U.S. Life Expectancy Declines, Albeit Slightly, for First Time in 2 Decades: By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS
Life expectancy at birth decreased from 78.9 years in 2014 to 78.8 years in 2015 — the first … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org
Why You Shouldn't Listen to Music While You Work: Unless you’re a truck driver or surgeon, it will hurt your performance.
Source: theatlantic.com
End-of-Rotation House Staff Changes Linked to Increased Patient Mortality: By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM
Resident and intern service changes are associated with increased mortality among hospitalized patients, suggests a retrospective...
Source: jwatch.org
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 had feathers? Here are some preserved in amber.
Source: extremetech.com
My Adult Learning Principles for the 21st Century ~ Stephen Downes
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Let’s Make the Facts Louder than the Opinions: A public service message from the Weather Channel.
Source: sspnet.org
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, of Manormead care home near Hindhead needing somewhere else to live
Source: theguardian.com
"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
“Pizzagate” conspiracy theory prompts gunman to “self-investigate” pizza parlor
Source: arstechnica.com
Stadium for Cornwall: Cornish Pirates' Colin Groves hopes work will start in 2017: Cornish Pirates director Colin Groves estimates work on the Stadium for Cornwall will start "in the middle of 2017".
Source: bbc.co.uk
Pisa tests: UK lags behind in global school rankings - BBC News: The UK is still lagging behind at education, with little progress in international rankings.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Spikes in search engine data predict when drugs will be recalled: An algorithm can predict drug recalls on the basis of internet searches made using Microsoft’s Bing, and might help identify faulty batches
Source: newscientist.com
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
Scotland’s offer to give abortions to Northern Irish women shames Stormont | Patrick Corrigan: Theresa May must follow Nicola Sturgeon’s lead in exposing the intransigence of Northern Ireland politicians and the inequality of access to terminations
Source: theguardian.com
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
UK science chief urges quantum-technologies boost - physicsworld.com
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Four major cities move to ban diesel vehicles by 2025 - BBC News: The leaders of four major global cities say they will stop the use of all diesel powered cars and trucks by the middle of the next decade.
Source: bbc.co.uk