"DECODE provides tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or share it for the public good." "DECODE is an experimental project to develop practical alternatives to how we use the internet today - four European pilots will show the wider social value that...
Source: decodeproject.eu
Association Between Teaching Status and Mortality in US Hospitals: This study uses national Medicare data to compare 30-day mortality among patients hospitalized or undergoing surgical procedures in teaching vs nonteaching hospitals between 2012 and 2014. Laura G. Burke. Austin B. Frakt. Dhruv Khullar....
Source: jamanetwork.com
40,000 Brits die every year from air pollution, yet there's nothing about it in the Tory manifesto: The Conservative manifesto has confirmed what many have feared for a long time: Tories are unable to be serious about air quality. In the 88-page document, which will set out the direction of Theresa...
Source: independent.co.uk
Day v Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust & Health Education England (2017) - Hempsons
Source: hempsons.co.uk
Polar Sea Ice at Record Lows : Image of the Day: In 2017, the Arctic maximum and Antarctic minimum extents of sea ice plunged to record lows.
Source: nasa.gov
Fruit and veg: For a longer life eat 10-a-day - BBC News: More fruit and veg might prevent nearly eight million premature deaths each year, researchers say.
Source: bbc.co.uk
'7lbs in 7 days' retreat at Juicy Oasis Feb 20-27th 2016. Blog about the retreat. Just returned from a week at Juicy Oasis in Portugal - a health and spa retreat based on a juicing diet run by Jason Vale. It was a lovely sunny escape from the February cold and rain in the UK. The main features were...
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Why are peer reviews private?: That is a question raised by the experience of a “rogue” neuroscientist profiled in Wired today: SAM NASTASE WAS taking a break from his lab work to peruse Twitter when he saw a tweet a…
Source: digitopoly.org
Our village, Grampound in Cornwall, is to be designated an Air Quality Management Area. A report of the air quality monitoring has been published and a consultation started. The traffic through Grampound is about 11,000 vehicles a day and since it is a narrow road on a steep hill with thatched cottages...
Source: cornwall.gov.uk
Phrase of the day: Complex adaptive system - a system in which a perfect understanding of the individual parts does
not automatically convey a perfect understanding of the whole system's
behavior.
Source: wikipedia.org
Hans Rosling has passed away: Hans Rosling, professor of international health, has passed away. He died early Tuesday morning, 7 February 2017, his family announces at the Gapminder foundation web site. Hans Rosling suffered from a pancreatic cancer which was diagnosed one year ago.
Source: ki.se
Responding to social media posts with pictures of a cute hedgehog in a hat. When you see a post and don't quite know what to say then perhaps the only option is to respond with a picture of a hedgehog in a hat. After all isn't that why the internet was invented? First of all the social media machine...
Source: tineye.com
Paradigm change and an explanation of science as a social construct. Review of Khun's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". I've been meaning to read this for sometime and it was worth it. The 50th anniversary edition has an excellent introduction by Ian Hacking which invites you to ask questions...
Source: amazon.co.uk
The Big Shift in Platform Business Models: Everywhere you look today, platform businesses are in the news. Most of the stories focus on what platforms do. Some highlight the value they provide in terms of ease and convenience in connecting with needed resources. Others focus on the...
Source: typepad.com
Obama: “My instinct is everybody hates media right now…that has to be an opportunity”: President Obama appeared on the latest episode of the new podcast Pod Save America, in what was billed as his last interview as president of the United States before Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday. (Pod...
Source: niemanlab.org
Global Temperature Record Broken for Third Consecutive Year : Image of the Day: The planet’s average surface temperature has risen about 1.1°C (2.0°F) since the late 19th century.
Source: nasa.gov
The Internet Archive is building up a Trump presidential library — of everything he’s ever said, on video: President-elect Donald J. Trump says a lot of things — and often denies a lot of the things he's said.
The Internet Archive launched Thursday a huge Trump Archive dedicated to housing videos...
Source: niemanlab.org
Globalisation Theresa May and Davos. I agree with some of what she says about globalisation but it is also a major role for government policy to share the gains with 'those left behind'. In particular nations need to look after its workers (and future workers) when inevitably the jobs and industries...
Source: theguardian.com
Cloudwater, quality and Camra dinosaurs: If you think the major problem facing the Campaign for Real Ale today is whether or not to embrace “craft keg”, or how to prevent more pub closures, then like the campaign itself you…
Source: zythophile.co.uk