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.
Source: theconversation.com
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.
Source: plos.org
New Surgical Robot with Haptic Feedback Fits Entirely Inside Body During Operation |: Engineers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have developed a miniaturized robot for single incision and natural orifice surgeries. The device feature
Source: medgadget.com
Sheffield Adventure Film Festival 2016
Source: shaff.co.uk
Expedition Bjurälven: On the Jämtland mountains, a group of spelunkers and cave divers are exploring what proved to be Sweden’s longest underwater cave.
Source: expeditionbjuralven.se
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...
Source: bmj.com
Portion distortion report (2013) from the British Heart Foundation
Source: bhf.org.uk
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.
Source: qz.com
Vietnam twins found to have different fathers in rare case - BBC News: A pair of Vietnamese twins have been found to have different fathers, in an extremely rare case.
Source: bbc.co.uk
More Than Half of What Americans Eat Is 'Ultra-Processed': And those foods account for 90 percent of U.S. added sugar intake, new research says.
Source: theatlantic.com
Sun Tzu's The Art of War is an amazing insight into strategy and human nature - even more so given that it was written 2500 years ago. Cast aside all those management books and just reflect on the sayings of Master Sun.
Source: amazon.co.uk
Quantifying the Advantage of Looking Forward: We introduce a future orientation index to quantify the degree to which Internet users worldwide seek more information about years in the future than years in the past. Tobias Preis. Helen Susannah Moat. H. Eugene Stanley. Steven R. Bishop. Scientific Reports....
Source: nature.com
Top strategic predictions for 2016 and beyond: the future is a digital thing. The one that caught my attention was: "By 2018, 20% of all business content will be authored by machines.
... Technologies with the ability to proactively assemble and deliver information through automated composition...
Source: gartner.com
Junk DNA - a thorough but accessible account of modern genetics covering discoveries since mapping the human genome and epigenetics. Genomic imprinting, non-coding RNA, telomeres and ageing, etc. Everything discovered (or I forgot about) since I left medical school basically. Everything was explained...
Source: amazon.co.uk
Wellcome Image Awards 2016 Winners Announced |: Pathways of nerve fibres in the brain of a young healthy adult (viewed from behind). Different parts of the brain communicate with each other through these
Source: medgadget.com
Challenge on dementia 2020: implementation plan - Publications - GOV.UK
Source: www.gov.uk
Now you're talking: human-like robot may one day care for dementia patients: With her brown hair, soft skin and expressive face, Nadine is a new brand of human-like robot that could one day, scientists hope, be used as a personal assistant or care provider for the elderly.
Source: reuters.com
Rise in hip replacements for under 60s - BBC News: The number of hip replacement operations on people aged under 60 has risen 76% in the last decade, NHS figures for England reveal.
Source: bbc.co.uk
First drug to reverse Huntington's disease begins human trials : The new drug, called IONIS-HTTRx, silences the gene known to be responsible for the production of a protein which causes Huntington’s
Source: telegraph.co.uk
Data in the Cloud Could Have Kept MH370 in Sight: It's been two years since Malaysia Air vanished without trace, and now we have a trace. With the right system, we could have tracked its every move
Source: ieee.org