Share this post ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #57theapprofessor.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOther ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #57Kevin PattonAug 27, 2021Share this post ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #57theapprofessor.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherShareLife SciencePicturing how our species might appear in the far future often invites wild speculation over stand-out features such as height, brain size, and skin complexion. Yet subtle shifts in our anatomy today demonstrate how unpredictable evolution can be.Thanks to public health measures and modern medicine, people are living longer than they ever have. By 2050, projections suggest the population over 65 years of age will double in size.The USDA’s MyPlate, their idea of a nutritional diet, is so yesterday and influenced by industrial forces. Is natural better? What is "natural" anyway? How about what mom told us? A new study brings an entirely new viewpoint to what is nutritional and sustainable. It is worth considering, even with a few grains of salt. In their rush to correct "misinformation" about the efficacy of masks, fact-checkers have obscured some important limitations surrounding the science they insist we all follow.It was wartime and food was scarce. Leaders of England's effort to wage war and help the public survive during World War II needed to know: Were the rations in lifeboats adequate for survival at sea? And, among several experiments important for public as well as military heath, how much vitamin C did a person need to avoid the deadly disease scurvy?Forensic anthropologists traditionally estimate “race” or “ancestry” as part of the biological profile.United States at a Glance CollapseTeaching & LearningThe COVID-19 pandemic propelled many employees into remote work arrangements, and face-to-face meetings were quickly replaced with virtual meetings. This rapid uptick in the use of virtual meetings led to much popular press discussion of virtual meeting fatigue (i.e., "Zoom fatigue"), described as a …As Delta variant cases continue to surge and institutions adjust their start-of-term plans, most college students support vaccine mandates and remain wary of resuming normal campus life, according to two new polls.Many universities have seen increases in academic misconduct. And while cutting corners took on different forms during the pandemic, the jury is still out on whether cheating actually went up.One lesson I took from this article is that I have to very clearly specify that one may not have another person take the open-book test for them!The Anatomy Associations Advisory Committee (comprising of AS, BACA, IAS) have recently revised (04.05.21) Section 6 (Images and Cadaveric Material) of the AAAC Guidelines for Anatomical Examination 2017. Anatomy Associations Advisory Committee (anatsoc.org.uk) Guidelines for Anatomical Examinations (anatsoc.org.uk) The informal grouping of Heads of Departments/DI Forum have recently produced (July 2021) informal guidelines for senior anatomists in Institutions undertaking cadaveric imaging. mySociety: Anatomical Society (anatsoc.org.uk)TAPP News & NotesWhen you think the scoring or the test construction is mistaken, you can challenge it. Make your case... and let's make this right!PreviousNext