Share this post ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #34theapprofessor.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOther ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #34Kevin PattonJul 02, 2021Share this post ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #34theapprofessor.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherShareLife ScienceI’m tired of writing about COVID from a geneticist’s point of view, so I thought I’d let a virus speak – about the pandemic’s origin and future.Arrival! My ancestors came to the US from China in the nasal passages of a handful of airline passengers, in late 2019. A few of us descended quickly into lungs, hiding as pneumonia percolated. Some of us were forcefully ejected in droplets as our human hosts hurried through coastal US airports, riding sneezes and coughs or shot out in violent diarrhea into airport toilets, symptoms easily blamed on common colds or food poisoning. Many hapless hosts weren’t sick at all, obliviously passing us to others. In this way, my ancestors silently, stealthily, seeded the nation.This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of medicine, biomedical research, medical education, and policy related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the disease COVID-19.TUESDAY, June 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Using a bit of sleight of hand, researchers were able to demonstrate that babies who were the most intrigued with magic tricks became the most curious toddlers.The children's early delight in the unexpected could be a sign of their future thinking skills, t...Dr. Jack Turban and Professor Jules Gill-Peterson write that conservatives who claim to be "following science" in putting forth anti-transgender sports and health care bills are hypocritically denying not only trans Americans' humanity but also what scientific and medical research says, in some cases writing outright untruths into the text of proposed legislation.Human Embryo Day 22Created by Sophia Lappewww.sophialappe.comLaura Baker, a retired special education teacher from Santa Barbara, California, was 18 months into a brain cancer diagnosis when she typed out a distressing Facebook post in the fall of 2019. What Baker really needed, she said, was a CT scan of her head.Teaching & LearningThese results highlighted the impact of weight bias in creating inequity for students with obesity as well as several underexamined areas, such as weight bias in postsecondary settings and attitudes among teachers and pre-service teachers. Innovative strategies to address weight bias in educational settings are needed.TAPP News & NotesDoes adiposity in a difficult-to-dissect cadaver contribute to weight stigma among health professionals? | A Journal Club episode with Dr. Krista RompolskiPreviousNext