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CTE found in 99% of studied brains from deceased NFL players - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/25/health/cte-nfl-players-brains-study/index.html

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE, was found in 99% of deceased NFL players’ brains that were donated to scientific research, according to a study published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA.

The neurodegenerative brain disease can be found in individuals who have been exposed to repeated head trauma. The disease is pathologically marked by an buildup of abnormal tau protein in the brain that can disable neuropathways and lead to a variety of clinical symptoms. These include memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, aggression, depression, anxiety, impulse control issues and sometimes suicidal behavior.
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The study points out potential bias because relatives of these players may have submitted their brains due to clinical symptoms they noticed while they were living. It also acknowledges the lack of a comparison group that represents all individuals exposed to college-level or professional football. Without that, the study lacks an overall estimate on the risk of participation in football and its effects on the brain.

Out of 202 deceased former football players total — a combination of high school, college and professional players — CTE was neuropathologically diagnosed in 177, the study said. The disease was identified in 110 out of 111 former NFL players. It was also found in three of the 14 high school players and 48 of the 53 college players.

#football_américain

Calls to poison centers about supplements up 50%, especially among kids - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/24/health/dietary-supplements-poison-control-study/index.html

From 2005 to 2012, the rate of calls to poison control centers about dietary supplements increased by almost 50%, and most of the exposures were in children younger than 6 years old, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of Medical Toxicology.

The study defines dietary supplements as any product that supplements the diet, including vitamins, minerals, herbs, botanicals, homeopathic agents and amino acids, and concentrates, metabolites, constituents and extracts of these ingredients.

The researchers used data from the National Poison Data System, to which poison control centers submit their call information. From 2000 to 2012, there were 274,998 dietary supplement exposures reported to poison control centers across the US: one call every 24 minutes, on average.

The symptoms most associated with supplement ingestion included tachycardia, or rapid heart rate; vomiting; nausea; irritability; drowsiness and dizziness.

Seventy percent of the dietary supplement exposures were in children younger than age 6; 99% of those were unintentional. Overall, only 4.5% of all supplement exposures resulted in serious medical outcomes, mostly in children under age 6.

Henry Spiller, study author and director of Central Ohio Poison Control, said parents still need to be extremely cautious about leaving these products within access of children.

“Sometimes, parents don’t think of keeping dietary supplements away from their kids, because they’re not medicines prescribed by the doctor. People think of them as natural,” Spiller said. “But they need to be treated as if they were a medicine. Don’t leave them out on the counter. Keep them out of reach.”

Sperm counts of Western men are plummeting, analysis finds - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/25/health/sperm-counts-declining-study/index.html

Sperm counts of men in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand are plunging, according to a new analysis published Tuesday.

Among these men there has been a 52% decline in sperm concentration and a 59% decline in total sperm count over a nearly 40-year period ending in 2011, the analysis, published in the journal Human Reproduction Update, said.
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Though Levine emphasized that his analysis did not study the cause of declines, he speculated the reason may be “°we are exposed to many chemicals we’ve never been exposed to before.°”

Previous studies, including his own, show that exposure in utero to endocrine disrupting chemicals can harm male reproductive system development and fertility potential. Commonly used chemicals, including pesticides, lead and fire retardants, can increase or decrease production of certain hormones within our bodies and so are said to disrupt our endocrine, or hormone-making, system.
Sonya Lunder, a senior analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group Environmental Working Group, noted that sperm is manufactured daily by men’s bodies. Recent exposures to environmental chemicals would have an effect on sperm, which serves as a good indicator of contamination, while also serving as a good biomarker of men’s health.

Lunder cites the work of Russ Hauser, a professor of reproductive physiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who suggests that exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals may be associated with poorer sperm quality among men and worse reproductive outcomes among women.

#perturbateur_endocrinien

Australia agrees to pay $70 million to Manus Island detainees - CNN.com
▻http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/13/asia/australia-manus-island/index.html

The Australian government has agreed to pay detainees on Manus Island more than $70 million (US$52.75 million) in the “largest settlement in a human rights class-action” in the country’s history.
More than 1,900 detainees had alleged they suffered serious physical and psychological injuries during their time in the Australian government’s offshore asylum seeker detention center on the Papua New Guinea island, between 2012 and 2016.

#Australie #migrants #Manus_Island

Sandstorm pushes Beijing smog off pollution charts - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/04/asia/beijing-sand-storm-pollution-beyond-index/index.html

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Beijing’s air quality reached hazardous levels Thursday, as a large sandstorm swept through the Chinese capital, turning the sky a murky yellow and forcing many residents to keep indoors.

