Cortisol Connection. Chapter 6 Cortisol and Cardiovascular Disease A large and exceedingly important part of the stress response is its direct and rapid effect on the cardiovascular system.
As outlined previously, the fight-or-flight response is meant to prepare your body for forceful physical activity. But no matter whether you're saved by your fists (fight) or your feet (flight), your cardiovascular system had better be ready to support whatever vigorous activity you decide to undertake.
This means ramping up heart rate, blood pressure, and cardiac output (the amount of blood your heart pumps). We know that elevated blood pressure can accelerate damage to the interior lining of blood vessels. A variety of animal studies (in monkeys, rats, mice, and dogs) has supported the concept that stress leads to heart disease. Health professionals have known for decades that blood pressure, cholesterol levels, heart attacks, and strokes are closely related to overall degree of stress.
Subtleties of Color (Part 4 of 6) : Elegant Figures : Blogs. Connecting Color to Meaning Pretty much any dataset can be categorized as one of three types—sequential, divergent, and qualitative—each suited to a different color scheme.
Sequential data is best displayed with a palette that varies uniformly in lightness and saturation, preferably with a simultaneous shift in hue. Divergent data is suited to bifurcated palettes with a neutral central color. Qualitative data benefits from a set of easily distinguishable colors. Palettes defined in a perceptual color space—particularly CIE L*C*h—will be more accurate than those composed using RGB or HSV color spaces, which are more suited to computers than people.
I consider those the fundamentals of color for data visualization. Intuitive Colors This may sound obvious, but it’s an underused principle. The Dharma of Black Feminism: Zenju Earthlyn Manuel on bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry. Who’s Listening?
A video conversation with bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry Held at The New School in New York City, November 8th, 2013 Rev. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel My family ran to the TV to see black folks faces across the screen. I shouted amen, but as a choir member I had a few riffs of my own that sometimes were in alignment with the speakers and sometimes not. In the video, Harris-Perry and hook’s voices of black feminism were going against the stream of what hooks calls white male heterosexual patriarchal dominance which she says is the root of suffering within systemic oppression (on a global level). The Signature of All Things Index.
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Hope in the Age of Looming Authoritarianism. (Image: Maze silhouette via Shutterstock)I can understand pessimism, but I don't believe in it.
It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical evidence. Not overwhelming evidence, just enough to give hope, because for hope we don't need certainty, only possibility. Howard Zinn In the current historical moment, the line between fate and destiny is difficult to draw. Dominant power works relentlessly through its major cultural apparatuses to hide, mischaracterize or lampoon resistance, dissent and critically engaged social movements. Civic engagement appears increasingly weakened, if not impotent, as a malignant form of casino capitalism exercises ruthless power over the commanding institutions of society and everyday existence, breathing new life into old clichés.
The Global Food Challenge Explained in 18 Graphics. This post is part of WRI's blog series, Creating a Sustainable Food Future.
The series explores strategies to sustainably feed more than 9 billion people by 2050. All pieces are based on research being conducted for the 2013-2014 World Resources Report. The world is projected to hold a whopping 9.6 billion people by 2050. Figuring out how to feed all these people—while also advancing rural development, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and protecting valuable ecosystems—is one of the greatest challenges of our era. So what’s causing the global food challenge, and how can the world solve it? Feeding an Exploding Population The world’s population is projected to grow from about 7 billion in 2012 to 9.6 billion people in 2050.
Hope in the Age of Looming Authoritarianism. The Dharma of Black Feminism: Zenju Earthlyn Manuel on bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry. Waking Life. From the free-spirited abandon of Slacker and Dazed and Confused to the Oscar-nominated odyssey Boyhood, writer/director Richard Linklater has long been one of the most adventurous, thoughtful and innovative filmmakers in the world of independent cinema.
His 2001 effort titled Waking Life is a shining illustration of his singular voice. It also contains many of the elements that have preoccupied him throughout his career; mainly in its use of non-actors, its exploration of complex themes like existentialism, and its boldly imagined challenge to traditional narrative form and structure. The story - or what there is of it - concerns a young unnamed protagonist who questions the reality of his existence.
Whiskey and Ninja Turtles. Time is curved.
We only perceive it as linear. Watches are silly, antiquated devices. There’s an infinite number of universes. Richer Farmers, Bigger Subsidies.