The in Between

2022 - 4 - 9

Differences between the Moon's near and far sides linked to ... (Science Daily)

New research shows how the impact that created the Moon's South Pole -- Aitken basin is linked to the stark contrast in composition and appearance between ...

"And the South Pole-Aitken impact is one of the most significant events in lunar history. The team ran simulations for a number of different impact scenarios, from dead-on hit to a glancing blow. That concentration of elements would have contributed to the volcanism that created the nearside volcanic plains. This new study provides an explanation that is connected to the South Pole-Aitken basin, the second largest known impact crater in the solar system. "The question is how that heat affects the Moon's interior dynamics. The nearside is dominated by the lunar mare -- the vast, dark-colored remnants of ancient lava flows.

The Connection Between IBD and Aging (TIME)

More people are living longer with inflammatory bowel disease—and a growing number of elderly individuals are being diagnosed with the illness.

And there’s no reason to think this would be different for people just because they are a few years—or decades—wiser. But depression can be more difficult to spot in an elderly patient if it isn’t screened for, and being fairly homebound or lacking social support might be accepted as normal. But he looks at the larger picture of “how to best benefit a patient,” he says. And like inflammation, the combination of aging and IBD increases the odds of frailty, which puts someone at greater risk for poor health outcomes. But for someone in their 60s or older, doctors often need to rule out a host of other conditions—including infection, ischemia of the colon, other forms of colitis, diverticulitis, and cancer—before they look into IBD as a potential cause. Experts caution that some common health complaints may look similar to those of older adults without IBD, but in reality the IBD has triggered a different issue. In the past couple of decades, small molecule “biologics” have entered the scene as a newly established treatment for IBD. Particularly effective are drugs like antitumor necrosis factor agents. But this concern, say experts, can lead to vast undertreatment of the condition—or treatments with even riskier forms of drugs. Hundreds of thousands of people whose IBD was diagnosed earlier in their lives are now living with the disease in older age. So aging patients with IBD are at even greater risk for many of the classic inflammation-linked health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, skin issues, arthritis, and skeletal muscle loss. For many that means living with the damage the disease has done to their intestinal tract, and sometimes with the altering impacts of surgery done to manage it, such as ostomy pouches or increased incontinence. Even more underappreciated is the growing population of people who are diagnosed with the disease after they turn 60. The chronic illness—which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, and can cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, bleeding, and decreased quality of life—impacts about 3.1 million people in the U.S. However, it is far from a disease only of the young and middle-aged.

Bangladesh: Schoolteacher detained for discussing the difference ... (Amnesty International)

Bangladeshi authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Hriday Chandra Mondal, a schoolteacher who was arrested on charges of “hurting ...

Protection of abstract concepts or religious or other beliefs, or the religious sensibilities of their adherents, is not a permissible ground for restricting the right to freedom of expression. Hriday Chandra Mandal’s case only exacerbates the situation and represents a direct threat for one of the last bastions of free expression in the country. “Hriday Chandra Mondal’s detention is emblematic of a disturbing trend in Bangladesh where the space for free expression is rapidly shrinking.

WNBL lose trophy ahead of grand final between Perth Lynx and ... (The West Australian)

Of all the luggage you don't want to lose in grand final week, the box with the championship trophy in it would be on top of the list.

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Damian McKenzie keen on cross-border competition between Super ... (RugbyPass)

All Blacks star Damian McKenzie is eager for a cross-border competition between teams from Super Rugby Pacific and Japan Rugby League One.

“I think it’d make for an exciting sort of brand to be able to go out and involve Japan in some way or another. The calibre of players is getting a lot better. “I think they would manage fine. “Obviously Japan’s a country that’s developing in their rugby. “Even just watching the Japanese rugby over here, it’s getting better every year. All Blacks and Tokyo Suntory Sungoliath star Damian McKenzie is eager for a cross-border competition between Super Rugby Pacific franchises and Japan Rugby League One clubs.

The In Between movie review: A sappy but strangely moving YA ... (News9 Live)

Tessa (Joey King) barely survives an accident that her boyfriend Skylar (Kyle Allen) dies in. And now she, with a broken and bleeding heart (literally), is ...

Their chemistry is more platonic than sexual, which works for the kind of quasi-teenybopper The In Between aims to be. The conflict between them is more nuanced, because the complexity of a girl's past feels a lot less performative than the darkness of a boy's history. A lazy afternoon, an empty movie theatre, a French film without subtitles, and a stranger translating the lines of the film in whispers. (Which reminds me: Any film that begins with a David Foster Wallace quote — "Every love story is a ghost story" in this case — can't be all that bad). It might sound like a cliche, but "seeing things that others don't" can go a long way in a film about teen spirit, both literal and figurative. The science-fiction is a bit loopy, like a rejected Alias episode. When my partner leaves to visit her parents, the embrace is tighter, the eyes are kinder and the smile is wider. A lot of my affection for this film is also rooted in its design. Or perhaps because, once in a while, I like to watch a movie about what it feels like to be starry-eyed lovers on the brink of a future. Their whirlwind summer romance in a warm coastal town is inter-cut with its stark aftermath. My greatest fear is not knowing when the "last time" is — especially with my loved ones. A split feels like the end of life itself; a spat makes me die a little inside; love still makes my world go around; companionship — against all odds — is still my default desire.

The In Between soundtrack: Every song in the romantic drama (HITC)

Netflix added supernatural romance film, The In Between to their catalogue, we explore the soundtrack that provides the backdrop to this heartbreaking film.

Determined to give their love story the epic conclusion it deserves, Tessa enlists the help of her best friend to contact Skylar one final time The two fall instantly in love and it seems Tessa finally has found her happy ending. As Netflix adds The In Between to its wealth of romantic dramas, we reveal songs that make our hearts burst.

How Beethoven inspired 50 years of cultural exchange between the ... (The Guardian)

A new book tells how classical music, played to the Chinese by the Philadelphia Orchestra, ushered in decades of valuable interchanges now under threat.

“That trip opened up our relationship, the beginning of the culture exchange,” Platt said. And this orchestra sound, this orchestra – actually, all of you – changed my life.” Cui Zhuping, at the time a young violinist in the Chinese Central Philharmonic, recalled the moment she heard the Philadelphia Orchestra on her home turf. “It was a very tricky business because the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong, Jiang Qing, had very firm ideas about what should be played and what should not. And, of course, in performing on Chinese soil in front of Madame Mao, the communally composed Yellow River Concerto had to be included, too. And in 1973 he was asked to open the first US liaison office in Beijing, which later became the American embassy. This is called ‘symphony’. The Philadelphia Orchestra is in China,” a friend said to Tan. It was the first time he had heard about a “symphony orchestra”, and it was striking. A year after Richard Nixon’s historic trip in February 1972 to China, Henry Kissinger learned from Chinese leaders that they would like to invite the Philadelphia Orchestra to China. Nixon rang its music director, the Hungarian-American conductor Eugene Ormandy, who immediately sensed history in the making: “That’s wonderful. But its two-week tour of China in 1973 marked the beginning of five decades of people-to-people exchanges between the two nations, something that is now under threat with the rise of geopolitical tensions. China was at the height of the Cultural Revolution. One day, Tan heard a sound from a loudspeaker in the field. “I think it was something by Beethoven – the Sixth or the Fifth symphony.” Until then, Tan had never known of Beethoven or Mozart, but he was deeply touched by the performance blasted from the loudspeaker.

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