history Deep history in western China reveals how humans can enhance biodiversity By www.chinadialogue.net Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserve is one of China's most popular tourist attractions, drawing more than five million visitors per year to the sparsely populated mountains of north-western Sichuan. The reserve has been home to farmer-herders for thousands of years, but to conserve the biodiversity and scenic quality of the reserve, park policies prohibit residents from farming, herding and wood cutting. Full Article
history The End of Neoliberalism and the Rebirth of History By www8.gsb.columbia.edu Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0500 Ordinary citizens felt like they had been sold a bill of goods. They were right to feel conned. Full Article
history CBD News: The Natural History Museum (United Kingdom) launches its official International Year of Biodiversity website: www.biodiversityislife.net By www.biodiversityislife.net Published On :: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.biodiversityislife.net/ Full Article
history CBD News: Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the United Nations and the American Museum of Natural History Event on "The Role of Biodiversity and Healthy Ecosystems in Sup By www.cbd.int Published On :: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
history CBD Communiqué: London's world renowned Natural History Museum joins forces with CBD for the implementation of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. By www.cbd.int Published On :: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
history CBD News: Indigenous peoples and local communities often refer to this Earth as Pachamama or "Mother Earth." The fate of Pachamama and of humans has been shaped over a history that has been intertwined. By www.cbd.int Published On :: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
history CBD News: It is a pleasure to join you here in Kuala Lumpur for the fourth session of the IPBES Plenary. We come together for a very exciting moment in the history of IPBES, when the Plenary will be presented with the first two assessments for its accepta By www.cbd.int Published On :: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
history History show heads to Kowloon City By www.news.gov.hk Published On :: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0800 The Leisure & Cultural Services Department’s Community Oral History Theatre Project will be launched in Kowloon City District on January 15. An oral history theatre performance and a sharing session will kick off the project. The performance will feature an excerpt from the production of Sai Kung, Therefore I Live. It will be held at Hung Hom Community Hall. Admission is free with tickets. Click here for details. Full Article
history A Brief History of the Development of Diabetes Medications By spectrum.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2014-05-01 John R. WhiteMay 1, 2014; 27:82-86From Research to Practice Full Article
history Differentiation of Diabetes by Pathophysiology, Natural History, and Prognosis By diabetes.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2017-02-01 Jay S. SkylerFeb 1, 2017; 66:241-255Perspectives in Diabetes Full Article
history Screening Room: Parts of a Circle - History of the Karabakh Conflict By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:55:01 +0000 Members Event 18 February 2020 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm Chatham House | 10 St James's Square | London | SW1Y 4LE Event participants Jenny Norton, Producer, Parts of a Circle: History of the Karabakh ConflictFamil Ismayilov, JournalistLeon Aslanov, Middle East Analyst, Integrity UKChair: Laurence Broers, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House; Director, Caucasus Programme, Conciliation Resources Once an autonomous region populated mainly by Armenians in Soviet Azerbaijan, Nagorny Karabakh, is a contested territory in the Caucasus. Since the late 1980s, its contested status has driven popular mobilization among Armenians and Azerbaijanis and an all-out war between 1992-94. After a quarter-century of enmity and military build-up, in 2019, Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders agreed to ‘prepare their populations for peace’ but how would this work in practice?Parts of a Circle: History of the Karabakh Conflict (2019) chronicles the disputed history of the decades-old conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. Supported by the European Union and based on a series of three documentary films jointly produced over four years by Armenian and Azerbaijani production teams, the film showcases journalistic cooperation in bridging societies in conflict.The screening was followed by a panel discussion that will explore the state of the conflict and the efforts to end it. Why have efforts to resolve the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia not been successful? How can both sides build grassroot support for peace after years of fomenting hatred? And what can the international community do in support?A short film about the making of the documentary can be seen here. Members Events Team Email Full Article
history Brown is proud of Braves' rich history By mlb.mlb.com Published On :: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 21:18:29 EDT It didn't come as a surprise to anyone when Dana Brown left the Blue Jays as a special assistant to general manager Ross Atkins to join the Braves as vice president of scouting. Full Article
history Talk evidence covid-19 update: natural history of covid, include patients in guidelines By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 09:13:00 +0000 For the next few months Talk Evidence is going to focus on the new corona virus pandemic. There is an enormous amount of uncertainty about the disease, what the symptoms are, fatality rate, treatment options, things we shouldn't be doing. We're going to try to get away from the headlines and talk about what we need to know - to hopefully give you... Full Article
history A walk down St Catherine’s history By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:10:59 -0500 Parish Histories of Jamaica Project, a publication by the JN Foundation in collaboration with the Department of History and Archaeology at The University of the West Indies, Mona, was launched recently. Jenny Jemmott of Department of History and... Full Article
