Stress, we are told by the mindfulness apologists, is a noxious influence that ravages our minds and bodies, and it is up to us as individuals to ‘mindful up.’ It’s a seductive proposition that has potent truth effects. First, we are conditioned to accept the fact that there is a stress epidemic and that it is simply an inevitability of the modern age. Second, since stress is supposedly omnipresent, it’s our responsibility as stressed-out subjects to manage it, get it under control, and adapt mindfully and vigilantly to the thralls of a capitalist economy. Mindfulness targets this vulnerability, and, at least on the surface, appears as a benign technique for self-empowerment.
...stressism to describe “the current belief that the tensions of contemporary life are primarily individual lifestyle problems to be solved through managing stress, as opposed to the belief that these tensions are linked to social forces and need to be resolved primarily through social and political means.”
The International Year of Indigenous Languages is a United Nations observance in 2019 that aims to raise awareness of the consequences of the endangerment of Indigenous languages across the world, with an aim to establish a link between language, development, peace, and reconciliation. To bring awareness to this important cause students at Allison Bernard Memorial High School in Eskasoni, Cape Breton recorded Paul McCartney's Blackbird in their native Mi'kmaq language.
There is no single “cancer diet.”
In other words, a low-sugar diet could help combat some cancers, but it’s certainly not as simple as Cancers eat sugar, so low sugar stops cancer.
“It’s not ‘starving’ the cancer, but rather finding precise vulnerabilities that make metabolic therapies feasible.”
But focusing on specific patterns of eating will likely be part of many cancer-treatment guidelines in coming years.
La presión constante por publicar (el famoso “publica o muere”) fomentada por el exigente sistema de evaluación académico y la mayor competición entre el creciente número de grupos de investigación son algunas de las causas de esta sobreproducción de artículos y revistas. Por otra parte, hay que destacar también la aparición de revistas y congresos “depredadores” con las que algunos investigadores, ávidos por aumentar su número de publicaciones, intentan hinchar sus currículums con contribuciones científicas carentes de rigor y con una escasa revisión por pares.Oras consecuencias de esta aceleración en la producción científica son el despiece de un mismo estudio científico en el mayor número de artículos posible (salami slicing”), el plagio y la publicación de resultados difíciles de reproducir o incluso erróneos, muchas veces debidos a la precipitación a la hora de publicar.
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