A health librarian and music - Ina Boyle
I was driving back from the computer shop after buying a plug in keyboard to address the fact that my laptop was no longer (or loner) allowing me to type g and h.And this was on the radio. The car radio told me what it was called, but not who wrote it. I thought it sounded like Ralph Vaughan Williams, but it was not. It was in fact (as you may have known) by Ina Boyle. She lived in County Wicklow, Ireland, composed symphonies and concertos, settings of Irish and English language poems, including English translations of Scottish Gaelic. She was a student of Vaughan Williams. ...
Source: Browsing - July 17, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: music Source Type: blogs
Dr Rosi Sexton for leader of the Green Party
There will soon be an election for the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. I support Dr Sexton for the job. Here’s my endorsement. I’ll say why below.
I support Dr Sexton as a candidate to lead the Green Party (England and Wales). She said
“The Green Party is a political party, not a lifestyle movement”.
That’s perceptive. For too long the Green party in the UK has been regarded as marginal, even as tree-huggers. That’s the case despite their success in local government and in other European countries which have fairer voting systems.
She continued
“We need to be ser...
Source: DC's goodscience - July 6, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Dr Rosi Sexton for leader of the Green Party
There will soon be an election for the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. I support Dr Sexton for the job. Here’s my endorsement. I’ll say why below.
I support Dr Sexton as a candidate to lead the Green Party (England and Wales). She said
“The Green Party is a political party, not a lifestyle movement”.
That’s perceptive. For too long the Green party in the UK has been regarded as marginal, even as tree-huggers. That’s the case despite their success in local government and in other European countries which have fairer voting systems.
She continued
“We need to be ser...
Source: DC's goodscience - July 6, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
That ’ s okay, tonight
Sometimes a guitar lick comes out of nowhere…just morphs from neurons to muscular movements and takes on a life of its own. I noodled about on the guitar with one such riff recently. Simple stuff really, the basic chords were a few majors and a minor, but working up the neck rather than standard first positions. Then a repeat of that but ending with a turnaround taking it back down.
It was reminiscent of a hit song by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons which we sing with bigMouth occasionally. Classic song, Northern Soul style. I left it for a while, I couldn’t just write a new version of The Night.
A couple o...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - July 5, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
Lifestyle Medicine Could Be The Key For Digital Health Adoption
I’ve been wearing my Fitbit for a couple of years and only remove it when I shower. I use it to track my sleep and its smart alarm wakes me up at the optimal time every morning. With the pocketable Kardia, I regularly check my ECG at home to detect any anomalies. For an in-depth analysis of what my genetic makeup predisposes me to, I had my whole genome sequenced. And I bring relevant data to my general practitioner during my checkups so that we can decide on preventive measures. In short, I’m trying to live like the patient of the future.
However, posing as such a patient is not feasible for many among us. Firs...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 23, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Lifestyle medicine E-Patients Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Medical Education Personalized Medicine sleep stress food scanner sleep apnea Apple Watch Dr. Vernes Baylor ACLM Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 1: The Record
George Selgin“Under the New Deal, the US economy grew at rapid rates, even for an economy in recovery.” (Eric Rauchway,The Money Makers, p. 100.)Before I start telling you what “the New Deal” did and didn’t do, I had better make clear what I mean by the phrase, if only to assure you that my meaning is perfectly conventional. LikeWikipedia, when I say “the New Deal,” I mean the “series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939.” I point this out because some claims made about the New De...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 16, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The toppling of Edward Colston
During the Black Lives Matter demonstrations on Sunday 7th June, the statue of Edward Colston was pulled down and dumped in the harbour in Bristol.
I think that it was the most beautiful thing that happened yesterday.
Colston made his money from the slave trade. 84,000 humans were transported on his ships. 19,000 of them died because of the appalling conditions on slave ships.
The statue was erected 174 years after he died, and, astonishingly, 62 years after the abolition of slavery.
According to Historic England, the plaque on the statue read thus.
Edward Colston Born 1636 Died 1721.
Erected by citizens of Bristol as...
Source: DC's goodscience - June 8, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Black Lives Matter Colston Edward Colston Priti Patel Source Type: blogs
The toppling of Edward Colston
During the Black Lives Matter demonstrations on Sunday 7th June, the statue of Edward Colston was pulled down and dumped in the harbour in Bristol.
I think that it was the most beautiful thing that happened yesterday.
