Sunday Sermonette: Identity crisis
Numbers 12 is puzzling in several ways, which the Midrash (a rabbinical commentary on the Torah) attempts to explain. The first puzzle is that Miriam and Aaron complain about Moses ' s " Cushite " wife. KJV has " Ethiopian " which is close enough. Cushite refers to people from the area south of Egypt, including what is today Sudan, Somalia, and Ethiopia. But when Moses fled after killing the Egyptian he sojourned among the Midianites, which is the identity of his wife Zipporah and her father. We don ' t know what direction he fled, but we do know that the Midianites are from Palestine. In one version of the abduction...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 23, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Teaching As a Human Trait
What did people have to talk about when language was new? They had been getting along fine without words, and suddenly they had a few, but what was there to say?Donald M. Morrison has written a book (The Coevolution of Language, Teaching, and Civil Discourse among Humans) that proposes language got up and running as a teaching system. Speculation about teaching is common, but usually limited to teaching how to make stone tools. Opinions are mixed as to whether language was necessary to teach how to make the early tools, especially Oldowan tools. Showing without talking might well have been enough to teach how to make th...
Source: Babel's Dawn - August 17, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
Can Sudan Escape Its History as a Transit Hub for Violent Extremist Organizations?
Sudan continues to confront major challenges that could derail the country ' s path back to the mainstream of international politics. To find a permanent place in that mainstream, Sudan must show that it is no longer a haven for terrorist and violent extremist groups and that it is committed to ensuring that this remains true. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 23, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Peter Chalk; Daveed Gartenstein-Ross; Colin P. Clarke Source Type: blogs
Ebola, forgotten but not gone
The recent WHO decision to declare the novel coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), while both appropriate and hardly surprising, offers the opportunity to reflect on the previous PHEIC which was declared, namely the Ebola epidemic in Kivu region, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). And you should really say the ongoing Ebola epidemic, as during the time since the declaration in July 2019 through to the present day (March 2020), a total of 3,453 cases have been reported [1].
The nCoV-2019 outbreak is still ballooning; as of today, over 400,000 confirmed cases worldwide with no ...
Source: GIDEON blog - March 25, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
There is No Good Justification for the New Immigration Ban
Alex NowrastehOn January 31st, the Trump administration issued a proclamation that stopped the issuance of most green cards to citizens of Nigeria, Kyrgyzstan, Eritrea, Myanmar, Tanzania, and Sudan. If the ban applied to these countries in 2018, it would have blocked 12,313 green cards that year.This is the second wave of ‘travel bans’ issued by the Trump administration since the initial ban of many predominately Muslim‐majority countries in 2017. The stated justification for these bans is to protect the public from terrorist and criminal threats that could be committed by immigrants from those countries. Fu ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
There Is No National Security Justification for the New Immigration Ban
Alex NowrastehThe Trump administration justreleased an immigration ban on the six countries of Nigeria, Kyrgyzstan, Eritrea, Myanmar, Tanzania, and Sudan. Citizens of Nigeria, Myanmar, Eritrea, and Kyrgyzstan won ’t be allowed to apply for green cards. Citizens of Tanzania and Sudan won’t be able to apply for the green card lottery.There is no national security justification for banning immigrants from those countries. From 1975 through 2017, 11 foreign ‐born terrorists from those countries attempted or committed attacks on U.S. soil. They murdered 6 people in their attacks. The annual chance of being mu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 31, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
How Personal Experience Of Adversity Influences Our Feelings Of Compassion Towards Others
A young refugee in Darfur, Sudan in 2004. Participants read about the plight of children in Darfur and saw pictures of one child or several children, then rated their feelings of compassion. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images
By Emma Young
Imagine seeing a photograph of a suffering child in the war-torn region of Darfur, in Sudan. Most of us would feel compassion towards that child. Now imagine seeing a photo of a group of eight children in the same terrible predicament. You’d feel correspondingly more compassion towards this larger group… right?
