Case of the Week 555 - a Special Challenge!
Dear readers,I am excited and humbled to be posting my 555th Parasite Case of the Week. I am continuously inspired by your comments, questions, and the rich discussion that occurs with each post. To mark this occasion, I ' m asking you all to comment on ways that parasites relate to the number 5. I ' ll start you off with two that were previously suggested to me when I thought up this challenge:Pentatrichomonas hominisis a nonpathogenic intestinal flagellate named for its 5 flagella (penta from the Greek pente, meaning five + trich, pertaining to hair [flagella]). By Dr. Neil AndersonThere are 5 lobes of the human lung, an...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - August 2, 2019 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 555 - Parasites and the Number Five
Wow - we received so many excellent comments on how parasites and the number 5 go together! Here are many of them - in no particular order - for your viewing pleasure:Pentatrichomonas hominis is a nonpathogenic intestinal flagellate named for its 5 flagella (penta from the Greek pente, meaning five + trich, pertaining to hair [flagella]). By Neil Anderson and Bernardino Rocha.There are 5 lobes of the lung, and all can be infected by Paragonimusspecies. By Brian Duresko.The are 5Plasmodiumspecies that are responsible for the bulk of malaria in humans:P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, andP. knowlesi(t...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - August 1, 2019 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Ways the Long-Lived Live Longer
We read about them with astonishment and awe. In 2017 and 2018 there were many news reports of people who lived well past 100. Emma Morano died in April 2017 at age 117, 137 days. Violet Brown died in September 2017 at 117 years, 189 days. And Yisrael Kristal who died that same month at 113 years, 330 days almost made it to 114! Chiyo Miyako died in July 2018 cage 117, 81 days.
How did they do it? Surely they had something in common. Turns out they did.
Ways the long-lived live longest:
Choose the right parents. Well, maybe it’s not a choice. But genetics have a lot to do with it. Simply put: If your parents and gran...
Source: World of Psychology - July 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. Tags: Aging Exercise & Fitness Family Habits Health-related Spirituality Stress Diet Positive Psychology social support stress reduction Volunteer Source Type: blogs
Heard at Connect: How to Slow Down Time and Just ‘ Do You ’
ASHA Connect 2019 draws to a close tomorrow, but many of the record-breaking number of attendees will go home knowing how to trigger their brains’ amygdalas to slow the passage of time during intensely enjoyable moments. Many will also understand how tapping into emotional intelligence can benefit them and their students, patients, or clients.
Keynote speaker—and former Olympic silver medalist speed skater—John Coyle launched the conference with tips on improving the quality and experiential length of life. His wonder as a speed skater at how 3/100s of a second can make such a difference in people’s lives turne...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 20, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Academia & Research Events Health Care News Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
How to Slow Down Time and Effectively Use Emotional Intelligence
ASHA Connect 2019 draws to a close tomorrow, but many of the record-breaking number of attendees will go home knowing how to trigger their brain’s amygdales to slow the passage of time during intensely good moments. Many will also understand how tapping into emotional intelligence can benefit you and your students, patients, or clients.
Keynote speaker—and former Olympic silver medalist speed skater—John Coyle launched the conference with tips on improving the quality and experiential length of life. His wonder as a speed skater at how 3/100s of a second can make such a difference in people’s lives turned into a de...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 20, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Academia & Research Events Health Care News Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
How Large Is American Government?
America ’s strong economic growth and high living standards were built on our relatively smaller government. U.S. per capita income is higher than nearly all major countries and our government spending is still somewhat less.However, America ’s lower-spending advantage has diminished. TheOECD publishes data on total federal-state-local government spending as a percentage of GDP for its member countries. The chart shows spending for the United States and for the simple average of 30 OECD countries which have data back to 1995. These are high-income countries such as Canada, Germany, and Japan.The chart shows that the Un...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Take the long way home
Exodus 13 is short enough to handle in one dose. We have seen before how awkwardly contrived this whole plot is, but this is probably the crudest example. In case you don ' t have a clear picture of the geography of the region, keep in mind that modern day Israel and Egypt share a border. The straight shot from Cairo to Beer Sheba is overland, through the Sinai desert. Joseph was first brought to Egypt along this trade route. You can also follow the Mediterranean coast if you like. Goshen was apparently in the northwest of Egypt so it ' s even closer.TheLord said to Moses,2 “Consecrate to me every firstborn male. Th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 14, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: July 13, 2019
Ready for the latest on how to weaken your self-confidence (stick with us here), research on women, alcohol, and mental health, and how the Greek concept of eudaimonia can help us flourish in both personal and business life?
Dive into this week’s Psychology Around the Net where you’ll find all that and more!
