Harvard professor says surveillance capitalism is undermining democracy: In her new book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,”
Harvard professor says surveillance capitalism is undermining democracy: In her new book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” HBS Professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff outlines her belief that surveillance capitalism is undermining personal autonomy and eroding democracy — and the ways she says society...
Source: harvard.edu
Virtual reality technology for teaching neurosurgery of skull base tumor
Virtual reality technology for teaching neurosurgery of skull base tumor: Neurosurgery represents one of the most challenging and delicate of any surgical procedure. Skull base tumors in particular oftentimes present as a very technically difficult procedures in the setting of neurosurgical teaching....
Source: biomedcentral.com
Poorest adults in worse health now than older generation - study: Research shows widening health gap between higher and
Poorest adults in worse health now than older generation - study: Research shows widening health gap between higher and lower socioeconomic status. "The poorest third of the UK’s older working-age adults today have worse health than people born a century ago had at the same age, according to research...
Source: theguardian.com
Diet and Dermatology: Google Search Results for Acne, Psoriasis, and Eczema
Diet and Dermatology: Google Search Results for Acne, Psoriasis, and Eczema: It is difficult to regulate the abundance of medical information that is available to patients on the Internet. This systematic review evaluated content available online related to diet and 3 dermatologic conditions: acne, psoriasis,...
Source: mdedge.com
Spearman's (rho) rank correlation coefficient
Statistical test of the day. Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. "More tolerant of outliers than Pearson's". Wikipedia
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In search of the secret handshakes of ID
"Many of my sponsoring stakeholders - that is, the people
with the power to buy instructional design services - wouldn’t have
known a learning solution if it bit them on the toe. Frankly, they
really didn’t care about learning. They really didn’t want me to
tell them...
Source: wixstatic.com
Earliest roasted root vegetables found in 170,000-year-old cave dirt: Charred fragments found in a cave in southern Africa
Earliest roasted root vegetables found in 170,000-year-old cave dirt: Charred fragments found in a cave in southern Africa suggest that the real “paleo diet” included lots of roasted root vegetables that were rich in carbohydrates
Source: newscientist.com
Early warning signals for critical transitions in a thermoacoustic system:
Early warning signals for critical transitions in a thermoacoustic system: Dynamical systems can undergo critical transitions where the system suddenly shifts from one stable state to another at a critical threshold called the tipping point. The decrease in recovery rate to equilibrium (critical slowing...
Source: nature.com
After the morning after: what next for UK trade policy? - Trade Knowledge Exchange: In the aftermath of the UK General Elections,
After the morning after: what next for UK trade policy? - Trade Knowledge Exchange: In the aftermath of the UK General Elections, in which the Conservatives won 364 out of 650 seats in House of Commons, the question that arises is what this means for the UK and the EU. “Getting Brexit done” was,...
Source: trade-knowledge.net
People in Japan are wearing exoskeletons to keep working as they age: To solve the problem of Japan’s ageing workforce,
People in Japan are wearing exoskeletons to keep working as they age: To solve the problem of Japan’s ageing workforce, tech companies have developed exoskeletons that help older workers continue to do heavy manual labour
Source: newscientist.com
Cardiac guidelines challenged following investigation.
Surgeons withdraw support for heart disease advice: European guidelines on a form of heart disease are under review, following a Newsnight investigation. “It is a matter of serious concern to us that some results in the Excel trial appear to have been concealed and that some patients may therefore...
Source: bbc.com
Would you pay $1 million to enroll in a phase 1 clinical trial of an
Would you pay $1 million to enroll in a phase 1 clinical trial of an “anti-aging” gene therapy? "Libella Gene Therapeutics, LLC made the news last week for announcing a “pay-to-play” trial of its telomerase-based anti-aging gene therapy. What was shocking about the announcement was not that it...
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org
Yes you can learn surgery via YouTube
"Doctors are turning to YouTube to learn how to do surgical procedures, but there's no quality control: Tens of thousands of videos on YouTube show surgeries ranging from face-lifts to knee replacements. But the content isn't vetted or curated, and some doctors say it should be." The platform dominance...
Source: cnbc.com
Drugmaker to Test Machine Learning to Prevent Drug Shortages: Germany-based Merck plans to use analytics and machine learning
Drugmaker to Test Machine Learning to Prevent Drug Shortages: Germany-based Merck plans to use analytics and machine learning to predict and prevent drug shortages, a move that could also save it money.
Source: wsj.com
Video for learning
Video for learning is great at some things, not so great at others. Great summary of recent evidence from Donald Clark. What can we learn from Netflix? (Use technology appropriately not just the buzzwords) Episodic vs. Semantic memory (Remembering the right things from video isn't as easy as you think)...
Source: blogspot.com
A Promising Solar Energy Breakthrough Just Achieved 1,000-Degree Heat From Sunlight: A new startup backed by Bill Gates
A Promising Solar Energy Breakthrough Just Achieved 1,000-Degree Heat From Sunlight: A new startup backed by Bill Gates says it has managed to harness solar energy to greater effect than ever before, generating enough heat from a field of mirrored panels to drive the production of cement, steel and glass...
Source: sciencealert.com
'If you think competition is hard, you should try collaboration.'
Leading for integrated care: This report explores the progress, challenges and opportunities the move towards greater integration presents, through interviews with 16 people leading or chairing an integrated care system or sustainability and transformation partnership. "Under current plans all parts...
Source: kingsfund.org.uk
Effect of alcohol on promise making - a prisoner
An Economic Analysis of Business Drinking: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment
“Our GAAM (guilt aversion and alcohol myopia) model predicts that intoxication increases promise-making but has no effect on promise-breaking. We test these predictions using a prisoner’s dilemma game with pre-play...
Source: gmu.edu
Barbara Liskov - the architect of modern algorithms.
The Architect of Modern Algorithm. "Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone." She talks about her experience and views of AI, the internet, being a woman in computer science (women...
Source: quantamagazine.org
Dying with smartphones - the anthropology of our relationship with machines.
'Dying with smartphones' by Daniel Miller "The hospice movement has grown up respecting that most people want to die in their own homes, even when they are living alone. But where is that home?" "We have witnessed how smartphones are becoming part of us, rather than simply something we use. Humanity...
Source: wordpress.com
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