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Wristband with Sensors to Improve Lives of Dementia Patients. "At the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration

Wristband with Sensors to Improve Lives of Dementia Patients. "At the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration in Berlin, Germany researchers are working on a sensor and software package that would help people developing dementia to slow down the disease progression [by this I presume...
Source: medgadget.com

Anheuser-Busch pulls millions from controversial NIH alcohol study: Questions about the study could “undermine its lasting

Anheuser-Busch pulls millions from controversial NIH alcohol study: Questions about the study could “undermine its lasting credibility,” company said.
Source: arstechnica.com

Frozen Pluto has wind-blown dunes made of methane sand. The same complex forces that make the patterns in our world that

Frozen Pluto has wind-blown dunes made of methane sand. The same complex forces that make the patterns in our world that we so admire also work in alien worlds but, as in Pluto, on substances that would be truly exotic here on earth.
Source: arstechnica.com

Cloud-based quantum computer takes on deuteron and wins: Optimized algorithms plus cloud-based quantum computers actually

Cloud-based quantum computer takes on deuteron and wins: Optimized algorithms plus cloud-based quantum computers actually work. Classical computers can solve these problems but this shows that quabtum computers can be programmed to do them as well ... but the progress is slow.
Source: arstechnica.com

Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - Slashdot: An anonymous reader shares an excerpt

Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - Slashdot: An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via The Guardian, written by Neil Lawrence, the founding editor of the freely available journal Proceedings of Machine Learning Research: Machine learning has demonstrated...
Source: slashdot.org

A Brief History of Intel CPUs, Part 1: The 4004 to the Pentium Pro - ExtremeTech: We dive into the history of Intel CPUs

A Brief History of Intel CPUs, Part 1: The 4004 to the Pentium Pro - ExtremeTech: We dive into the history of Intel CPUs and the x86 architecture. From the very first microprocessor, through to the father of modern CPUs.
Source: extremetech.com

The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers has gotten even a teeny bit scarier: Since 2011, the share

The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers has gotten even a teeny bit scarier: Since 2011, the share of Americans' media consumption that happens in print has dropped about 40 percent. But the share of American ad dollars that go to print has dropped more than 60 percent. Print...
Source: niemanlab.org

It’s time we stopped dismissing women’s health problems: Controversy about cervical smear tests is just the latest in

It’s time we stopped dismissing women’s health problems: Controversy about cervical smear tests is just the latest in a series concerning women’s health. It’s time to talk about inequality in the doctor’s surgery
Source: newscientist.com

Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing: Mature fish are found deep not because of age, climate,

Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing: Mature fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us.
Source: arstechnica.com

Design Matters: The Snellen Eye Chart - The Scholarly Kitchen: Interesting background on the functional design that went

Design Matters: The Snellen Eye Chart - The Scholarly Kitchen: Interesting background on the functional design that went into the letters on the eye chart used to test visual acuity.
Source: sspnet.org

Simulation based education and expansive learning in health professional education: A discussion: The aim of this paper

Simulation based education and expansive learning in health professional education: A discussion: The aim of this paper is to discuss the application of Simulation Based Education (SBE) in nursing and wider health professional education. Simulated Learning (SL) is discussed in relation to its history,...
Source: journals.sfu.ca


Source: downes.ca

Zika rumors got three times more shares than real Zika stories. What can health educators do?

Zika rumors got three times more shares than real Zika stories. What can health educators do?
Source: niemanlab.org

First 3D-printed human corneas | Kurzweil

First 3D-printed human corneas | Kurzweil
Source: kurzweilai.net

Politics is way worse because we use an atrocious 18th century voting system. Aaron Hamlin has a viable plan to fix it.

Politics is way worse because we use an atrocious 18th century voting system. Aaron Hamlin has a viable plan to fix it. "Say there’s an independent or a third party candidate that you really like, but you’re looking at them and you think: ‘God, this person is never going to win, what I should...
Source: 80000hours.org

Aligning an undergraduate psychological medicine subject with the mental health needs of the local region: The James Cook

Aligning an undergraduate psychological medicine subject with the mental health needs of the local region: The James Cook University (JCU) medical school recently revised its Year 2 human development and behaviour module to be more relevant and practical for students, and more aligned with the mental...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Does more cancer spending increase survival? Healthcare Economist asks ... the answer seems to be yes.

Does more cancer spending increase survival? Healthcare Economist asks ... the answer seems to be yes.
Source: healthcare-economist.com

There’s no such thing as a ‘detox’ – so let’s ban the word: Using the word detox to promote drinks such as tea

There’s no such thing as a ‘detox’ – so let’s ban the word: Using the word detox to promote drinks such as tea as well as food and other products is essentially meaningless. Time to give it a rest, says Anthony Warner
Source: newscientist.com

The Greatest Failure in What used to be Called Medicine | Dr. David Healy

The Greatest Failure in What used to be Called Medicine | Dr. David Healy
Source: davidhealy.org

Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize | PLOS Biologue: It's time to celebrate the best of PLOS

Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize | PLOS Biologue: It's time to celebrate the best of PLOS Computational Biology! In 2017 PLOS Computational Biology launched the "PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize" program with the aim to recognize some of the journal's most outstanding...
Source: plos.org