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To moth or not to moth? That is the question
I had a discussion recently with a former moth-er who disposed of her trap after having an ethical pang of conscience about all the moths she had been disturbing over the years. She suggested that there are hundreds of thousands of people trapping all over the country and that we’re interfering with reproduction cycles by doing so. I felt her opinion was at best misguided.
My immediate thought was that that number was way off. I know two other people in this village of 7000 or so who trap regularly, as do I, but this is quite a sciencey village, close to Cambridge, so could be exceptional. There’d have to be 3-...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - June 7, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Why the Fed Needs a Monetary Rule to Protect Its Independence
As the 2020 presidential election season heats up, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is being pushed from all sides.President Trump has castigated him for overly tight monetary policy and has implied that Powell is a “bigger enemy” than Xi Jinping. Meanwhile,William Dudley, who recently headed the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the most important reserve bank in the system, boldly called for Powell to enter the political fray against Trump and use a tighter monetary policy to help defeat him in 2020.We ’ve seen this pattern before—only this time, it’s more extreme. President Trump, like many executives ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 4, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: James A. Dorn Source Type: blogs
New Cato Journal Features an Array of Articles on Urgent Monetary Matters
Amanda GriffithsThe Fall 2019 edition of theCato Journal, the Cato Institute ’s interdisciplinary journal of public policy, is now available online. Readers of Alt-M will find the articles on monetary and financial topics of special interest. Their topics range from financial inclusion, to macroprudential policy, to Modern Monetary Theory, to the politicization of the Fede ral Reserve, to European monetary policy. Here are links to the full-text articles–followed by a summary of each."Consumer Protection and Financial Inclusion"Drawn from remarks he delivered at the Cato Institute ’s Financial Inclusion Summit this p...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 2, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Amanda Griffiths Source Type: blogs
Domain Specific AI in Healthcare: An Ethical Perspective
What is
Artificial Intelligence? This central question has captivated the minds of
specialists – mathematicians, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and
the like – and passive observers since the days of Alan Turing and John von
Neumann. In this discussion I will distinguish between three types of
Artificial Intelligence – human level, superhuman, and domain specific. Through
this exercise I hope to shed light on the difficulties in conceptually defining
the term Artificial Intelligence, as well as dispel misconceptions about the
state of the art in Artificial Intelligence. To what end? I hope that...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 3, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Bernard L. Ginsborg (1925 – 2018). A tribute.
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If you are not a pharmacologist or physiologist, you may never have heard of Bernard Ginsborg. I first met him in 1960. He was a huge influence on me and a great friend. I’m publishing this here because the Physiological Society has published only a brief obituary.
Bernard with his wife, Andy (Andrina).
You can download the following documents.
Biography written by one of his daughters, Jane Ginsborg.
Bernard’s scientific work, written by Donald H. Jenkinson (who knew him from his time in Bernard Katz’s Department of Biophysics).
A tribute by Randall House, who collaborated with Berna...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 2, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Understanding other brains
Alan Towers wrote an instructive, poignant comment about the difficulty that he had understanding that his schizophrenic son could not be EXPECTED to “make sense”, if sense was defined by the standards that applied for Alan, or for the wider society. Because so many people who live with psychotic illness or substantial neurological impairment require that their affected loved ones operate by THEIR rules and THEIR logical constructs and world view, they often abandon their children, relatives and friends as uncorrectible and irrecoverable, as lost souls.
I’ve had a conversation about this subject with a nu...
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - April 1, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Merzenich Tags: Aging and the Brain Alzheimer’s Autism Origins, Treatments Brain Fitness BrainHQ Cognitive Impairment in Children Cognitive impairments Posit Science Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, et alia Source Type: blogs
A health librarian at the theatre: The Madness of George III
It ' s been several weeks since I " went " to the theatre, but I have just watched the Nottingham Playhouse ' s production of this Alan Bennett play, on theNational Theatre Live YouTube channel.I saw the film (called The Madness of King George) some years back and I was aware of the idea that the King was not mad, but had porphyria. The clue was the blue urine, which none of the doctors (in the play) thought was important.But I had not realised that view has been questioned. There are several articles in the medical literature, many by Timothy Peters of the University of Birmingham (UK). It...
