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From Health Care Workforce Recuperation to Regeneration

“educators and health care leaders must intentionally train in teamwork and collaboration, have a growth mindset, and create environments of psychological safety on purpose rather than by chance.” “The Executive Vice Dean and Vice Dean for Education at the UCSF School of Medicine and the Assistant...
Source: nejm.org

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Source: bmj.com

Police seize on COVID-19 tech to expand global surveillance

JERUSALEM (AP) — Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in Jerusalem’s Old City when a chilling text message appeared on his phone. “You have been spotted as having participated in acts of violence in the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” it read in Arabic.
Source: apnews.com

Science education in an age of twitter disinformation / Post.

Science education needs to adapt to a world of misinformation on social media and beyond.
Source: post.news

On reflective journals

The power of a reflective journal! I think I know myself better but I'm not sure if it has made me any better. It definitely helps to remember who you've met and what has been said.
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Remembering the people

blog post image Please suggest some technology that might help ... but remind me who you are first. What do you use to keep track of everyone that you work with, live near, party with, study with, or just share time with? Mere humans can only maintain about 150 close relationships (Dunbar's number) so just wondering...
Source: wikipedia.org

Newborns to get rapid genetic disease diagnosis

The entire DNA of 100,000 newborns in England will be sequenced to spot rare genetic conditions early.
Source: bbc.com

Life-threatening infections on the rise due to drug-resistant bacteria, new WHO report reveals 

Over 50 per cent of life-threatening bacterial infections are becoming resistant to treatment, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report published on Friday reveals. 
Source: news.un.org

Saints, Kings & Mermaids - Discovering Breage's Medieval Wall Paintings - The Cornish Bird

Discover some of the finest medieval walling paintings in Cornwall and their meaning in the St Breaca church in Breage.
Source: cornishbirdblog.com

A legal case to stop sewage pollution: how did we get here?

We are suing the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for not taking effective action on sewage pollution entering our seas. We’ve not taken this step lightly.
Source: mcsuk.org

WHO convenes experts to identify new pathogens that could spark pandemics

The World Health Organization (WHO) is working to compile an updated list of priority pathogens that can cause future outbreaks or pandemics, the UN agency announced on Monday. 
Source: news.un.org

Spem in alium nunquam habui (Hope in any other, never did I have)

This piece of music is probably like nothing you have ever heard. Maybe because it is nearly 500 years old it feels like it is from another world. Maybe because it is written for eight choirs with five voices each the forty parts it's so complex you'd be pressed even to hum some of the tune afterwards....
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Tax Filing Websites Caught Sending Users' Financial Data to Facebook - ExtremeTech

Filing status, dependent names, adjusted gross income...once it's on any of these three websites, it's likely in Facebook's hands. ”H&R Block, one of the country’s most recognizable tax filing firms, was found using Meta Pixel to obtain users’ health savings account usage data as well as dependents’...
Source: extremetech.com

FDA approves most expensive drug ever, a $3.5 million-per-dose gene therapy for hemophilia B

The single-dose medicine "represents important progress" as the first-ever gene therapy for the rare disorder, the FDA said. ”The Food and Drug Administration cleared Hemgenix, an IV treatment for adults with hemophilia B, the less common form of the genetic disorder which primarily affects men.”
Source: cbsnews.com

Unchecked Carbon Dioxide Is Shrinking Earth’s Upper Atmosphere - ExtremeTech

The resulting domino effect could make it difficult for ships and satellites to deorbit in the future.
Source: extremetech.com

Aymptomatic testing for COVID could reduce hospital admissions

"The city-wide pilot of community based asymptomatic testing for SARS-CoV-2 was associated with substantially reduced covid-19 related hospital admissions. Large scale asymptomatic rapid testing for SARS-CoV-2 could help reduce transmission and prevent hospital admissions."
Source: bmj.com

Thales Alenia Space wins EU feasibility study for 'Ascend' space data centers

"Orbital data centers to offload compute and emissions." "The European Commission has contracted Thales Alenia Space to lead the ASCEND feasibility study for data centers in orbit."
Source: datacenterdynamics.com

The International Code of Medical Ethics of the World Medical Association Ramin Walter Parsa-Parsi. JAMA.

"One of the central missions of the World Medical Association (WMA) in its role as the global organization of physicians is to ensure the highest possible standard of ethical practice of the medical profession. Since its establishment in 1947 in the aftermath of one of the most egregious breaches of...
Source: jamanetwork.com

Mind-controlled wheelchairs let people dodge obstacles with ease Nature 2022.

A brain—machine interface allows people with paralysis in all four limbs to navigate a real-world environment. A brain—machine interface allows people with paralysis in all four limbs to navigate a real-world environment.
Source: nature.com

Inside a radical new project to democratize AI

A group of over 1,000 AI researchers has created a multilingual large language model bigger than GPT-3—and they’re giving it out for free.
Source: technologyreview.com