Wednesday, August 18
Intelligence
Of course, intelligence comes in many forms. You can acquire knowledge from reading, following the stats on your favorite sports team, or even the street smarts that may be helpful in certain cultural contexts.
Fluid intelligence, meanwhile, isn’t related to culture or learning. It is defined as one’s ability to acquire information from their surroundings on a basic level — how to process it and solve novel problems. This sort of intelligence is largely associated with multitasking and working memory.
These are the kind of smarts that play out instinctively; for example, when multitasking by talking on a cellphone while walking. You need to watch what’s in front of you without tripping, while also carrying your side of a conversation.
“People differ greatly in their ability to maintain attention,” says Randall Engle, a psychologist with the Georgia Institute of Technology who has studied working memory for four decades. “The ability to manage all of that turns out to be hugely important.”
Pupils and the Brain
Most people think that pupil size simply relates to the body’s response to light. This is true, to a degree. When someone shines a flashlight into your eyes, your pupils will constrict or shrink. In the darkness, your pupils typically dilate in an effort to improve eyesight.
Such responses are driven by the parasympathetic system. It essentially keeps your basic nervous system in order and dictates basic tasks like resting, digesting, eating and reproduction, Engle says. But pupil dilation is also related to another area of unconscious nervous system function — the sympathetic nervous system. This area controls the “fight or flight” decision-making process. That’s why your pupils may dilate when you're nervous, angry or afraid — a good reason to wear sunglasses if you play poker. READ MORE
Most people think that pupil size simply relates to the body’s response to light. This is true, to a degree. When someone shines a flashlight into your eyes, your pupils will constrict or shrink. In the darkness, your pupils typically dilate in an effort to improve eyesight.
Such responses are driven by the parasympathetic system. It essentially keeps your basic nervous system in order and dictates basic tasks like resting, digesting, eating and reproduction, Engle says. But pupil dilation is also related to another area of unconscious nervous system function — the sympathetic nervous system. This area controls the “fight or flight” decision-making process. That’s why your pupils may dilate when you're nervous, angry or afraid — a good reason to wear sunglasses if you play poker. READ MORE
Tuesday, August 17
East TN Living
Today, it is raining throughout the Valley as the local stations warn us to brace for flash flooding... and, that makes sense because the ground as a result of many days of high heat is hard and will not absorb the water easily creating runoff.
I have been told by many people that their careers were not like what I experienced and I am glad that all of them had something different... work will always be work... and quite honestly, I really don't miss or need the money.
I am comfortable with the lower middle class income that I have as it pays the bills while allowing me to do whatever I want to.
Unfortunately, that is NOT A TRUE PICTURE...
Ivy League Colleges and University PhD graduates teach in our colleges and universities... they offer their medical expertise in our hospitals, clinics, and private practices... they work at Oak Ridge National Laboratories which rivals the Research Triangle Park in NC.
Nashville is the home to COUNTRY MUSIC which is a BILLION DOLLAR business...
Jack Daniels is made here in TN along with moonshine and if you recall, TN is the home to Peyton Manning who was just recently inducted into the Football Hall of Fame...
Giving the current state of affairs and the increase in violence and crime, I would not be caught dead in:
- New York City
- Atlanta
- Chicago
- Baltimore
- Los Angeles
- San Fancisco
- Portland
USA Fails in Afghanistan
President Joe Biden did not take responsibility for how the US withdrawal in Afghanistan unfolded which is the problem that the rest of the world has with the USA...
President Joe Biden SCREWED UP or listened to his advisors who were deadly wrong... in either case, Biden made the final decision...
Also, since President Joe Biden has been president he has OVERTURNED several programs that President Donald Trump put into place... so, why could he overturn the deal in Afghanistan???
MORE IMPORTANTLY...
what does the rest of the world think about our decision and how we left Afghanistan?
what does our allies think about how we handled our exiting in Afghanistan?
will our allies support us next time?
what does our enemies think about how we handled leaving Afghanistan?