Colston made his money from the slave trade. 84,000 humans were transported on his ships. 19,000 of them died because of the appalling conditions on slave ships.
The statue was erected 174 years after he died, and, astonishingly, 62 years after the abolition of slavery.
According to Historic England, the plaque on the statue read thus.
Edward Colston Born 1636 Died 1721.
Erected by citizens of Bristol as...
Source: DC's goodscience - June 8, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Black Lives Matter Colston Edward Colston Priti Patel Source Type: blogs
Deeper Worries in America
I worry about the coronavirus. It’s already killed more than 100,000 Americans. The recent protests have created a nerve-wracking public-health situation for the next weeks.
I really worry about racism. Not only racism in police systems but more systemic racism in our culture.
My friend Dr. Andrew Foy sent me this slide and post showing the large disparity in black and hispanic representation in medical education.
There can be no rest so long as a man like Dr. Otis Brawley, a distinguished professor of medicine,
“can get thrown to the ground, handcuffed and questioned at gunpoint for looking ...
Source: Dr John M - June 6, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
ChemCore: A Cheminformatics Toolkit for Rust
ConclusionChemCore is a new cheminformatics toolkit for Rust. The software was created to fill a need for a compact, fast, easy-to-build, easy-to-deploy, permissively-licensed toolkit that works well in many application scenarios. Integrating several new ideas about molecule and graph APIs, ChemCore's focus is forward-looking. ChemCore can currently read SMILES without aromatic features, and will support input/output with both SMILES and Molfile. Further releases will focus on supporting higher-level cheminformatics functionality with an eye toward advanced desktop and Web applications. (Source: Depth-First)
Source: Depth-First - June 1, 2020 Category: Chemistry Authors: Richard L. Apodaca Source Type: blogs
Whataboutism
I don ' t have to blog about subjects that interest you.From Wikipedia:Whataboutism, also known aswhataboutery, is a variant of thetu quoquelogical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent ' s position by charging them withhypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument.[1][2][3]Whataboutism is particularly associated withSoviet andRussian propaganda.[4][5][6] When criticisms were leveled at the Soviet Union during theCold War, the Soviet response would often be " What about... " followed by an event in theWestern world.[7][8][9] AsGarry Kasparov noted, it is a word that was coined to describe the fr...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 20, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Famous nurses (4): Betsi Cadwaladr
Part 4 of this series is somewhat overdue, since parts 1-3 were done in 2015! Investigating Florence Nightingale again for her bicentenary has brought Betsi Cadwaladr to my attention. Born in Bala, North Wales, in 1789, Cadwaladr went to the Crimea. There is more about her in the resources below.There are two spellings of each of her names (Betsy, as well as Betsi, and Cadwaladyr, as well as Cadwaladr). She is also known as Elizabeth Davis, one reason given being that some people could not pronounce her name...Atenstaedt and Beddoe will need a subscription, which your library may have...
Source: Browsing - May 13, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: nursing Source Type: blogs
Preserving Patient Dignity (Formerly Patient Modesty) Volume 111
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Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - May 8, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
How to Stop Waiting for ‘ When Coronavirus Ends ’
How many times have you thought, “When coronavirus ends, I will ______” — as if you’re putting off everything (or at least the things you most love) until then?
They say that human civilization was built around our supposedly unique ability to plan for the future. Besides the fact that apes and birds do this too, it turns out that focusing exclusively on the future, and forgetting to live in the present, may not be the best way to get through a pandemic, especially when we don’t know when it will end.
I talked to several therapists who all agreed: Don’t wait for the future; live now. Here are their tips...
Source: World of Psychology - May 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marie Leznicki Tags: Creativity Mindfulness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic Present Moment Source Type: blogs
ABLE (529A) plans -- what's a good one and who has it
Wikipedia has a succinct description of the529A (ABLE) plan:ABLE programs are similar to tax-advantaged 529 plans for college savings.[8] In addition, a 529 plan can be rolled over into an ABLE account for a qualified beneficiary.An ABLE account can be opened by a disabled individual who became disabled before 26 years of age.[8] An ABLE account can receive after-tax cash contributions from any person, including its owner.[1] Contributions in a year are limited to the federal gift tax exclusion [9] for that year — $15,000 in 2018.[10] If the beneficiary works and does not contribute to a 401(a), 401(k), 403(b), or 457 pl...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - April 12, 2020 Category: Disability Source Type: blogs