Well, probably not. Plenty of studies have demonstrated what’s known as...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Morality Social The self Source Type: blogs
United States Ranks 5th in Economic Freedom
Ian V ásquezTheEconomic Freedom of the World: 2019 Annual Report is out today. The highest-ranking countries in this year ’s index, co-published in the United States by the Fraser Institute and the Cato Institute, are Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States.Hong Kong still ranks first in the index —which is based on 2017 data, the most recent year for which internationally comparable data are available—but we are concerned about its ability to maintain a high position given Beijing's increasing intervention in the territory's affairs. Already we have seen a decline in Hong Kong's rule o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 12, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
A physician ’s call to action from Sudan
As he stuck his ungloved finger on the parched tongue bearing the color of pale salmon, he called out for the visiting medical student. It was my first official medical rounds in a university hospital in Khartoum as a Sudanese-American medical student, visiting my “native” country, an experience afforded through a global health project spawned […]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 - July 26, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sawsan-abdel-razig" rel="tag" > Sawsan Abdel-Razig, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Screens For The Poor, Human Connection For The Rich – Even In Healthcare?
Not so long ago, worries about the digital divide
represented the anxiety that the rich will have access to more information and
more possibilities in every area of life compared to those who cannot afford
connected digital devices. Currently, trends show that human connection might
become a luxury good for the rich, while poor families might not be able to
afford living screen-free in the future. We asked how would that translate into
healthcare and what could we do to ensure the treasure of human contact to
everyone in the coming decades.
Is digital detox becoming a luxury good?
Although the techno-dystopian sci-fi...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 6, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine addiction development divide gap Healthcare human human connection human contact inequality low-income poor rich screen smart smartphone society technology Source Type: blogs
Another factor contributing to PTSD onset; the NUMBER of traumatic events
A scientific friend and colleague, Professor Thomas Elbert from Konstanz University in Germany, has had a long interest in applying “simple” treatments to individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSDs). With his wife Maggie and others, he has developed and applied such treatments to war victims, primarily in Africa and Sri Lanka. There, literally millions of individuals have endured great personal losses and multiple horrifying experiences. If and when these individuals are resettled back to their homes in Uganda or Liberia or Sierra Leone or Rwanda or Sudan or the Congo Republic or wherever...
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - May 1, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Merzenich Tags: Brain Fitness Brain Trauma, Injury Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, et alia Source Type: blogs
World Happiness Report 2019
United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network - The World Happiness Report is a survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. This year ’s report focuses on happiness and the community - how happiness has evolved over the past dozen years, with a focus on the technologies, social norms, conflicts and government policies that have driven those changes. Finland was ranked highest for the second year in a row, while South Sudan ranke d lowest. The UK was placed fifteenth.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 24, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Mental Health Source Type: blogs
American Weapons in Yemen: A Cautionary Tale
CNNbrokean important story today outlining how Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have intentionally transferred American-made weapons to violent non-state actors. Intended as a government to government sale, everything from American rifles to Oshkosh armored vehicles to TOW anti-tank missiles have made their way into the hands of “Al Qaeda-linked fighters, hard-line Salafi militias, and other factions waging war in Yemen. ”Although the extent of the problem in Yemen is disturbing, the illegal dispersion of American weapons is nothing new. And the fact that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are unreliable customers...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 5, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall, Caroline Dorminey Source Type: blogs
Senate GOP Bill Doesn ’t Extend TPS. It Guts It
President Trumpannounced on Saturday that he had a new plan to open government that includes “a three-year extension of temporary protected status or TPS.” But as in the case of DACA—for reasons I explainedhere—theactual legislation that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced to implement his proposal does not extend TPS. Rather, it ends it as it exists now, and replaces with an entirely different program with much more restrictive criteria.Temporary protective status, or TPS, is granted to nationals of country where the government feels it could not, at one time or another, send people back to due to a ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 22, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
14 Best Blogs of 2018
It’s hard to believe the diversity—and convergence—of heart, skill, and lived experience inside each member of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing community. In the editor’s choice of the top 14 blogs of 2018, writers open up about the inner forces that stir them to do the work of nursing in Baltimore, in South Sudan,
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - December 20, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse Blog Source Type: blogs
