07 junho 2015
Oração de fé
Finalmente, irmãos, fortalecei-vos no Senhor, pelo seu soberano poder.
Revesti-vos da armadura de Deus, para que possais resistir às ciladas do demônio.
Pois não é contra homens de carne e sangue que temos de lutar, mas contra os principados e potestades, contra os príncipes deste mundo tenebroso, contra as forças espirituais do mal (espalhadas) nos ares.
Tomai, por tanto, a armadura de Deus, para que possais resistir nos dias maus e manter-vos inabaláveis no cumprimento do vosso dever.
Ficai alerta, à cintura cingidos com a verdade, o corpo vestido com a couraça da justiça,
e os pés calçados de prontidão para anunciar o Evangelho da paz.
Sobretudo, embraçai o escudo da fé, com que possais apagar todos os dardos inflamados do Maligno.
Tomai, enfim, o capacete da salvação e a espada do Espírito, isto é, a palavra de Deus.
Intensificai as vossas invocações e súplicas. Orai em toda circunstância, pelo Espírito, no qual perseverai em intensa vigília de súplica por todos os cristãos.
E orai também por mim, para que me seja dado anunciar corajosamente o mistério do Evangelho, do qual eu sou embaixador, prisioneiro. E que eu saiba apregoá-lo publicamente, e com desassombro, como é meu dever
Efésios 6, 10-20.
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NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula
It's the dim star, not the bright one, near the center of NGC 3132 that created this odd but beautiful planetary nebula. Nicknamed the Eight-Burst Nebula and the Southern Ring Nebula, the glowing gas originated in the outer layers of a star like our Sun. In this representative color picture, the hot blue pool of light seen surrounding this binary system is energized by the hot surface of the faint star. Although photographed to explore unusual symmetries, it's the asymmetries that help make this planetary nebula so intriguing. Neither the unusual shape of the surrounding cooler shell nor the structure and placements of the cool filamentary dust lanes running across NGC 3132 are well understood.
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INFECTIONS CAN AFFECT YOUR IQAnyone can suffer from an...
Anyone can suffer from an infection, for example in their stomach, urinary tract or skin. However, a new Danish study shows that a patient’s distress does not necessarily end once the infection has been treated. In fact, ensuing infections can affect your cognitive ability measured by an IQ test:
“Our research shows a correlation between hospitalisation due to infection and impaired cognition corresponding to an IQ score of 1.76 lower than the average. People with five or more hospital contacts with infections had an IQ score of 9.44 lower than the average. The study thus shows a clear dose-response relationship between the number of infections, and the effect on cognitive ability increased with the temporal proximity of the last infection and with the severity of the infection. Infections in the brain affected the cognitive ability the most, but many other types of infections severe enough to require hospitalisation can also impair a patient’s cognitive ability. Moreover, it seems that the immune system itself can affect the brain to such an extent that the person’s cognitive ability measured by an IQ test will also be impaired many years after the infection has been cured,” explains MD and PhD Michael Eriksen Benrós, who is affiliated with the National Centre for Register-Based Research at Aarhus BSS and the Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen.
He has conducted the research in collaboration with researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University.
190,000 Danes participated in the study
The study is a nationwide register study tracking 190,000 Danes born between 1974 and 1994, who have had their IQ assessed between 2006 and 2012. 35% of these individuals had a hospital contact with infections before the IQ testing was conducted.
According to Senior Researcher Michael Eriksen Benrós, part of the explanation of the increased risk of impaired cognition following an infection may be as follows:
“Infections can affect the brain directly, but also through peripheral inflammation, which affects the brain and our mental capacity. Infections have previously been associated with both depression and schizophrenia, and it has also been proven to affect the cognitive ability of patients suffering from dementia. This is the first major study to suggest that infections can also affect the brain and the cognitive ability in healthy individuals.”
“We can see that the brain is affected by all types of infections. Therefore, it is important that more research is conducted into the mechanisms which lie behind the connection between a person’s immune system and mental health,” says Michael Eriksen Benrós.
He hopes that learning more about this connection will help to prevent the impairment of people’s mental health and improve future treatment.
Experiments on animals have previously shown that the immune system can affect cognitive capabilities, and more recent minor studies in humans have also pointed in that direction. Normally, the brain is protected from the immune system, but with infections and inflammation the brain may be affected. Michael Eriksen Benrós’ research suggests that it may be the immune system that causes the cognitive impairment, not just the infection, because many different types of infections were associated with a decrease in cognitive abilities. This is the first study to examine these correlations in this manner. The results suggest that the immune system’s response to infections can possibly affect the brain and thereby also the person’s cognitive ability. This is in line with previous studies, some of which have also been conducted by Dr. Michael Eriksen Benrós, which show that infections are associated with an increased risk of developing mental disorders such as depression or schizophrenia.