- China
- Russia
- North Korea
- Iran
DOES AMERICA REALLY WANT TO REMAIN BEING A GLOBAL LEADER?
Populist Press
China Seizes on Collapse of Afghanistan — Goes After Joe Biden With Latest Move
Fight Breaks Out At White House — Jill Biden Steps In
WOKE MILITARY: FULL BLOWN CHAOS…MANY DEAD
Jen Psaki Makes Surprising Move Amidst Afghanistan Crisis
Biden Admin Unveils Potential Catastrophic Plan as Afghanistan Falls
Shots Fired At US Troops At Kabul Airport
RINO Liz Cheney Says the Unthinkable About the Collapse of Afghanistan
Biden Gives Infuriating Instructions to Americans Trapped in Afghanistan
Supreme Court Delivers 5–4 Ruling That Has Democrats Fuming
Fight Breaks Out At White House — Jill Biden Steps In
WOKE MILITARY: FULL BLOWN CHAOS…MANY DEAD
Jen Psaki Makes Surprising Move Amidst Afghanistan Crisis
Biden Rejects Advice, Thinks He Has All The Answers
Spontaneous Creation
There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has said.
He had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science but in a new book, he concludes the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics.
The Grand Design, part serialised in the Times, says there is no need to invoke God to set the Universe going.
"Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something," he concluded.
'Planetary conditions'
In his new book, an extract of which appears in the Times, Britain's most famous physicist sets out to contest Sir Isaac Newton's belief that the universe must have been designed by God as it could not have sprung out of chaos.
Citing the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting a star other than our Sun, he said: "That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions - the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass - far less remarkable, and far less compelling as evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings."
He adds: "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
"Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.
"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going." READ MORE
Our Metabolism
A new international study counters the common belief that our metabolism inevitably declines during our adult lives. Well, not until we’re in our 60s, anyway.
Researchers found that metabolism peaks around age 1, when babies burn calories 50 percent faster than adults, and then gradually declines roughly 3 percent a year until around age 20.
From there, metabolism plateaus until about age 60, when it starts to slowly decline again, by less than 1 percent annually, according to findings published Thursday in the journal Science.
To tease out the specific impact of age on metabolism, the researchers adjusted for factors such as body size (bigger bodies burn more calories overall than smaller ones) and fat-free muscle mass (muscles burn more calories than fat).
“Metabolic rate is really stable all through adult life, 20 to 60 years old,” said study author Herman Pontzer, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University and author of “Burn,” a new book about metabolism.
To tease out the specific impact of age on metabolism, the researchers adjusted for factors such as body size (bigger bodies burn more calories overall than smaller ones) and fat-free muscle mass (muscles burn more calories than fat).
“Metabolic rate is really stable all through adult life, 20 to 60 years old,” said study author Herman Pontzer, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University and author of “Burn,” a new book about metabolism.
“There's no effect of menopause that we can see, for example. And you know, people will say, 'Well when I hit 30 years old, my metabolism fell apart.' We don't see any evidence for that, actually.”
Pontzer and colleagues studied a database of more than 6,400 people, ages 8 days to 95 years, from 29 countries worldwide who had participated in “doubly labeled water” tests.
Pontzer and colleagues studied a database of more than 6,400 people, ages 8 days to 95 years, from 29 countries worldwide who had participated in “doubly labeled water” tests.
With this method, individuals drink water in which some of the hydrogen and oxygen have been replaced with isotopes of these elements that can be traced in urine samples. READ MORE
Shape Shifting Fish
The bright orange, female whalefish (of the order Cetomimiformes) was spotted half-swimming, half-gliding through the glare of submarine's lights around 6,600 feet (2,013 meters) deep offshore of Monterey Bay, California.
The whalefish sighting was one of only 18 made by marine biologists from The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute during 34 years of deep-sea exploration.
"Whalefish have rarely been seen alive in the deep, so many mysteries remain regarding these remarkable fish," the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute tweeted. "With each deep-sea dive, we uncover more mysteries and solve others."
