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Homeopathic Syrup for the Treatment of Pediatric Colds: Randomized Controlled Nonsense is Still Nonsense. "Jacobs and Taylor

Homeopathic Syrup for the Treatment of Pediatric Colds: Randomized Controlled Nonsense is Still Nonsense. "Jacobs and Taylor describe the results of this study as “provocative.” I disagree. After admitting their complete failure to find any benefit in the primary outcome being measured, or in any...
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

A whole city vows to help its young people apply for college - The Hechinger Report: JACKSON — Like millions of high-school

A whole city vows to help its young people apply for college - The Hechinger Report: JACKSON — Like millions of high-school seniors nationwide, Murrah High School senior Desmond Jones, 17, is preparing to go to college next fall. Jones is interested in attending the University of Southern Mississippi...
Source: hechingerreport.org

Python is the Growing Platform for Applied Machine Learning - Machine Learning Mastery: You should pick the right tool for

Python is the Growing Platform for Applied Machine Learning - Machine Learning Mastery: You should pick the right tool for the job. The specific predictive modeling problem that you are working on should dictate the specific programming language, libraries and even machine learning algorithms to use....
Source: machinelearningmastery.com

Patterns in Course Design: How instructors ACTUALLY use the LMS - Blackboard Blog

Patterns in Course Design: How instructors ACTUALLY use the LMS - Blackboard Blog
Source: blackboard.com

SARA: the Socially Aware Robot Assistant.

In this era of fears that Artificial Intelligence will destroy humanity, SARA is a Socially-Aware Robot Assistant, developed in Carnegie Mellon University’s ArticuLab. SARA interacts with people in a whole new way, personalizing the interaction and improving task performance by relying on information...
Source: cmu.edu

You Can't Stop Robots With Furniture Barricades Anymore: This Georgia Tech robot is smart enough to shove furniture out

You Can't Stop Robots With Furniture Barricades Anymore: This Georgia Tech robot is smart enough to shove furniture out of the way to get where it wants to go
Source: ieee.org

What AI Experts Say Smart Machines Will Do to Human Jobs: Academics and industry experts discuss how AI will affect the

What AI Experts Say Smart Machines Will Do to Human Jobs: Academics and industry experts discuss how AI will affect the workforce and how we can prepare
Source: ieee.org

A computer program just ranked the most influential brain scientists of the modern era: Semantic Scholar extends its reach

A computer program just ranked the most influential brain scientists of the modern era: Semantic Scholar extends its reach to neuroscience, analyzing millions of science articles. What will the business of intelligent agents look like in coming years? The successful ones will be those with the best...
Source: sciencemag.org

Snowballs on the shore - BBC News: A beach in Siberia has been transformed by naturally occurring giant snowballs.

Snowballs on the shore - BBC News: A beach in Siberia has been transformed by naturally occurring giant snowballs.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Mobile web browsing overtakes desktop for the first time: Smartphones and tablets become king as the share of desktop web

Mobile web browsing overtakes desktop for the first time: Smartphones and tablets become king as the share of desktop web browsing traffic shrinks to 48.7%, according to data
Source: theguardian.com

Finland Will Become the First Country in the World to Get Rid of All School Subjects

Finland Will Become the First Country in the World to Get Rid of All School Subjects
Source: brightside.me

Missing GP records in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk 'total 9,000' - BBC News: More than 9,000 patients' records have gone missing

Missing GP records in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk 'total 9,000' - BBC News: More than 9,000 patients' records have gone missing since private firm Capita took over NHS file transferring services, a BBC survey shows.
Source: bbc.co.uk

WMO: Five hottest years on record have occurred since 2011 - BBC News: The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says

WMO: Five hottest years on record have occurred since 2011 - BBC News: The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says that the five years from 2011 to 2015 were the warmest on record.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Man snaps gnome 15,000 times to improve road safety - BBC News: A garden gnome is being used in a one-man photographic campaign

Man snaps gnome 15,000 times to improve road safety - BBC News: A garden gnome is being used in a one-man photographic campaign to improve road drainage.
Source: bbc.co.uk

400,000 bots are posting political tweets about the election, and they have influence: Nearly 20 percent of all election-related

400,000 bots are posting political tweets about the election, and they have influence: Nearly 20 percent of all election-related tweets come from an army of influential robots.
Source: technologyreview.com

E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017.

blog post image E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017. I'm looking forward to engaging with as many of them as I can. Conversational technology. Why not have immediate access and personal learning support on platforms through messaging...
Source: agnate.co.uk

Why Technology Will Not Get Cheaper: The long-desired hope that digital publishing will be cheaper gets more cold water,

Why Technology Will Not Get Cheaper: The long-desired hope that digital publishing will be cheaper gets more cold water, as infrastructure and personnel costs continue to rise, with no real end in sight.
Source: sspnet.org

Measures of Malaria Burden after Long-Lasting Insecticidal Net Distribution and Indoor Residual Spraying at Three Sites

Measures of Malaria Burden after Long-Lasting Insecticidal Net Distribution and Indoor Residual Spraying at Three Sites in Uganda: A Prospective Observational Study: In this prospective observational study, Grant Dorsey and colleagues measure changes in malaria burden after long-lasting insecticidal...
Source: plos.org

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More Evidence That Cranberry Products Don't Prevent Urinary Tract Infections: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by André Sofair,

More Evidence That Cranberry Products Don't Prevent Urinary Tract Infections: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS Cranberry capsules did not help prevent bacteriuria plus pyuria in a study of nursing home residents published in … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org