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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

Looking at the Bankbot Landscape: A few days ago, Keith Armstrong did a nice writeup about the proliferation of chatbots

Looking at the Bankbot Landscape: A few days ago, Keith Armstrong did a nice writeup about the proliferation of chatbots in money and banking.
Source: chatbotsmagazine.com

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

World wildlife 'falls by 58% in 40 years' - BBC News: Global wildlife populations have fallen by 58% since 1970, according

World wildlife 'falls by 58% in 40 years' - BBC News: Global wildlife populations have fallen by 58% since 1970, according to a biodiversity report.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Patients and staff shut out of NHS transformation plans, says thinktank: King’s Fund says local health leaders have been

Patients and staff shut out of NHS transformation plans, says thinktank: King’s Fund says local health leaders have been told not to reveal plans until they are finalised and have been approved
Source: theguardian.com

100 Stories: The Impact of Open Access Jean-Gabriel Bankier. Promita Chatterji.

100 Stories: The Impact of Open Access Jean-Gabriel Bankier. Promita Chatterji.
Source: bepress.com

Learning Objects Debuts Competency-Based Education Platform -- Campus Technology: The new Competency-Based Learning Platform

Learning Objects Debuts Competency-Based Education Platform -- Campus Technology: The new Competency-Based Learning Platform from Learning Objects supports flipped, fully online, blended and face-to-face instruction.
Source: campustechnology.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

Sore throats to be tested by pharmacists instead of GPs under NHS move: Sufferers will go for on-the-spot tests under initiative

Sore throats to be tested by pharmacists instead of GPs under NHS move: Sufferers will go for on-the-spot tests under initiative designed to relieve pressure on GPs and tackle antibiotic resistance
Source: theguardian.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

First Fossilised Brain From A Dinosaur - Science News | The Naked Scientists

First Fossilised Brain From A Dinosaur - Science News | The Naked Scientists
Source: thenakedscientists.com

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

Renewable capacity passes coal, additions outpacing demand in US, Europe: 153 GigaWatts of renewables make up over half

Renewable capacity passes coal, additions outpacing demand in US, Europe: 153 GigaWatts of renewables make up over half the new capacity added globally.
Source: arstechnica.com

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

Virgin Care given £700m health contract in Bath and North East Somerset - BBC News: A contract to provide community health

Virgin Care given £700m health contract in Bath and North East Somerset - BBC News: A contract to provide community health and care in Bath and North East Somerset over the next seven years is approved for Virgin Care.
Source: bbc.co.uk