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The Complete Anatomy Platform: An Interview with Niall Johnston, President of 3D4Medical |: 3D4Medical's (Dublin, Ireland)

The Complete Anatomy Platform: An Interview with Niall Johnston, President of 3D4Medical |: 3D4Medical's (Dublin, Ireland) award-winning Complete Anatomy digital educational platform facilitates the exploration of human anatomical characteristics
Source: medgadget.com

Multi-social millennials more likely depressed than social(media)ly conservative peers: Compared with the total time spent

Multi-social millennials more likely depressed than social(media)ly conservative peers: Compared with the total time spent on social media, use of multiple platforms is more strongly associated with depression and anxiety among young adults, the University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Media,...
Source: eurekalert.org

"Inside Amazon's clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI - TechRepublic: Internet

"Inside Amazon's clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI - TechRepublic: Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into smaller tasks and offer them to people across the globe. But, do they democratize work or exploit the disempowered?"...
Source: techrepublic.com

Horus Recognizes Faces, Reads Text, Describes World Around for Blind People |: A new device is expected to soon be made

Horus Recognizes Faces, Reads Text, Describes World Around for Blind People |: A new device is expected to soon be made available for visually impaired people that uses voice to describe the world in front of them. The device is a camera and standalone computer that can be trained to recognise faces....
Source: medgadget.com

Trampolines 'dangerous', says top bone surgeon - BBC News: Trampolines should be used only under professional supervision,

Trampolines 'dangerous', says top bone surgeon - BBC News: Trampolines should be used only under professional supervision, according to a senior bone surgeon. Broken bones and dislocations are common with this popular toy. They are unlikely to go away as they are such fun. Simple rules can reduce risk...
Source: bbc.co.uk

Surprise virus in child mummy unravels thousands of years of disease history: The oldest sample of smallpox is younger than

Surprise virus in child mummy unravels thousands of years of disease history: The oldest sample of smallpox is younger than we thought, bucking ancient reports.
Source: arstechnica.com

Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic: There is considerable scientific interest in understanding

Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic: There is considerable scientific interest in understanding how cell assemblies - the long-presumed computational motif - are organized so that the brain can generate cognitive behavior. The Theory of Connectivity proposes that...
Source: frontiersin.org

Baby dinosaur tail found preserved in amber, complete with feathers - ExtremeTech: Still have a hard time accepting dinosaurs

Baby dinosaur tail found preserved in amber, complete with feathers - ExtremeTech: Still have a hard time accepting dinosaurs had feathers? Here are some preserved in amber.
Source: extremetech.com

My Adult Learning Principles for the 21st Century ~ Stephen Downes

My Adult Learning Principles for the 21st Century ~ Stephen Downes
Source: downes.ca

The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming

The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming cheap, like the cost of communication or finding information. Machine intelligence is, in its essence, a prediction technology, so the economic shift will center around a drop in the...
Source: digitopoly.org

Study: White deaths exceeded births in one-third of states: More white deaths than births were reported in 17 US states,

Study: White deaths exceeded births in one-third of states: More white deaths than births were reported in 17 US states, more than in any time in history, compared to only four in 2004. More than 121 million people -- roughly 38 percent of the total US population -- reside in the 17 states with white...
Source: eurekalert.org

The US government is finally telling people that homeopathy is a sham: Companies that make homeopathic products will be

The US government is finally telling people that homeopathy is a sham: Companies that make homeopathic products will be required to spell out that their products are not based on science.
Source: vox.com

What Edtech Can Learn from Theranos (EdSurge News): In 2014, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes graced the covers of Forbes,

What Edtech Can Learn from Theranos (EdSurge News): In 2014, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes graced the covers of Forbes, Fortune and Inc. magazines. The next year, Holmes was named one of Time's Most Influential People and the Stanford drop-out had raised more than $600M in private capital. When I...
Source: edsurge.com

Environmental-impact tax on food? People healthier, planet benefits: Healthier, less environmentally damaging foods could

Environmental-impact tax on food? People healthier, planet benefits: Healthier, less environmentally damaging foods could be made more affordable.
Source: arstechnica.com


Source: thelifeyoucansave.org

Homeopathic Syrup for the Treatment of Pediatric Colds: Randomized Controlled Nonsense is Still Nonsense. "Jacobs and Taylor

Homeopathic Syrup for the Treatment of Pediatric Colds: Randomized Controlled Nonsense is Still Nonsense. "Jacobs and Taylor describe the results of this study as “provocative.” I disagree. After admitting their complete failure to find any benefit in the primary outcome being measured, or in any...
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

A whole city vows to help its young people apply for college - The Hechinger Report: JACKSON — Like millions of high-school

A whole city vows to help its young people apply for college - The Hechinger Report: JACKSON — Like millions of high-school seniors nationwide, Murrah High School senior Desmond Jones, 17, is preparing to go to college next fall. Jones is interested in attending the University of Southern Mississippi...
Source: hechingerreport.org

SARA: the Socially Aware Robot Assistant.

In this era of fears that Artificial Intelligence will destroy humanity, SARA is a Socially-Aware Robot Assistant, developed in Carnegie Mellon University’s ArticuLab. SARA interacts with people in a whole new way, personalizing the interaction and improving task performance by relying on information...
Source: cmu.edu

E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017.

blog post image E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017. I'm looking forward to engaging with as many of them as I can. Conversational technology. Why not have immediate access and personal learning support on platforms through messaging...
Source: agnate.co.uk

It’s not enough to moan about the new right – resist it | Nick Cohen: The new demagogic right is seeking to undermine

It’s not enough to moan about the new right – resist it | Nick Cohen: The new demagogic right is seeking to undermine the checks and balances of our political system
Source: theguardian.com