Sandstorms are common across north east Asia during the spring, with prevailing winds carrying sand and dust particles from the Gobi Desert across the region.

But the speed with which the storm set in astounded locals — between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Thursday, the city’s air quality index (AQI) jumped from under 100 to over 500 — from “moderate” to a rating of “beyond index.”

By midday, the AQI level had hit a peak of 621, with PM2.5 levels of 684 micrograms per cubic meter.
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Research by Nanjing University’s School of the Environment has linked smog with nearly one-third of all deaths in China, positioning it on a par with smoking as a threat to public health.

Published in November last year, the study analyzed over 3 million deaths across 74 cities throughout China in 2013.

The findings revealed that as many as 31.8% of all recorded deaths could be linked to pollution, with major cities in Hebei, the province that encircles Beijing, ranked among the worst.

Iceberg towers over Canadian town - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/19/travel/ferryland-iceberg-trnd

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Canada’s “Iceberg Alley” is living up to its name this spring, and tourists are flocking to the town of Ferryland to see the behemoth that has grounded just off shore.

The iceberg towers over the picturesque town, which is about an hour south of St. John’s on the east coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Canadian Ice Service classified it as “large,” which means it has a height of 151-240 feet and is between 401 and 670 feet long.

Mumps in Texas: Biggest outbreak in 22 years - CNN.com
▻http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/14/health/mumps-texas/index.html

Across the nation, most mumps cases are occurring among people who have been vaccinated, according to the CDC, and these outbreaks are not due to low vaccination rates. For example, in Texas, 97.6% of kindergarten-age children have received two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, Van Deusen said, while 98.7% of seventh-graders have.

Russia bans images of Putin linked to ’gay clown’ meme - CNN.com
▻http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/europe/russia-gay-clown-putin/index.html

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The punishment for offenders who distribute, retweet or share the image is 15 days in prison or a fine of 3,000 rubles ($53).

#poutine #gay #répression #homophobie #censure #russie

This is what Africa looks like from space - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/30/africa/nasa-photos-africa-from-space/index.html?sr=twcnni040117nasa-photos-africa-from-space0846AMVODtopLink

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NASA just made thousands of aerial images of Africa available to the public

#Afrique #photos #nasa #espace

7 things you didn’t know about maps - CNN.com

▻http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/02/travel/maps-daniel-crouch/index.html

PaS très intéressant pour nous, c’est juste un article pour les collectionneurs (NdT : les spéculateurs) de cartes, mais le point 4 est marrant, déjà longuement développé par Mark Monmonnier dans un de ses livres (Comment mentir avec les cartes).

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4. Mapmakers included fake towns to catch forgers
Ever been to the town of Agloe in New York State? Whitewall in California? Or Relescent in Florida?
While these towns are clearly marked on a number of antique maps of the United States, they don’t actually exist.
“Paper towns” were fake places added to maps by early mapmakers in order to dupe forgers into copying them, thereby exposing themselves to charges of copyright infringement.

#cartographie #collectionneurs

Rediscovering WWII’s female ’computers’ - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/08/women.rosies.math

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Computer, at that point, was a job title, not a machine. Long before the sisters were businesswomen, community activists, mothers or grandmothers, they were recruited by the U.S. military to do ballistics research. They worked six days a week, sometimes pulling double or triple shifts, along with dozens of other women.

The weapons trajectories they calculated were passed out to soldiers in the field and bombardiers in the air. Some of their colleagues went on to program the earliest of general-purpose computers, the ENIAC.

It wasn’t factory work, but they were “Rosies” nonetheless, filling jobs that men would’ve taken if they hadn’t been at war or wrapped up in other military research.

Le film
▻https://sites.temple.edu/topsecretrosies/project-background
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE4Tf4JVl-E

#femmes #computer #rosies #scientifiques #mathématique

Auschwitz-themed ’escape room’ game shut down - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/27/europe/holocaust-auschwitz-escape-game-room-controversy-trnd

A Czech company has stopped selling tickets to its Auschwitz-themed “#escape_room” after facing fierce criticism for casting as a game the experience of Holocaust victims in one of World War II’s most notorious concentration camps.

In a statement posted Friday to the Prague-based Dostaň Se Ven’s website, the company said it originally designed the game to draw attention to the atrocities of Auschwitz. But it acknowledged that the backlash is “understandable” — and said it would stop selling tickets immediately.

