Mount Lycabettus
You can’t miss the tallest peak in Athens, no not the one with The Parthenon at the top (68 metres elevation), but Mount Lycabettus, also known as Lycabettos, Lykabettos or Lykavittos. In Greek, it’s pronounced “likavi’tos”, so the first three syllables flow as a triplet and the emphasis is on the final beat. It stands at 264 metres.
Mount Lycabettus across Athens viewed from Acropolis
Second full day on our trip to Athens, we took the funicular railway to the top to see the 19th Century St George’s Chapel and take in the views over the city. I’d have chosen to climb to the top, de...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 2, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Athenian Architecture
Myself and Mrs Sciencebase finally made it back to Greece after far too long a break from that beautiful country. The trip was to be yoga, walking, and wildlife, with plenty of wonderful food, a lot of Greek beer, and far too many photographs. I took the equivalent of eight 36-exposure reels on average each day of a ten-day trip, thank goodness for digital and 64 gigabyte SD cards. Anyway, before we hit the island of Kithira for the aforementioned R&R, we spent three nights in Athens, a place we had meant to visit properly back in the early 1990s, but a trip we missed out on because of ferry delays, force 6 gales, and ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 2, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Trump Tweets And Cat Attachment: The Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
Scientists can predict what country people are from just by looking at how colours make them feel, reports Eva Frederick at Science. Researchers found cultural differences in how people associate colours and emotions: Chinese participants showed the strongest association between red and joy, for example, while Greek participants were the only ones to relate purple to sadness. The team then used machine learning to guess where people were from based on the associations they made.
We’ve written a lot about the value — and limitations — of ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs
The Gazillion Of Health Data You Can Measure
From SWOLF through EDA until heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, single-lead ECG, period tracking, sleep pattern analyzing: dozens of vital signs demonstrate that there’s no single square centimeter of the human body without quantifiable data. As an experiment, we tried to collect every trackable parameter to draw the boundaries of your “health data self”. Let us know if there’s anything left out.
Why is measurement useful? To know thyself
The famous ancient Greek aphorism was inscribed on a
wall in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the oracle, which was believed to tell
humans about the plan...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 26, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine Portable Diagnostics activity blood body brain breathing data fitness health data heart health heart rate lifestyle lung measure measurement meditation quantified self s Source Type: blogs
Breathtaking: The Future Of Respiratory Care And Pulmonology
Smoke-measuring smart shirts, breath sound analyzing
algorithms, and smart inhalers pave the way of pulmonology and respiratory care
into the future. As the number of patients suffering from asthma, COPD, or lung
cancer due to rising air pollution and steady smoker-levels will unfortunately
not decrease any time soon, we looked around what technology can do to help
both patients and caregivers. The results are breathtaking.
Attacks of
breathlessness are too common
The diseases which pulmonologists and respiratory care
specialists attempt to fight are among the most common conditions in the modern
world – and the n...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers AI asthma cancer cancer treatment care COPD diagnostics inhaler lung lung cancer management medical specialty pulmonology respiratory respiratory care Source Type: blogs
Pray for Health and Protection, But Realize that God is Not an Insurance Policy
Pray for Health and Protection,But Realize that God is Not an Insurance PolicyThrough many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.—Acts 14:22bHow many times have you heard someone say, “I’m a Christian, so I know God will protect me from illness, accident, and crime”? What does the Bible say? Jesus himself tells us to pray for our needs, such as food, for forgiveness for our sins, and for protection from Satan:So this is how you should pray: “Our Father in heaven, we pray that your name will always be kept holy. We pray that your kingdom will come—that what you want will be done here on earth, the same a...
Source: The Virtual Salt - September 21, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Robert Harris Source Type: blogs
8 Ways to Navigate Change Without Stress & Anxiety
Change doesn’t have to be terrifying!
Life change — and change in general — is certain to happen. According to the Greek philosopher, Heracleitus, “The only thing that is constant is change.”
If this is true, and I believe it is, coping with life changes, transitions, and the stress and anxiety that comes with it should come more easily to everyone, don’t you think?
Yet, many shudder at the thought of change. Some bury their heads and hope it will go away while others open their arms and welcome the opportunities.
Heracleitus’ philosophy is a good starting point for those who shudder and duck and...
