4 Life-Changing Truths About the Universe
What fascinates you most about the universe? The sun, moon, or the fantastic milky way. Well, the quantum of the universe is beyond that. If I start telling you the magic of the universe, I might be unable to do it in the best possible way. But again, I have invested more than 30 years of my life in realizing countless truths happening in the universe every next minute. One thing I know for sure is that everything in the universe is either connected with science or spirituality. I love to learn about the interaction of science and spirituality, especially with quantum physics. And my passion for quantum physics helped me t...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Murphy Tags: featured philosophy psychology Source Type: blogs
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I am not a physicist, but I do think I have a good intuitive understanding of the state of physics and cosmology today. Rather than continue this discussion in the comments to an earlier post, I thought I ' d elevate it to the front page. I would say that a funny thing happened on the way to a Theory of Everything.The profound discoveries of the 20th Century -- relativity, quantum theory, field theories and the so-called Standard Model of particles and forces, and of course Big Bang* cosmology -- to many signaled the end of metaphysics. Mere speculation about the deep nature of the universe and first causes was obsolete. T...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 10, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Deep Thought
I ' ve been doing a lot of reading lately -- history and science as well as material that ' s directly relevant to my book. Right now I ' m reading On the Origin of Time by Thomas Hertog, who was a student and then a collaborator of Stephen Hawking. I would definitely recommend it if you ' re into that sort of thing. And I ' ve read a few more books recently on physics and cosmology, as well as biology, which I can also recommend if anyone is interested..I think I get why there is so much denial of science. I forget who it was who said something to the effect that the more we know about the universe, the more pointless it ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 1, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Career Conversations: Q & A With Polymer Chemist Frank Leibfarth
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Frank Leibfarth.
“I love that you can change the molecular-level structure of a material, then pull it, bend it, or twist it and see firsthand how the molecular changes you introduced influence its stretchiness or bendiness,” says Frank Leibfarth Ph.D., an associate professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. In an interview, Dr. Leibfarth shares with us his scientific journey, his use of chemistry to tackle challenges in human health and sustainability, and his beliefs on what makes a career in science exciting.
Q: What led you to study chemistry?
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Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - April 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Tools and Techniques Cool Tools/Techniques Profiles Source Type: blogs
72 Same Energy Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You
When you match someone else’s energy and mirror that person it can bring the two of you closer and create rapport.
When you focus your energy on what matters the most to you then you can make great leaps forward towards your dreams and goals.
In today’s post I’d like to inspire you to use your own energy in a helpful way. This is 72 of the best same energy quotes.
I hope you’ll find something motivating and useful here.
And if you want more uplifting inspiration then check out this post with quotes on positive energy and this one filled with keep pushing quotes.
Inspirational Same Energy Quotes
“Energy and persi...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: St. Martin ’s Academy
Colleen Hroncich“Boys thrive when they’re challenged and when they’re doing hard things. Especially when they’re doing hard things together.” This is some of the insight Daniel Kerr has developed after founding and runningSt. Martin ’s Academy, a Catholic boarding school for boys on a sustainable farm in Fort Scott, Kansas.Daniel ’s dream of founding a school was inspired byThe Restoration of Innocence: An Idea of a School, an unpublished work by John Senior. After years of dreaming and then planning, St. Martin ’s Academy opened in 2018.“The school is situated on a 5 ‑acre parc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 14, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
How to sell your popular science book in the age of influencers and podcasts
A friend of mine, Greg Gbur, has a new book out. It looks fascinating, its title is Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen. I needn’t tell you much more about it, it does what it says on the tin, as they say. Gbur is a physics prof who specialises in optics and has a way with words. It’s a guaranteed great read.
Anyway, Greg was lamenting on social media how hard it is for a popular science author with a book out to get that very message across. There are so many books published every week, so many people chattering and chuntering on about those books. Any attempt to promote it and get the ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Other Science Source Type: blogs
Uncovering the controversial debate surrounding climate change
In a recent posting, “The vital importance of climate change education in medical schools,” the author concluded that climate change is “here and undeniable” and, based on her experience of wildfires, that the cataclysmic consequences are already upon us. Many would disagree, including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Ivar Giaever who, on resigning from the American
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Uncovering the controversial debate surrounding climate change originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Martin C. Young, MD Tags: Physician Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
3 Ways to Develop an ‘Ever-Young’ Mind by Asking Ourselves Questions
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) was an exceptional thinker and mystic. One of the baffling features of his thought and discourse was his insistence on rejecting the traditional role of a spiritual authority and refusing to provide answers to his listeners. Participants in his public talks and dialogues were often surprised when Krishnamurti would pose questions such as ‘What is the meaning of life?’ negate all imaginable answers, and leave the questions hanging and his audience empty-handed. For Krishnamurti, this was his way of awakening the intelligence of his listeners, throwing them back on themselves.