history Curating the history of a people By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:10:30 -0500 Redlining a Holocaust is a rigorously researched oeuvre that establishes Dòwòti Désir as one of the most important figures in contemporary African thought. Redlining is an imaginative and monumental undertaking, a literary, visual, and oratorical... Full Article
history Generics have a chequered recent history By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Monday, December 5, 2016 - 11:45 Full Article
history Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Migration History Marked by Crises and Restrictions By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:11:11 -0400 One of the least developed countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has experienced significant migration outflows and inflows tied to political and economic crises in recent decades. While most Congolese migrants head to neighboring countries, destinations have diversified, with an uptick in those leaving for opportunities in Europe and beyond. This country profile explores historical and contemporary patterns of migration to and from DR Congo. Full Article
history Ahmaud Arbery and the Racist History of U.S. Loitering Laws By feeds.socialpsychology.org Published On :: 2020-05-08T02:05:41-04:00 Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesAhmaud Arbery went for a jog in a neighborhood of Brunswick, Georgia, a coastal town south of Savannah, in late February. He paused to look around a construction site of a new house. Then, in the middle of his run, a newly public video reveals, he was confronted by Gregory and Travis McMichael, a father-son duo. The father, Gregory, was a retired police officer who'd seen Arbery and decided he looked like a local burglary suspect. Full Article
history Navajo Nation Reels Under Weight of Coronavirus and History of Neglect By feeds.socialpsychology.org Published On :: 2020-05-08T13:31:17-04:00 Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesThe Navajo Nation now has the highest per-capita coronavirus infection rate after New York and New Jersey, but it has a fraction of the resources to treat and prevent the pandemic. "This has got to end," said president Jonathan Nez after federal relief funds arrived six weeks after they were promised and a week after the U.S. government missed a congressional deadline for distribution. Full Article
history Lactation Duration and Long-term Risk for Incident Type 2 Diabetes in Women With a History of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus By care.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2020-03-20T11:50:34-07:00 OBJECTIVE We examined the association of lactation duration with incident type 2 diabetes among women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We monitored 4,372 women with a history of GDM participating in the Nurses’ Health Study II for incident type 2 diabetes over 25 years up to 2017. Lactation history was obtained through follow-up questionnaires to calculate lactation duration. Follow-up blood samples were collected from a subset of these women at median age of 58 years through the Diabetes & Women’s Health Study. RESULTS We documented 873 incident cases of type 2 diabetes during 87,411 person-years of follow-up. Longer duration of lactation was associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes for both total lactation (hazard ratio 1.05 [95% CI 0.83–1.34] for up to 6 months, 0.91 [0.72–1.16] for 6–12 months, 0.85 [0.67–1.06] for 12–24 months, and 0.73 [0.57–0.93] for >24 months, compared with 0 months; P-trend = 0.003) and exclusive breastfeeding (P-trend = 0.002) after adjustment for age, ethnicity, family history of diabetes, parity, age at first birth, smoking, diet quality, physical activity, and prepregnancy BMI. Longer duration of lactation was also associated with lower HbA1c, fasting plasma insulin, and C-peptide concentrations among women without type 2 diabetes at follow-up (all adjusted P-trend ≤0.04). CONCLUSIONS Longer duration of lactation is associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes and a favorable glucose metabolic biomarker profile among women with a history of GDM. The underlying mechanisms and impact on diabetes complications, morbidity, and mortality remain to be determined. Full Article
history Can We Replay History? By decisions-and-info-gaps.blogspot.com Published On :: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:15:00 +0000 After the kids' party games and the birthday cake came the action-packed Steve McQueen movie. My friend's parents had rented a movie projector. They hooked up the reel and let it roll. But the high point came later when they ran the movie backwards. Bullets streamed back into guns, blows were retracted and fallen protagonists recoiled into action. The mechanism that pulls the celluloid film forward for normal showing, can pull the film in the reverse direction, rolling it back onto the feeder reel and showing the movie in reverse.If you chuck a round pebble off a cliff it will fall in a graceful parabolic arch, gradually increasing its speed until it hits the ground. The same pebble, if shot from the point of impact, at the terminating angle and speed, will gracefully and obligingly retrace its path. (I'm ignoring wind and air friction that make things a bit more complicated.)Deterministic mechanisms, like the movie reel mechanism or the law of gravity, are reversible.History is different. Peoples' behavior is influenced by what they know. You pack an umbrella on a trip to the UK. Google develops search algorithms not search parties because their knowledge base is information technology not mountain trekking. Knowledge is powerful because it enables rational behavior: matching actions to goals. Knowledge transforms futile fumbling into intelligent behavior.Knowledge underlies intelligent behavior, but knowledge is continually expanding. We discover new facts and relationships. We discover that things have changed. Therefore tomorrow's knowledge-based behavior will, to some extent, be unpredictable today because tomorrow's discoveries cannot be known today. Human behavior has an inherent element of indeterminism. Intelligent learning behavior cannot be completely predicted.Personal and collective history does not unfold like a pre-woven