Cory's shearwater - heard these birds with a weird call in La Gomera.
Source: wikipedia.org
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Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org
No excuse for doctors who refuse to treat transgender people: Society is making strides but doctors are still far behind when it comes to giving trans people the treatment they ask for and the respect they deserve, says Jessica Hamzelou
Source: newscientist.com
AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS: UNICEF is testing a machine learning system to boost the quantity and quality of health advice provided via a popular text-based service in Zambia and Uganda
Source: newscientist.com
Hidden cost of climate change is unwanted carbs in your food: Foods are becoming richer in carbohydrates and poorer in some essential nutrients - the result of pumping carbon dioxide into the air, warns Irakli Loladze
Source: newscientist.com
This student put 50 million stolen research articles online. And they’re free.: Alexandra Elbakyan is challenging the multibillion-dollar academic publishing industry.
Source: washingtonpost.com
Cool Dudes: The Denial of Climate Change among Conservative White Males in the United States: We examine whether conservative white males are more likely than are other adults in the U.S. general public to endorse climate change denial. We draw theoretical and analytical guidance from the... Aaron M....
Source: researchgate.net
Good read. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. A powerful book on animal rights written 40 years ago (updated 20 years ago and re-issued recently with an introduction by Yuval Hariri) and having stood the test of time and debate. It is called 'the bible' of the animal rights movement and rightly so ......
Source: amazon.co.uk
Giant rats to sniff out tuberculosis in Tanzania, Mozambique prisons. No this is not an April Fool story ... The APOPO centre is alive and active. “We believe our unique TB Detection Rat
technology will prove itself as an effective mass-screening tool," said
APOPO's U.S. director, Charlie Richter....
Source: reuters.com
6 Reasons Platforms Fail: Perhaps the most egregious is a failure of imagination.
Source: hbr.org
"Model 3 is fully electric, so you never need to visit a gas station again. If you charge overnight at home, you can wake up to a full battery every morning. And when you’re on the road, it’s easy to plug in along the way—at any public station or with the Tesla charging network."
Source: teslamotors.com
Charles E. Lindblom - one of the early developers of incrementalism ... or 'muddling through'.
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Flow, the secret to happiness: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."
Source: ted.com
iPhone app tracks 600 patients in biggest ever study of Parkinson’s Disease: Smartphones come stuffed with sensors – now doctors are using them to study people's health on a scale impossible before
Source: newscientist.com