GiveDirectly: Send money directly to the extreme poor: GiveDirectly allows donors to send money directly to the poor with no strings attached. Our approach is guided by rigorous evidence of impact and our values of efficiency, transparency, and respect.
Source: givedirectly.org
“Medium’s team did everything”: How 5 publishers transitioned their sites to Medium: What happened when Pacific Standard, The Ringer, The Awl, The Bold Italic, and Femsplain moved their sites over to Medium.
Source: niemanlab.org
APOD: 2016 June 20 - Sunrise Solstice over Stonehenge
Source: nasa.gov
On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. Excellent paper with gems such as “Hidden meaning transforms unparalleled abstract beauty.” deployed to see who, if anyone, falls for it.
Source: sjdm.org
The Plan to Avert Our Post-Antibiotic Apocalypse : A new report estimates that by 2050, drug-resistant infections will kill one person every three seconds, unless the world’s governments take drastic steps now.
Source: theatlantic.com
Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Stone. Carbon capture in basalt takes only 2 years says research team in Iceland.
Source: thenakedscientists.com
"No, a rat study with marginal results does not prove that cell phones cause cancer, no matter what Mother Jones and Consumer Reports say"
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org
Incredibly focused Japanese author describing her tidying technique. Basically get rid of everything that you don't really, really like and then store things where you can see them all. The KonMari technique. I enjoyed the argument she gave about sorting out your stuff. You can do it now, do it at some...
Source: amazon.co.uk
3D Printed Bone Replacements Made Using Natural Bone and Plastic |: At Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a recipe for making material that can be used to 3D print new bones. Unlike most previous attempts at
Source: medgadget.com
To Break a Phone Addiction, Turn Your Screen Gray
Source: theatlantic.com
The Emerging Diabetes Online Community: Diabetes self-management is complex and demanding, and isolation and burnout are common experiences. The Internet provides opportunities for people with diabetes to connect with one another to address these challenges. The aims of this paper are to introduce ......
Source: nih.gov
Read this lovely short book "On Bullshit". It succinctly and elegantly describes what it is. Very useful if you want to better understand whether you (or someone else) is lying or crafting some finely wrought bullshit.
Source: princeton.edu
Tell big brands: stop rainforest destruction: Big brands like PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson & Colgate are still using rainforest-destroying palm oil. We have to force them to stop before the Indonesian rainforest is ablaze again.
Source: greenpeace.org.uk
A man’s discovery of bones under his pub could forever change what we know about the Irish
Source: washingtonpost.com
Activists scale Nelson's Column in protest over London's 'toxic' air: Protesters from environmental campaign group Greenpeace have scaled Nelson’s Column in a protest over air pollution in London.
The group gathered at the Trafalgar Square statue at around 4.10am before starting its ascent,...
Source: standard.co.uk
Could Satellite Messaging Startup Higher Ground Bring Down the 911 System?: New SatPaq device that turns smartphones into satphones has communication giants worried
Source: ieee.org
Is P4P doomed to fail? Asks the Health Economist. Well only if you assume healthcare is a simple process not a multifactorial complex one.
Source: healthcare-economist.com
Document Moved
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org
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...
Source: amazon.co.uk
Interactive telemedicine: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes. "the use of [telemedicine] TM in the management of heart failure appears to lead to
similar health outcomes as face-to-face or telephone delivery of care;
there is evidence that TM can improve the control of blood...
Source: wiley.com