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Most gut microbial species belong to four major phyla: Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes. Changes in the ratio of Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes correlates with obesity[5].
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but above was discredited somewhat…
https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Gut_Microbiota_and_Obesity
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During systemic infection, mice kick-start the production of a specific sugar to feed and protect the beneficial bacteria in their guts while fighting pathogenic strains.
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http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/41134/title/Supporting-the–Good–Gut-Microbes/
A Style Guide for the Federal Employee
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/a-style-guide-for-the-federal-employee/501431 Pinstripes & combat boots to wrap-around ballistic shades & beards
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“The fact is that Washington, D.C., will never be known for its high fashion. But all is not lost. A man just has to follow a few simple rules. First, invest in a couple of nice navy and charcoal suits. They can be off the rack, but make sure they are tailored to your frame. I know, the dark suit seems so boring, but if it fits you well, you just can’t go wrong with it. Then, express yourself through the rest of your ensemble. Dress shoes with a formal sole in whatever style you like (except cowboy boots, which are never cool), patterned dress shirts (though only in blue, white, or lavender), cufflinks if that’s your thing. Dress up for meetings with the president, secretary, or director. Shine your shoes every now and then. And then stop worrying about it. You have too many other impor”
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#Bike lanes are a sound public health investment
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-costbenefit-bike-lanes-idUSKCN11Z23A Each $1.3K for NYC provides 1 additional QALY for city residents
….But perhaps non-riders benefit more than riders (who are at risk for injury) cc @dspakowicz
New study of the economics of adding more bikes to NYC (ironically published in the journal “injury prevention”).
article: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2016/09/09/injuryprev-2016-042057.abstract
pop press article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-costbenefit-bike-lanes-idUSKCN11Z23A
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Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.
That’s a better return on investment than some direct health treatments, like dialysis, which costs $129,000 for one
quality-adjusted life year, or QALY, said coauthor Dr. Babak Mohit of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York.
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Painting unprotected bike lanes into roads may not reduce injury and death, she said.
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My #Distraction Sickness, & Yours by @sullydish
http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/09/andrew-sullivan-technology-almost-killed-me.html An issue of the iPhone age; perhaps addressed by a digital Sabbath?
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If the churches came to understand that the greatest threat to faith today is not hedonism but distraction, perhaps they might begin to appeal anew to a frazzled digital generation. Christian leaders seem to think that they need more distraction to counter the distraction. Their services have degenerated into emotional spasms, their spaces drowned with light and noise and locked shut throughout the day, when their darkness and silence might actually draw those whose minds and souls have grown web-weary. But the mysticism of Catholic meditation — of the Rosary, of Benediction, or simple contemplative prayer — is a tradition in search of rediscovery. The monasteries — opened up to more lay visitors — could try to answer to the same needs that the booming yoga movement has increasingly met.
And imagine if more secular places responded in kind: restaurants where smartphones must be surrendered upon entering, or coffee shops that marketed their non-Wi-Fi safe space? Or, more practical: more meals where we agree to put our gadgets in a box while we talk to one another? Or lunch where the first person to use their phone pays the whole bill? We can, if we want, re-create a digital Sabbath each week — just one day in which we live for 24 hours without checking our phones. Or we can simply turn off our notifications. Humans are self-preserving in the long run. For every innovation there is a reaction, and even the starkest of analysts of our new culture, like Sherry Turkle, sees a potential for eventually rebalancing our lives. “}}
todo.txt (http://todotxt.com/).
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It is simple, light-weight and also has a ios app, which can sync using dropbox.
It is written using pure bash, and the best thing is that you can change the code and customize it if you want. You can also write/use plug-ins, and there are also all kind of community extension for the use on desktop, chrome and so on.
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Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus used an oncogenic retrovirus to identify the growth-controlling oncogenes in normal cells. In 1976 they published the remarkable conclusion that the oncogene in the virus did not represent a true viral gene but instead was a normal cellular gene, which the virus had acquired during replication in the host cell and thereafter carried along.
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http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1989/press.html
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Spiegelman worked on trying to establish that retroviruses cause human cancers. However, there were flaws in the theory.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Martin_Temin
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Howard Martin Temin (December 10, 1934 – February 9, 1994) was a U.S. geneticistand virologist. He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s[2] at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore.[3][4]
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The Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment was an experimental
demonstration, reported in 1944 by Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, andMaclyn McCarty, that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation, in an era when it had been widely believed that it wasproteins that served the function of carrying genetic information (with the very word protein itself coined to indicate a belief that its function was primary).
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