"The Future of Authorship: Dismayed by the loss of trust in facts, and seeming preference for half-truths that appears to
"The Future of Authorship: Dismayed by the loss of trust in facts, and seeming preference for half-truths that appears to be driving our political present, Robert Harington decided to catch up on his reading over the weeked" ... and describes reaching audiences with video and YouTube especially. Nothing...
Source: sspnet.org
Melting Woes: Antarctic Sea Ice at Record Lows : Image of the Day: Shifting winds and warm air temperatures contributed
Melting Woes: Antarctic Sea Ice at Record Lows : Image of the Day: Shifting winds and warm air temperatures contributed to the record-low extent of sea ice around Antarctica in November.
Source: nasa.gov
Pokemon Go: Exercise impact 'short-lived' - BBC News: Research suggests playing Pokemon Go only had a short-term impact
Pokemon Go: Exercise impact 'short-lived' - BBC News: Research suggests playing Pokemon Go only had a short-term impact on players' increased activity.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study: Objective
Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study: Objective To estimate the effect of playing Pokémon GO on the number of steps taken daily up to six weeks after installation of the game.
Design Cohort study using online survey data.
Participants...
Source: bmj.com
Why Americans Die Younger Than Europeans: Americans are more obese, poorer, more isolated, and with less access to health
Why Americans Die Younger Than Europeans: Americans are more obese, poorer, more isolated, and with less access to health care—and it's killing them.
Source: theatlantic.com
Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures.
Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures. The potential for quality-linked reimbursement to incentivized improved quality of care, however, depends critically on whether physician quality can be measured reliably."
Source: healthcare-economist.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
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
Church of England to close Surrey care home owing to lack of staff: Decision will leave 30 residents, many with dementia,
Church of England to close Surrey care home owing to lack of staff: Decision will leave 30 residents, many with dementia, of Manormead care home near Hindhead needing somewhere else to live
Source: theguardian.com
Digital-native outlets in Europe are more pragmatic than innovative, report suggests
"Digital-native news outlets in Europe tend to be more focused on delivering quality journalism than on creating new business models or innovating about ways news is presented, according to a new report from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism that studied 12 online startups in France,...
Source: niemanlab.org
Baby bracelet aims to save newborns in India from hypothermia: The 8m babies born prematurely every year in India are at
Baby bracelet aims to save newborns in India from hypothermia: The 8m babies born prematurely every year in India are at risk of hypothermia. A Bangalore startup has invented a bracelet to protect them
Source: theguardian.com
Germany's Aggressive Switch to Renewables Will Save €149 Billion: The country’s goal of lowering its greenhouse gas
Germany's Aggressive Switch to Renewables Will Save €149 Billion: The country’s goal of lowering its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020 is yielding dividends in addition to cleaner air.
Source: ieee.org
Urine test for fatigue could help prevent accidents: Doctors, pilots, air traffic controllers and bus drivers have at least
Urine test for fatigue could help prevent accidents: Doctors, pilots, air traffic controllers and bus drivers have at least one thing in common -- if they're exhausted at work, they could be putting lives at risk. But the development of a new urine test, reported in the ACS journal Analytical Chemistry,...
Source: eurekalert.org
Global carbon growth stalls as US coal continues to slump - BBC News: Declining US coal consumption played a significant
Global carbon growth stalls as US coal continues to slump - BBC News: Declining US coal consumption played a significant role in keeping down global emissions of carbon dioxide, says a report.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Scurvy cases reported in Australia reveal modern diet failings: Diabetic patients found to have symptoms of scurvy in Sydney
Scurvy cases reported in Australia reveal modern diet failings: Diabetic patients found to have symptoms of scurvy in Sydney reported they ate few vegetables, or overcooked them, destroying vitamin C
Source: theguardian.com
Opec may have done the world a good turn for once: It is not often that the interests of an industry cartel and the global
Opec may have done the world a good turn for once: It is not often that the interests of an industry cartel and the global environment are aligned, but the Opec agreement to limit oil production may prove to be just one. The agreement, for the first cut in eight years, had an immediate impact on the...
Source: independent.co.uk
APOD: 2016 November 28 - Arp 240: A Bridge between Spiral Galaxies from Hubble
APOD: 2016 November 28 - Arp 240: A Bridge between Spiral Galaxies from Hubble
Source: nasa.gov
Reuters built its own algorithmic prediction tool to help it spot (and verify) breaking news on Twitter: "The world has
Reuters built its own algorithmic prediction tool to help it spot (and verify) breaking news on Twitter: "The world has a lot more witnesses now, and we can't be at everything. Our tool helps shift some of the burden of witnessing and lets journalists do much more of the high value-added work."
Source: niemanlab.org
This Smart Watch Will Charge Itself Using Heat From Your Skin: Matrix Industries comes out of stealth today to say that
This Smart Watch Will Charge Itself Using Heat From Your Skin: Matrix Industries comes out of stealth today to say that wearables can—and should—power themselves
Source: ieee.org
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