So little is known about the lives of whalefish that for more than a century after their discovery (they were first recorded in 1895 by two Smithsonian Institution scientists), the three vastly different forms the animals may take across their life cycles were mistaken for entirely different zoological families.
First, there are the tapetails: scaleless larval forms with long, streamer-like tails and mouths that seem to have a comical overbite; they live and feed near the ocean’s surface.
"Whalefish have rarely been seen alive in the deep, so many mysteries remain regarding these remarkable fish," the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute tweeted. "With each deep-sea dive, we uncover more mysteries and solve others."
So little is known about the lives of whalefish that for more than a century after their discovery (they were first recorded in 1895 by two Smithsonian Institution scientists), the three vastly different forms the animals may take across their life cycles were mistaken for entirely different zoological families.
First, there are the tapetails: scaleless larval forms with long, streamer-like tails and mouths that seem to have a comical overbite; they live and feed near the ocean’s surface.
When the time comes for these fish to assume their adult forms, two vastly different body shapes await them. READ MORE
Monday, August 16
Populist Press
TOP STORIES:
Fight Breaks Out At White House — Jill Biden Steps In
WOKE MILITARY: FULL BLOWN CHAOS…MANY DEAD
Jen Psaki Makes Surprising Move Amidst Afghanistan Crisis
Biden Rejects Advice, Thinks He Has All The Answers
Warning Of Grim National Security Crisis — 5000 Known Terrorists Released
Articles Of Impeachment Filed Against Failed Joe Biden
Taliban Leader Issues Message To America
SHOCKING Apocalyptic Footage From Kabul International Airport…
White House Posts Embarrassing Pic Of Joe As Afghanistan Falls to Taliban
HUGE News Out About AZ Audit Report
Obesity in America
FROM THE Centers For Disease Control and Prevention...
Adult Obesity Facts
Obesity Prevalence Maps
Adult obesity prevalence by state and territory using self-reported information from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
Obesity is a common, serious, and costly disease
From 1999 –2000 through 2017 –2018, US obesity prevalence increased from 30.5% to 42.4%. During the same time, the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 4.7% to 9.2%.
Obesity-related conditionsexternal icon include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer. These are among the leading causes of preventable, premature death.
The estimated annual medical cost of obesityexternal icon in the United States was $147 billion in 2008. Medical costs for people who had obesity was $1,429 higher than medical costs for people with healthy weight.
Obesity affects some groups more than others
[Read CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data brief]
[Read CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data brief]
Non-Hispanic Black adults (49.6%) had the highest age-adjusted prevalence of obesity, followed by Hispanic adults (44.8%), non-Hispanic White adults (42.2%) and non-Hispanic Asian adults (17.4%).
The obesity prevalence was 40.0% among adults aged 20 to 39 years, 44.8% among adults aged 40 to 59 years, and 42.8% among adults aged 60 and older.
Obesity and socioeconomic status
[Read the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)]
The association between obesity and income or educational level is complex and differs by sex and race/ethnicity.
[Read the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)]
The association between obesity and income or educational level is complex and differs by sex and race/ethnicity.
Overall, men and women with college degrees had lower obesity prevalence compared with those with less education.
The same obesity and education pattern occurred among non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic women, and non-Hispanic White men. However, the differences were not all statistically significant. Although the difference was not statistically significant among non-Hispanic Black men, obesity prevalence increased with educational attainment.
No differences in obesity prevalence by education level were noted among non-Hispanic Asian women and men and Hispanic men.
Among men, obesity prevalence was lower in the lowest and highest income groups compared with the middle-income group. Researchers observed this pattern among non-Hispanic White and Hispanic men. Obesity prevalence was higher in the highest income group than in the lowest income group among non-Hispanic Black men.
Among women, obesity prevalence was lower in the highest income group than in the middle and lowest income groups. Researchers observed this pattern among non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Asian, and Hispanic women. Among non-Hispanic Black women, there was no difference in obesity prevalence by income.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)