Good read - The Path. A quick overview of 5 Chinese philosophies making them relevant to how we should think about how we live today. I've not read much about them and assumed they were pretty much ancient and irrelevant, reduced to one-liner aphorisms, but Michael Puett has been teaching a popular...
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Timeless Tips for 'Simple Sabotage' — Central Intelligence Agency. This is a great collection of sabotage techniques which, when you read them, feel exactly like those most annoying things colleagues do in organisations. Maybe they are just trying to wreck things? Learn to recognise when your work...
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July 2016 Was the Hottest Month on Record : Image of the Day: The record-warm July continued a streak of ten consecutive months that have set new monthly high-temperature records.
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Good read. The most good you can do by Peter Singer. This is about effective altruism. If you are going to give away your money how can ensure you give it to the most effective resources? More than that if you've decided to give away money what is the best job that you can do? There are some extreme...
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When anyone tries to predict what the financial markets will do just remind them that complex adaptive systems are tricky.
"It is clear that the financial system exhibits all of the classic characteristics of a [Complex Adaptive System], with the consequence that analysis of the likely reaction of...
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Single-atom-thick sheets efficiently extract electricity from salt water: An impressive energy density generated by differences in salt concentrations.
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Failed coup leads to crackdown on academics | Chemistry World
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Motivational interviewing (MI) for preventing alcohol misuse in young adults is not effective enough | Cochrane
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Varied diet (or the means to afford a varied diet) is healthy for you.
"Dietary Diversity, Diet Cost, and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in the United Kingdom: A Prospective Cohort Study: Using a large prospective cohort, Annalijn Conklin and colleagues investigate the association between dietary diversity...
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Zika Vaccine Effective In Mice - Science News | The Naked Scientists
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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.
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The AI Dashcam App That Wants to Rate Every Driver in the World: Nexar has already profiled nearly the half the cars in the Bay Area and Manhattan, and alerted users to nearby vehicles with a history of dangerous driving
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The integration of an anatomy massive open online course (MOOC) into a medical anatomy curriculum Swinnerton, Bronwen J.. Morris, Neil P.. Hotchkiss, Stephanie. Pickering, James D. Anatomical Sciences Education.
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Good read. "Humanising healthcare" by Dr Margaret Hannah. Great ideas briefly and clearly explained. The book outlines an approach in Fife to reduce winter pressures on beds by encouraging patients, staff, and community to seek better health care. The ideas are based on Alaska's Southcentral Foundations's...
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Why Whole Wheat Is Better Than White: If you're still eating refined pastas and breads, a switch could add years to your life.
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"Radar and Under-Bed Sensors Help Evaluate Health of Elderly Folks |: Researchers at the University of Missouri have been testing the usefulness of contact-free sensors for evaluating the health of elderly people living in a retirement community." The sensors are nothing new and the work is published...
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Your Spare Computing Power Could Help Fight Zika: Scientists are using a network called the World Community Grid to process huge amounts of data in an attempt to understand how to tackle the virus.
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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.
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Brits Can Now Insure Their Driverless Cars: Adrian Flux, which specializes in cars, takes a bold first step in robocar insurance
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