Man gets $75 after being wrongly imprisoned 31 years - CNN.com
▻http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/us/tennessee-inmate-wrongly-imprisoned/index.html

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A Tennessee man who served 31 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit is petitioning the state to compensate him $1 million for the years of his life that were taken away. All he’s gotten so far is $75.

#prison #justice et gros #foutage_de_gueule

Bulgaria train derailment: 5 killed in blast - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/10/europe/bulgaria-train-explosion/index.html

A cargo train carrying propane-butane derailed and exploded early Saturday in a northeastern Bulgarian village, killing five people and injuring at least 27, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

The blast damaged more than 50 houses and public buildings in the village of Hitrino, and dozens of homes have been evacuated, the ministry said.

En parlant des inégalités et de carte scolaire. Retour aux USA en 2011 ...

Mom jailed for enrolling kids in wrong school district – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs
▻http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/26/mom-jailed-for-enrolling-kids-in-wrong-school-district

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Mom jailed for enrolling kids in wrong school district
An Ohio mother is in jail after being convicted of tampering with records to enroll her children in a better school district.

Kelley Williams-Bolar, 40, of Akron, illegally registered her two daughters at her father’s address in suburban Copley Township to get them into the Copley-Fairlawn school district rather than the urban Akron district, a jury decided.

The Akron City school district met only four of 26 standards on the latest Ohio Department of Education Report Card and had a 76% graduation rate. Copley-Fairlawn City Schools met 26 of 26 standards and had a 97.5% graduation rate.

Summit County Common Pleas Judge Patricia Cosgrove sentenced Williams-Bolar last week to five years in prison, but suspended all but 10 days. Williams-Bolar also must serve 80 hours of community service and will be on probation for three years.

Elephant tranquilizer carfentanil to blame in at least 8 deaths - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/06/health/carfentanil-deaths-ohio

Carfentanil, a sedative for large animals, was the cause of at least eight overdose deaths in Hamilton County, Ohio, coroner Dr. Lakshmi Kode Sammarco said Tuesday.

Sammarco added that they are waiting on blood and urine tests from five more overdose deaths which she is confident “will also be due to carfentanil.”

The most potent opioid commercially available
Carfentanil is the most potent opioid used commercially, 10,000 times stronger than morphine. It is a version or analogue of fentanyl, the painkiller that most recently made headlines as the cause of the the accidental overdose death of pop star Prince.

Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid and can slow breathing significantly. It’s not approved for human use, but is used commercially to sedate large animals, such as elephants. As little as 2 milligrams can knock out an African elephant weighing nearly 2,000-pounds.

According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, users might not know they are even taking the drug, as dealers have been cutting heroin with fentanyl to give it a boost and stretch their supply. Dealers are also using it to make counterfeit pills. Between 2013-2014, there were 700 fentanyl related deaths. Officials believe it is helping fuel the opioid and heroin crisis.

Zika spraying kills millions of honeybees - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/01/health/zika-spraying-honeybees

The pictures are heartbreaking: Millions of honeybees lie dead after being sprayed with an insecticide targeting Zika-carrying mosquitoes.

“On Saturday, it was total energy, millions of bees foraging, pollinating, making honey for winter,” beekeeper Juanita Stanley said. “Today, it stinks of death. Maggots and other insects are feeding on the honey and the baby bees who are still in the hives. It’s heartbreaking.”

Stanley, co-owner of Flowertown Bee Farm and Supply in Summerville, South Carolina, said she lost 46 beehives — more than 3 million bees — in mere minutes after the spraying began Sunday morning.

“Those that didn’t die immediately were poisoned trying to drag out the dead,” Stanley said. “Now, I’m going to have to destroy my hives, the honey, all my equipment. It’s all contaminated.”

Stanley said Summerville Fire Capt. Andrew Macke, who keeps bees as a hobby, also lost thousands of bees. She said neither of them had protected their hives because they didn’t know about the aerial spraying.

New elements on the periodic table are named - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/08/health/periodic-table-new-elements-names

Meet nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts) and oganesson (Og), the newest elements on the periodic table to receive names. But don’t get too attached to the nomenclature for these elements, formerly known by their respective atomic numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118. The names are on a five-month probation before things are made official.
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The discoverers of the elements were invited to propose the names, and now a public review of the names begins, expiring on November 8, 2016. If you feel strongly about these names, the union invites you to provide comments and feedback here.

