Wednesday Bible Study: Hitting the snooze button
Joshua 17 continues with the division of the land. I ' m afraid I just can ' t work up the energy to comment in detail on this, it all seems essentially pointless and boring. I ' ll just make some general observations. Remember that this is completely fictitious. None of this tale is based in historic reality, although one would suppose it does reflect something about the distribution of territory in the time of King Josiah. There may be politics involved, regarding how disputed or unclear boundaries, and aspirations that some clans may have had to acquire land, including from non-Israelites. There is no way to check on an...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 12, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: At least this chapter is mercifully short
More of the divinely inspired word. Note that as in most cases, God has failed to keep one of his promises. Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, ... and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.Joshua 3:10For thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.Joshua 17:17-18I ' ll have a real post later today.16 The allotment for Joseph began at the Jordan, east of the springs of Jericho, and went up from there...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 9, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Is IBD an underrecognized health problem in minority groups?
As many people know, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a complex condition affecting the intestine, which is the part of the digestive tract that helps digest food and remove water, salt, and waste.
But you might not know this: in recent years in the US, IBD is being diagnosed more often among people who are Black, Hispanic/Latinx, East and Southeast Asian, or from other minority groups than it was in past decades.
Is this a true rise in cases? Is IBD underrecognized in minority populations? While we don’t have all the answers yet, exploring health disparities in IBD and explaining its symptoms may encourage more peopl...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Adjoa Anyane-Yeboa, MD, MPH Tags: Digestive Disorders Health Health care disparities Inflammation Source Type: blogs
Law Review Article Endorses Eliminating Qualified Immunity —And One Step Further
James CravenAforthcoming law review article from Professor Katherine Crocker of William and Mary Law School endorses eliminating qualified immunity, which protects individual public officials from lawsuits alleging a violation of constitutional rights ( §1983 claims). But it also suggests going one step further: eliminate theMonell doctrine and expand § 1983 to let people sue government entities as well.The current mechanisms for constitutional tort claims against government entities are complicated. InMonell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), the Supreme Court ruled thatmunicipal government enti...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 5, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: James Craven Source Type: blogs
Pumping Iron: The Heavy Lifting Iron Does in Our Bodies
Our blood appears red for the same reason the planet Mars does: iron. The element may bring to mind cast-iron pans, wrought-iron fences, or ancient iron tools, but it’s also essential to life on Earth. All living organisms, from humans to bacteria, need iron. It’s crucial for many processes in the human body, including oxygen transport, muscle function, proper growth, cell health, and the production of several hormones.
Iron is the reason both our blood and the planet Mars appear red. The element also makes up the majority of Earth’s core and generates the planet’s magnetic field. Credit: Compound Interest....
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - May 5, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Cellular Processes Proteins Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 3rd 2021
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Source: Fight Aging! - May 2, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Accelerating Progress Towards the Reversible Cryopreservation of Organs
There is a growing level of interest and funding for the goal of reversible cryopreservation of whole organs. If achieved, this would radically improve the logistics of organ donation, allowing organs to be kept indefinitely before use. Proof of principle demonstrations have been carried out, but the field has lacked the funding and impetus to rapidly build upon that starting point. Hopefully this will change. The ability to reliably vitrify and thaw large tissue sections with minimal ice crystal formation, cell death, or other structural damage will add legitimacy to the goal of human cryopreservation, storing patients at...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 29, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Well, Stayin' Alive
Steven Johnson has written the book I ' ve been meaning to write, about the history of human life expectancy. (Don ' t worry, I ' ve got another project in the works.) I ' m not sure how the paywall works with the NYT magazine,but he provides a great overview here, which I hope you can read. As I ' ve discussed here more than a few times, life expectancy bounced around just a little from time to time and place to place from the neolithic until the late 19th Century. Then it doubled, quite suddenly, first in the wealthy countries and then around the world. It ' s an artificial construct and interpreting it isn ' t stra...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 27, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
New Software Helps Design DNA Nanorobots
Researchers at Ohio State University have developed new software that allows them to rapidly design and simulate DNA nanorobots. Previously, it was challenging to engineer such tiny devices, but now researchers can map out their design in minutes. DNA-based devices have significant promise as medical technologies with potential applications in drug delivery and diagnostics.
Researchers are still pursuing the sci-fi dream of tiny machines that can enter our bodies and help to heal us. This latest development brings that reality a little closer. Developing DNA-based robots and devices at such a tiny scale poses a unique s...
Source: Medgadget - April 21, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Genetics Materials Nanomedicine Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 19th 2021
In conclusion, airway pressure treatment and adherence are independently associated with lower odds of incident AD diagnoses in older adults. Results suggest that treatment of OSA may reduce risk of subsequent dementia. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - April 18, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Lysosomal Dysfunction and the Death of Neurons via Ferroptosis
Here find supporting evidence for the SENS view of lipofuscin and lysosomal dysfunction in aging. Lysosomes are the recycling units of the cell, packed with enzymes to break down unwanted structures and molecules into raw materials. Over time, long-lived cells such as the neurons of the central nervous system are negatively affected by the build up of resilient metabolic waste that is challenging to break down. Collectively this waste is called lipofuscin, but it contains many different problem compounds, and overall is poorly catalogued. Lysosomes in old neurons are observed to be bloated and dysfunctional, leading to cel...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 16, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: More family values
I ' m afraid the Book of Joshua is going to be very tedious. It ' s one genocide after another. You will find many religious apologists claim that religion is necessary for morality, that without religious faith there can be no way to tell right from wrong. Isn ' t it odd that I, who have no religious faith, can determine that the entire Book of Joshua is monstrously wrong, and that living according to Biblical morality would make you the precise moral equivalent of Adolf Hitler? Regarding the ending of the first part of the chapter, what did the king of Ai ever do to the Israelites? 8 Then theLord said to Joshua...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 11, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Not very spiritual
Joshua 6 is one of the better known chapters in the Bible, probably because it is the subject of a famous and much-recorded African American slave song, usually titled " Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, " fit, of course, being dialect for fought. It is interesting that the subject matter of most slave songs with Biblical content, conventionally called spirituals, is Old Testament. That suggests that the slaveholders ' religious instruction of their slaves focused heavily on OT stories, or perhaps that the slaves found the OT more inspirational. The symbolic meaning of the song to its creators and the people wh...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 4, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
By Supporters ’ Own Standards, the Steel Tariffs Haven’t Been “Effective”
Scott LincicomeIn an interview with MSNBC last Thursday, new Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondospoke highly of the " national security " tariffs that President Trump placed on steel and aluminum imports in 2018 under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. According to Secretary Raimondo, " [t]he data show that those tariffs have been effective. " As my colleague Simon Lesternoted at the time, it ' s not entirely clear whether Raimondo ' s opinion was specific to China or the Section 232 tariffs more broadly, and she amplified the confusion by immediately following her remark with a note that the Biden administration...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 10, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: The blessing of the tribes
As he prepares for death, Moses blesses each of the tribes in turn. However, the list of the tribes of Israel varies from place to place in the Bible. In this instance, there are only 11. Simeon, Ephraim, and Manasseh, each of which appear elsewhere, are omitted here. The usual number we think of is 12, but it ' s 13 in Numbers 1. Here ' s a handy dandy table from SAB: 33 This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.2 He said,“TheLord came from Sinai, and dawned from Se ′ir upon us;[a] ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 10, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
