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Unhealthy Britain: half of adults walk less than a mile a day – survey: Poll commissioned by Cancer Research UK finds

Unhealthy Britain: half of adults walk less than a mile a day – survey: Poll commissioned by Cancer Research UK finds 52% of adults walk only 2,000 steps a day, figures described as ‘worrying’ and likely to increase cancer risk
Source: theguardian.com

Digital autopsies should be standard for probable natural deaths, says study: CT scanning techniques should be used instead

Digital autopsies should be standard for probable natural deaths, says study: CT scanning techniques should be used instead of invasive autopsies in cases of probable natural death- and should be offered free of charge, say researchers
Source: theguardian.com

It's time for academics to take back control of research journals: The evolution to a high-profit industry was never planned.

It's time for academics to take back control of research journals: The evolution to a high-profit industry was never planned. Academics need to make the case for lower-cost journals
Source: theguardian.com

Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave

Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave record: Ochre is found at numerous Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites and plays a key role in early modern human archaeology. Here we analyse the largest known East African MSA ochre assemblage,...
Source: plos.org

Switzerland votes to phase out nuclear power - BBC News: The referendum result allows the government to go ahead with plans

Switzerland votes to phase out nuclear power - BBC News: The referendum result allows the government to go ahead with plans to switch to renewable energy.
Source: bbc.co.uk

40,000 Brits die every year from air pollution, yet there's nothing about it in the Tory manifesto: The Conservative manifesto

40,000 Brits die every year from air pollution, yet there's nothing about it in the Tory manifesto: The Conservative manifesto has confirmed what many have feared for a long time: Tories are unable to be serious about air quality.  In the 88-page document, which will set out the direction of Theresa...
Source: independent.co.uk

UK's first proton beam machine arrives at Newport clinic - BBC News: The UK's first high-energy proton beam machine will

UK's first proton beam machine arrives at Newport clinic - BBC News: The UK's first high-energy proton beam machine will offer treatments next year, the firm behind it says.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Google rolls out new ‘smart reply’ machine-learning email software to more than 1 billion Gmail mobile users | KurzweilAI

Google rolls out new ‘smart reply’ machine-learning email software to more than 1 billion Gmail mobile users | KurzweilAI
Source: kurzweilai.net

Pearson is pulling back from its deal with Knewton to build its own capabilities in adaptive learning. One of the hazards

Pearson is pulling back from its deal with Knewton to build its own capabilities in adaptive learning. One of the hazards of dealing with big partners in an industry clearly is that they use you for their own innovation. Adaptation and personalisation of learning is an emerging theme in education but...
Source: edsurge.com

Tim Bray says "I Don’t Believe in Blockchain" ... and we should listen. The geeks are not using blockchain so some leading

Tim Bray says "I Don’t Believe in Blockchain" ... and we should listen. The geeks are not using blockchain so some leading tech gurus feel it won't catch on. There are great difficulties evaluating emerging technology when they are on the "hype curve". The potential of a public record or ledger of...
Source: tbray.org

NHSbuntu - a modern, secure, open source, operating system being considered by Jeremy Hunt for the NHS. It seems to have

NHSbuntu - a modern, secure, open source, operating system being considered by Jeremy Hunt for the NHS. It seems to have taken the recent ransomware attack on the ageing Windows XP infrastructure of the NHS to alert those in charge to an innovation that has already been developed from within it. NHSbuntu...
Source: openhealthhub.org

Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and the new old fear of manipulating the masses: "Fears of mass manipulation by new media are

Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and the new old fear of manipulating the masses: "Fears of mass manipulation by new media are as old as mass media themselves. Almost every expansion of media or new media technology provoked paranoia about the contagious emotions of 'the masses.'"
Source: niemanlab.org

3 Reasons Why 2017 Is The Year Of The Chatbot – Chatbots Magazine: When the Internet was first marketed for consumer use

3 Reasons Why 2017 Is The Year Of The Chatbot – Chatbots Magazine: When the Internet was first marketed for consumer use through companies like America Online, society was buzzing about how cool it was to…
Source: chatbotsmagazine.com

Donald Clark Plan B: Obama’s last act – recommendations on AI in learning

Donald Clark Plan B: Obama’s last act – recommendations on AI in learning
Source: blogspot.co.uk

The UK government’s attitude to air pollution stinks: Despite debate over how many "deaths" air pollution causes, it is

The UK government’s attitude to air pollution stinks: Despite debate over how many "deaths" air pollution causes, it is clear bad air damages our health, so attempts to delay rules on reducing it must be resisted
Source: newscientist.com

When the Wolf Finally Arrives: Big Deal Cancelations in North American Libraries - The Scholarly Kitchen: For years, we

When the Wolf Finally Arrives: Big Deal Cancelations in North American Libraries - The Scholarly Kitchen: For years, we in libraries have been predicting the imminent demise of the manifestly-unsustainable Big Deal -- and yet it has persisted. Now that may be changing.
Source: sspnet.org

Donald Clark Plan B: Snapchat’s smart pivot into an AR company but is AR ready for learning?

Donald Clark Plan B: Snapchat’s smart pivot into an AR company but is AR ready for learning?
Source: blogspot.co.uk

Long term gluten consumption in adults without celiac disease and risk of coronary heart disease: prospective cohort study:

Long term gluten consumption in adults without celiac disease and risk of coronary heart disease: prospective cohort study: Objective  To examine the association of long term intake of gluten with the development of incident coronary heart disease. Design  Prospective cohort study. Setting and participants...
Source: bmj.com

A Serious Game for Learning C Programming Language Concepts Using Solo Taxonomy: This paper conducts a study to identify

A Serious Game for Learning C Programming Language Concepts Using Solo Taxonomy: This paper conducts a study to identify pedagogical approaches and gameplay techniques involved in the development of serious games for teaching scientific courses in general especially programming languages. The concept...
Source: online-journals.org

GP exodus from the NHS predicted within five years by research - Hospital Dr

GP exodus from the NHS predicted within five years by research - Hospital Dr
Source: hospitaldr.co.uk