Ordinari...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: creativity featured happiness meditation motivation philosophy psychology self-improvement ever-young mind Source Type: blogs
Biomimetic Construct Models Burn Injuries
Researchers at Harvard University have developed a model of burn injuries that will allow them to investigate the mechanisms underlying healing in such injuries and test out new approaches to enhance this process. Burns can take a long time to heal and can be prone to infection and complicated by the presence of large quantities of dead tissue at the injury site. Modeling these processes in vitro will allow researchers to improve on the current standard of care for burn patients and avoid using experimental animals. The model includes a collagen hydrogel that is seeded with fibroblasts, supportive cells that normally help ...
Source: Medgadget - March 21, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Medicine Surgery Source Type: blogs
Alpha TAU Killing Tumors With Highly Targeted Alpha Radiation
Radiation is commonly employed in hospitals around the world to treat tumors, typically using gamma ray beams of high energy photons, with a relatively long range, that penetrate all the tissues on the way to and from the tumor. This leads to substantial damage to healthy tissues and too often results in poor outcomes. An alpha particle, consisting of two protons and two neutrons bound together and akin to a helium-4 nucleus, is much trickier to work with in medicine because it is extremely powerful, yet has a very short effective range.
Ronen Segal
We recently visited the offices of Alpha TAU, a company based in Jeru...
Source: Medgadget - March 2, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Exclusive Oncology Radiation Oncology TelAvivUni Source Type: blogs
ChatGPT interviews Sciencebase
TL:DR – I prompted ChatGPT to come up with some questions to interview me, I then asked it to act as me and to provide answers to its own questions on my behalf. Aside from a couple of factual errors, the results are eerily close to how I might have responded.
In my previous article, I wrote about prompting ChatGPT to come up with a list of 20 questions to ask me as an experienced science writer with a penchant for wildlife photography. Originally, I planned to come up with my own answers…but what’s the point in that?
So, having asked it to act as a journalist to come up with the questions, I then asked ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 21, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: blogs
What to do about disinformation?
This by Matthew Perrone of the AP has been showing up in a lot of places. He recounts the FDA ' s largely feckless battle against the sea of health-related bullshit that seems to have become an emblem of right-wing identity. He attributes the agency ' s credibility problem at least in part to some actual missteps, although he actually names only two -- approval of aducanumab for Alheimer ' s disease and what he asserts was a delayed response to the infant formula shortage. This I would say is a very weak causal attribution.I very much doubt that the people who are dosing themselves with horse dewormer are even aware of the...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 20, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 myocarditis illusions: A new cardiac MRI study raises questions about the diagnosis
BY ANISH KOKA
One of the hallmarks of the last two years has been the distance that frequently exists between published research and reality. I’m a cardiologist, and the first disconnect that became glaringly obvious very quickly was the impact COVID was having on the heart. As I walked through COVID rooms in the Spring of 2020 trying to hold my breath, I waited for a COVID cardiac tsunami. After all social media had been full of videos from Wuhan and Iran of people suddenly dropping in the streets. My hyperventilating colleagues made me hyperventilate. Could it be that Sars-COV2 had some predilection for heart...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka COVID-19 Misinformation myocarditis Vaccine Source Type: blogs
Nanopore Sensor to Study Protein Aggregation in Neurodegeneration
Researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a nanopore sensor to study the aggregation of tau and tubulin protein molecules. These proteins, and specifically their aggregation in the brain, are implicated in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. This nanopore technology aims to allow researchers to study the effects of different environmental conditions, including pH, salt concentration, and temperature, on how these proteins aggregate. The researchers hope that their advancement can help to understand the underlying mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and potentially identif...
Source: Medgadget - January 30, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Neurology UArkansas Source Type: blogs
