Month: November 2020

21st Century Gentlemen’s Pack: How to Stand Up for Yourself

Hello giktimes! We live in a very interesting, but at the same time very hectic time – dangers can lie in wait literally on every corner, and even those who do not attract attention to themselves. Walk around with a traumatic pistol, ax, or baseball bat all the time? Perhaps this will somehow help in overcoming some dark […]

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Modification of human genes is almost a reality

MIT Technology Review editor-in-chief Antonio Regalado spoke with Harvard Medical School staff who specialize in the development of genetic modification techniques. The main conclusion to which he came is this: interference with human DNA is more a matter of ethics than a scientific problem. What interventions are permissible and what can they lead to? Is society ready for the fact […]

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How to deal with jetlag

Jet lag (jet lag) is called jet lag syndrome. Almost all travelers encounter it to one degree or another. When we travel by plane, then, having arrived in a country whose time zone is significantly different from our “native”, we find ourselves in a state of desynchronization. For example, we are overcome by sleep and fatigue, because it […]

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Relaxation is the key to high productivity

All kinds of techniques for increasing your own productivity are very popular now. Optimization of work execution, time management, prioritization – all this is intended to maximize labor productivity. But in the crazy pace of our modern life, many of us forget what rest and relaxation are. Even on weekends, our heads are often preoccupied with work problems […]

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My experience of sight restoration

This summer I was left on my own for a while – I sent all of my people away from the smoke, and without hesitation, I decided to improve my health a little. It’s not just to sign up for a gym and pump up “squares” for the beach, but to be examined by some doctors […]

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Allergy

The epidemic growth of allergic diseases over the past 30-40 years is obvious. The results of numerous Russian and foreign epidemiological studies objectively reflect the steady increase in allergic pathology , especially in children. The prevalence of asthma in children and adolescents in industrialized countries has increased 3-4 times over the past 20 years. The development of allergies […]

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Harvard Student Creates Webcam-Based Health Monitoring System

I must say right away that such a system is not able to determine what youare sick with now, or what happened to your stomach, which does not like the contents of the last meal. However, this system, created on the basis of a webcam, is quite capable of determining the pulse, pressure and some other […]

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About myopia for bespectacled people. Is it possible to restore vision?

Hello! I am bespectacled with experience. I put on glasses in 2000 and since then my vision has been constantly deteriorating. Now it is already -4dptr (without glasses I can see clearly only from 25 cm). Yesterday I was seriously pushed to get rid of glasses, of my disability once and for all. The reason for this is all sorts of […]

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Learning to rest

The work of a programmer is hard mental and creative work. Sure, it’s fun to code, develop, or design some mega-service or startup, but it takes a lot of brain power.  The athlete works with the body, and the programmer with the head. A whole team is working on an athlete – a trainer, nutritionist, neuropathologist, psychologist, […]

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