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Josh Groban and Kelly Clarkson

All I Ask Of You
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera

Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson, official stage video.

Veterinarians V Physicians

A Cross-Species Approach to Medicine
Especially when it comes to mental health

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at UCLA Medical School, provides a unique perspective on how human well-being, including mental health, can be improved by insights into animal health.

She works in UCLA’s Division of Cardiology and in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Her medical specialty is cardiac imaging — but her academic passion is the evolutionary connection between human and animal bodies and minds.

In 2012, she co-authored the book Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health, advocating a “One Health” approach to medicine. She founded the Zoobiquity Conferences to bring veterinarians and physicians together for “species-spanning” debates and collaborations.

Julian Burschka What your breath could reveal about your health

Your Breath and Your Health
An ideal opportunity for remote-sensing in medicine

Julian Burschka, has spent many years developing materials for efficient solar energy conversion. Notably he pioneered an elegant method to fabricate so-called perovskite solar cells—seminal research that later was published in Nature and cited several thousand times since.

Born a scientist at heart, Burschka is constantly striving to expand his horizon and is thrilled by new technological discoveries that might fundamentally change our daily lives. More recently, his interest was sparked by ultra-sensitive gas sensors and the detection of volatile organic compounds for various applications.

In his current role as a senior project manager at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Burschka is leading a multinational R&D team that develops smart material solutions to enable next-generation displays. He holds a Master of Business Administration and a PhD in chemistry, both of which he obtained following multilingual studies in Germany, France and Switzerland.

Sleep Vs. Mental Health

Getting enough sleep is more important than most of us think. Dr. Elizabeth Blake Zakarin is an Assistant Professor in Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical College (CUMC) and reveals links to major mental health conditions affected by insufficient sleep.

Getting Enough Sleep
Why it matters and what to do about it

Sleep problems can contribute to difficulties in school, getting along with friends, anxiety, depression, and can even increase the risk for suicide. In this video Dr. Zakarin explained the steps we can all take to improve the quality of our sleep.

The bottom line: “Getting enough sleep is more important for your brain (and other important organs) than most of us realize.” And it’s certainly worth moving it up a notch or two on our priorities list.

 

Vaping

Vaping
Big tobacco is at it again!


Krishnan-Sarin is a professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and the Co-PI on the Yale Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science studying vaping.

E-cigarettes and vapes have exploded in popularity in the last decade, especially among youth and young adults — from 2011 to 2015, e-cigarette use among high school students in the US increased by 900 percent. Biobehavioral scientist Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin explains what you’re actually inhaling when you vape (hint: it’s definitely not water vapor) and explores the disturbing marketing tactics being used to target kids. “Our health, the health of our children and our future generations is far too valuable to let it go up in smoke — or even in aerosol,” she says.

In the area of adolescent tobacco use, Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin has conducted qualitative research including focus groups and surveys to understand patterns and perceptions of use of tobacco products; clinical trials to develop and test the use of novel behavioral and pharmacological cessation and prevention interventions; and experimental evaluations of behavioral and neural predictors of use and cessation behaviors. Because of her expertise in youth tobacco use behaviors, she has contributed to the Surgeon General’s report on Preventing Tobacco Use among Young People and also serves as a member of the FDA’s Tobacco Product Scientific Advisory Committee.

 

Parkinson’s Disease Month

The James Parkinson Tulip, official tulip representing Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month
The red and white tulip is the symbol for fighting Parkinson’s Disease.

Although April 11th is World Parkinson’s Disease (PD) Day, the entire month of April is Parkinson’s Disease Month with activities highlighting the progress against this debilitating disease robbing, at the very least, every one-hundredth child of their parent or grandparent.

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Worlds Most Massive Study: Five Diseases Reduced by Physical Activity, Excersize

Family riding bycicles for excersize together

Believe it or not, the absurdly-expansive claim about exercise in the heading even may be an understatement! No other study even comes close and it’s findings were unexpectedly clear: FIVE OF THE WORLDS TOP DISEASES ARE REDUCED BY PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. Simple physical activity!

Literally, the counsel given to Adam and Eve: “by the sweat of thy brow thou shall eat thy bread” seems to have been a commandment and not just gardening instructions!
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Self-prescribed Glasses Using Adaptive Optics

Adjustable Liquid-Filled Eyeglasses
Joshua Silver

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design and the TED prize of $100,000 is given each year to three exceptional individuals who are also granted “one wish to Change the World.” Their wishes are unveiled at a ceremony held during the TED conference which spotlights innovative individuals from all over the world.

Josh Silver has been working on a solution to the overwhelming shortage of eye specialists in areas of the world and has developed glasses selling for $19 (US) which are made by any individual who needs them without help from a “specialist.”

His “wish” was to lower the cost to a mere dollar and distribute a billion of the glasses to those who need them in the world by 2020.

Proverbs of Medicine: Sleep Habits to be Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

Teen boy sleeping

Some time ago I did a series of posts about medical proverbs but deliberately left one out: The Sleep Habits to be “Healthy Wealthy and Wise.” It deserved an entire post of its own.

We (and Wiki and Google) usually associate this aphorism with Benjamin Franklin and his “Poor Richard’s Almanack”—a collection of maxims published in the early 18-hundreds. But it sounds mighty Hippocratean or Socratean to me.
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Blind: Using Sonar To Navigate

The Remarkable Batman: Daniel Kish
How I use sonar to navigate the world

With his trusty long white stick, Daniel Kish, blind almost since birth walked up the stairs to the stage at the TED conference on his own without difficulty. Barely audible were tiny clicks coming from somewhere but when reaching the top he began his life story of being blind.

Daniel Kish has been blind since he was 13 months old, but has learned to “see” using a form of echolocation. He clicks his tongue and sends out flashes of sound that bounce off surfaces in the environment and return to him, helping him to construct an understanding of the space around him. In a rousing talk, Kish demonstrates how this works and asks us to let go of our fear of the “dark unknown.”

Dinosaurs… Where Are The Babies?

Where are the baby dinosaurs?
Another Form Of Extinction

Jack Horner and his dig teams have discovered the first evidence of parental care in dinosaurs, extensive nesting grounds, evidence of dinosaur herds, and the world’s first dinosaur embryos. He’s now exploring how to build a dinosaur.

Paleontologist Jack Horner discovered the first dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere, the first evidence of dinosaur colonial nesting, the first evidence of parental care among dinosaurs, and the first dinosaur embryos.

Horner’s research covers a wide range of topics about dinosaurs, including their behavior, physiology, ecology and evolution. Due to struggles with the learning disability, dyslexia, Horner does not hold a formal college degree but was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Montana in 1986. Also in 1986 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

He’s the Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, and is widely acknowledged to be the inspiration for the main character in the book and film Jurassic Park.

Paper Towels: You’re Using Them Wrong

How to use a paper towel
You’ve Been Doing It Wrong

Attorney Joe Smith, as a Democrat, is an outspoken advocate for many causes. He is a well known figure in his Oregon community and once was the chair of the Oregon Democratic Party. He served as the district attorney for Umatilla County and was the Executive Assistant to the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives.

He is an active lawyer in private practice after famously running for the position of Oregon Attorney General without soliciting a single contribution over $99.99.

As a tenet of the TED culture is “Ideas worth spreading,” smith’s crusade against paper towel waste was a natural for the TEDx conference held in Portland.

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