The amount of effort expended by older men in coping with stressful events has the greatest impact on their mortality risk over and above how stressful an event is -- or the coping strategy employed to deal with it, new U.S. research published Tuesday indicates.
Most coping strategies were weakly to moderately positively correlated, and adaptive coping strategies were employed more frequently than dysfunctional responses, such as avoidance or confrontation.
Of these, only social coping, reaching out to others, was significantly associated with mortality risk with a 15% higher risk of dying from all causes. However, the study caveats this finding, noting social coping included "other-directed action that may deplete emotional and physical resources instead of bolstering them."
Maybe that's why we are seeing so much harmful tech. The geeks have not been trained to be cognizant of humanity.In other words, there may be downsides just to placing CS within an engineering school, let alone making it an independent college. Left entirely to themselves, computer scientists can forget that computers are supposed to be tools that help people.
A traditional CS department in a school of engineering would be populated entirely by computer scientists, while the faculty for a college of computing like the one he led at Georgia Tech might also house lawyers, ethnographers, psychologists, and even philosophers like me. Bala told me that her college was established not to teach CS on its own but to incorporate policy, law, sociology, and other fields into its practice. “I think there are no downsides,” she said.
“The model is just a reflection of the people who trained it,” one former AI researcher at Google Brain, who asked not to be named, told us. “It’s just a series of decisions that humans have made.”
NVIDIA wants to take away all the nursing jobs that nurses want. The desired nursing jobs are not changing bedpans, starting IVs, checking inventory or making the staffing schedules, although they need to be done. Nurse love the human interaction, and that's what NVIDIA wants to relegate to A.I.
...we call the attention of medical professionals to the various risks associated with blood transfusions using blood products derived from people who have suffered from long COVID and from genetic vaccine recipients, including those who have received mRNA vaccines...
Specifically, psilocybin treatment led to increased activity in the medial and lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) and left caudate — regions implicated in higher-order cognitive functions such as goal-directed behavior, decision-making, and emotional regulation.Just what people living in modern society need right now.Additionally, a decrease in activity was noted in the insula, motor, temporal, parietal, and occipital cortices, as well as the cerebellum. These areas are often associated with craving, automatic behavior patterns, and sensory processing, indicating that psilocybin may diminish the salience of alcohol cues.
The study also revealed unique responses to different types of emotional cues. For negative cues, psilocybin increased activity in the supramarginal gyrus, a region involved in empathy and emotional processing. For positive cues, there was an increase in right hippocampus activity and a decrease in left hippocampus activity, which may reflect changes in how positive emotional experiences are processed and integrated.
“Patients treated with psilocybin showed similar brain responses to pictures of alcohol and positive and negative emotional scenes,” Pagni told PsyPost. “This suggests psilocybin may have a general mood stabilizing effect, rather than altering processes specific to alcohol or negative emotions. The pattern of neural response was characterized by increased activity in the lateral and medial prefrontal cortex, brain regions associated with regulating emotions and behavior, and decreased activity in the insula, a brain region associated with craving for alcohol.”
What? Dr. Sam Parnia thinks he can resurrect people for up to three hours after they have died. That's crazy talk, man. But body cooling has been incorporated into the ACLS resuscitation cycle, so maybe if more people start doing it quickly, it may change things. But you've got have died from something that hasn't destroyed your body, or it's not going to work. Think this guy will get the Nobel Prize?
Memory changes as we age. The peak is in the mid-20s. Really? So young. So eat your veggies, exercise, and sleep well. Probably go easy on the alcohol, too. And stress-relief. Very important. So nothing new, really.
OpenAI isn't going to wait on NVIDIA's GPU chips. Sam Altman wants a Dubai company to make special ones for him. Well, OK then.
Physics lesson.
That's the way to deal with in the road protestors who refuse to budge:
Corvallis Clinic "simply doesn't have time to undergo continuing regulatory review without necessitating further cost-cutting measures that would almost certainly impact care before the time that the clinic would be potentially forced to close its doors"