Music
I’m a science journalist by day, a photographer on my days off, and a musician by night. Always been in love with music, since my first rattle and toy guitar as a tot, been fretting guitar strings in earnest since I was about 12 years old and jamming with friends, but it’s only in the last decade or so that I have performed live and written and recorded my music first with a community choir by the name of bigMouth and then with a collective which has evolved into a gigging band called C5. Some of my songs are available on BandCamp, iTunes, Spotify, covers and originals also on Youtube, SoundCloud, and el...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 17, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music album dave bradley guitar Source Type: blogs
On Becoming a (Positively) Disruptive Woman, and Passing It on to Others
When I was 22 years old, I received my A.B. honors from the University of Chicago. I had been taught that the world was entirely open to me. I wanted to pursue a career in public health and healthcare, and began an intensive job search. My heart was set on an Administrative Internship at Hennepin County Medical Center – an organization that fit well with my passion for health equity.
I was told by my interviewer that I couldn’t apply for the position because I was female. He added that the field of health leadership was limited to men, nuns and nurses, and I wasn’t any of them, so I should rethink my career o...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Commonsense Ways to Make Sure You Adapt
“Conditions are always changing, and real peace lies in the ability to adapt to these changes.” – Mingyur Rinpoche
When things don’t seem to go right, what’s your first thought? Do you just give up or do you vow to try a different approach? If you ditch the effort simply because you’ve run into difficulty, you’re not only giving yourself a reason to call yourself a failure (albeit mistakenly), you’re also depriving yourself of the opportunity to learn.
Learn to expect change — it’s part of life.
Nothing in life stays the same. Everything is always in a state of change. To the extent that you can rec...
Source: World of Psychology - May 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Self-Help adapt Coping Skills Creativity Knowledge Learning problem solving Resilience Source Type: blogs
3 Ways Your Personal Baggage Can Actually Help Your Relationship
Cheers to the damaged people.
How many times has someone cited baggage as a reason for breaking up with you? How many times have you been let down because you were too complicated, too messed up, or just too plain difficult to love?
Whatever Follows Your “I AM” Is What You Attract Into Your Life
Ouch.
My guess is many, many times — perhaps not with this exact wording, but people with baggage are used to having potential partners run for the hills when they’ve deemed them too complex, emotionally trying, or difficult. Most people have a low pain tolerance for other people’s baggage.
But baggage is act...
Source: World of Psychology - May 8, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Publishers Relationships Self-Help YourTango Andrea Miller baggage Breaking Up Challenges compassionate damaged people Emotional Resilience Empathetic Empathy Experiences Gigi Engle Happy Couples history Human Experiences Source Type: blogs
5 research-backed lessons on what makes a happy life
Ever wonder what it would be like to be able to look at people’s entire adult lives? Not asking older people to remember, but starting with them as teenagers and tracking their health and well-being until they die? We’ve been lucky enough to do this for the past 78 years, starting in the late 1930s and early ‘40s with a group of men who agreed to be part of one of the longest studies of adult life ever done.
The Harvard Study of Adult Development has tracked the lives of 724 men from the time they were teenagers into old age — 268 Harvard College sophomores, and 456 boys from Boston’s inner city. Using questionna...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 8, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert John Waldinger, MD Tags: Brain and cognitive health Healthy Aging Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Mitochondria-Derived Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns in Aging
Mitochondria-derived damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are a proposed link between age-related mitochondrial damage and age-related inflammation, and this open access paper outlines present thinking on the topic. Mitochondria, the power plants of the cell, are strongly implicated in the progression of aging in a number of ways, the SENS view of damage to mitochondrial DNA producing dysfunctional cells being one, and a more general decline in mitochondrial energy generation for other reasons, yet to be fully mapped, being another. DAMPs are more in line with the first view rather than the second, in which broken ...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 4, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - First Week of May 2017
We continue to work on the forests and trails surrounding the Unity property to create a community resource. The map below shows the current status of the land (water is in blue) - 18 trails, 10 bridges, 3 ponds, and 5 streams. We ’re clearing invasive non-native plants, removing decades of scrap metal/pottery/plastic midden piles, and taken down unstable dead trees that are a safety issue. With every passing week, the land becomes more and more accessible. Every time I go to the rural foundation meadow, I find it filled with wild turkeys, deer, raptors, coyotes, and rabbits. Our goal is to pro...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - May 4, 2017 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 1st 2017
In this study we demonstrate the use of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based epigenome editing to alter cell response to inflammatory environments by repressing inflammatory cytokine cell receptors, specifically TNFR1 and IL1R1. This has applications for many inflammatory-driven diseases. It could be applied for arthritis or to therapeutic cells that are being delivered to inflammatory environments that need to be protected from inflammation."
