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Raising the American Weakling
There are two very different interpretations of our dwindling grip strength.
By Tom Vanderbilt
When she was a practicing occupational therapist, Elizabeth Fain started noticing something odd in her clinic: Her patients were weak. More specifically, their grip strengths, recorded via a hand-held dynamometer, were “not anywhere close to the norms” that had been established back in the 1980s.
Fain knew that physical activity levels and hand-use patterns had changed a lot since then. Jobs had become increasingly automated, the professional and service sectors had grown, all sorts of measures of physical activity (like the likelihood that a child walks to school) had declined, and the personal computer age had dawned. But to see the numbers decline so steeply and quickly was still a surprise, and not just to her.
Unlike most findings in the sleepy field of occupational therapy, her findings, which were published last year in the Journal of Hand Therapy, touched off a media firestorm, as the revelation seemed to encapsulate any number of smoldering fears in one handy conflagration: The loss of human potential in the face of automation, of our increasing time spent on smartphones and other devices, the erosion of our masculine norms, of the fragility and general shiftlessness of millennials. Even taking into account the cautionary statistical notes—that the sample sizes of the 1980s studies were not huge, that Fain’s study was mostly college students—the idea of a loss in human strength, expressed through a statistical measure hardly anyone had previously heard of, seemed to hint at some latter-day version of degeneration.
That message was reinforced by the sheer predictive power of grip strength. In a study published in 2015 in The Lancet, the health outcomes of nearly 140,000 people across 17 countries were tracked over four years, via a variety of measures—including grip strength. Grip strength was not only “inversely associated with all-cause mortality”—every 5 kilogram (kg) decrement in grip strength was associated with a 17 percent risk increase—but as the team, led by McMaster University professor of medicine Darryl Leong, noted: “Grip strength was a stronger predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality than systolic blood pressure.”
Grip strength has even been found to be correlated more robustly with “ageing markers” than chronological aging itself. It has become a key method of diagnosing sarcopenia, the loss of muscle mass associated with aging. Low grip strength has been linked to longer hospital stays, and in a study of hospitalized cancer patients, it was linked to a “an approximate 3-fold decrease in probability of discharge alive.” In older subjects, lower grip strength has even been linked with declines in cognitive performance.
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http://nautil.us/issue/45/power/raising-the-american-weakling
这篇文章确实比较难,我第一遍没听懂,即使大致知道没一个单词意思,即使知道些简单句子的表达,但还是听不出来连贯的文章大意。
然后我前两边录音都是很快,第一遍上传喜马拉雅,第二篇是手机软件录音,但是会听了下,发现第二遍的风声比较大,所以就重录了,而且这次语速比较慢,因为快了的话,容易读错的比较多,慢的话有一点反应时间,错误很少,毕竟有些生单词。
关于我的朗读方法,详见这篇文章:天天用英语
不过没关系,慢慢来么,如果有可能,来个万天朗读计划,哈哈。
今天晚上去实验室转苗子,但是犯了一个大错:
我忘记了ABA不能在紫外线下照射,然而学姐提醒我是已经过了五分钟。
当然其实我本可以隐瞒的,但我没多想,直接在QQ上告诉她了,然后立即采取行动,也告诉师兄了,同时我还有很多其他事情要做——拆胶带、补胶带、培养基分类、摆放转基因苗,师兄来看了下,说扔了吧。
【注:这里有些口头简略语,比如ABA是脱落酸,一种植物激素。】
后来想想,还好当时我没曾犹豫,直接告诉学姐了,要是我不说,虽然这一关可以蒙混过去,但是我必然要用这些加有ABA的培养基转苗子,然后ABA由于失活,肯定对苗子不起效果,然后实验得出来的数据肯定大相径庭——要么该实验失败,要么要重新找出原因。
而这,代价可就大了。
另外,我也算幸运:
另一个超净工作台上有学姐的东西在摆放着、占用着;
我向师兄请教了下关于实验的全局问题,大概耗费了半个小时;
我需要一个人想想要转哪些苗子,用到多少什么样的培养基,这就耗费了我差不多二十分钟的时间;
所以结果是,只损失了24个做好的培养基——其实也没什么的。
要永远记住:犯错才是学习的正确道路。
我在哈佛大学幸福公开课听那个教授讲的,原话是:
We learn by making mistakess.
我在以后的实验中肯定记得很清楚——ABA等具有生物活性的物质不能照射紫外线。
另外,也算因祸得福吧,我在刚开始转苗时,恰好另一位学姐来灭菌,询问她关于研究生做实验,她说这取决于我们以后选择什么方向啊,有大田,有分子
师兄师姐其实都非常热心的,每次少东西都找他们,一个课题组的。
以后考研之路既定,就要有一手机这方面的信息了,做好心理准备,反正以我目前的成绩是保不了研的吧,那就只能考研。
你要加油。
关于考研,其实想法还很多,但是不系统,待整理后有机会再写吧。
而关于我们专业的研究生,就是整天做实验啊,学姐也说,其实无论什么实验,都是大量的重复,很枯燥的,即使有些新奇的做法,也许要重复很多遍。
恩,是的,而且我们后面的工作就是在重复这三个月以来的事情,不过时间短了点,只是有一个循环而已,不过也要做啊,要出结果,每个基因都要过一遍,才知道这个基因组的功能如何。
还真是我之前说的那句话:
科研是集重复性枯燥性和创新性严谨性于一体的行业。
不简单不简单。
我把这句话说给师兄听,他笑笑。
心亡。
就是忙。
老祖宗真的很会造字。鬼脚七在行走的那本书里《人生所有的路,都是必经之路》说的。
我当时读的也真的很震撼。
马原老师今天上午上课也说,佛学能使人心静。
我在阅读中可以体会到静下来的心理要求,但是在其他时候,就一直想着自己还有哪些事情没做:
天天用英语栏目
四级题库
微信公众号很多文章
我买的文章报纸包裹快递
我图书管里借的书
托福书籍
我打印的练习口语的文章
我去年下载的试题库
我去年打印的口语段子
练竹笛
跑步
老师布置的作业
电脑里的很多资料
云盘里的很多资料
哭一场
游玩旅行
把我打了很多腹稿的文章写下来
......
要我说,三天三夜也写不玩啊,人的欲望是无穷无尽的。
而且我发现每个人都好像很忙,好像时间都不够用。
而且我还发现每个人都给自己给别人布置很多作业。
比如我英语老师。
不过也没办法啊,谁让我分数不高。
当然也包括我自己。
但我可以视其为娱乐,和放松、倾诉,以及我关心者的读者们。
但,我真的想做很多事情啊,也有很多事情要做,而且也做了不少的事情。
即使我感觉自己对时间的把握能力增长了很多,这让我很疑惑,也反思良久,还是觉得自己应该舍弃掉一点东西。
这也或许是幻觉。
也或许真的是能力不足。
再说,你怎么可能比得上互联网。
我看你那微信公众号里的未读文章有些都超过两位数了吧;
我看你买了很多课程,估计没看的有一千多吧;
我看你每天筋疲力尽上课不还是打瞌睡生活现状不还是没改变么?
说的就是我自己。
好好反思一下了。
说说我今天做的事情:
日常必备——朗读,背单词,看英文杂志,写日志,写文章;
今天所加——听了十分钟the idiot,快速过完了第七周的四级单词书,做了三个多小时的实验,四十分钟的竹笛但实际练习时长为二十分钟;
被要求的——早上早操,上午上课,下午实验课。
鼓励下自己吧:你已经很了不起了,别再自卑,不要逼自己太狠,学会轻松。