Tell big brands: stop rainforest destruction: Big brands like PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson & Colgate are still using rainforest-destroying palm oil. We have to force them to stop before the Indonesian rainforest is ablaze again.
Source: greenpeace.org.uk
Activists scale Nelson's Column in protest over London's 'toxic' air: Protesters from environmental campaign group Greenpeace have scaled Nelson’s Column in a protest over air pollution in London.
The group gathered at the Trafalgar Square statue at around 4.10am before starting its ascent,...
Source: standard.co.uk
How long will it take? Conceptualizing the temporal dynamics of energy transitions
Source: sciencedirect.com
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
Hans Rosling asks: Has the UN gone mad? The United Nations just announced their boldest goal ever: To eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, already by 2030. Don't Panic. End Poverty.
Source: gapminder.org
Societies Offer New Guidelines on Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy: By Kelly Young
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM
The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology have released new guidelines on the appropriate duration of...
Source: jwatch.org
Great read! We can eat almost anything, but we are uncertain what we should eat. This omnivore's dilemma has not only vexed our ancestors trying to avoid poisonous foods it continues to occupy much of our time. We seem incapable of deciding what to have for lunch without consulting to dietary guidelines,...
Source: amazon.co.uk
Good read. "Life on the Edge" by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden covers the fascinating world of quantum biology. Could life be a delicate balance that organic molecules can provide to enable quantum coherence? The efficient quantum mechanisms of photosynthesis, magnetoreception, and enzymes are...
Source: amazon.co.uk
APOD: 2016 March 3 - Moons and Jupiter
Source: nasa.gov
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Make your own cyborg cockroach for under $30: Warning: this DIY hack requires surgery. And an Arduino.
Source: arstechnica.com
Long-term glycemic control using polymer-encapsulated human stem cell-derived beta cells in immune-competent mice.
Arturo J Vegas. Omid Veiseh. Mads Gürtler. Jeffrey R Millman. Felicia W Pagliuca. Andrew R Bader. Joshua C Doloff. Jie Li. Michael Chen. Karsten Olejnik. Hok Hei Tam. Siddharth Jhunjhunwala....
Source: nature.com
UK's oldest person Gladys Hooper turns 113 - BBC News: The UK's oldest person, Gladys Hooper, is celebrating her 113th birthday.
Source: bbc.co.uk
We Are One Profession: We sit quietly, the doctor and I. Waiting. The only sounds are the soft hiss of the ventilator and the muffled sobs of a broken mother, cradling her baby son in her arms. I'm so glad this doctor is...
Source: 23weeksocks.com
Zimbabwe on track to achieve virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: In 2010, when the project began, Zimbabwe had one of the highest burdens of new HIV infections in the world, with a mother-to-child HIV transmission rate of approximately 30 percent. Today, the rate of transmission...
Source: eurekalert.org
Media demonstrate ignorance of correlation vs. causation by reporting the coffee study in Circulation - Association of Coffee Consumption with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in Three Large Prospective Cohorts. See reports in Telegraph, Tribune, BT news, South Wales Argus!, Harvard's own press release....
Source: ahajournals.org
The official statistics watchdog just tore a piece out of David Cameron: Britain's official statistics watchdog has castigated the Government over David Cameron’s citation of questionable figures purporting to show how many European Union migrants claim benefits in the UK.
Source: independent.co.uk