In chronic back pain, for example, slipped or herniated discs are a result of damaged tissue when inflammation causes cells to create molec...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 30, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The New Perfection: Pretty Good
Welcome to the University of North Carolina or, more apropos, the University of No Chance. At least regarding my likelihood of graduation.
A self-conscious freshman, I remember the red ink coating my first Chapel Hill exam. As I replayed the exam, those latent doubts about my academic ability crescendoed into full-throated roars. What am I doing here? I wondered. I don’t belong at such a prestigious university. Will I even make it to graduation?
During my freshman year, Fear Factor was more than a reality television show. There were panicked phone calls to my beleaguered mother. Somehow an Econ 101 exam (or another test...
Source: World of Psychology - April 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew Loeb Tags: Anxiety and Panic Happiness Personal Success & Achievement Failure Perfectionism Personal Growth Self Sabotage Worry Source Type: blogs
A Nanoparticle Cancer Vaccine Effective Against Multiple Varieties of Cancer
The most important projects in cancer research are those that might produce therapies effective against many different types of cancer. There are too many varieties of cancer and individual tumors can evolve too rapidly for the research community to achieve its goals by working on highly specific therapies. To defeat cancer within the next few decades, the aim must be to produce broadly effective therapies, targeting common mechanisms and vulnerabilities shared by many or all cancers. There projects cost the same as more narrowly applicable approaches, but are much more cost-effective for the results they might produce. Th...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 26, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fatherhood: Optional
“We have a personality clash,” my father would flippantly remark before storming off. This was his throwaway line.
I stood there dumbfounded. A sensitive teenager, the words wounded. There was a cold dismissiveness in his voice.
“What have I ever done to you?” I wondered.
The answer: Nothing. But that doesn’t stop the lingering hurt. In 1997, 2007, and, yes, 2017.
As an adult, I hear friends beam about spending Father’s Day with their old man. There are golf outings and sporting events interspersed with fatherly words of wisdom. It is heartwarming. Like put it on a Hallmark card heartwarming. But, truthfully, t...
Source: World of Psychology - April 8, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew Loeb Tags: Anger Children and Teens Family Grief and Loss Parenting Personal absentee dad Absentee father Conflict Resolution emotionally unavailable Estrangement Family Arguments father's day Fatherhood hurt Neglect Resentment Source Type: blogs
Guilty Conscience? Feel Good by Doing Good
“These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant, and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail.” – Montaigne
If you’re experiencing a guilty conscience, you may think there’s no way out of it. We all know how self-destructive guilt feels. On the other hand, what does it mean to have a good conscience? Is this something that anyone can experience or is it only for people that some consider saints? Indeed, most of us have encountered someone that always seems above reproach, seemingly faultless. We may feel our own shortcomings in comparison and harbor a guilt...
Source: World of Psychology - April 3, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Relationships Self-Help Amends Betrayal Conscience Forgiveness Guilt guilty conscience Optimism Positivity Repentance trust Source Type: blogs
Trump ’s Obamacare Debacle: Vanquished by a Ghost!
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
Judging by the dazed expression on President Trump’s face at his Friday afternoon press conference, it is clear that he never saw his first major political defeat coming. It was as if he had stepped off the curb looking the other direction into the path of an uncoming bus.
The key to any political victory is situational awareness- clarity about your goals and mastery of the details. There were warning signs of a potentially fatal disengagement, for example, in Trump’s periodic references to “the healthcare” when discussing the issue.
It doesn’t make Trump’s political pain any more bearable to...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 30, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Trump Justifies Executive Order by Citing Terrorists Who Were Not Planning a Domestic Attack
President Trump ’s updatedexecutive order used the Bowling Green terrorists as a justification for his policy changes even though they weren ’t planning a domestic terrorist attack. His order states that “in January 2013, two Iraqi nationals admitted to the United States as refugees in 2009 were sentenced to 40 years and to life in prison, respectively, for multiple terrorism-related offenses.” Those two Iraqi nationals wereMohanad Shareef Hammadi andWaad Ramadan Alwan and they were each convicted of multiple terrorism offenses —but they were not convicted or even charged with attempting to carry out a terror att...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 6, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
The Importance of Raising Good Men and Strong Women
The decision to become a parent is not one to be taken lightly. Sometimes it occurs by carefully considered choice and in other circumstances, it comes as a surprise. Ideally, a child is welcomed into a family; cherished and nurtured with both food and love. Sadly, that is not always the case.
The offices of psychotherapists are filled with clients who were subjects of relationships gone awry, of neglect and abuse. Words that sting as harshly as objects used to deliver punishing blows are spewed in anger, causing sometimes irreparable damage. The adage, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me...
Source: World of Psychology - March 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Anger Children and Teens Family LifeHelper Parenting Psychotherapy Psychotherapy Stories Treatment Addiction adopting Child Development Child Psychology coparenting Divorce Modeling Source Type: blogs
