Trivia

[Daniel]

Property Transfers to Caregivers: A Comparative Analysis

By Adam S. Hofri-Winogradow, Richard L. Kaplan

ilr.law.uiowa.edu

In the United States, approximately 80% of the long-term care received by older Americans is provided by informal caregivers, generally family members, constituting an estimated value of $470 billion in 2013.

The 2011 U.K. Census showed that out of a population of 63.2 million people, 6.5 million functioned as caregivers.

 

[Daniel]

Just read that the very nice OCD expert I once saw years ago for an evaluation was a co-founder of the International OCD Foundation:

Wayne Goodman - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Wayne Goodman is an American psychiatrist and researcher who specializes in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). He is the principal developer, along with his colleagues, of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), which is considered to be the gold standard for assessing OCD...

Goodman was one of the first investigators to test and establish the efficacy of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) in OCD and show their comparative advantage over other antidepressant medications.[12] He also developed the use of adjunctive antipsychotic medications in SSRI-resistant OCD and found that patients with comorbid tic disorders are most likely to respond to this combination...

In 1986, Goodman co-founded the nonprofit OCD Foundation (now named the International OCD Foundation)...

 

[Daniel]

Shifts in Intended and Unintended Pregnancies in the United States, 2001–2008

In 2008, 51% of pregnancies in the United States were unintended, and the unintended pregnancy rate was 54 per 1000 women ages 15 to 44 years. Between 2001 and 2008, intended pregnancies decreased and unintended pregnancies increased, a shift previously unobserved.

 

[Daniel]

An ancient thirst for beer may have inspired agriculture, Stanford archaeologists say

"Stanford researchers have found the oldest archaeological evidence of beer brewing, a discovery that supports the hypothesis that in some regions, beer may have been an underlying motivation to cultivate cereals."

 

[David Baxter]

So if it weren't for beer, there would be no farmers? Interesting.

Also, if it weren't for beer, there would be no Australia.

 

[Daniel]

Pineal gland - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"Most of Descartes's basic anatomical and physiological assumptions were totally mistaken, not only by modern standards, but also in light of what was already known in his time."

 

[Daniel]

Why aren’t animals with larger brains more intelligent than us?

Bigger isn’t always better. Sometimes how you use it is more important than what you’ve got.

www.sciencefocus.com

Brain structure is more important than brain size, and human brains with their highly folded and complicated cortex can do things no other brains can...

The ratio of brain weight to body weight is about 1:5000 for fish, 1:220 for birds and 1:180 for mammals, with the most intelligent species generally having the highest ratio. For example magpies and crows have a higher ratio than most birds, and social mammals such as chimpanzees and dolphins have a higher ratio than other mammals. The human ratio is highest at about 1:50.

 

[Daniel]

Another fun fact for future, post-COVID parties

Probabilities for the two dice

Probabilities for the two dice

statweb.stanford.edu

Total​	Number of combinations​	Probability​
2​	1​	2.78%​
3​	2​	5.56%​
4​	3​	8.33%​
5​	4​	11.11%​
6​	5​	13.89%​
7​	6​	16.67%​
8​	5​	13.89%​
9​	4​	11.11%​
10​	3​	8.33%​
11​	2​	5.56%​
12​	1​	2.78%​
Total​	36​	100​

 

[Daniel]

 

[Daniel]

Oceanic feeling

en.wikipedia.org

Freud discusses the feeling in his Future of an Illusion (1927) and Civilization and Its Discontents (1929). There he deems it a fragmentary vestige of a kind of consciousness possessed by an infant who has not yet differentiated himself or herself from other people and things.

 

[Daniel]

Karl Jaspers

en.wikipedia.org

Not unlike Freud, Jaspers studied patients in detail, giving biographical information about the patients as well as notes on how the patients themselves felt about their symptoms. This has become known as the biographical method and now forms a mainstay of psychiatric and above all psychotherapeutic practice.

Jaspers set down his views on mental illness in a book which he published in 1913, General Psychopathology.[1] This work has become a classic in the psychiatric literature and many modern diagnostic criteria stem from ideas found within it. One of Jaspers' central tenets was that psychiatrists should diagnose symptoms of mental illness (particularly of psychosis) by their form rather than by their content. For example, in diagnosing a hallucination, it is more important to note that a person experiences visual phenomena when no sensory stimuli account for them, than to note what the patient sees. What the patient sees is the "content", but the discrepancy between visual perception and objective reality is the "form".

 

[David Baxter]

I did not know this until today. I didn't know about St. Gertrude and I didn't even know there was a patron saint of cats.

 

[Daniel]

Professional degrees of public health

en.wikipedia.org

Most hospital systems have MPH public health staff to study disease trends and help to combat hospital-acquired infections (nosocomial infections) and immediately determine epidemiologic trends, for example, flu outbreak tendencies, etc.

 

[Daniel]

Another paper with an interesting title:

Visualizing cat GPS data: a study of user requirements​

Current GPS devices and the supporting interfaces and visualizations are usually created with a focus on dog owners. To acquire more insight into the needs of cat owners in relation to GPS devices for domestic cats, an iterative prototype-based study was conducted...

The most important requirements for a cat owner-centered GPS visualization were being able to request the live location and being alerted if the cat might be in trouble.

 

[Daniel]

 

[Daniel]

In trivia since the studies about tai chi are so small:

Qi Gong and Tai Chi improve the lives of cancer survivors

Tai Chi, an ancient Chinese martial art, is comprised of slow and graceful movements. Its popularity has grown as millions of people have improved their health by learning and

www.theunion.com

“In a study of 23 U.S. women with mild to moderate cognitive impairment a year or more after chemotherapy, taking a 60-minute Tai Chi class twice a week for 10 weeks resulted in improved immediate memory, delayed memory, verbal fluency, attention and executive function.”



In any case, one day I may become a moonlighting tai chi instructor for assisted living communities

 

[Daniel]

Sounding board - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

A sounding board, also known as a tester and abat-voix, is a structure placed above and sometimes also behind a pulpit or other speaking platforms that helps to project the sound of the speaker. It is usually made of wood...

Sounding board may also be used figuratively to describe a person who listens to a speech or proposal in order that the speaker may rehearse or explore the proposition more fully.[2] The term is also used inter-personally to describe one person listening to another, and especially to their ideas. When a person listens and responds with comments, they provide a perspective that otherwise would not be available through introspection or thought alone.