10 Insanely Popular Ways to Weaken Your Self-Confidence: To the approval-seekers, the excuse-makers, the second-guessers: this one’s for you.
Women Who Stop Drinking Alcohol Improve Mental Health: Researchers studied the drinking habits and self-reported mental health of more than 31,000 people in th...
Source: World of Psychology - July 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Psychology Around the Net Alcohol Bipolar Disorder Happiness kids men mental health days Procrastination Research Schizoaffective Disorder self-confidence study women Work Source Type: blogs
Is There Such a Thing as a Free-Market Gold Standard?
Twice recently I ’ve come across arguments to the effect that, despite what some libertarians, goldbugs, cryptocurrency fans, and Fed Board candidates imagine, the idea that the historical gold standard kept governments from managing money, leaving the job to market forces, is a myth.Inhis June 24th piece criticizing Facebook ’s Libra Currency, which is being marketed as a sort of internationalstablecoin, Barry Eichengreen writes:Mercifully, Facebook avoided the idea that astablecoin will free us from the tyranny of the Federal Reserve. Typically, stablecoin purveyors invoke a mythical past in which the monetary unit o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 9, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The Old Lady moth
As the summer moves on, so the diversity and numbers of moths (Lepidoptera) active each night grows. We’re coming to the end of the first week of July and already one night’s haul has passed 200 specimens of 40 different species, logged, identified, and the interesting and ones new to the garden photographed.
Old Lady moth. Mormo maura, one of the larger moths of the British Isles
160+ moths of more than 30 species were drawn to the actinic light of the scientific moth trap on the night of 5th July. I had heard and possibly seen an Old Lady (Mormo maura) in the garden a few night’s ago, but this morning s...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - July 6, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Will We Be Born in 2050?
Being born and giving birth is full of pain, blood,
and trauma. Many science fiction works, such as Brave New World, Matrix, The
Island, or I am Mother imagine being brought to the world without actually
being born in a mother’s womb. How far-fetched are these scenarios? Could the
appearance of the artificial womb replace human mothers and natural birth in
the future? How will we come into this world in 2050? Will we be born?
The trauma of being born and giving birth
The
experience of being born and leaving the nurturing womb of our mother after
more or less nine months is painful, bloody, and traumatic. Abrupt sep...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 22, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Medical Science Fiction artificial artificial womb baby birth designer baby Health Healthcare Innovation mother sci-fi scifi society technology uterus Source Type: blogs
Scientific binomials in biology
I’ve talked about scientific binomial nomenclature here before especially in the context of tautonyms, where each part of the binomial (or trinomial even) is the same word e.g Carduelis carduelis, Bufo bufo, Gorilla gorilla gorilla. The repetition lets you know the species in question is the “type of the family.
People often call these scientific names, the Latin name for a plant or animal. However, they’re rarely Latin, they are Latinised, made to look like Latin words, but they’re often derived from proper Latin, assimilated from Greek or simply faked. Heteropoda davidbowie is a good example of wh...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - June 20, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Personal Myth
"I suspected that myth had a meaning which I was sure to miss if I lived outside it in the haze of my own speculations. I was driven to ask myself in all seriousness: “What is the myth you are living?” I found no answer to this question, and had to admit that I was not living with a myth, or even in a myth, but rather in an uncertain cloud of theoretical possibilities which I was beginning to regard with increasing distrust. I did not know that I was living a myth, and even if I had known it, I would not have known what sort of myth was ordering my life without my knowledge. So, in the most natural way, I took it upon ...
Source: Jung At Heart - June 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: blogs
Psychology Has Been Greatly Enriched By Concepts From Non-English Languages (And Why It Should Engage Cross-Culturally Even More)
“My project proposes that the field can engage with non-English ideas and practices in a much more inclusive and systematic way”
By guest blogger Tim Lomas
The novelist David Foster Wallace famously told a story of two young fish swimming in the sea, whereby an older fish glides by and asks, “how’s the water?”, to which they look at each other in puzzlement and say, “What’s water?” The central point of the parable is that we are constantly immersed in contexts to which we give little thought or consideration, but which nevertheless influence us profoundly. Among the most powerful of such contexts i...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: guest blogger Language Source Type: blogs
#HealthIT Replacement Trends – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/7 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Taylor Madsen (@MTaylorMadsen) on the topic of “#HealthIT Replacement Trends”. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said “The only thing that is constant is change.” Well, when it comes […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 4, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Health IT Company Healthcare IT #HITsm Topics EHR Replacement Health IT consolidation Health IT Replacement Reaction Data Taylor Madsen Source Type: blogs