rug. Human history is fundamentally different from the trajectory of a pebble tossed from a cliff. History is the process of uncovering the unknown and responding to this new knowledge. The existence of the unknown creates the possibility of free will. The discovery of new knowledge introduces indeterminism and irreversibility into history, as explained by the philosophers G.L.S. Shackle and Karl Popper.Nonetheless history is not erratic because each increment of new knowledge adds to the store of what was learned before. Memory is not perfect, either of individuals or groups, but it is powerful. History happens in historical context. For instance, one cannot understand the recent revolutions and upheavals in the Arab world from the perspective of 18th century European revolutions; the historical backgrounds are too different, and the outcomes in the Middle East will be different as well. Innovation, even revolution, is spurred by new knowledge laid over the old. A female municipal official slapped a Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi. That slap crystalized Mr Bouazizi's knowledge of his helpless social impotence and lit the match with which he immolated himself and initiated conflagrations around the Mideast. New knowledge acts like thruster engines on the inertial body of memory. What is emerging in the Mideast is Middle Eastern, not European. What is emerging is the result of new knowledge: of the power of networking, of the mortality of dictators, of the limits of coercion, of the power of new knowledge itself and the possibilities embedded in tomorrow's unknowns.Mistakes are made, even with the best intentions and the best possible knowledge. Even if analysts knew and understood all the actions of all actors on the stage of history, they still cannot know what those people will learn tomorrow and how that new knowledge will alter their behavior. Mistakes are made because history does not unwind like a celluloid reel.That's not to say that analysts are never ignorant, negligent, stupid or malicious. It's to say that all actions are, in a sense, mistakes. Or, the biggest mistake of all is to think that we can know the full import of our actions. We cannot, because actions are tossed, like pebbles, into the dark pit of unknown possible futures. One cannot know all possible echoes, or whether some echo might be glass-shatteringly cataclysmic.Mistakes can sometimes be corrected, but never undone. History cannot be run backwards, and you never get a second chance. Conversely, every instant is a new opportunity because the future is always uncertain. Uncertainty is the freedom to err, and the opportunity to create and discover. Full Article
history We're Just Getting Started: A Glimpse at the History of Uncertainty By decisions-and-info-gaps.blogspot.com Published On :: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:12:00 +0000 We've had our cerebral cortex for several tens of thousands of years. We've lived in more or less sedentary settlements and produced excess food for 7 or 8 thousand years. We've written down our thoughts for roughly 5 thousand years. And Science? The ancient Greeks had some, but science and its systematic application are overwhelmingly a European invention of the past 500 years. We can be proud of our accomplishments (quantum theory, polio vaccine, powered machines), and we should worry about our destructive capabilities (atomic, biological and chemical weapons). But it is quite plausible, as Koestler suggests, that we've only just begun to discover our cerebral capabilities. It is more than just plausible that the mysteries of the universe are still largely hidden from us. As evidence, consider the fact that the main theories of physics - general relativity, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics - are still not unified. And it goes without say that the consilient unity of science is still far from us.What holds for science in general, holds also for the study of uncertainty. The ancient Greeks invented the axiomatic method and used it in the study of mathematics. Some medieval thinkers explored the mathematics of uncertainty, but it wasn't until around 1600 that serious thought was directed to the systematic study of uncertainty, and statistics as a separate and mature discipline emerged only in the 19th century. The 20th century saw a florescence of uncertainty models. Lukaczewicz discovered 3-valued logic in 1917, and in 1965 Zadeh introduced his work on fuzzy logic. In between, Wald formulated a modern version of min-max in 1945. A plethora of other theories, including P-boxes, lower previsions, Dempster-Shafer theory, generalized information theory and info-gap theory all suggest that the study of uncertainty will continue to grow and diversify.In short, we have learned many facts and begun to understand our world and its uncertainties, but the disputes and open questions are still rampant and the yet-unformulated questions are endless. This means that innovations, discoveries, inventions, surprises, errors, and misunderstandings are to be expected in the study or management of uncertainty. We are just getting started. Full Article
history New History of Psychiatry: Melancholy, Madness, Chinese Psychiatry, Psychedelic Therapy, and More By ahp.apps01.yorku.ca Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 12:59:00 +0000 The June 2020 issue of History of Psychiatry is now online. Full details follow below: “Wild melancholy. On the historical plausibility of a black bile theory of blood madness, or hæmatomania,” Jan Verplaetse. Abstract: Nineteenth-century art historian John Addington Symonds coined the term hæmatomania (blood madness) for the extremely bloodthirsty behaviour of a number of … Continue reading New History of Psychiatry: Melancholy, Madness, Chinese Psychiatry, Psychedelic Therapy, and More → Full Article General
history History of Spanish Psychology, 1800–2000 By ahp.apps01.yorku.ca Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:11:00 +0000 AHP readers may be interested in a recent piece on “History of Spanish Psychology, 1800–2000” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. Full details below. “History of Spanish Psychology, 1800–2000,” by Javier Bandrés. Abstract: In the history of Spanish psychology in the 19th century, three stages can be distinguished. An eclectic first stage was defined … Continue reading History of Spanish Psychology, 1800–2000 → Full Article General
