Saturday, 28 February 2015
Friday, 27 February 2015
Is the Environment a Moral Cause? http://nyti.ms/1LS6bLx
Is the Environment a Moral Cause? http://nyti.ms/1LS6bLx
Thursday, 26 February 2015
Meetings between Kinder Morgan and feds leave no paper trail via @VanObserver http://tinyurl.com/mcrflky
Meetings between Kinder Morgan and feds leave no paper trail via @VanObserver http://tinyurl.com/mcrflky
The Tyee The Entitled Get More Brazen by the Day
The Entitled Get More Brazen by the Day | The Tyee http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/02/23/Entitled-Get-Brazen/ via @TheTyee
How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts
Candis Callison's new book, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke UP, 2014) is being launched at the Liu Institute March 9th at 4 pm.
More information can be found here:
http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/?p2=
Please note, this event precedes the next Science & Society talk at Green College (5 pm the same day, March 9th).
More information can be found here:
http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/?p2=
Please note, this event precedes the next Science & Society talk at Green College (5 pm the same day, March 9th).
“Which Self? The Rationalities of Self-Interest from the Enlightenment to the Cold War” March 30, 2015 4:30-6:00pm Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Room 182
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ANNOUNCING: This year's Straker Lecture will be given by Lorraine Daston **
We have employed the UBC Aumni Office to run registration for the Straker Lecture. Please take a a minute or two to register for the event by following this link:
http://www.gifttool.com/
Information about Daston's talk can be found on the STS website and below.
http://sts.arts.ubc.ca/
“Which Self? The Rationalities of Self-Interest from the Enlightenment to the Cold War”
March 30, 2015
4:30-6:00pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Room 182
Lorraine J. Daston, one of the world’s leading historians of science, is Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Daston has held visiting or continuing appointments with institutions such as Harvard, Princeton, Brandeis, Göttingen, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She has also held fellowships in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung in Bielefeld, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Institut des études avancées in Paris. In 2012, Daston was awarded the History of Science Society’s George Sarton Medal, a lifetime achievement award that is given annually to an outstanding historian of science from the international community.
Among Daston’s many publications are Classical Probability in the Enlightenment (Princeton UP, 1989), Wonders and the Order of Nature (Zone, 1998, with Katherine Park), Objectivity (Zone, 2007, with Peter Galison), and most recently (with many others), How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality (U Chicago P, 2013). Daston’s Straker Lecture will be drawn from her continuing work on the history of rationality.
We have employed the UBC Aumni Office to run registration for the Straker Lecture. Please take a a minute or two to register for the event by following this link:
http://www.gifttool.com/
Information about Daston's talk can be found on the STS website and below.
http://sts.arts.ubc.ca/
“Which Self? The Rationalities of Self-Interest from the Enlightenment to the Cold War”
March 30, 2015
4:30-6:00pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Room 182
Lorraine J. Daston, one of the world’s leading historians of science, is Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Daston has held visiting or continuing appointments with institutions such as Harvard, Princeton, Brandeis, Göttingen, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She has also held fellowships in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung in Bielefeld, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Institut des études avancées in Paris. In 2012, Daston was awarded the History of Science Society’s George Sarton Medal, a lifetime achievement award that is given annually to an outstanding historian of science from the international community.
Among Daston’s many publications are Classical Probability in the Enlightenment (Princeton UP, 1989), Wonders and the Order of Nature (Zone, 1998, with Katherine Park), Objectivity (Zone, 2007, with Peter Galison), and most recently (with many others), How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality (U Chicago P, 2013). Daston’s Straker Lecture will be drawn from her continuing work on the history of rationality.
the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Diana Kormos-Buchwald
In His Own Words: the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
Diana Kormos-Buchwald
California Institute of Technology
Einstein continues the fascinate the public 60 yrs after his death, and
100 yrs after his monumental General Theory of Relativity was born.
