Pragmatic Randomized Control Trials: How Science Works in Real-Life Conditions
Clinical Trial Results are context dependent
Eduardo Bergel
Shiny APP: Quality of Antenatal care in Mozambique.
Shiny App to Replicate the results of a large, Stepped-Wedge Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. This is the largest study ever conducted on Quality of Care During Pregnancy in Africa.
Swami Vivekânanda Supreme Truth: God isn’t out there. God is you. Me. Us. All of us.
God dwells within all beings; they are His various forms. There is no other deity to seek.
Are You an Intuitive Introvert?
If So, Your Life Will Be Hard. Few Will Understand You. Carl Gustav Jung.
|Nâda| Helena Blavatsky’s The Voice of the Silence
“When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the ONE – the inner sound which kills the outer.”
Does Aether Exists?
Some propose the existence of a medium—often described as a space-filling substance or field—through which electromagnetic or gravitational forces propagate.
"Spoils of War" - Egyptians Against the Nubians
Defeating the foreign men, then subjugate their women and children, preventing them from ever threatening his people. Tutankhamun (1332–1323 BC).
Is Simplicity the Path to Happiness?
Money and lust keep us trapped. But you don’t need to shave your head or hide in a cave to find peace.
Don’t Take Your Life Too Seriously.
You blink into existence, hang around for a second, and then—poof—you’re gone.
Beat Dogma, and if You Find the Buddha, Kill Him
Siddhartha! Tell Me! Why work on myself, when the self needed to be dissolved? If Life is The Self Experiencing itself. "The Source" of Truth, and Meaning?
Bodhisattva: “I won’t rest until everyone’s free.”
...a being who doesn’t just chase enlightenment to break free, but to pull everyone else out with him.
Reality may be holographic: entirely different descriptions can be true without contradiction
Information that falls into a black hole isn't lost; it's encoded on the black hole's two-dimensional horizon, much like a hologram.
Loneliness can be worse when shared
Routine buries affection. Resentment builds separate worlds.