Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

'It might surprise you to hear that cycling is actually more popular than driving in Tokyo — it accounts for 17 percent of journeys, though the Japanese do not make as much of a big deal out of it as the Dutch do. But walking and public transport dwarf both sorts of vehicles.'

https://heatmap.news/economy/tokyo-anti-car-pedestrian-paradise?ref=thebrowser.com#

'Following the paper’s publication in Cretaceous Research, an online campaign with the hashtag #UbirajaraBelongsToBrazil called for the specimen’s return, citing palaeontological colonialism, in which scientists from wealthy nations take fossils from low- and middle-income nations. Because it is the only known specimen of its kind and is well preserved, researchers consider the Ubirajara fossil to be a holotype — a gold-standard specimen used to describe a new species'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01603-y

‘Labour warns’ in the headline is what makes it art:

"Some NHS staff need to “get over cultural sniffiness” about profit motives to work with pharmaceutical and tech companies to reverse the steep drop in UK clinical trials, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has said."

https://www.ft.com/content/801fa00e-335c-4b54-b507-4d4b497f73e0

'And as other tracking efforts wind down, some communities are racing to set up wastewater surveillance programs for the first time, Dr. Kirby noted. “This is actually driving more interest in wastewater,” she said.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/health/covid-sewage-wastewater-data.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

'I said, “I’m not really sure I want to do a cop show.” And Levinson said: “This is about the homicide detectives. They’re thinking cops. There’s no gun battles, there’s no car chases.” And I said: “That’s impossible. I’ll do it.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/arts/television/homicide-life-on-the-street.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Television

Racial differences in edication for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)

'In the 180 days after the index event, patients received buprenorphine after 12.7% of events among Black patients, after 18.7% of those among Hispanic patients, and after 23.3% of those among White patients; patients received naloxone after 14.4%, 20.7%, and 22.9%, respectively; and patients received benzodiazepines after 23.4%, 29.6%, and 37.1%, respectively.'

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2212412?query=featured_home

Ask the expert

'These results indicate that NRF2 regulates cardiac metabolic reprogramming by stimulating the diversion of glucose into the PPP, thereby providing cardiac protection during stress by generating NADPH and providing nucleotides to prevent stress-induced DNA damage.'
#Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.12.540342v1?med=mas

Obesity and #covid19 vaccination.

"Here we focus on individuals with severe obesity (those at highest risk). We conducted a prospective, longitudinal study that allowed us to demonstrate that, although initial and peak responses were similar in individuals with severe obesity and individuals with normal weight, there was accelerated decline in antibody levels over time that correlated with increased frequency of hospitalization and mortality from breakthrough infections."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02343-2

'Juba’s scientific contributions are his greatest legacy to the modern world. He is not only our best witness to that now-extinct elephant; drawing on his doctor’s name (Antonius Euphorbus), he christened the group of plants still known as Euphorbia (the red-leaved poinsettia is the most easily recognized of these), which was discovered on one of his expeditions into the Atlas Mountains. Chances are he’s behind the name of the Canary Islands too, taken from the big dogs (canes, in Latin) found on one of his expeditions there.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/cleopatra-selene-daughter-book-draycott-biography/673786/