Why study the Physics of the ocean?
The answer depends on our interests, which devolve from our use of the ocean. Three broad themes are important:
We get food from the ocean. Hence we may be interested in processes which influence the sea just as farmers are interested in the weather and climate. The ocean not only has weather such as temperature changes and currents, but the oceanic weather fertilizes the sea. The atmospheric weather seldom fertilizes fields except for the small amount of nitrogen fixed by lightning.
2. We use the ocean. We build structures on the shore or just offshore. We use the ocean for transport. We obtain oil and gas below the ocean. And, we use the ocean for recreation, swimming, boating, fishing, surfing, and diving. Hence we are interested in processes that influence these activities, especially waves, winds, currents, and temperature.
3. The ocean influence the atmospheric weather and climate. The ocean influence the distribution of rainfall, droughts, floods, regional climate, and the development of storms, hurricanes, and typhoons. Hence we are interested in air-sea interactions, especially the fluxes of heat and water across the sea surface, the transport of heat by the ocean, and the influence of the ocean on climate and weather patterns.
The Jungle Effect: A Doctor Discovers the Healthiest Diets from Around the World - Why They Work and How to Bring Them Home
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Pizza, pasta, hamburgers, sushi, tacos, and french fries . . .
whether our ancestors were born in Madrid, Malaysia, or Mexico, chances
are our daily food choices come from all around the globe.
Unfortunately, we have taken some of the worst aspects of our varied
ancestral menus to turn healthy cuisine into not-so-healthy junk food.
Where did we go wrong? Why is it that non-Western immigrants
are so much more susceptible to diabetes and other diet-related chronic
diseases than white Americans? How is it possible that relatively poor
native populations in Mexico and Africa have such low levels of the
chronic diseases that plague the United States? What is the secret
behind the extremely low rate of clinical depression in Iceland—a
country where dreary weather is the norm? The Jungle Effect has the life-changing answers to these important questions, and many more. Dr. Daphne Miller undertook a worldwide quest to find diets that are
both delicious and healthy. Written in a style reminiscent of Michael
Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver, this book is filled with inspiring
stories from Dr. Miller's patients, quirky travel adventures,
interviews with world-renowned food experts, delicious (yet authentic)
indigenous recipes, and valuable diet secrets that will stick with you
for a lifetime. Whether it's the heart-healthy Cretan diet,
with its reliance on olive oil and fresh vegetables; the antidepression
Icelandic diet and its extremely high levels of Omega 3s; the
age-defying Okinawa diet and its emphasis on vegetables and fish; or
the other diets explored herein, everyone who reads this book will come
away with the secrets of a longer, healthier life and the recipes
necessary to put those secrets into effect.
This is a thorough revision and update of the popular first edition. Comprehensive and contemporary, it contains all the student needs to know on the topic, presenting often difficult material in a lively and accessible way. There is coverage of all the core topics in Language in the undergraduate curriculum and the author interweaves evidence from the various approaches including cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and connectionist modelling. This edition includes expanded coverage of many topics including reading development, bilingualism and language and memory.
Addresses the need for a systematic approach to training in translation studies. This text explores various areas of language and relates the theoretical findings to the actual practice of translation, using authentic examples.
Healthcare as coercive social policy
In the preface to this remarkable book Dr. Fitzpatrick describes breaking into the house of an elderly couple during a bitterly cold February. The couple had succumbed to a combination of infection and hypothermia. While waiting for the ambulance, Fitzpatrick, a primary care physician working in a blue collar Borough of London, England, found an untouched leaflet describing the dangers of anonymous sex and the virtues of condoms. This leaflet had been distributed to 23 million homes in the UK, around half of which contained either an elderly couple or an old person living alone. At this moment Fitzpatrick reflected upon the absurdity of the "everyone is at risk" campaign and the motives of a government that did little to prevent the elderly from freezing to death and yet enthusiastically supported "healthy living".
The conclusion that Fitzpatrick reaches will surprise and enrage both those who agree and disagree with his view. The author is nothing if not blunt stating, "the governments health policy is really a programme of social control packaged as health promotion." In an era when social institutions are increasingly discredited (think Congress, the Senate or any other political institution), irrelevant (e.g., unions) or ignored (e.g., religious proscriptions against premarital sex) the government has seized upon personal health as a means of reconnecting with society and regulating and supervising people's lives.
