Strokes Are More Common and Serious in Women | Short Distance Runs Have Major Health Benefits | I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory | North Korea’s secret sporting weapon

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� � � � � � Strokes Are More Common and Serious in Women - The New York Times    Each year, more than 6.6 million people worldwide die from strokes, and researchers caution that the incidence is increasing, especially in young and middle-aged people and in low- and middle-income countries. In a report published last week, researchers predicted that stroke deaths would increase by about 50 percent, reaching 9.7 million deaths annually in 2050. Strokes occur when the flow of oxygen and nutrients to the brain is cut off. This can happen when blood vessels get weak and eventually rupture under pressure, known as a hemorrhagic stroke. More commonly, clots or plaque can block blood vessels to the brain; this is known as an ischemic stroke. Both types of stroke can lead to permanent damage or death. When people survive a stroke, they often face long-term disability, an increased risk of depression, memory problems and more. But the burden of the disease can be averted and the global disparities reduced, authors of the report said. Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Short Distance Runs Have Major Health Benefits - The New York Times    Jogging a mile or two a few times a week can help you live longer and reduce your risk of disease. Running is one of the most popular forms of exercise in America. It may also be one of the healthiest. Numerous long-term studies — some involving thousands of participants — have shown that running benefits people physically and mentally. Research has also found that runners tend to live longer and have a lower risk for cardiovascular disease and cancer than nonrunners. Continued here � � � � � � I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory - WIRED    I arrive in Taiwan brooding morbidly on the fate of democracy. My luggage is lost. This is my pilgrimage to the Sacred Mountain of Protection. The Sacred Mountain is reckoned to protect the whole island of Taiwan—and even, by the supremely pious, to protect democracy itself, the sprawling experiment in governance that has held moral and actual sway over the would-be free world for the better part of a century. The mountain is in fact an industrial park in Hsinchu, a coastal city southwest of Taipei. Its shrine bears an unassuming name: the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. By revenue, TSMC is the largest semiconductor company in the world. In 2020 it quietly joined the world’s 10 most valuable companies. It’s now bigger than Meta and Exxon. The company also has the world’s biggest logic chip manufacturing capacity and produces, by one analysis, a staggering 92 percent of the world’s most avant-garde chips—the ones inside the nuclear weapons, planes, submarines, and hypersonic missiles on which the international balance of hard power is predicated. Perhaps more to the point, TSMC makes a third of all the world’s silicon chips, notably the ones in iPhones and Macs. Every six months, just one of TSMC’s 13 foundries—the redoubtable Fab 18 in Tainan—carves and etches a quintillion transistors for Apple. In the form of these miniature masterpieces, which sit atop microchips, the semiconductor industry churns out more objects in a year than have ever been produced in all the other factories in all the other industries in the history of the world. Continued here � � � � � � North Korea's secret sporting weapon - The Economist    GEORGE ORWELL—who is too good a source of aphorisms to worry about their truth—once opined that sport was “war minus the shooting”. This provides a lens through which to view the footballing rivalry between North and South Korea. In men’s football, as in conventional weaponry, the South has the more impressive force. Its team have won seven of their 17 encounters and lost only one. But in women’s football, as in weapons of mass destruction, it is the North who dominate. Of the 20 matches they have played against the South, North Korea’s women have won 16, occasionally dishing out 7-0 drubbings. South Korea boast a lone victory. When the two teams meet in an Olympic qualifier on October 29th, North Korea’s women will have yet another chance to live up to their nickname, “Cheollima”, a mythical horse that can bound 1,000 ri (400km) in a single day. (It is also a favourite trope of North Korean propaganda, used to exhort citizens to Stakhanovite feats of self-sacrifice.) They will be full of confidence. Not only did they blow away South Korea 4-1 four weeks ago in the quarter-finals of the Asian Games. They have also won gold medals at three previous editions of that tournament and silver medals at three others. Intimidating firepower is not the only way the team reflect the country they represent. If the North Korean women bring home the samgyeopsal (pork belly), while the men fail to provide, they are sharing a gripe heard from many other women in the country. Continued here

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