain.In doing so, they badlyoverreached.The national government in Madrid barred the referendum, and Spanish security forces sent to prevent the ballotingbrutallyattacked mostly peaceful demonstrators in Catalonia ’s largest city, Barcelona.Spanish authorities then arrested the referendum ’...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Columbus Schmumbus
If there is one holiday that definitely needs to be repurposed, it ' s today ' s annual celebration ofa murderous idiot. (Visit link for a five minute Adam Ruins Everything.)The idea of the celebration was initially promoted by Italian Americans who craved recognition in a country that had been dominated by people from northwest Europe. Italians didn ' t originally have full " white " status. The idea seems to have been that drawing attention to the idea that an Italian had opened the way for European settlement of the Americas would validate their presence here, or something like that.Of course this required that he be gl...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 14, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How To Play Tricks On Artificial Intelligence?
While in the last years, sci-fi stories, experts and even some opinion-leader public figures frequently spelled the end of mankind through artificial intelligence, lately, it turned out just how easy it is to play tricks on smart algorithms and fool them into making errors. We looked around how researchers can hack A.I. and what that means for medicine and healthcare, mainly from a security perspective.
Does A.I.
have an Achilles heel?
As the saying goes, a chain is as strong as its
weakest link – and the ancient Greeks knew it. No matter that Achilles had
extraordinary strength, courage, and loyalty, that he fough...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 10, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence Future of Medicine Security & Privacy adversarial adversarial example AI autonomous data security digital digital health hack Healthcare self-driving technology Source Type: blogs
The Rise and Rise of Quantitative Cassandras
By SAURABH JHA, MD
Despite an area under the ROC curve of 1, Cassandra’s
prophesies were never believed. She neither hedged nor relied on retrospective
data – her predictions, such as the Trojan war, were prospectively validated. In
medicine, a new type of Cassandra has emerged –
one who speaks in probabilistic tongue, forked unevenly between the
probability of being right and the possibility of being wrong. One who, by conceding
that she may be categorically wrong, is technically never wrong. We call these
new Minervas “predictions.” The Owl of Minerva flies above its denominator.
Deep learning (DL)...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Data Medical Practice Physicians RogueRad @roguerad acute kidney injury AI deep learning machine learning predictions Saurabh Jha Source Type: blogs
Living Better through Lifelong Learning
Max is an old friend of mine (both a very long time friend and old). At 92, he has been retired almost longer than he worked as a professor. But being retired hasn’t stopped him from reading, writing, taking classes (he just started a course on Greek Mythology), and exploring brain exercises and activities on the internet. Max continues to be actively engaged in his field and an enthusiastic mentor to students and professionals who seek him out.
Why doesn’t he just relax and putter around in his garden or cruise YouTube? Because, as Max says, “If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it!” He is convinced that his s...
Source: World of Psychology - October 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. Tags: Inspiration & Hope Motivation and Inspiration Personal Self-Help Aging Learning Memory seniors Source Type: blogs
Today ’ s wonderful marvel of the day
I only started mothing with a scientific trap a little over a year ago (24 Jul 2018, to be precise) but have logged and photographed well over 300 different species since then.
I heard about Griposia aprilina, aka the Merveille du Jour, a few weeks after I started and thought it would be a nice specimen to see. But, its larvae feed on oaks and as far as I know, there are none particularly close to our garden. I was ever hopeful of seeing this little marvel but I didn’t hold out much hope of it ever making an appearance.
This beautifully marked green (and black and white) moth usually emerges in adult form in early O...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 4, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Life on Athens and Kythira
A trip to the Greek capital Athens and the island of Kythira yielded some good times, lovely views, lots of laughs with new(ish) friends, and sightings of quite a few species of bird, invertebrates and plantlife we’d not all “ticked” before. Here are a few snaps of the various species:
Scarce Swallowtail
Marginated Tortoise
Dark Bush Cricket, Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Striped Shieldbug, Graphosoma lineatum
Egyptian Grasshopper, Anacridium aegyptium with its striped eyes on mullein
Lesser Kestrel, Falco naumanni
Grayling on Sea Squill
Blue-winged-Grasshopper, Oedipoda caerulescens
European Skipper, Thymeli...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 3, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
The Greek Island of Kythira
Six days of yoga, walking, swimming, sightseeing, wildlife (mostly birds and invertebrates), Greek food, and beer on the island of Kythira; what could be better?
Kythira, Cythera, Kythera, and Kithira. In Greek: Κύθηρα (Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science)
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 3, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
The Greek Island of Kythera
Six days of yoga, walking, swimming, sightseeing, wildlife (mostly birds and invertebrates), Greek food, and beer on the island of Kythera; what could be better?
Kythira, Cythera, Kythera, and Kithira. In Greek: Κύθηρα (Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science)
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 3, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