Everything, from his admittedly turbulent romantic life to his views on
religion, psychology, and politics, have been fair game. But only now are
we getting a clear picture of this. Einstein's massive written legacy
comprises some 1,000 writings and 29,000 items of correspondence, that
allow insight into one of the most effervescent periods in the history of
science. The ongoing edition of his manuscripts - the "Einstein project" -
one of the most ambitious contemporary scholarly publication efforts ever
attempted, has transformed received perceptions of Einstein, and continues
to illuminate novel aspects of his life and work.
To learn more please visit her
webpage.http://www.hss.caltech.edu/content/diana-l-kormos-buchwald
the Centenary of General Relativity:
Wed Apr 01, 2015
St. John's College
Steve Carlip (UC, Davis):
Quantum Black Holes
http://pitp.physics.ubc.ca/quant_lect/2015/Carlip.html
Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America
Book Documenting Northwest Native American Uses of Medicinal Plants is Recipient of 2014 ABC James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award
The ABC James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award was created in 2006 in honor of noted economic botanist and author, James A. Duke, PhD. It is awarded annually to books that provide a significant contribution to the literature in the fields of botany, taxonomy, ethnobotany, phytomedicine, or other disciplines related to the vast field of medicinal plants. Along with his expansive and prestigious career achievements in economic botany and ethnobotany and decades of work at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Dr. Duke has authored more than 30 reference and consumer books. He is also a co-founding member of ABC’s Board of Trustees and currently serves as Director Emeritus.
Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge represents four years of research and writing, drawing from Dr. Turner’s previous work and publications. She compiled a database of plant names from approximately 50 Indigenous languages and major dialects of the First Peoples, whose territories extend through most of the area covered in the book — from central Alaska to the Columbia River and east to the Rocky Mountains in western North America. “That showed some amazing connections, in some cases across long distances, that must have resulted from communication and linkages going way back into the past,” said Dr. Turner.
“I tried to write the book in an accessible way,” Dr. Turner continued, “so that it would be useful and of interest to a large and diverse group, from undergraduate university and college students to interested members of the general public. Most especially, I wanted to honor the elders and knowledge holders from Indigenous communities, and hope that younger generations will find the information in the book relevant and important as a part of their own cultural heritage.”
As Dr. Duke noted in his review of Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge in issue 105 of ABC’s peer-reviewed journal HerbalGram, “I have long admired Dr. Turner’s great work. As I skim pleasantly through her books, I can see interesting parallels between the late, great [Harvard ethnobotanist] R.E. Schultes, PhD, and his students assembling anthropological and ethnobotanical data on the First Amazonian Americans into a solid framework. Nancy and her students have done the same for approximately 500 ethnobotanical species of the First Americans in Northwest America.”
| Dr. Nancy J. Turner |
Dr. Turner, who has been studying ethnobotany and the cultures of Indigenous American peoples since 1967, has taught full-time at the University of Victoria since 1991. She has written more than 20 books and numerous articles, and also has an impressive array of awards, grants, and honors to her name, including Distinguished Economic Botanist of the Year from the Society for Economic Botany in 2011 and appointment as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2009. ABC has proudly included her on its Advisory Board since 1996. Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge represents the culmination of a career of almost 50 years.
“I was always interested in plants and people,” said Dr. Turner. “Once I learned that this study was called ethnobotany … that’s what I wanted to study. It’s in my high-school yearbook (1965). I remember [that] in grade four, I was already serving dandelion and wild greens salad to my friends, much to their parents’ concern.” Thanks to her continued dedication to teaching through experience, Dr. Turner’s students absorb much more than names and places, and it is this idea that permeates her text. “[The students] learn that humans can live within Nature without destroying it, working with natural processes and Nature’s wonderful abilities to regenerate and restore itself,” she said.
“Dr. Nancy J. Turner collects, preserves, and explores biological information for (not from) Indigenous cultures, primarily First Nation groups in British Columbia,” said Steven Foster, noted author, photographer, and former president of the ABC Board of Trustees. “Her five decades of shared wisdom challenge how we think about people as a part of, rather than apart from, ecosystems. Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge is a magnum opus of timeless value that will define ethnobiology and ethnoecology for generations forward.”
