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...
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The Google search terms 'diabetes' and 'recipe' have contrasting patterns repeated each year over the festive period covering November to January. Could this be evidence of human behaviour from big data? I'm on a Big Data MOOC #FLbigdata and was introduced to this tool on Google. I've shown in the...
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UK's National Graphene Institute in Revolt After Foreign Tech Grab: Researchers at the UK's NGI won't work at the new facilty for fear that their research will be pilfered
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Plastic-eating bacteria set to revolutionize waste disposal | ExtremeTech: Genetically engineering a bacterium that eats plastic could fix the world's spiraling problem of waste disposal.
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Scientists grow eye lens from patients’ own stem cells, restoring vision | KurzweilAI
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Logical Fallacies and Internet Comments: After a few weeks of blistering comment sections on Scholarly Kitchen posts, it’s probably time to review the most common logical fallacies employed in arguing on the internet.
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Drone to police massive UK marine reserve - BBC News: An ocean-going drone will be helping to spot illegal fishing in the world's largest, continuous marine reserve.
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Brazil’s science squeeze | Chemistry World
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Medical Education Theme Issue 2016: Call for Papers: Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun The classic tripartite definition of the roles of a physician includes teaching, research, and patient care. While it is debatable whether the physicians in recent...
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A Blog Is Born: The Human OS: Spectrum's new biomedical engineering blog will chronicle bold attempts to understand and debug the human body
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UK press is the most aggressive in reporting on Europe's 'migrant' crisis: Public opinion has been polarised by the way newspapers are covering this story.
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The Future of Diabetes Prevention: A Call for Papers: PLOS Medicine editors and guest editors announce a call for papers for submissions for a special issue on diabetes prevention. The PLOS Medicine Editors. PLOS Med.
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Study supports role of quantum effects in photosynthesis
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Sheffield Adventure Film Festival 2016
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Expedition Bjurälven: On the Jämtland mountains, a group of spelunkers and cave divers are exploring what proved to be Sweden’s longest underwater cave.
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Seeing takeaway food makes you eat more, say researchers in Fenland study. "Government strategies to promote healthier diets through planning restrictions for takeaway food could be most effective if focused around the workplace." Associations between exposure to takeaway food outlets, takeaway food...
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Portion distortion report (2013) from the British Heart Foundation
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Estonian citizens will soon have the world’s most hack-proof health-care records: Estonia is the first country to use blockchain, the technology that powers bitcoin.
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