The A﹠P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #224

Life Science

“Breathe in… Breathe out…” Or: “take a deep breath and count to ten.” The calming effect of breathing in stressful situations, is a concept most of us have met before.

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

The physiological impact of various diets has been hotly debated for years. Scientists have now used a mouse model to show that a diet that contains a lot of saturated fats can reprogram the immune system and make it more vulnerable to systemic inflammatory disorders like sepsis.

 Activating a particular kind of fat could reduce harms related to high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and excess cholesterol, according to some researchers. Although researchers have long known that this so-called “brown fat” generates heat, recent findings, so far mostly in mice, have offered a greater appreciation of its potential role in improving health and wellness.

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A new diet based on research into the body's ageing process suggests you can increase your life expectancy by up to 20 years by changing what, when and how much you eat I HAVE seen my future and it is full of beans, both literally and metaphorically.

Aerobic exercise reduces the risk of metastatic cancer by elevating glucose consumption.

Teaching & Learning

When I became a professor and began to mentor my own students, many of whom reminded me of my younger self, I developed a mentoring approach inspired by Dr. D. Its tenets are generosity, respect, authenticity, championing, and emboldening expectations—in a word, GRACE.

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TAPP News & Notes

Consider fonts when creating learning materials | Is hard-to-read better than easy-to-read? | More on the course syllabus | Poop, poop, poop.