{"id":18796,"date":"2019-07-03T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T13:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=18796"},"modified":"2019-07-03T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T13:23:49","slug":"todays-reading-rabbit-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=18796","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s reading rabbit holes.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s reading rabbit hole which I disappeared into was driven by these articles all appearing in my Feedly :<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch.cam.ac.uk\/news\/cause-hardening-arteries-and-potential-treatment-identified\">Cause of hardening of the arteries &#8211; and potential treatment &#8211; identified<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A subject close to my heart \ud83d\ude42 with my elevated blood pressure and after my carotid-femoral pulse measurements from the last Quantified Self conference I went too where they measured mine and found a stiff aorta \ud83d\ude41 This sent me down the route of looking at other research papers eg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/full\/10.1161\/01.HYP.0000154229.97341.d2\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmcv.org\/upload\/publication\/Aortic-stiffness-primary-coronary-events-Hypertension-2002.pdf\">here <\/a>reminding me I&#8217;ve yet to find anyone in the UK who will measure it in a more controlled environment here in the UK rather than a conference hall in Copenhagen!<\/p>\n<p>Interesting that they think that that the\u00a0 <em>&#8220;antibiotic minocycline was highly effective in preventing hardening of the arteries&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/agro.biodiver.se\/2019\/07\/the-spread-of-agriculture-in-europe-genebank-edition\/\">the-spread-of-agriculture-in-europe-genebank-edition\/<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>This article visualises the +5000 years it took barley to reach the UK \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18797\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agro.biodiver.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/neolithic-barley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18797\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/neolithic-barley_jpg__1568%C3%971009_-1024x672.jpg\" alt=\"neolithic barley expansion\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">neolithic barley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All very interesting particularly using the web site <a href=\"http:\/\/mapwarper.net\/\">Map Warper<\/a> to warp two maps together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s reading rabbit hole which I disappeared into was driven by these articles all appearing in my Feedly : Cause of hardening of the arteries &#8211; and potential treatment &#8211; identified A subject close to my heart \ud83d\ude42 with my elevated blood pressure and after my carotid-femoral pulse measurements from the last Quantified Self conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}