“Ethnobotany is a key foundation of modern herbal medicine,” said ABC Founder and Executive Director Mark Blumenthal. “Much of the herbal knowledge we have today is based on the traditional uses of plants by people in Indigenous cultures. Nancy Turner’s documentation of the plant use in northwestern North America is a true treasure.”
Past recipients of the James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award include Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine, 2nd ed (Churchill Livingstone) by Kerry Bone and Simon Mills in 2013; Medicinal Plants and the Legacy of Richard E. Schultes (Missouri Botanical Garden) by Bruce E. Ponman and Rainer W. Bussmann, PhD, in the reference/technical category and Smoke Signals (Scribner) by Martin A. Lee in the consumer/popular category in 2012; Healing Spices (Sterling Publishing) by Bharat B. Aggarwal, PhD, in the consumer/popular category and the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia’s Botanical Pharmacognosy (CRC Press) in the reference/technical category in 2011; Botanical Medicine for Women’s Health (Churchill Livingstone) by Aviva Romm, MD, in 2010; An Oak Spring Herbaria (Oak Spring Garden Library) by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and Tony Willis in 2009; Mabberley's Plant-Book, 3rd ed (Cambridge University Press) by David J. Mabberley, PhD, in 2008; Google Book Search in 2007; Medicinal Spices (MedPharm Scientific Publishers) by Eberhard Teuscher, PhD, in 2006; and The Essential Guide to Herbal Safety (Churchill Livingstone) by Simon Mills and Kerry Bone in 2005.
Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge can be purchased for $100.00 through the publisher, the American Botanical Council online bookstore, and other online retailers. (ABC members receive 10% off when purchasing from the online bookstore.)
The ABC James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award will be presented at the 10th Annual ABC Botanical Celebration and Awards Ceremony on March 5, 2015, in Anaheim, California. The event, for ABC Sponsor Members, occurs during the NEXT Innovation Summit nutrition, natural products, and dietary supplements conference and Natural Products Expo West.
The ABC Botanical Celebration and Awards Ceremony is underwritten by generous contributions from the following members of the herb, dietary supplement, and natural products industry:
| Alkemist Labs Amin Talati & Upadhye ChromaDex EuroPharma Horphag Research Indena USA Martin Bauer Group MegaFood |
Natural Factors Nutritional Products New Chapter New Hope Natural Media PlusPharma RFI Ingredients Ryan Turner Specialty Traditional Medicinals United Natural Products Alliance |
Medicinal plants of the Achuar (Jivaro) of Amazonian Ecuador: Ethnobotanical survey and comparison with other Amazonian pharmacopoeias
Available online 4 February 2015
Medicinal plants of the Achuar (Jivaro) of Amazonian Ecuador: Ethnobotanical survey and comparison with other Amazonian pharmacopoeias
Abstract
Aim of the Study and Ethnopharmacological relevance
This
paper presents the first ethnobotanical survey conducted among the
Achuar (Jivaro), indigenous people living in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru.
The aims of this study are: (a) to present and discuss Achuar medicinal
plant knowledge in the context of the epidemiology of this population
(b) to compare the use of Achuar medicinal plants with the uses reported
among the Shuar Jivaro and other Amazonian peoples.
Materials and methods
The
author conducted field research in 9 indigenous villages in the region
of Morona Santiago and Pastaza in Ecuador. Semi-structured interviews on
local illnesses and herbal remedies were carried out with 82 informants
and plant specimens were collected and later identified in Quito. A
literature research was conducted on the medicinal species reported by
Achuar people during this study.
Results
The
most reported medicinal plants are species used by the Achuar to treat
diarrhoea, parasites infection, fractures, wounds, and snakebites.
Informants reported the use of 134 medicinal species for a total of 733
recorded use-reports. Of these 134 species, 44 are reported at least 3
times for one or more specific disease condition for a total of 56 uses.
These species are considered a core kit of medicinal plants of the
Achuar of Ecuador. Most of these medicinal species are widely used in
the Amazon rainforest and in many other parts of Latin America.
