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How Soccer Explains The World

Erik Voeten is delighted that researchers have picked up on the political implications of the sport:

My favorite example is a working paper by Edward Miguel, Sebastián Saiegh and Shanker Satyanath that uses evidence from professional soccer (football) matches to evaluate whether exposure to civil wars increases the propensity of young men to behave violently. They find that players from countries that have had more exposure to civil wars are much more likely to get yellow and red cards (cautions) than are players from countries that have had little or no recent exposure to civil wars. The findings are substantively strong and robust to a host of controls. The evidence comes from the main European football leagues, which are very cosmopolitan. This strikes me as an example of research that is both clever and important.

The Power of Napping

Psychologists from the University of California tested 2 groups of adults.  The test was designed to stimulate a part of the brain critical to short term memory.The test was administered after 4 hours of work.

At 2 PM, (2 hours after the test), one group was sent off for a 90 minute nap, while the other group remained at work.   At 5 PM, the test was re-taken, and the group that had taken the nap scored remarkedly higher than the group that hadn't.

Scientists believe that the results suggest that sleep "reboots" the brain, helping clear its short term memory and shuttle key information into longer-term storage.

The study's author, Matthew Walker, states that "after napping, you are ready top soak up new information".

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Is GPS Making Us Stupid?

Rob Horning spies an article in the Walrus about the possible downsides:

Neurological researcher Véronique Bohbot fears that overreliance on GPS, which demands a hyper-pure form of stimulus-response behaviour, will result in our using the spatial capabilities of the hippocampus less, and that it will in turn get smaller. Other studies have tied atrophy of the hippocampus to increased risk of dementia. “We can only draw an inference,” Bohbot acknowledges. “But there’s a logical conclusion that people could increase their risk of atrophy if they stop paying attention to where they are and where they go.”

What are trees worth?

Trees are our most valuable environmental asset. While they provide us with many emotional benefits that cannot be easily quantified, they also supply measurable environmental and economic benefits.

Trees in urban areas provide a number of important benefits. They help to clean the air, curb stormwater runoff, raise property values, sequester carbon, and reduce energy costs.

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Testosterone

Testosterone is a steroid hormone from the androgen group. In men, testosterone plays a key role in health and well-being as well as preventing osteoporosis. On average, an adult male produces about forty to sixty times more testosterone than an adult female. Testosterone effects include growth of muscle mass and strength, increased bone density, stimulation of growth and bone maturation. Time targeted effects include maturation of the sex organs, a deepening of the voice, growth of the beard and axillary hair. Many of these fall into the category of male secondary sex characteristics.

Pancreas / Insulin

Pancreas

The pancreas is about 6" long and weighs about 3 oz. It is located just posterior and slightly inferior to the stomach. The exocrine portion of the pancreas (pancreatic acini) secretes a variety of digestive enzymes into the pancreatic duct, which empties into the duodenum.

Interspersed among the acini are the islets of Langerhans, which form the endocrine portion of the gland.

The islets of Langerhans consists of three types of cells:

Alpha cells secrete glucagon. Glucagon raises blood sugar levels by stimulating the liver to break down stored reserves of glycogen and by conversion of other substances like amino acids into glucose.

1.     Increase blood sugar levels

2.     Stimulates liver to breakdown stored glycogen and convert other nutrients (AAs) into glucose

3.     Helps bring glucose from body cells into blood

Beta cells secrete insulin. Insulin lowers blood sugar levels by accelerating the diffusion of glucose into tissue cells and by increasing protein synthesis.

1.     Lowers blood sugar levels

2.     Facilitates diffusion of glucose into body cells from the blood  (liver, muscle, and fat stores)

3.     Increases protein synthesis

Delta cells secrete GHIF (growth hormone inhibiting factor) or Somatostatin. Somatostatin inhibits the secretion of both glucagon and insulin in the pancreas as well as the secretion of HGH by the pituitary gland.

Secretions of glucagon and insulin are controlled by a negative feedback system based on blood sugar levels that operates similarly to the regulation of blood calcium levels.

When the blood sugar falls below a certain level, glucagon is secreted by the alpha cells and the glucose level rises. When it rises beyond a certain level, delta cells secrete a small amount of somatostatin to inhibit the secretion of glucagon, and beta cells secrete insulin. Glucose levels fall until delta cells release more somatostatin to inhibit the secretion of insulin. At the same time alpha cells begin to secrete glucagon and the process repeats.

Little Touches Mean So Much

Psychologists have long studied the grunts and winks of nonverbal communication, the vocal tones and facial expressions that carry emotion. A warm tone of voice, a hostile stare — both have the same meaning in Terre Haute or Timbuktu, and are among dozens of signals that form a universal human vocabulary.

But in recent years some researchers have begun to focus on a different, often more subtle kind of wordless communication: physical contact. Momentary touches, they say — whether an exuberant high five, a warm hand on the shoulder, or a creepy touch to the arm — can communicate an even wider range of emotion than gestures or expressions, and sometimes do so more quickly and accurately than words.

“It is the first language we learn,” said Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of “Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life” (Norton, 2009), and remains, he said, “our richest means of emotional expression” throughout life.

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Tax Credits for Education

The Obama administration's stimulus bill is designed to get the economy moving again. Something new this year is that most of the bill's $70 billion for education will go to low- to middle-income individuals.
A major part of the bill is a $13.8 billion tuition tax credit boost called the American Opportunity Tax Credit. This tax credit reimburses 100 percent of the first $2,000 of educational expenses, with an additional 25% for the next $2,000. In short, students will receive $2,500 in education reimbursements per year.
The bill also features other benefits for low-income students. Families that do not earn enough to pay income taxes can also receive additional refunds.
These benefits are set to expire after the 2010-2011 school year. Contact your CPA for more detailed information.

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