Even People Without Mathematical Training Experience The “Beauty” Of Maths
By Matthew Warren
Philosophers and mathematicians have long held that maths can be aesthetically pleasing. “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty,” wrote Bertrand Russell, while Carl Friedrich Gauss proclaimed that “The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal themselves in all their beauty only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it”.
But a study published recently in Cognition suggests that even those whose lives don’t revolve around logic and numbers also have an appreciation for mathematical “beauty”. People tend to see similarities between mathemati...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Aesthetics Perception Source Type: blogs
We, Too
by Abby Rosenberg (@AbbyRosenbergMD)I didn ’t want to be another “me too” story. I am becoming one, now, because I believe in the power of a collective voice.You see, there is something terribly lonely about experiencing sexual harassment. And, there is something incredibly powerful about the quiet moment when you finally, bravely, share your story. There is something bittersweet about knowing you are not alone.Sexual harassment in medicine is common. Over 50% of women medical students experience it before they graduate.(1) Disparities in women ’s salaries, grant-funding, academic rank, and leadership opportunities...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - April 28, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: discrimination harassment rosenberg The profession Source Type: blogs
Confessions of a First Time Presenter
By Kristin Edwards (@KristinMDCT)I ’ve been attending theAnnual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care (AAHPM/HPNA) for nearly a decade, but this is the first year I presented a concurrent session. As I return to work, the glow from my 15 minutes of Friday morning fame fading away, I wanted to share a few thoughts for those who, might feel intimidated about submitting an abstract.An abstract can only be accepted if it is submitted.I spent years coming up with ideas for a presentation, but ultimately deciding they were not good enough. A trusted mentor encouraged me to submit my ideas anyway. He saw value in the process ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - April 22, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: AAHPM conference Edwards HPNA Source Type: blogs
When Pigs Fly
by Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.
Researchers at Yale University recently reported an experiment in which they used an experimental chemical solution to create electrical activity in the cells of pig brains, brains obtained from a slaughterhouse four hours after the death of the animals from decapitation (NY Times ‘Partly Alive’: Scientists Revive Cells in Brains From Dead Pigs, 4/17,19). These results led to all manner of comments in this story, many from bioethicists and in stories elsewhere. Commentators suggested that the pigs’ brains were somehow made partly alive, that concerns about consciousness recurring in the de...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 22, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Arthur Caplan Tags: Animal Ethics Clinical Trials & Studies End of Life Care Featured Posts Organ Transplant & Donation Research Ethics Science Source Type: blogs
Pregnancy and Living Wills: A Behavioral Economic Analysis
Elizabeth Villarreal has just published "Pregnancy and Living Wills: A Behavioral Economic Analysis" in the Yale Law Journal Forum. Here is the abstract:
“Living wills” are a commonly-used form of advance directive that allow people to state their preferences for medical treatment in the event that they become unable to make those wishes known in the future. But many people, including health-care professionals, are surprised to learn that women in the majority of states are not allowed to have binding living wills during parts of their pregnancies.
These so-called “pregnancy exemptions” a...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 19, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Brain resuscitation (?) in pigs
By Jon Holmlund The latest mind-blowing (seriously, no pun intended) report from the science literature is that a team of scientists at Yale Medical School have been able to use an artificial preservative solution to recover electrical activity in some of the cells of the brains from the severed heads of pigs that had been … Continue reading "Brain resuscitation (?) in pigs" (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 19, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Jon Holmlund Tags: Health Care bioethics biotechnology syndicated Source Type: blogs
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 27, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
You Lose a Child, You Lose Your Job
By LEO LOPEZ III, MD
I’m a physician, born in McAllen, Texas. In June 2018, I returned home to demand that immigrant children who had been torn from their families as a result of the Trump Administration’s zero-tolerance policy, be safely and immediately reunited. I demonstrated at a federal detention center in McAllen at the Free the Children Protest. I marched alongside other concerned citizens, and we confronted a bus carrying the children.
With my palms pressed against the bus, I demanded that the government free them. I could not have imagined that just a few months later, I’d demand that the gov...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Health Policy Politics Health and Human Services HHS Immigration Kristjen Nielsen Leo Lopez Trump administration Source Type: blogs
Do You Want A Values-Based Relationship?
Each person who finds themselves in a relationship has as an influence and reference point: their upbringing and what they witnessed between those who raised them. There are three choices when it comes to dating, mating and relating.
Emulate the family pattern
Resist or otherwise avoid the family pattern
A combination of these two
Any of these options may be engaged in either by conscious or unconscious intent or action. Each of them helps to mold and shape the values by which we choose partners.
Sally found herself attracting partners who were like her distant and brooding father. Try as she might, she was not able to...
Source: World of Psychology - March 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Communication Family Relationships Core Values Dating Source Type: blogs
Improvement in Heart Attack Incidence and Outcomes Over the Past Twenty Years
The story of the past few decades has been a steady reduction in the incidence and mortality of the major age-related diseases that dominated old age in the last century. This has been a strange triumph, in the sense that it was achieved using very inefficient strategies for medical research and development, coupled with an aggressive push towards prevention through lifestyle choice. At no point were the causes of aging deliberately targeted; instead medical efforts focused on tinkering with the downstream consequences of the late disease state. That this combination nonetheless achieved the results that it did is a testam...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 18, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Podcast: How to Break Habits – And Keep Them Broken
We all have habits we’d rather not have, whether it’s smoking, emotional eating, or any of a hundred other things. And it’s likely that we’ve all, at one point or another, tried to break one or more of them, only to have the break be only temporary. What’s the secret to permanent habit change? Listen to this episode and find out!
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Judson Brewer, MD, PhD is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery,” having combined over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientif...
Source: World of Psychology - March 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Habits Mindfulness The Psych Central Show breaking habits Gabe Howard Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
Preparing for the Final Asana: End of Life Law, Medicine, Policy and What Yoga Offers
Join Kathryn Tucker, in October 2019, at Rancho La Puerta for "Preparing for the Final Asana: End of Life Law, Medicine, Policy and What Yoga Offers."
The right of patients approaching end of life to make choices to ensure a dying process consistent with their preferences has been rapidly evolving in the U.S. A veteran of nearly every effort to protect and expand end of life choice in the U.S. for more than two decades, Professor Tucker will share insight on advocacy strategies, progress, challenges and predictions.
Advocacy in the courthouse, the statehouse, and in various policy forums will be discussed, as w...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 12, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
