$5tn Spent on Afghanistan, How to See Yourself as Realistic as Possible, & Personal medicine and Individual Circadian Clocks
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Defense stocks outperformed the stock market overall by nearly 60% during the Afghanistan war, as the war spending surge enabled a wave of consolidation in the industry. The big five â Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman â and a handful of others acquired the next tier of manufacturers such as Hughes Aircraft and McDonnell Douglas.
In the year to June 2020, the big five accounted for nearly a third of the $480bn obligated by the Pentagon to defense contractors. While only a fraction of these sales went specifically for Iraq and Afghanistan, the conflict was highly lucrative for all the major defense contractors.
For example, Lockheed Martin manufactured the Black Hawk helicopters used extensively in Afghanistan; Boeing sold the aircraft and land combat vehicles; Raytheon won the major contract training the Afghan air force, and Northrup Grumman and General Dynamics supplied electronic and communications equipment.
Source: Where did the $5tn spend on Afghanistan and Iraq go? Hereâs where
YOUR LIFE STORY is concise: if somebody asks who you are, youâll have a brief, succinct answer ready.
Your life story is consistent: things that donât fit are comfortably forgotten, and you plug gaps in your memory with astonishing inventive skill (a skill you donât even know you have).
Your life story is causal: your actions make sense â thereâs a reason behind everything that happens in your life.
Yet how realistic is the life story you carry around in your head? About as realistic as someone explaining the crash in the global stock market on prime time television.
Source: How to See Yourself as Realistic as Possible
Researchers are also looking beyond sleep to other circadian bodily processes that might benefit from a personalized or targeted approach. While a master clock in the brain acts like a conductor, setting time for the whole body, the rest of the body is like orchestra players with clocks of their own.
âAll your organs have rhythms,â says Steven Lockley, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who studies circadian rhythms and sleep.
âThereâs a clock in your heart, a clock in the lungs, a clock in the kidneys.â Just about everything in the bodyâmetabolism, hormones, the immune system, reproductive function, and the way DNA is translatedâis influenced by a circadian rhythm, he says.
Source: Individual Circadian Clocks Might Be the Next Frontier of Personalized Medicine
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Piyush Kamal
Ex-IRS, Economist, and a Published Author who loves to play at the intersection of Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, and Philosophy.
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