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The legacy of leaving old industrial Britain to rot is becoming clear | Larry Elliott: The hollowing-out of industrial Britain

The legacy of leaving old industrial Britain to rot is becoming clear | Larry Elliott: The hollowing-out of industrial Britain since the 1980s is the single biggest change to the UK economy in the postwar era
Source: theguardian.com

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Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

Airplane crew doubted black doctor’s credibility during inflight emergency - Hospital Dr

Airplane crew doubted black doctor’s credibility during inflight emergency - Hospital Dr
Source: hospitaldr.co.uk

Time to move: Get up, Get Dressed, Keep moving: Dr Amit Arora is a Consultant Physician and Geriatrician at University Hospital

Time to move: Get up, Get Dressed, Keep moving: Dr Amit Arora is a Consultant Physician and Geriatrician at University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent and an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Keele University. Many years ago I was su…
Source: wordpress.com

Jam tomorrow: The meaning of non-tariff trade barriers - John Kay: The reality of Brexit and trade negotiations is a review

Jam tomorrow: The meaning of non-tariff trade barriers - John Kay: The reality of Brexit and trade negotiations is a review of the rules governing myriads of individual products in mind-numbing detail. Those who thought Brexit meant less regulation, less bureaucracy, fewer civil servants, are in for...
Source: johnkay.com

Arrival by ambulance explains variation in mortality by time of admission: retrospective study of admissions to hospital

Arrival by ambulance explains variation in mortality by time of admission: retrospective study of admissions to hospital following emergency department attendance in England: Background Studies finding higher mortality rates for patients admitted to hospital at weekends rely on routine administrative...
Source: bmj.com

A thought-controlled robotic exoskeleton for the hand | KurzweilAI

A thought-controlled robotic exoskeleton for the hand | KurzweilAI
Source: kurzweilai.net

AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Is Launching Element.AI, a Deep-Learning Incubator: One of the founding fathers of the deep learning

AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Is Launching Element.AI, a Deep-Learning Incubator: One of the founding fathers of the deep learning movement is building a Silicon Valley-style tech incubator for AI.
Source: wired.com

Evidence of possible 'probing' attacks on Internet infrastructure? Someone is learning how to take down the Internet.

Evidence of possible 'probing' attacks on Internet infrastructure? Someone is learning how to take down the Internet.
Source: kurzweilai.net

Recommended content widgets still have major disclosure and clickbait problems, says a new report

Recommended content widgets still have major disclosure and clickbait problems, says a new report
Source: niemanlab.org

Underfunded. Underdoctored. Overstretched.: Dr Zoe Wyrko is a Consultant physician at University Hospital Birmingham and

Underfunded. Underdoctored. Overstretched.: Dr Zoe Wyrko is a Consultant physician at University Hospital Birmingham and is the Director of Workforce for the BGS. In this blog she discusses the recent RCP report ‘Underfunded. Underdoct…
Source: wordpress.com

Combinations of insulin and oral glucose-lowering drugs for people with type 2 diabetes on insulin treatment | Cochrane

Combinations of insulin and oral glucose-lowering drugs for people with type 2 diabetes on insulin treatment | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org

Essential Tremor, Tremor Dominant Parkinson's Disease, Neuropathic Pain Treatment | INSIGHTEC "Exablate Neuro, is the first

Essential Tremor, Tremor Dominant Parkinson's Disease, Neuropathic Pain Treatment | INSIGHTEC "Exablate Neuro, is the first focused ultrasound device approved by the FDA to treat patients with essential tremor. Exablate Neuro is a non-invasive, image-guided personalized thalamotomy, treated through...
Source: insightec.com

Good read - The Path. A quick overview of 5 Chinese philosophies making them relevant to how we should think about how we

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...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Timeless Tips for 'Simple Sabotage' — Central Intelligence Agency. This is a great collection of sabotage techniques

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...
Source: cia.gov

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Source: hospitaldr.co.uk

IBM big data used for rapid diagnosis of rare leukemia case in Japan | The Japan Times: In a possible first in Japan, doctors

IBM big data used for rapid diagnosis of rare leukemia case in Japan | The Japan Times: In a possible first in Japan, doctors have used artificial intelligence to diagnose a rare type of leukemia and identify life-saving therapy far faster tha
Source: japantimes.co.jp

Cupping may be only the tip of the iceberg of nonsense at the Olympics.

Cupping may be only the tip of the iceberg of nonsense at the Olympics.
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

Good read. The most good you can do by Peter Singer. This is about effective altruism. If you are going to give away your

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...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Poverty costs UK £78bn a year, Joseph Rowntree Foundation says - BBC News: The effects of poverty in the UK cost the average

Poverty costs UK £78bn a year, Joseph Rowntree Foundation says - BBC News: The effects of poverty in the UK cost the average taxpayer £1,200 a year, and the UK £78bn in total, with the NHS bearing the brunt, a report suggests.
Source: bbc.co.uk