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Visiting Brazil, Marie Curie inspired the beginning of radiotherapy in the country – Mágica Mistura を

Hat, swimwear, toothbrush, two radio needles (the chemical element). This was more or less how Marie Curie’s suitcase was organized when she left Paris in June 1926. The destination: Rio de Janeiro. The invitation came from the Embassy of Brazil in France, but it was the French government that paid for the trip.

At the age of 59 and awarded two Nobel Prizes (Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911), Curie did not seem very excited about the trip. In almost all photos in Brazil she appears sitting and with no interest in looking at the camera. The French naturalized Polish had only one clear objective: to publicize her research on radioactivity.

Source: Visiting Brazil, Marie Curie inspired the beginning of radiotherapy in the country – Mágica Mistura を

Smoke & Vape: Public Health Menace, & Panic Attack Inferno

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Despite early assurances to the contrary, vaping does leave residue, build-up, and second-hand spread to neighbors.  Check new studies, and last year’s deaths.

In an earlier  set of  blog posts related to a global pandemic, I pointed out that allowing accurate news coverage of public health information is vital for public safety. This point is illustrated by season 2, episode 13 of Spanish Public Television series El Ministerio del Tiempo. But what is not mentioned in the episode is the danger posed by smokers to those who are either ill or recovering from a virus, particularly one like the current malady, which attacks the lungs, much like SARS. For anyone who has allergies, asthma, any sort of lung-based or respiratory illness, or even merely a common cold, cigar or cigarette smoke, or even marijuana for those who are also sensitive to it, creates further breathing difficulty, hampering recovery. Thus…

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Day 3/67 of Five Month GED, and Adulting as creative problem solving — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

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Learning to solve problems, which I think is the essence of Adulting, begins at an early age and continues to count for a lifetime. Today’s lesson poses a question: What numbers did the ancient Greeks use for counting? That question was meant to raise the problem of counting non-discrete quantities before Arabic numerals came to […]

Day 3/67 of Five Month GED, and Adulting as creative problem solving — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

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Rugby : Le XV de France Vainqueur du Grand Chelem 2022 — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE

Tournoi des six nations : Le XV de France vainqueur du Grand Chelem 2022   Rugby : la France bat l’Angleterre et réalise le Grand Chelem   En s’imposant (25-13) contre l’Angleterre, le XV de France de Fabien Galthié a terminé le Tournoi invaincu pour décrocher un Grand Chelem après lequel les Bleus couraient depuis 2010. …

Rugby : Le XV de France Vainqueur du Grand Chelem 2022 — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE

Covid Revisits

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Ukraine has been occupying news headlines for weeks now, and with some justification. Clearly, a nuclear war would end life on this planet as we know it, making issues like Covid and elections irrelevant.

However, assuming no dictator is suicidal (why purchase the world’s largest yacht if you want to kill yourself?), nuclear war will not happen and these other issues will still matter.

Omicron BA.2, the new variant, is raising infection rates and hospitalizations in Germany, France, UK, Italy, Taiwan, China and South Korea. BA.2 was also responsible for 11% of new infections in the US in the first week in March, up from 6% in the prior week. As Dr. Fauci has noted on more than one occasion, whatever happens in the UK also happens in the US.

BA.2 is a nasty on several counts:

  • Superficially, it resembles the Delta version of the virus and requires more testing…

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Clarice Lispector

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Liberdade é pouco. O que desejo ainda não tem nome. – Sou a quem não dão corda e que determinada esta não encontrará vida própria, mas profunda “

Clarice Lispector. Perto do coração Selvagem. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 1998

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Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 20 de março de 2022

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Italy, France COVID-19 cases surge amd new sub-variant – UPI.com

COVID-19 cases increased only 4% worldwide in the past week but some nations in Europe, including Italy with a 43% rise and France at 36%, have experienced surges as a new sub-variant travels around the world and countries relax restrictions. Source: Italy, France COVID-19 cases surge amd new sub-variant – UPI.com

Princesa, la inolvidable Princesa

Vaya con dios Princessa

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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In memoriam

Era parte de la familia. La amábamos y consentíamos tanto que, ahora, al proyectarse su dolorosa y triste ausencia en cada rincón de la casa, en el jardín, en los sitios que le encantaban y en los que asoleaba diariamente, sentimos un vacío profundo, un hueco que lastima, una falta que no se sustituye, porque ella, Princesa, era irrepetible, bella, sensible, amorosa e inolvidable.

Princesa fue, desde que nació hasta el día postrero de su existencia, una doncella elegante y distinguida, siempre cercana a nosotros, a mi familia y a mí, con muestras de cariño y lealtad, digna, respetuosa, imperial. Vivió 14 años con nosotros, casi década y media de nuestras existencias, tiempo suficiente para protagonizar y compartir una historia, con sus claroscuros. Nos lleva en su memoria y siempre estará en la nuestra. Tenía nombre y…

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