history The History of the Clitoris (Video) By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 14:00:00 +0000 The clitoris is an organ that has been wildly misunderstood and mischaracterized for most of human history. The last three decades have dramatically changed the way that scientists think and talk about the clitoris; however, many myths and misconceptions remain. Full Article Videos
history The gender-fluid history of the Philippines | France Villarta By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:01:16 +0000 In much of the world, gender is viewed as binary: man or woman, each assigned characteristics and traits designated by biological sex. But that's not the case everywhere, says France Villarta. In a talk that's part cultural love letter, part history lesson, he details the legacy of gender fluidity and inclusivity in his native Philippines -- and emphasizes the universal beauty of all people, regardless of society's labels. Full Article Higher Education
history The weird history of the "sex chromosomes" | Molly Webster By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:48:37 +0000 The common thinking on biological sex goes like this: females have two X chromosomes in their cells, while males have one X and one Y. In this myth-busting talk, science writer and podcaster Molly Webster shows why the so-called "sex chromosomes" are more complicated than this simple definition -- and reveals why we should think about them differently. Full Article Higher Education
history A history of Indigenous languages -- and how to revitalize them | Lindsay Morcom By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:17:14 +0000 Indigenous languages across North America are under threat of extinction due to the colonial legacy of cultural erasure, says linguist Lindsay Morcom. Highlighting grassroots strategies developed by the Anishinaabe people of Canada to revive their language and community, Morcom makes a passionate case for enacting policies that could protect Indigenous heritage for generations to come. Full Article Higher Education
history North Dakota Introduces Native American History By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 North Dakota is the latest state to make a push for integrating Native American or other ethnic studies into school curricula. Full Article North_Dakota
history DeVos: State Bans on Public Money to Religious Schools Should Go To 'Ash Heap of History' By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 16 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos railed against state constitutional prohibitions on public funds going to religious institutions in a speech to the Alfred E. Smith Foundation in New York City. Full Article New_York
history Long History Underlies Fight Over Religious-School Funding By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 The case being heard by the Supreme Court next week deals with a debate that has raged since the 19th century about federal education funding for private religious schools. Full Article Montana
history ONE TO ONE: The family history and autobiography of Gary Robert Toone - a boy from Kendenup, Western Australia. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Full Article
history Exhaustion : a history / Anna Katharina Schaffner. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Fatigue. Full Article
history The Queen's bed : an intimate history of Elizabeth's court / Anna Whitelock. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Sexual behavior. Full Article
history The house of Islam : a global history / Ed Husain. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Muslims. Full Article
history Falling backwards : Australian historical fiction and the history wars / Jo Jones. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Fictions, Theory of. Full Article
history Easy family history : the beginner's guide to researching your family history / David Annal. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Archival resources -- Great Britain. Full Article
history eRecords for family history / Cora Num. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Genealogy Full Article
history Internet family history / Cora Num. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Genealogy -- Computer network resources -- Directories. Full Article
history Understanding documents for genealogy & local history / Bruce Durie. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Archival materials -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Full Article
history Defeating the ministers of death : the compelling history of vaccination / David Isaacs. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Vaccination -- History. Full Article
history Milk of paradise : a history of opium / Lucy Inglis. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Opium -- History. Full Article
history Project Rainfall : the secret history of Pine Gap / Tom Gilling. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History. Full Article
history The first wave : exploring early coastal contact history in Australia / edited by Gillian Dooley and Danielle Clode. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Discoveries in geography. Full Article
history Transcribing oral history / Teresa Bergen. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Oral history -- Methodology. Full Article
history A natural history and field guide to Australia's Top End / Penny van Osterzee, Ian Morris, Diane Lucas, Noel Preece ; photographer: Ian Morris. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Botany -- Northern Territory. Full Article
history Homo deus : a brief history of tomorrow / Yuval Noah Harari. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Technological forecasting. Full Article
history Chernobyl : history of a tragedy / Serhii Plokhy. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986. Full Article
history Revenge of the she-punks : a feminist music history from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot / Vivien Goldman. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Punk rock music -- History and criticism. Full Article
history The enchantment of the long-haired rat : a rodent history of Australia / Tim Bonyhady. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Rats -- Australia. Full Article
