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Slate’s Facebook traffic has dropped by 87 percent since 2017. (Anyone else wanna share numbers?)

Slate’s Facebook traffic has dropped by 87 percent since 2017. (Anyone else wanna share numbers?)
Source: niemanlab.org

Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement: This 2018 Recommendation

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

Chatbot claims to beat GPs at medical exam: The Royal College of General Practitioners disputes the abilities of Babylon's

Chatbot claims to beat GPs at medical exam: The Royal College of General Practitioners disputes the abilities of Babylon's software. Aiming your chatbot at published, purposefully language clue-filled test items from the MRCGP exam seems to me to be more about self-publicity than actually funding and...
Source: bbc.co.uk

Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly,

Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion projects that undergird all software in the modern internet economy. In exchange, they ask for nothing in return except for recognition and help…
Source: techcrunch.com

Some science journals that claim to peer review papers do not do so: One estimate puts the number of papers in questionable

Some science journals that claim to peer review papers do not do so: One estimate puts the number of papers in questionable journals at 400,000
Source: economist.com

Experts Bet on First Deepfakes Political Scandal - IEEE Spectrum

Experts Bet on First Deepfakes Political Scandal - IEEE Spectrum
Source: ieee.org

Charging patients for appointments 'against founding principle of NHS', says RCGP

Charging patients for appointments 'against founding principle of NHS', says RCGP
Source: rcgp.org.uk

The 3 Reasons the U.S. Health-Care System Is the Worst: The head of the Commonwealth Fund, which compares the health systems

The 3 Reasons the U.S. Health-Care System Is the Worst: The head of the Commonwealth Fund, which compares the health systems of developed nations, pinpoints why American health care is so expensive and inefficient.
Source: theatlantic.com

Starving seabirds 'full of plastic': Flesh-footed shearwater chicks are starving to death because of plastic, a BBC documentary

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

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

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

International Diagnostic Championship Inviting Med Students Worldwide to Participate |: Medical students around the world

International Diagnostic Championship Inviting Med Students Worldwide to Participate |: Medical students around the world are invited to participate in the first international diagnostic championship hosted by International Federation of
Source: medgadget.com

25 Years of EdTech: 2010 – Connectivism – The Ed Techie The early enthusiasm for e-learning saw a number of pedagogies

25 Years of EdTech: 2010 – Connectivism – The Ed Techie The early enthusiasm for e-learning saw a number of pedagogies resurrected or adopted to meet the new potential of the digital, networked context. Constructivism, problem-based learning, and resource-based learning all saw renewed interest as...
Source: edtechie.net

Contact Lens Measures Glucose, pH, Lactate in Eye |: At Purdue University researchers have come up with a way of reliably

Contact Lens Measures Glucose, pH, Lactate in Eye |: At Purdue University researchers have come up with a way of reliably attaching thin film sensors and other small electronic devices to soft contact
Source: medgadget.com

Millions of British children breathing toxic air, Unicef warns: More than 4.5 million affected, says UN group, while tests

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

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

Day 1431 - #thecrapartist - view from Kalamaki towards the mountains of Sparta across Kalamata bay, Greece. The crap artist

blog post image Day 1431 - #thecrapartist - view from Kalamaki towards the mountains of Sparta across Kalamata bay, Greece. The crap artist has learnt much from this - use a bigger brush for a big mountain range, get the horizon straight, poplars grow vertically, the sea needs to be much more delicate as it looks stormy,...

A robot has performed eye surgery on humans for the first time: For the first time, six people have had eye surgery performed

A robot has performed eye surgery on humans for the first time: For the first time, six people have had eye surgery performed by a robot that was able to filter out the tremors from a surgeon's hand
Source: newscientist.com

Understanding and Creating Calculators for Medical Diagnoses: Exclusive Interview with MDCalc |:   MDCalc is a 13-year-old

Understanding and Creating Calculators for Medical Diagnoses: Exclusive Interview with MDCalc |:   MDCalc is a 13-year-old medical reference started by two practicing emergency medicine physicians, Dr. Joe Habboushe and Dr. Graham Walker. A
Source: medgadget.com

Interview: The BMJ's Patient Review Initiative - A Novel Expansion of Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen: Kent Anderson

Interview: The BMJ's Patient Review Initiative - A Novel Expansion of Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen: Kent Anderson looks at an innovative approach to peer review that has expanded, changed review approaches, and impressed authors.
Source: sspnet.org