this basically contradicts to many other studies about the mind-body connections, such as hapiness-immunity connections.
that 2010 study of patients of CAD and their follow-ups of 5-10 years of 'angry' levels is kind of flawed as what should actually be studied should be the "anger" levels as the causal effects of the CAD 5-10 years prior to the onset of CAD. it's more likely beyond certain points of the progression of CAD the change of mood does not mean anything to the prognosis.
The PATH employees / police did yell at tourists taking pictures of the PATH trains or tunnels a while back ago (esp right around 2002) and treated them like some public threats or so. But right now they seem care less about those growing numbers of tourists.
The convenient stores in Taiwan are also super convenient by not only offering free WiFi, ticket buying, or bill payying,, but also like a mini-Staples + mini-Shoprite + mini-Starbucks where you could just print PDF or photos, picking up your online orderings, buying groceries, and even artisan latte. And their density in Taiwan is much higher than Starbucks you could find in Manhattan.
I was so happily surprised when I saw customers of Taipei's 7-11s picking up their online orderings at 11pm(Or whatever our) at the shop. I always thought such a thing should exist in Europe, where for some reason you are never home when the delivery arrives.
Well, Germany has so-called "Paketshops". Unfortunately, apart from gas stations and the like, those usually close at 18:00.
Alternatively, there are always neighbours who can take the packet for you.
According to Wikipedia[1], "firefox" is an alternate name for either a red panda or red fox. Also according to Wikipedia[2], a (now-removed) FAQ[3] from Mozilla itself says that the browser is named after the red panda. Other pages on Mozilla's website seem to support the idea that the name comes from the red panda[4].
It's interesting to see this story on the front page at the same time with another one titled "We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated". It's easy to solve both problems (killing two birds with one stone?) by implementing protocols of purging scientists with track records of non-repeatable results from "personal opinions" and fraudulent scholars gaming publishing systems, including titles, positions, degrees and/or grant money ever awarded. This should at least release some vacancy in the academia (given a 11% repeatable rate from the Amgen study).
The point of the Nautilus article was repeatability is a must before a scientific result is accepted. However pressure to publish new results often lead to scientists losing motivation in doing replicating studies. It's a bug in the scientific ecosystem, particularly in the allocation of rewards. A significant number of experiments will always fail to replicate for various random reasons. That doesn't mean the concerned scientist is at fault.
one or two publications without repeatable results might be acceptable - maybe he or she is just out of luck or some how choose the wrong hypothesis. but if there are five or six non-repeatable papers in the publication laundry list, esp some used for degrees, promotions to tenured positions, or grant applications, this makes him or her looks like fraud with a track record of publishing "personal opinions."
this is relatively vague as if u do read the article, there are more and more adjunct and temp faculty positions at universities, not more tenure-track positions. besides, the pie of r&d grants in term of nih or nsf budgets did not grow much in the past decade. also i dont see there is major possibility for anothe UC system or ivy league to be duplicated in the next decade or so - it takes much longer time to build an oven for a bigger pie.
So maybe we should start to coin the word "parasitOME" as microbiome? I guess the interaction between [ human host <-> parasiitOME (parasites population) <-> parasites' microbiome <-> microbiome ] through immune responses would be the next frontier to be explored
> Two years’ worth of hookworms cost $2,500.
But at the same time I think that whole home-brew therapeutic parasites thing is kind of an overshoot (or scam?) Maybe just live in a third-world country for 2 weeks or 2 months, eating local street food, raw fruits, drinking local water would be easier and more effective to acquire 'necessary' parasites (along with parasites' cultivation conditions) to subdue such immune system 'imbalance'?
Also I don't believe those those home-brew parasites incubators discard or disinfect their extra batch of larvae / embryos or utensils by autoclave or other means - more likely it's just dumped in the toilets and circle to public sewage system. I would not be surprised to see some parasites outbreak in the near future if this is going to be a trend and some home-brew parasites incubators just happen to live near some water treatment plants or upstream some major dams.
> Maybe just live in a third-world country for 2 weeks or 2 months, eating local street food, raw fruits, drinking local water would be easier and more effective to acquire 'necessary' parasites (along with parasites' cultivation conditions) to subdue such immune system 'imbalance'?
This is also a good way to make yourself really really sick. You can end up with hepatitis A, amoebic dysentery, cholera, typhoid, etc.
Or even if it’s just giardia and cryptosporidium (I assume these are among the “necessary parasites”?) folks who are immune-comporomised can end up in real danger.
autoimmune diseases and immunodeficiency are two pretty different things. also the infections you listed here pretty much could be prevented or with specific treatments available. MS & celiac disease don't.
In much of the developed world, sewage treatment is operated with the assumption that people are regularly putting pathogens in the sewage via their feces.
u will be surprised how often large outbreak of parasites infections there are in "developed world's" public water supply: Sweden [1], US [2]. CDC even has a web page set up for Drinking Water-associated Disease Surveillance.
> " We showed specifically that we can identify 5% to 15% of cases, while preserving extremely low false-positive rates (0.00001 to 0.0001)."
Back several years ago Google Flu Trend also claimed to have 97% accuracy compared to CDC data. But later on it just found to be way off to the real data. Did the author compare their study to the Google Trend.
Also it's not clear how they achieve the conclusion of low FP. Did they randomize their sample pool and run their predictability model several round?
The IRS and DOT should start scrutinizing the foreign shell companies buying up properties in major US cities (NYC, SF, LA...), which contribute to the pushing up the real estate price. Otherwise those shell companies would still be popular among international tax evaders of ultra riches while average citizens paying the prices such as high housing costs.
For some reason the quote "The chamber (of secrets) has been opened. Enemies of the heir ... beware" fro Harry Potter just came up to me.
i'm surprised chobani is not listed here as it's one of the most successful story of entrepreneurship with personal funding (+ small business loan) lately.
that 2010 study of patients of CAD and their follow-ups of 5-10 years of 'angry' levels is kind of flawed as what should actually be studied should be the "anger" levels as the causal effects of the CAD 5-10 years prior to the onset of CAD. it's more likely beyond certain points of the progression of CAD the change of mood does not mean anything to the prognosis.