Penguin feathers’ ice-resistant design revealed | Chemistry World
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US Asks VW For Electric Cars - Slashdot
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Just (re)read Spencer Johnson's Who Moved My Cheese? A great story. Change happens. Which one are you (at different times) Sniff, Scurry, Hem, or Haw?
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Royal colleges say that 40,000 deaths a year linked to air pollution and costs UK £20bn a year - Hospital Dr
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Study Supports Prednisolone as First-Line Treatment Option for Gout: By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD
Prednisolone and indomethacin are equally effective in relieving joint pain in patients with gout, according to an Annals of Internal Medicine...
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How does England’s NHS pay for hospital stays? « Healthcare Economist
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The New Middle East by Paul Danahar gives excellent insights and the background history to the situation in the Middle East following the Arab Spring. He covers Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, and Syria in depth.
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Zika News: Puerto Rico Cases, Guillain-Barre Spikes, Persistence in Semen: By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD
Here are the latest reports on the Zika virus: NEJM Journal Watch.
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APOD: 2016 February 11 - LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes
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eLearning Modules will Die… and 702010 will hold the Smoking Gun: "When talking about technology and learning it’s hard not to think about elearning modules. They’ve been the bread and butter of digital learning solutions for decades and the industry behind them has helped many, including myself,...
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UK Scientists Designing Cement To Safely Store Nuclear Waste For 100,000 Years - Slashdot
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Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers - Slashdot. Just enter a PubMed ID / DOI. This piracy website is trying to get around the paywalls in science. I'm all for open science this isn't the right way to go about it.
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LIGO detects first ever gravitational waves – from two merging black holes - physicsworld.com
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10 ways MOOCs have forced Universities into a rethink. "MOOCs have made us think. As one of the most fascinating developments in
higher education in my lifetime, they are,in many ways, a pioneer of a
more ‘open’ spirit
in learning. I’d contend that MOOCs, for all their promises and faults,...
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Unified theory of ‘learning’ emerges – and it’s mind blowing. "You’ve
probably never heard of James Mark Baldwin, yet he turned out be one of the greats in learning theory. A 19th century psychologist, he
introduced what is called the ‘Baldwin Effect’ into evolutionary theory."
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Establishing hydrogen infrastructure is not an insurmountable problem. Whatever you may have heard. Riversimple’s Finance Director, Jeff Loo, likens the current Hydrogen infrastructure to the (lack of) early cell phone masts. This is an exciting Welsh start-up, in Llandrindod Wells, is aiming to build...
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RtoP. I've been privileged to work on this programme for the past 18 months with Trish groves at BMJ and now very happy to see it launched. It is a collaboration between UCSF and BMJ bringing together the two great themes of conducting great research and getting it published. Visit rtop.bmj.com to try...
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The Zika virus debunked by Science-based Medicine. "A new word has been added to the public’s vocabulary – the Zika virus. It seems we have one more infectious agent to worry about. Here are the facts as we currently understand them regarding the recent Zika epidemic, and also some rumors and conspiracy...
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Agreement of treatment effects for mortality from routinely collected data and subsequent randomized trials: meta-epidemiological survey Lars G Hemkens. Despina G Contopoulos-Ioannidis. John P A Ioannidis. BMJ.
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Engineers Devise a Way To Harvest Wind Energy From Trees - Slashdot
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