Questões de Inglês

    Counting Stars

    ONE REPUBLIC 

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep 

Dreaming about the things that we could be 

But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard 

Said no more counting dollars 

We'll be counting stars, yeah, we'll be counting stars

I see this life, like a swinging vine 

Swing my heart across the line 

And in my face is flashing signs 

Seek it out and ye' shall find 

Old, but I'm not that old 

Young, but I'm not that bold 

And I don't think the world is sold 

On just doing what we're told 

I feel something so right 

Doing the wrong thing 

I feel something so wrong 

Doing the right thing 

I couldn't lie, couldn't lie, couldn't lie 

Everything that kills me makes me feel alive 

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    Well?

  I hate my friends. They’re always trying to get me to shower and leave the house, or “re-engage with the human race”. If I give in, they inevitably take me to some independent coffee shop they know, and speak to the staff in a foreign language. American Gibraltars, Chemex pour-over, soy-frothed dry cap; words that should by rights see them delivered of a soy-frothed dry slap. There must be a way to obtain decent coffee, the official drink of capitalism, with no social contact at all? That’s where pod coffee comes in.

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ACOG Wants To Make Vaginal Birth After C-Section Available To Way More Moms

  The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced new guidelines on Tuesday that aim to make Vaginal Birth After Cesarean — or “VBAC” — far more available to interested women.

  For years, the group has supported VBAC as a safe choice for mothers who have had a prior C-section and who want to attempt a subsequent vaginal birth, provided they work with their care providers to carefully weigh the individual risks and benefits. Between 60 and 80 percent of women who try for a VBAC are able to have a vaginal birth, ACOG says.

  However, following an uptick in VBACs between the late 1980s and early 1990s, the VBAC rate in this country has dropped, in part because of physicians’ fears over liability and malpractice. Women who have a VBAC are at increased risk of uterine rupture, in which there is tearing along the scar on their uterus, though estimates suggest it occurs in less than 1 out of 100 women who have a subsequent vaginal birth.

  […] 

  But the group’s goal is to reach a point where women who are good candidates for a vaginal birth are at least given the option.

  “The message is that while [VBAC] is not right for every woman, which is really, really emphasized in the ACOG guidelines,” Rosner said. “It is something we can offer safely to many women who want it.”

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    Why we love a fright at Halloween 

  Halloween is here again and although it seems to get more commercial each year, one constant remains – giving each other a good fright. The startle response, whether from a particularly convincing trick-or-treater on your doorstep or a fright in a horror movie, seems to be close to a human universal. When we look at other animals, even very simple ones, there are stereotyped movements called fixed-action patterns. In invertebrates these are usually related to fighting or feeding but they’re triggered by a single neuron. No matter what the context or stimulus the animal still produces the same set of actions in the same order. So it is with us. While different cultures have developed different triggers to freak each other out the end result seems to be the same – and all humans share the startle response as completely stereotyped behaviour. It is as fundamental as a knee-jerk. We still don’t know why producing it in a controlled way seems to give pleasure in many cases, although we can speculate that the fight-or-flight response is stimulating and enjoyable when we know there is no real consequence.

  Dr Daniel Glaser is director of Science Gallery at King’s College London

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Las Vegas shooter's brain to undergo microscopic study

  Scientists are preparing to carry out a microscopic study of the brain of the Stephen Paddock, the gunman who this month killed 58 people and injured nearly 500 in Las Vegas, in the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

  Paddock’s brain is being sent to Stanford University for a months-long examination after a visual inspection during an autopsy found no abnormalities, Las Vegas authorities said.

  Doctors will perform multiple forensic analyses, including an examination of the 64-year-old’s brain tissue, to find any possible neurological problems. The brain will arrive in California soon, and Stanford has been instructed to spare no expense for the work, the New York Times reported.

  […] 

  Paddock shot more than a thousand bullets through the windows of a 32nd-floor suite at the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel and into a crowd attending an outdoor country music festival. Paddock killed himself with a shot through his mouth, police say.

  Investigators remain frustrated by a lack of clues that would point to his motive. Authorities have resorted to putting up billboards in southern Nevada seeking tips and now the intensive brain study. Medical experts say it probably will not yield definitive answers.

  […] 

  Experts say the brain study on Paddock will be a worthy effort for scientific reasons. Paul S Appelbaum, a psychiatry expert at Columbia University, said that at minimum it might yield something even tangential that could be passed on to the public, such as awareness of psychological disorders or brain diseases. 

  “Are we ever going to know for certain what caused his brain to do that?” Appelbaum asked. “Probably not from a neuropathological examination, but it’s not unreasonable to ask and see whether it might contribute to our understanding of what occurred.” 

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