Haptic Taco Helps You Navigate By Feel: This small handheld cube grows and shrinks to tell you where to go
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Survive On Call - A QI Project to Improve Access to Hospital Clinical Guidelines Robert Penders. Mark Mallet. BMJ Quality Improvement Reports.
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Plastic problems | Chemistry World
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John Kay - Central problem with banks is “too complex to fail” not “too big to fail”
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Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73) Christopher E Ramsden. Daisy Zamora. Sharon Majchrzak-Hong. Keturah R Faurot. Steven K Broste. Robert P Frantz. John M Davis. Amit Ringel. Chirayath M Suchindran. Joseph R Hibbeln....
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Just read the "Happy Life" story - saving abandoned children on the streets of Nairobi. This is about a children rescue centre in Nairobi started 14 years ago and has now expanded to caring directly for around 100 children across two sites. They have offered for adoption over 170 children. The city...
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Good read. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. A powerful book on animal rights written 40 years ago (updated 20 years ago and re-issued recently with an introduction by Yuval Hariri) and having stood the test of time and debate. It is called 'the bible' of the animal rights movement and rightly so ......
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Pioglitazone use and risk of bladder cancer: population based cohort study Marco Tuccori. Kristian B Filion. Hui Yin. Oriana H Yu. Robert W Platt. Laurent Azoulay. BMJ. The authors conclude, "The results of this large population based study indicate that
pioglitazone is associated with an increased...
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Good read. Obliquity by John Kay on behavioural economics. "The world is complex, imperfectly known, and our knowledge of it is incomplete, and these things will remain true however much we learn and however much we analyse it." That is why we need to be 'oblique' or muddle through rather than be direct...
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Weaker drinks 'to solve health problems', say councils - BBC News: Weaker beers, ciders, wines and spirits are what is needed to tackle drink-related health problems, local councils in England and Wales say.
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The Power of "My": The phrase "my doctor" implies a relationship that is key to the practice of medicine. Understanding the implications of this relationship is vitally important, particularly in this time of rapid change in the structure of medical practice. Some years ago, as a young research fellow,...
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What Engineers Can Learn From the Design of the Penis: The mechanics of the erection may have applications for robotics.
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Binding problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Good read. "Life on the Edge" by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden covers the fascinating world of quantum biology. Could life be a delicate balance that organic molecules can provide to enable quantum coherence? The efficient quantum mechanisms of photosynthesis, magnetoreception, and enzymes are...
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Plastic-eating bacteria set to revolutionize waste disposal | ExtremeTech: Genetically engineering a bacterium that eats plastic could fix the world's spiraling problem of waste disposal.
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Logical Fallacies and Internet Comments: After a few weeks of blistering comment sections on Scholarly Kitchen posts, it’s probably time to review the most common logical fallacies employed in arguing on the internet.
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Medical Education Theme Issue 2016: Call for Papers: Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun The classic tripartite definition of the roles of a physician includes teaching, research, and patient care. While it is debatable whether the physicians in recent...
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New Surgical Robot with Haptic Feedback Fits Entirely Inside Body During Operation |: Engineers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have developed a miniaturized robot for single incision and natural orifice surgeries. The device feature
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Now you're talking: human-like robot may one day care for dementia patients: With her brown hair, soft skin and expressive face, Nadine is a new brand of human-like robot that could one day, scientists hope, be used as a personal assistant or care provider for the elderly.
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