DISCLAIMER – Slums in Brazil and all of Latin America are clusters of extremely low HDI (human development index) and absence of the State. It is no surprise that Transnational Criminal Organizations take over, take control and rule. Most of the people who live there are peaceful and usually victims of violence. What you will […]
In Big Bang Theory, season 2, episode 4, Raj gets nominated as one of the “30 under 30 to watch” by People Magazine. For Sheldon – the only one not actually pissed off by Raj’s pathetic self important attitude -, the question is one of legitimacy, and, since he is an Aspie, of meaning.
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I’m a health educator out of Oklahoma. And I have a lot of first hand experience under my belt. I think this is what made me choose this career path and also what makes me good at it. I want to tell a story about horses and men. In 2006, I went to a small
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1. Some are inevitable but manageable; some are avoidable; some are inevitable, period. 2. Among the avoidable are extremely intense forms of virilization (if this is not the goal, as in sex transitioning), usually related to poor understanding of the dose-response relation. In the sub-culture of the strength sports there is a wrong assumption according
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The use of IQ, BMI and other quantitative indicators in health: they are neither individually significant or irrelevant. Yes, they are all important in the assessment of public – epidemic or endemic – issues, such as educational policies, hunger or obesity. Today it is somewhat consensual that intelligence is not ONE manifestation of the human
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When you learn to quiet your mind, you’ll hear them speaking to you.” Qui-Gon Jinn, to Anakin Skywalker. Midi-chlorians are microscopic, intelligent lifeforms that live within the cells of all living beings. Since the dawn of cultural humanity, tribes and other types of societies have had healers. Today, “healer” is employed when describing traditional
This is from the series “using shallow marketable titles” to show there is much more to it than what is shown in these low content articles. I just copied a title that a lot of marketing-successful authors are using to suggest a more critical perspective on the theme of recovery. This is not intended as a
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I received this question from a reader today and as I was answering him privately I realized this might be a question more people share. I’ve written before about burnout (here and here) and will write more, so for now, this will be just a list of things you may do to start recovering
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My recovery has been documented with short videos and comments posted on Instagram. Here you can see the whole sequence, starting from bellow. "Recovey from Chaos" – It does look like I screwed up, but I didn't: what was hurting during the exercise was NOT the left hamstring tendon origin, but other parts of the
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My recovery has been documented with short videos and comments posted on Instagram. Here you can see the whole sequence, starting from bellow. "Recovery from chaos" – or how to complicate something simple. I'm adding hip thrusts to my rehab program. First, there is ample evidence concerning its efficacy on hip extensors activation, which I
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