Source: World of Psychology - September 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Publishers Stress YourTango anxiety change Manage Stress Source Type: blogs
Math brain teaser requiring no math — just perception and cognition
Necropoli Grotticelli, the tomb of Archimedes in Syracuse
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Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer Archimedes made many great scientific discoveries throughout his life. He explained why and how bodies float in the water, designed mirror arrays capable of focusing sun rays and setting enemy ships on fire, found the way of approximating the number of grains of sand that will fit inside the universe.
Now to the brain teaser part.
His tomb was decorated with his favorite discovery. Which one of the following three sculptures was honoring Archimedes, and why?
A golden crown commemora...
Source: SharpBrains - September 13, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain Teasers Education & Lifelong Learning brain-teaser cognition math perception Source Type: blogs
The fraught history of the word, “teratology”
The field of teratology (also known as dysmorphology) is rapidly growing with daily innovations in prenatal medicine, genetics and preventive care that show its uniquely intersectional nature. But, the term teratology, and its derivatives teratoma and teratogen — derived from the ancient Greek root teras — do not do justice to the promising future of […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 11, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/arthur-lenahan" rel="tag" > Arthur Lenahan < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Bad viruses travel fast: Measles vaccine important for travelers
(This post has been updated with relevant recent information.)
The United States was declared free from ongoing measles transmission in 2000. But we may be at risk for joining the UK Greece, Albania, and the Czech Republic, four countries recently stripped of measles elimination status by the World Health Organization. Since the beginning of 2019, more than 1,234 measles cases have been reported in 31 states, with active outbreaks in upstate New York and El Paso, Texas. New York has just declared the end of its yearlong outbreak, which required a massive public health response to control. Minnesota had a major measles outb...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Health Infectious diseases Prevention Travel health Source Type: blogs
Bad viruses travel fast: Measles vaccine important for travelers
The United States was declared free from ongoing measles transmission in 2000. But we may be at risk for joining the U.K, Greece, Albania, and the Czech Republic, four countries recently stripped of measles elimination status by the World Health Organization. Since the beginning of 2019, more than 1,234 measles cases have been reported in 31 states, with active outbreaks in upstate New York and El Paso, Texas. New York has just declared the end of its yearlong outbreak, which required a massive public health response to control. Minnesota had a major measles outbreak in 2017. In 2015, 125 cases of measles occurred in Cali...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Health Infectious diseases Prevention Travel health Source Type: blogs
Why 1619 Matters in 2019
The New York Times Magazine recently released its “1619 Project,” an initiative marking the 400th anniversary of the first African slaves arriving in North America. The project is ambitious, aiming to “reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding.” A collection of pundits have framed this project as an attempt to “delegimitize” the United States. Such commentary provides an opportunity to consider the state of American race relations and the role of slavery in American history. Whether or not the foundation of the United States was legitimate is an interesting political, moral, a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 19, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney Source Type: blogs
Managing Mutually Antagonistic Allies Is Like Herding Cats
One problem (among many) the United States has experienced in leading a vast array of allies and security dependents is that periodic quarrels break out among such clients. Even when the disputes are parochial and petty, the degree of animosity generated frequently is not. Not only does Washington then face the prospect of one or more of those allies breaking ranks and undermining U.S. policy objectives, but the danger exists that a confrontation might escalate to a cold war —or even a hot one.Deteriorating relations between two of Washington ’s prominent allies in East Asia–Japan and the Republic of Korea–are now ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 8, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
When Your Job Requires Brilliant Ideas, But Brainstorming Feels Like Pulling Teeth
It sounds terribly cliché, but sometimes coming up with ideas really does feel like pulling teeth. It feels painful and frustrating. It feels messy and hard. And it’s the last thing you want to do.
But maybe your job requires you to come up with great ideas. On a regular basis.
Maybe you’re a writer, speaker, designer, artist, podcast host, publicist, teacher, researcher, or entrepreneur. Either way, idea generation is a priority in your position.
And, unfortunately, you feel utterly and completely uninspired.
Mary Potter Kenyon, an author, certified grief counselor, and program coordinator at the Shalom Spirituality ...
Source: World of Psychology - August 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Creativity General Habits Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Stress Success & Achievement Brainstorming Leadership Team Work Source Type: blogs
