Angelina Jolie Will Have More Cancer-Prevention Surgery

March 13, 2014 | By Susan Rinkunas

Angelina Jolie made headlines last May when she revealed that she had a preventative double mastectomy because she carries a genetic mutation that puts her risk of developing breast cancer. Now, the 38-year-old actress says she will have another surgery to lower her cancer risk.

In her New York Times op-ed last year, Jolie said she has the faulty BRCA1 gene that dramatically increases a woman’s risk of both breast cancer and ovarian cancer. In addition, her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died from ovarian cancer at age 56. “My doctors estimated that I had an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman,” Jolie wrote.

Later in the column, titled “My Medical Choice,” she said “Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could.” She said she “started with the breasts” since her breast cancer risk was higher, opting to have a double mastectomy (and, later, breast reconstruction) which lowered her risk of developing breast cancer to less than 5%.

One day after the op-ed was published, it was reported that Jolie would also have surgery to remove her ovaries. (The operation, known as an oophorectomy, can reduce the risk of ovarian cancer in women with the BRCA1 gene by 80%, according to a recent study.) In an exclusive new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Jolie confirmed that she will undergo more cancer-preventing surgery, but she stopped short of naming the procedure. “There’s still another surgery to have, which I haven’t yet,” she said.

source: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/13/tech/web/sxsw-wrapup/index.html?hpt=ibu_c2

Austin, Texas (CNN) -- Even when pared down to just its Interactive portion, South by Southwest can feel like a huge and amorphous thing -- sort of like, as director Hugh Forrest says, the Internet itself.

This tech-themed gathering has exploded in the years since the term "dotcom billionaire" became a career goal for any 20-something with a computer and an idea. The Interactive portion of the festival now draws more than 30,000 people each year, more than both the original Music portion of the festival and Interactive's older cousin, Film.

With that growth has come some meaningless noise. If you wanted to see a grown man in black fingernail polish swing on a wrecking ball like Miley Cyrus or hear a big-money venture capitalist attempt to rap onstage with Nas this week, you could.

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Are you A, B, O or AB? It is a widespread belief in Japan that character is linked to blood type. What's behind this conventional wisdom?

Blood is one thing that unites the entire human race, but most of us don't think about our blood group much, unless we need a transfusion. In Japan, however, blood type has big implications for life, work and love.

Here, a person's blood type is popularly believed to determine temperament and personality. "What's your blood type?" is often a key question in everything from matchmaking to job applications.

According to popular belief in Japan, type As are sensitive perfectionists and good team players, but over-anxious. Type Os are curious and generous but stubborn. ABs are arty but mysterious and unpredictable, and type Bs are cheerful but eccentric, individualistic and selfish.

source: http://ideas.time.com/2014/03/04/how-to-make-your-kids-smarter-10-steps-backed-by-science/

I’ve explored the science behind what makes kids happier, what type of parenting works best and what makes for joyful families.

But what makes children — from babies up through the teen years — smarter?

Here are 10 things science says can help:

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Questions:

1. Do you notice that gentrification occurs in Taipei? Is it positive or negative in your opinion?

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In Russia, many people have whats a called a “Dash Cam” which are installed in their cars, so they can record what happens in front of them on the road.

source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-advice/9785021/Spelling-mistakes-on-airline-tickets.html

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People don’t walk into department stores looking to mannequins for an accurate portrayal of the female form. The slim, smooth Barbie doll figures are so commonplace that their unrealistic physique hardly raises an eyebrow. And yet whenever mannequins deviate from their expected form, sometimes to resemble real women, the Twitter-sphere erupts in both positive and negative shock.

There are many instances of mannequins fueling important conversations about the beauty expectations of real, rather than plastic, women.

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source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-25763704

he selfie has arguably become the greatest photographic trend of our time. Why are we so interested in taking and sharing selfies and how does observing an image of yourself differ from observing a picture of someone else, asks University College London neuroscientist James Kilner.

In everyday social situations we spend a lot of our time looking at and interpreting other people's faces and facial expressions. Indeed, reading and responding correctly to other people's facial expressions is essential for successful social interactions.

Through our lifetimes we become experts at recognising and interpreting other people's faces and facial expressions. In contrast, we have very little experience of looking at our own faces.

Our perception of our own facial expression comes from our sense of feeling our faces move. This lack of visual knowledge about our own faces means we have a very inaccurate representation of what our own faces look like at any given time. For example, it has been demonstrated that when people are shown an image of themselves and asked to match it they are unable to accurately produce the same facial expression without being able to see themselves.