Conclusion
The
author documented a core kit of 44 medicinal plants used among the
Achuar of Ecuador and found that this core set of medicinal plants
reflects local epidemiological concerns and the pharmacopoeias of the
Shuar and other Amazonian groups. These findings suggest that
inter-group diffusion of medicinal plant knowledge had a prominent role
in the acquisition of current Achuar knowledge of medicinal plants.
Graphical abstract
Keywords
- Ethnomedicine;
- Achuar;
- Traditional medicine;
- Medicinal plant knowledge;
- Medicinal plants;
- Amazon;
- Medicinal plants Ecuador
- Correspondence
address: Natural Capital and Plant Health Department, Royal Botanic
Gardens Kew, Wakehurst Place, Ardingly, West Sussex RH17 6TN, UK. Tel.
+44 1444 894116; fax +44 1444 894110.
Copyright © 2015 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
Berberine activates thermogenesis in white and brown adipose tissue http://go.nature.com/ooOzWw
Berberine activates thermogenesis in white and brown adipose tissue http://go.nature.com/ooOzWw
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
How Not to Test a Dietary Supplement
How Not to Test a Dietary Supplement http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/dna-barcoding-new-york-dietary-supplement via @newyorker
US Today Pueraria youth-promoting herb for women
http://ustoday.org/health/pueraria-thailands-youth-promoting-herb-for-women/
Pueraria, Thailand’s youth-promoting herb for women
Aug. 1, 2014: People buy food during a marketplace in executive Bangkok. (REUTERS)
At a bustling outside marketplace in Thailand, we examined what looked like large, dusty yams. “Oh, that’s Pueraria mirifica,” my botanist crony remarked. “Women use it, generally as they age.” He done a criticism to a lady offered a herb, who forked proudly to both of her breasts with a big, accessible smile. we was uncertain how to take that.
Thailand’s many famous herb, Pueraria mirifica (Pueraria for short) belongs to a same family as soy, and contains a same estrogen-like sterols genistein and daidzein, found in that renouned bean. The herb is also famous as Krao Krua, though this is rather confusing, as that name is also used for a opposite herb used by men. But Pueraria also contains stigmasterol, B-sitosterol, miroestrol and deoxymiroestrol, that possess even aloft estrogenic activity. These healthy agents duty like estrogen in a body. Thus Pueraria can play a profitable youth-promoting purpose in a health of women coming menopause, or during menopause. At this time of life, estrogen levels drop, and women knowledge reduced suppleness of skin, discontinued sex expostulate and lubrication, and mood swings.
The use of Pueraria goes behind many centuries, with a initial justification of a credentials described in a Burmese content from antiquity that survived a sacking of Burma by a advance of Kublai Khan and a Mongol hordes in a late 13th century. The text, found in 1931, recommends pulsation and blending a herb into cow’s divert and immoderate a mixture, to safeguard prolonged life and leisure from disease. The sensibility of this is that a several sterols formerly described are softened engrossed by a physique when churned with some dietary fat, as in cow’s milk.
In Thailand, Pueraria is famous as an age retarding agent. Women who use Pueraria news softened breast firmness, increasing suppleness of skin, some-more sleek hair, increasing lubrication, and towering sex drive. These are fundamentally a same effects a lady would get from extra estrogen as used in hormone deputy therapy. Recently, a Japanese association launched “F-cup Cookies,” that enclose a famous herb. Whether a cookies work as betrothed or not, they have combined a stir in Japan’s fruitful herbal products market.
Toxicity tests uncover that Pueraria is protected during endorsed levels, and tellurian clinical studies uncover that Pueraria does in fact urge earthy and mood symptoms of menopause. The dual many renouned uses for Pueraria among Thai women are for softened breast trust and extended passionate function. Accounts of softened breast trust ensuing from a daily sip of usually 100 milligrams of a base are too countless to ignore. For a claims of softened passionate function, there is some clinical evidence. For a inclusion of Pueraria in creams and lotions for approach focus to breasts for softened firmness, we have found no ancillary literature.