Source: Browsing - June 13, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: medical history psychiatry Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 9, 2020 Edition. ----- The July 4th celebrations this year have been over shadowed by Trumps increasing white nationalism and the out of control COVID-19 disaster. He now seems very likely to be a one-term president if the Economist is to be believed. In the UK the re-opening is off and rolling. The next two weeks will be very interesting! In OZ we have seen a new and much more forward Defence Policy and issues in cyber-security. Worse we have seen the virus nail Victoria which has put in a 6 week lockdown. We seem to be on a knife edge....
Hong Kong is also looming as a major issue with all 3 countries. We wait and...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 8, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
America needs to invest in proactive patient outreach now
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced multiple new threats for physical and mental health. The novel coronavirus itself continues to infect more than 30,000 Americans as we enter the influenza season. The pandemic, economic devastation, and racial reckoning have led to a tripling of emotional distress. Essential preventive services such as cancer screenings, childhood vaccination, maintenance visits for […]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 - October 3, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jason-bae-and-alan-glaseroff" rel="tag" > Jason Bae, MD and Alan Glaseroff, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Public Health & Source Type: blogs
What is the future of telemedicine?
Now that a pandemic has brought telemedicine into Americans’ consciousness and the health care system, it is timely to ask: How will telemedicine fit into future care? Failing to understand telemedicine ’s transformative capabilities is akin to missing the cell phone or online banking revolutions. I can still hear myself saying dismissively to one of my […]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 - December 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/alan-dappen" rel="tag" > Alan Dappen, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Mobile health Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Understanding vulnerability to online misinformation
The Alan Turing Institute -Several large-scale research projects have started during the pandemic with the aim of understanding the nature, prevalence and spread of health-related misinformation online. However, relatively little is known about who is vulnerable to believing false information and why. This research used a survey and assessments to understand which individuals are most vulnerable to believing health-related falsities and the role played by the content that individuals are exposed to.ReportThe Alan Turing Institute - publications
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 11, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Sorry, I ’m fed up. It’s not professional, but I am.
“It’s experimental.” “It alters your DNA.” “It may cause long-term problems.” “It’s too new, too rushed. I want more time.” I hear this nonsense from patients all day. None are docs, virologists, microbiologists, immunologists, public health officials, medical researchers, nor in tensive care docs. COVID can kill them in a particularly unpleasant way; with 99 percent+Read more …Sorry, I ’m fed up. It’s not professional, but I am. originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/alan-johns" rel="tag" > Alan Johns, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
A memoir of misunderstanding, loss, and learning
An excerpt from More to Life than More: A Memoir of Misunderstanding, Loss, and Learning. The MRIs were illuminated by a lightbox. A small group of us in Dr. Kelly ’s office gathered around the images. We were looking at Lee’s brain. It could have been anyone’s brain up there on the wall. But it wasRead more …A memoir of misunderstanding, loss, and learning originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 12, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/alan-pesky-and-claudia-aulum" rel="tag" > Alan Pesky and Claudia Aulum < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Neurology Source Type: blogs
David Bradley … also a musician
I’m a science journalist by day, a photographer, dog walker and ale drinker most of the time I’m away from my desk, and a musician by night…oh, and there’s usually an ale or a beer then, too…
That is to say, I earn my living writing about science, I tramp around the countryside with my dog, taking lots of photos (mostly of birds, these days), drink a few pints with Mrs Sciencebase and/or friends, and sing and play in a couple of bands, including C5, and a choir (bigMouth). You can hear my latest solo and collaborative recorded music on BandCamp and SoundCloud. Some of my stuff is on Spotify an...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 15, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
A satirical response to an orthopedic surgeon ’s letter to radiologists
A satirical response to“An open letter to radiologists from a jilted orthopedic surgeon.”“I feel as though there is a deepening rift between our two specialties.” You ask why the chasm has widened between our specialties. Well, maybe if you paid attention to me, you’d know. I’m an introverted radiologist, you’re a domineering surgeon,Read more …A satirical response to an orthopedic surgeon’s letter to radiologists originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 27, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/alan-weissman" rel="tag" > Alan Weissman, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Radiology Source Type: blogs