Avec, évidemment, l’origine de ces noms dans la suite de l’article…

E-cigarette poisonings in kids skyrocket, study finds - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/09/health/e-cigarettes-poison-kids

The number of children under 6 poisoned by nicotine in e-cigarettes rose by nearly 1,500% between 2013 and 2015, and one child died, according to an analysis of calls to the National Poison Data System published in the journal Pediatrics.

More than 90% of the children swallowed the nicotine-laced liquid, known as e-juice, that is smoked inside e-cigarettes. Nearly half of the exposed children were under the age of 2.
The number of children exposed to e-cigarette products each month rose from 14 in January 2012 to 223 in April 2015.

“On average, every three hours, a poison center receives a call about a young child exposed to an e-cigarette or liquid nicotine,” said the study’s senior author, Dr. Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. “That’s more than seven children each day.”

White women’s life expectancy shrinks a bit - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/20/health/white-women-wont-live-as-long-hispanic-good-news

White girls born this year may not live as long as white girls born the year before, according to new life expectancy research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The news is better for non-Hispanic black males and Hispanic men and women. Life expectancy is the number of years you can expect to live based on a statistical average for the population.

The experts from the National Center for Health Statistics ran the numbers for the years 2013 and 2014 and found non-Hispanic white women have a slightly lower life expectancy, dropping 0.1 year.
That may sound like a small change, but “life expectancy numbers for the population have been rather stagnant for some time,” said author Elizabeth Arias. Arias is the demographer with NCHS who created the report. “It is still not trivial if you put it in the context with the other research.”

No effect for kids of same-sex parents - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/15/health/health-of-children-with-same-sex-parents

A new study in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics finds that the kids really are all right. Despite the ongoing cultural debate around same-sex parenting, the new study finds the children of same-sex parents are just as healthy emotionally and physically as the children of different-sex parents.
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The study found that there were no differences in the children when it came to their general health, their emotional difficulties, their coping behaviors and their learning behaviors. What the study found to be more indicative predictors of these behaviors were the relationships between the parents, the parents and child, and parenting stress.

Asmara: A playground of futurist architecture - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/17/design/asmara-eritrea-modernist-city/index.html

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Eritrea’s capital, Asmara, has weathered colonialism and decades of war, and emerged an independent nation with one of the world’s best preserved collections of Futurist and Modernist architecture.

#érythrée #architecture #photographie

Assembling the world in an image: 15 of history’s most revealing maps - CNN.com

►http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/18/design/historys-most-revealing-maps/index.html

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Supply lines under Potsdamer Platz – Although meant to show something as pedestrian as the underground infrastructure of Berlin this map was far ahead of its time, both in its design, and also in being one of the first maps to treat the infrastructure of a city as a system of networks. The design of the map highlights one of the keys to successful map construction and which concerns itself with the mapmaker knowing what to leave out. Here we see no labels, text or anything else that might interfere with the perception of the network and spider web structure that the mapmaker was trying to get across to the viewer.

#cartographie #graphique #cartographic_design #design

Assembling the world in an image: 15 of history’s most revealing maps - CNN.com
►http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/18/design/historys-most-revealing-maps/index.html

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Human Mobility and the Spread of Ebola in West Africa, 2014 – Although we tend to think of maps as images fixed in time, modern cartography has sought to represent events that are dynamic and not in equilibrium. This map uses location information taken from more than 150,000 cell-phones to show population movement of individuals in West Africa to help predict possible routes for the spread of Ebola during the epidemic of 2014. It is a typical example of how modern cartography has expanded its boundaries to map not only geographic but also social phenomena.

#santé #cartographie #ébola

Assembling the world in an image: 15 of history’s most revealing maps - CNN.com

►http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/18/design/historys-most-revealing-maps/index.html

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On the Road – Cartographers are truly a strange breed. Most of us spend a great deal of time traveling, sketching the land and cityscapes in our little notebooks, and generally wishing we spent more of our time on the road. For my money Jack Kerouac’s novel captures that spirit of cartography in ways that even many maps cannot and to see that he actually graphically traced out the route of his more narrative journey, makes On the Road a real mapmakers book. Over the decades many readers of the novel have sat down and drawn for themselves the path of the exploits by Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarity as they criss-crossed America in search of adventure and self-discovery. Kerouac’s hand drawn map is both a fictional plan for his writing and a real journey that he himself would make. What map isn’t a blending of both?

#cartographie #esquisse