Roaming by several markets in Thailand, we found creams containing Pueraria, liquid potions, capsules, tablets, and sachets for creation tea from a herb. And during a Thai Ministry Of Health, we found a dialect of scientists operative on this herb, uncovering a chemical make-up and a several health benefits. Even during roadside stands we saw Pueraria products of several types, ever prepared to explain health and organisation breasts.
Thailand’s Ministry Of Public Health, identical to a possess NIH, unreservedly endorses Pueraria, and has clinging a good understanding of scholarship to this herb. With a prolonged story of protected use and a low sip required, Pueraria mirifica seems good value perplexing for women coming menopause. The herb is found in some Asian grocery stores, online, and in some healthy food stores. Still comparatively unknown, Pueraria has nonetheless to grasp widespread recognition.
Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter who researches healthy remedies all over a world, from a Amazon to Siberia. He teaches ethnobotany during a University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is Explorer In Residence. Chris advises herbal, cosmetic and curative companies and is a unchanging guest on radio and TV programs worldwide. His margin investigate is mostly sponsored by Naturex of Avignon, France. Read some-more at MedicineHunter.com.
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
Wonder of Life (kalanchoe pinnata) leaves to treat diabetic foot infections in Trinidad & Tobago: a case control study
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Antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties of nilavembu kudineer choornam: a classical preparation used in the treatment of chikungunya fever.
Antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties of nilavemb... - PubMed - NCBI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22014740
Did George Washington Use Medical Marijuana? The Daily Beast
Did George Washington Use Medical Marijuana? http://thebea.st/19neIdk via @thedailybeast
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Big food, big pharma: is science for sale? http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h795
Big food, big pharma: is science for sale? http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h795
Monday, 23 February 2015
Senior Clinical Training Scholarships in Small Animal Medicine (Two Scholarships, one funded by Alice Noakes Trust)
Senior Clinical Training Scholarships in Small Animal Medicine (Two Scholarships, one funded by Alice Noakes Trust)
TO START 1 JULY 2015 AND 1 AUGUST 2015
SCHOLARSHIP AWARD £21,390.00 (Year one)
Two Scholarships are available, to start on 1 July and 1 August 2015. The Scholarship provides an outstanding opportunity to study for a postgraduate qualification. The training programme covers all aspects of small animal medicine, including clinical nutrition, oncology and clinical pathology, and is approved by the European College of Veterinary Medicine.
The Scholarship is for one year in the first instance, renewable for periods of one year up to a total of three years. It is subject to an initial monitoring period of six months, and review on an annual basis.
The Scholar will be required to register for a Diploma in the appropriate field. The training programme requires participation in the Department's clinical service, including the out-of-hours rota and first opinion practice, in addition to small-group teaching of veterinary students.
An applicant must be a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, or hold a veterinary degree qualifying her/him for membership. Completion of a recognised internship or a minimum of two years' experience in small animal practice is essential.
Informal enquiries: contact Professor Michael Herrtage on mh10001@cam.ac.uk
Closing Date: 8th March 2015
Interview date: 26th March 2015
Fixed-term: 3 years.
Application form (SCTS1) and information pack: download from link below
Completed application form, curriculum vitae, covering letter: send to Melissa Large, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 OES, or email to vetmed@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Please quote reference PP05417 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Further information
Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher By JUSTIN GILLIS and JOHN SCHWARTZFEB. 21, 2015
For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change
have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of a handful of
scientists who claim that greenhouse gases pose little risk to humanity.
One
of the names they invoke most often is Wei-Hock Soon, known as Willie, a
scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who claims
that variations in the sun’s energy can largely explain recent global
warming. He has often appeared on conservative news programs, testified
before Congress and in state capitals, and starred at conferences of
people who deny the risks of global warming.
But
newly released documents show the extent to which Dr. Soon’s work has
been tied to funding he received from corporate interests.
http://nyti.ms/1FHTIvj
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