10 lessons in public health #advice #careermapping
But why not the whole wall?
Worth a listen
Details of Pierre Chareau & Bernard Bijvoet’s “Maison de Verre”, (1932)
Unable to expel an elderly woman on the top floor, the house was engraved underneath an existing apartment. As such, the house uses skeleton frame steel construction allowing a free plan and the use of omnipresent lightweight materials, such as glass and glass block.
An interesting aspect of this house is the ubiquitous mechanical fixtures. On the ground floor was a medical suite for Dr. Jean Dalsace. This unusual circulation arrangement was resolved by a rotating screen which hid the private stairs from patients during the day, but framed the stairs at night. Other mechanical components include an overhead trolley from the kitchen to dining room, a retracting stair from the private sitting room to a bedroom, and complex bathroom cupboards and fittings.
Spatial division inside is customizable by the use of sliding, folding, and rotating screens in glass, sheet or perforated metal.
The honesty of materials, variable transparency of forms, and the juxtaposition of “industrial” materials and traditional home décor makes Maison de Verre a landmark in 20th century architecture.
Olive pizza (at Lolita Bistro)
Peaches and duck breast (at Lolita Bistro)
Chad Wright - Master Plan (2013)
“For the first part of this series, Wright created a mould in the form of an L-shaped suburban dwelling, and set out a series of sand castles on his local beach. This scale-model suburbia was washed away by the tide, which perhaps urges us to consider the relative transience of so solid a symbol of the American dream, particularly since the 2007 subprime mortgage collapse. ”
Artist’s statement:
“In Master Plan, I am conflating a child’s sandcastle with architecture typifying postwar American suburbia. This three-part series culls artifacts from my childhood, investigating suburbia in its vision and legacy.Phase One focuses on the mass-produced tract house, re-examining it as symbol for the model American Dream.”
Quite a finale
Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems (by TEDtalksDirector)
It’s a standard assumption in the West: As a society progresses, it eventually becomes a capitalist, multi-party democracy. Right? Eric X. Li, a Chinese investor and political scientist, begs to differ. In this provocative, boundary-pushing talk, he asks his audience to consider that there’s more than one way to run a succesful modern nation
“I don’t think elections create responsive governments anymore”
CLOTHING LIFE HACKS
i’m not sure all of these qualify as hacks (the t-shirt one seems pretty typical, which doesn’t mean it’s bad). but reblogging for the laundry/stain one!
Fancy painting a picture using bacteria (like legendary microbiologist Alexander Fleming used to do)? Then you should check out these C-MOULD: living paints from Exploring the Invisible.
Boats over lake geneva
3D-printed ‘Cortex’ cast concept puts a modern spin on bone fracture treatment
To anyone that’s ever broken a bone, the negatives of traditional plaster casts are familiar: they’re cumbersome, heavy, and can get rather smelly. Victoria University of Wellington graduate Jake Evill is looking to change all that with his Cortex cast. A mere concept for now, Evill says the cast — which is specifically fitted to each wearer based on X-rays of the fractured bone and a 3D scan of its surrounding limb — introduces many benefits. First and foremost, you’d be able to wear a longsleeve shirt over the lightweight, ventilated nylon cast. The open design is also shower-friendly, unlike bulky plaster casts.
The Cortex would be 3D printed on site, according to Evill, and each cast would be most dense near the location of a wearer’s fracture. “After many centuries of splints and cumbersome plaster casts that have been the itchy and smelly bane of millions of children, adults and the aged alike, the world over, we at last bring fracture support into the twenty-first century,“ says Evill. His Cortex cast may still be awkward from a fashion perspective, but it’s a marked improvement over where things stand today.
“A happiness profile would be the profile of the kind of person who is most likely to be happy, as we can also see in the following classic description: “happy persons are more likely to be found in the economically prosperous countries, whose freedom and democracy are held in respect and the political scene is stable. The happy are more likely to be found in majority groups than among minorities and more often at the top of the ladder than at the bottom. They are typically married and get on well with families and friends. In respect of their personal characteristics, the happy appear relatively healthy, both physically and mentally. They are active and open-minded. They feel they are in control of their lives. Their aspirations concern social and moral matters rather than money making. In matters of politics, the happy tend to the conservative side of middle. (Veenhoven 1991: 16)” The face of happiness, at least in this description, looks rather like the face of privilege. Rather than assuming happiness is simply found in “happy persons,” we can consider how claims to happiness make certain forms of personhood valuable. Attributions of happiness might be how social norms and ideals become affective, as if relative proximity to these norms and ideals creates happiness.”
Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness
Highly recommended
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Always interesting to read Sara Ahmed’s thoughts. Her work on postcolonialism and feminist theory invoke important critical thinking on both subjects. What’s even more interesting is how Sara - half Pakistani, half English - discusses ingenuity and scholarship in terms of feminism, racism and queer studies. “Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality” by her is an essential read. I’d love to take her interview soon.
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Magnetic Resonance Angiogram of the Brain
Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is a group of techniques based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to image blood vessels. Magnetic resonance angiography is used to generate images of the arteries in order to evaluate them for stenosis (abnormal narrowing), occlusion or aneurysms (vessel wall dilation that is at risk of rupture).
“It’s morning. The brown scoops of coffee, the wasplike
Coffee grinder, the neighbors still asleep.
The gray light, as you pour gleaming water—
It seems you’ve travelled years to get here.Finally you deserve a house. If not deserve
It, have it; no one can get you out. Misery
Had its way, poverty, no money at least;
Or maybe it was confusion. But that’s over.Now you have a room. Those light-hearted books:The Anatomy of Melancholy, Kafka’s LetterTo His Father, are all here. You can dance
With only one leg, and see the snowflake fallingWith only one eye. Even the blind man
”
Can see. That’s what they say. If you had
A sad childhood, so what? When Robert Burton
Said he was melancholy, he meant he was home.
poor tree. but tree stumps make stylish tables
For decades researchers thought that the production of neurons stopped early in life, leaving the adult brain with a finite number of neurons. The discovery of neural stem cells with self-renewing capacity and multi-potency has radically changed this view, and it is now well accepted that the birth of new neurons continues throughout adulthood. Adult neurogenesis occurs in two primary locations: the olfactory bulb and the central part of the hippocampus, called the dendate gyrus (shown at the left).
Image: Widefield multi-photon fluorescence image of a rat hippocampus stained to reveal the distribution of glia (cyan), neurofilaments (green) and cell nuclei (yellow). The image was produced as part of an ongoing brain mapping project for the Whole Brain Catalog.