https://cty.jhu.edu/programs/on-campus/courses/biotechnology-biot
The Human Genome Project has sequenced all of the approximately 20,000 genes in human DNA. How did scientists gather this information? Can it help cure congenit…
Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY)
Biotechnology
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The phenomenon Gioia describes isn’t happening just to culture; it recurs across American life. We have access to wonderful things. But they require effort, so we settle for the junky things that provide the quick dopamine hits. We could all be eating a Mediterranean diet, but instead it’s potato chips and cherry Coke. We could enjoy the richness of full awareness, but booze, weed and other drugs provide that quick reward…..
Even journalism has found ways to trigger dopamine for profit. We journalists go into this business to inform and provoke, but many outlets have found they can generate clicks by telling partisan viewers how right they are about everything. Minute after minute they’re rubbing their audience’s pleasure centers, which feels like a somewhat older profession.
The result is we’re now in a culture in which we want worse things — the cheap hit over the long flourishing. You reach for immediate gratification, but it fails to satisfy. It just puts you on a hamster wheel of looking for the next mild stimulus and pretty soon you’re in the land of addiction and junk food, you just keep scrolling, you just keep snacking. ….
Big companies don’t care. They have become sensational at arousing and manipulating our cravings. Their goal is to keep us consuming.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/opinion/entertainment-junk-psychology.html
The Junkification of American Life
Sept. 5, 2024
David Brooks is an Opinion columnist for The Times, writing about political, social and cultural trends. @nytdavidbrooks
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First, you can’t go wrong with consuming mostly unprocessed or minimally processed foods, like fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts and whole grains, Dr. Vadiveloo said. ….
Second, processed meats and sugary drinks have consistently been linked to poor health, Dr. Mattei said, so reducing or eliminating those foods from your diet should be a priority.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/well/eat/ultraprocessed-foods-types-unhealthy-study.html
Kp.2 in fall
New Covid Vaccines: What to Know about Efficacy, Access and Cost – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/well/covid-vaccines-boosters.html
Assuming no expertise in computing, and involving no programming, this course addresses a number of fundamental questions: most importantly, how will our unders…
Source: The Courtauld
Making Sense of Computing in Art
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407924011461
Marshall, M. (2024). Digital damage? The New Scientist, 262(3496), 31–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(24)01146-1
Guilty by association
For starters, the vast majority of studies into screen time, smartphones and social media just look for associations. Is more screen time associated, on a statistical level, with a certain harm? This means they can tell us whether the two are correlated, but they can’t say whether the screen time is actually causing the harm.
Researchers often ask people to self-report screen time, which is unreliable – particularly if you want to distinguish between different types of screen time. This is….
https://www.shellandbones.com/story
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