The researchers behind the study hope that their results may spur on further research on the possible involvement of the immune system in the development of psychiatric disorders and whether the discovered correlations contribute to the development of mental disorders or whether they may be caused by e.g. genetic liability toward acquiring infections in patients with reduced cognitive ability. The study has been adjusted for social conditions and parental educational levels; however, it cannot be ruled out that heritable and environmental factors associated with infections might also influence the associations.
solar flare, photographed by soho, 15th march 2015.the gif on...
solar flare, photographed by soho, 15th march 2015.
the gif on the right shows a wide view of the corona; the gif on the left shows a closer view, flipped horizontally. each composed of 32 images over 14 hours.
image credit: nasa/soho. animation: ageofdestruction.
age"Antoninus diffused order and tranquillity over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked..."
“Antoninus diffused order and tranquillity over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
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historian Edward Gibbon’s succinct description of Antoninus Pius’ reign as Roman Emperor, 138 - 161 CE. The quote is often shortened to “History…is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.” From The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1 (1781)
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50 years after Griswold v. Connecticut, it’s never been clearer. Everyone deserves access to affordable birth control — no matter what.
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day 1: gods/goddesses of wisdom >> PALLAS ATHENA
Athena is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, mathematics, strength, war strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Athena is portrayed as a shrewd companion of heroes and is the patron goddess of heroic endeavour. Veneration of Athena was so persistent that archaic myths about her were recast to adapt to cultural changes.
South Korea to track cellphones to prevent MERS spread; fifth...
South Korea to track cellphones to prevent MERS spread; fifth person dies
By Ju-Min Park and Tony Munroe
South Korean authorities will track the cellphones of hundreds of people under quarantine to prevent the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and reported a fifth death in the outbreak, with the number of infections rising to 64.
The government, criticized over its lack of transparency in handling the outbreak, bowed to public pressure on Sunday and identified 24 health facilities where infections took place or MERS patients visited.
It reported 14 confirmed new cases of MERS, adding to the largest number outside of the Middle East.
“Please understand this is an unavoidable measure for the sake of our neighbors and families,” Deputy Prime Minister Choi Kyung-hwan told a news briefing in the central city of Sejong, where he announced the plan to track the mobile phones of people under quarantine to ensure they stay at home.
Over 2,300 people in South Korea were under quarantine as of Sunday, some in health care facilities but most at home, including an entire village of about 105 people in the southwest after a resident who visited a hospital where the country’s first patient with MERS was treated turned out to be infected.
Late last month, a South Korean man broke a voluntary house quarantine and flew to Hong Kong and then traveled to mainland China, where he tested positive for MERS.
South Korea’s outbreak of the often-deadly MERS virus, first reported on May 20, has prompted fear and the closure last week of more than 1,000 schools, with thousands of tourists cancelling plans to visit the country.
(More on Reuters)
South Korea's MERS Crisis Exposes Public Distrust Of Leaders
South Korea's MERS Crisis Exposes Public Distrust Of Leaders:
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In my latest for Morning Edition, a look at how Korean society is not happy about the way its leaders are handling this #MERS situation, especially when another bungled response — the Sewol Ferry sinking — is still pretty fresh on peoples’ minds.
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June 7th 1954: Alan Turing diesOn this day in 1954, the British...
Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
An early computer, owing to Turing's designs
June 7th 1954: Alan Turing dies
On this day in 1954, the British mathematician and scientist Alan Turing died. Turing is considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence with his invention of the ‘Turing machine’ - a precursor to the modern computer. He was also a crucial part of England’s code breaking team at Bletchley Park during World War Two, developing ways to interpret German messages from the Enigma machine. The work of Turing and his fellow code breakers was a great boost to the Allied war effort, supposedly shortening the war by as many as two to four years. However, in 1952 he was arrested for homosexuality - which was still illegal in Britain - and accepted chemical castration rather than prison. Turing suffered side effects from the treatment and two years later died from cyanide poisoning, supposedly from an apple found by his bed. Whilst some claim it was accidental, an inquest determined Turing had committed suicide due to the persecution he suffered. In 2009, following a popular online petition, Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a posthumous apology to Alan Turing.
“We’re sorry, you deserved so much better”
- Gordon Brown, 2009
June 7, 1848: Gauguin Is BornArtist Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin...
Paul Gauguin Wearing a Breton Jacket, 1891. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Gauguin – La Orana Maria, oil on canvas 1891. Source: Wikimedia Commons
June 7, 1848: Gauguin Is Born
Artist Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was born in Paris on June 7, 1848.
Gauguin remains one of the most influential artists of all time, and his paintings from Tahiti are perhaps his most beloved. A Tahitian fish dish known in French as Poisson Cru, is the sort of fare Gauguin would have eaten during his time on the island.
See what Gauguin ate in Tahiti with this PBS Food The History Kitchen Post.
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