Humans blamed for mass wildlife loss: A WWF report blames "exploding consumption" for average losses of 60% among vertebrates since 1970.
Source: bbc.com
NHS to save 'hundreds of millions' in landmark drug ruling in England: Two drug companies were trying to stop doctors offering a cheaper eye treatment.
Source: bbc.com
Randomised experiment: If you're really unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you really probably should
Source: 80000hours.org
Over-85s in 24-hour care 'set to double': The social care system is "at breaking point", a local government official warns.
Source: bbc.com
Fish oil for a healthy heart 'nonsense': The evidence around omega-3 supplements is flimsy at best, say experts.
Source: bbc.com
Half of young people want electric cars: Young drivers increasingly want to buy electric cars - but myths are still deterring older drivers, survey shows.
Source: bbc.com
Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement: This 2018 Recommendation Statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening for osteoporosis with bone measurement testing to prevent osteoporotic fractures in women 65...
Source: jamanetwork.com
Charging patients for appointments 'against founding principle of NHS', says RCGP
Source: rcgp.org.uk
Starving seabirds 'full of plastic': Flesh-footed shearwater chicks are starving to death because of plastic, a BBC documentary reveals.
Source: bbc.co.uk
First Semisolid Lithium Batteries to Debut This Year, in Drones: SolidEnergy Systems will start with drones and aims to have its lithium batteries in electric vehicles after 2021
Source: ieee.org
Annulab Debuts The First Learning Record Store (LRS) Plugin For Moodle: For all the excitement surrounding Learning Record Stores (LRS), and their potential to store xAPI-encoded data about student behavior and performance and then extract meaningful insights, the prog…
Source: moodlenews.com
Millions of British children breathing toxic air, Unicef warns: More than 4.5 million affected, says UN group, while tests suggest children’s shorter height increases exposure on busy roads
Source: theguardian.com
Open-Source Tools for Value Assessment: A Promising Approach: In order to deliver value-based care, health care decision makers, eg, insurers and health system administrators, need value data at their fingertips—data that are relevant to their own context and reflect their own perspective on what costs...
Source: journalofclinicalpathways.com
I've been looking for another way of presenting evidence for instructional design that is more efficient than simple lectures. The data collected by Benjamin Bloom and published in 1984 seems useful and I've redrawn the graph so it looks more modern than the line drawings of the original. Learning...
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India on brink of 'worst water crisis': Some 600 million Indians are facing an acute shortage of water, a new government report says.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Alphabet's DeepMind Makes a Key Advance in Computer Vision: Alphabet's DeepMind neural networks can grasp a three-dimensional scene from just a handful of two-dimensional snapshots
Source: ieee.org
WiFi Radio Signals Let MIT Researchers Track Movements of People |: Patients that wander away from their beds are a constant headache for nurses, while those that stay bedridden for too long can create problems of their own. New technology from MIT may soon allow hospital staff to see in real time the...
Source: medgadget.com
Betraying the Science on Vegan Nutrition: After the prolonged comment thread in Harriet Hall's review of this book in July, given the controversy, we were willing to consider a guest post offering another perspective. In this case, the perspective, from a dietician, is similar to Harriet's, the main...
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org
Cognii Virtual Learning Assistant designed and optimized for educational conversation. "Virtual assistants and chat bots such as Siri, Alexa, Cortana and Google Assistant are an increasingly familiar products, simulating human to human interaction with the use of Artificial Intelligence. But these are...
Source: cognii.com
Models of online & flexible learning - The Ed Techie An outline of the work done to develop conceptual models and current practice of how higher education institutions provide content, its delivery, and how the learner's work is recognised across the dimensions of openness and digitalisation - a...
Source: edtechie.net