Saturday, December 26, 2015

Orthorexia nervosa: How becoming obsessed with healthy eating can lead to malnutrition | Health News | Lifestyle | The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/orthorexia-nervosa-how-becoming-obsessed-with-healthy-eating-can-lead-to-malnutrition-10479149.html


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Shared from Twitter: The Most Notable Medical Findings of 2015 - The New Yorker



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Antibiotic resistance: myths and misunderstandings – Aetiology

http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2015/09/10/antibiotic-resistance-myths-and-misunderstandings/


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Machines that learn like people: Gabor filters

http://www.deepstuff.org/machines-that-learn-like-people/


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Bridging the gap: from biometrics to forensics | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1674/20140254


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Review: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ Blends Verbiage and Violence - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/25/movies/review-quentin-tarantinos-the-hateful-eight-blends-verbiage-and-violence.html?_r=1


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10 Unusual Facts About the Flu From a Nobel Prize-Winning Pandemics Expert | Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/04/10-facts-bird-flu-pandemic-expert-nobel-prize-peter-doherty?9


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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

New study indicates that metformin has the potential to prevent and treat preeclampsia | EurekAlert! Science News


Preeclampsia affects 5-8% of all pregnant women and is diagnosed by the new onset of high blood pressure and the presence of protein in the urine after 20 weeks of gestation. This condition is a leading cause of maternal death; approximately 100 maternal deaths and 400 perinatal deaths worldwide occur per day. Thus far, the only treatment for preeclampsia is delivery.


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Science in 2016: Separating the hype from the promise

http://www.statnews.com/2015/12/23/2016-science-hype-and-promise/?s_campaign=stat:rss


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Feller power law fits



Theories of this nature are short-lived because they open no new ways, and new confirmations of the same old thing soon grow boring. But the naive reasoning as such has not been superseded by common sense, and so it may be useful to have an explicit demonstration of how misleading a mere goodness of fit can be." Feller (1940)  



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Monday, December 14, 2015

Are These 10 Lies Justified? - The New York Times

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/can-you-justify-these-lies/?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=1


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Shared from Twitter: These Are the 10 Best Restaurants in the World | TIME



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Digital Photography School: 6 Photoshop Tools Every Newbie Should Learn


6 Photoshop Tools Every Newbie Should Learn
Digital Photography School

In the days before digital imaging, if you truly wanted to elevate your photography to the level of art, you learned how to process your images in the darkroom. You learned dodging, burning, masking, sandwiching negatives, flashing and fogging – all designed to get the most out of your images, and deliver your artistic vision to your viewers. The finished image after Photoshop, using the tools discussed below. With the advent of digital imaging, photographers have a new way to bring their Read the full story


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Business Standard: Sikka supports open innovation


Sikka supports open innovation
Business Standard

Commits $1 billion for OpenAI, a not for profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company Read the full story


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Wednesday, December 09, 2015

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Article 9 DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS

http://www.codepublishing.com/AZ/sedona/html/SedonaLDC/SedonaLDC09.html

22 feet

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Pro life idiots

"I'm a warrior for the babies. "
-- Robert Lewis Dear

Yes Pro-Life people, this is your murderous idiot.

If you are "pro-life", it is apparently ok to murder people; proving that thugs that spew anti-abortion rhetoric, like @CarlyFiorina, are illiterate, not only literally for obliterating the meaning of what it means to support human life, but scientifically, with no knowledge of human reproductive development, the social impacts of unwanted children, or the basic right of autonomy of women.


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Sam Harris’s Quantum Universe (or, How to Say One Thing While Meaning Another)

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/09/sam-harriss-quantum-universe-or-how-to-say-one-thing-while-meaning-another/


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Shared from Twitter: Very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet v. low-fat diet for long-term weight loss: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. - PubMed - NCBI



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Road Scholar National Parks Hub

http://np.roadscholaradventures.org/?so=PEY-D-NP-FB


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Sunday, December 06, 2015

Growl Class - A Workshop Demo for Reactive Dogs

https://www.udemy.com/dunbar-growl-class/?utm_term=Growl-Class-Lookalike-Ian-Dunbar-LAL-iOS&utm_medium=udemyads&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=Growl-Class-Growl+Class+-+A-1046920515348012-9ym9B2&utm_campaign=Growl-Class-Mobile&k_clickid=c3d9e39a-f304-49db-80f0-25d9281a43b9_75152792&couponCode=827355b4-bacf-43a2-83e7-c568774a81f7


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The dopamine switch between atheist, believer and fa...

https://aeon.co/essays/the-dopamine-switch-between-atheist-believer-and-fanatic

As 9/11 suggests, the neurological line between the saint and the savage, the creative and the unconscionable, turns out to be razor-thin. Just look at the bounty of evidence showing that families of extraordinarily creative individuals often include members with histories of insanity, sometimes even criminal insanity. Genes that produce brains capable of unusually creative associations or ideas are also more likely to produce (in the same individual or in members of his/her family) brains vulnerable to loose or bizarre associations.

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The dopamine switch between atheist, believer and fa...

https://aeon.co/essays/the-dopamine-switch-between-atheist-believer-and-fanatic


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How Hard Is New York’s Algebra Exam? - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/20/nyregion/algebra-quiz.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0


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Shared from Twitter: How Hard Is New York’s Algebra Exam? - The New York Times



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2015’s Best & Worst Cities for Wallet Wellness | WalletHub®

https://wallethub.com/edu/best-cities-for-wallet-wellness/2862/


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Saturday, December 05, 2015

'More Light, Less Heat.' New book debunks myths about gun violence and mental illness | EurekAlert! Science News

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/gumc-ll120215.php

In contrast, restricting firearm access even temporarily to people who are at high risk of fatally harming themselves or others, whether they have a mental illness or not, has been demonstrated to decrease both firearm suicide and homicide rates."

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'More Light, Less Heat.' New book debunks myths about gun violence and mental illness | EurekAlert! Science News

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/gumc-ll120215.php


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The Believer - Anarchy in the USA

http://www.believermag.com/issues/201511/?read=article_sherman

We're destroying the planet, we're killing people in the third world, we're sucking up all the resources of the earth…" The list goes on, yet somehow we manage to get up, go to work, and pretend like nothing's wrong. "That is a magic trick. And Ted Kaczynski couldn't pull it off. And anybody that can't pull off that trick can't live in this society."
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BBC - Future - The cyborg chess players that can’t be beaten

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151201-the-cyborg-chess-players-that-cant-be-beaten?ocid=global_future_rss


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End the Gun Epidemic in America - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/opinion/end-the-gun-epidemic-in-america.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0


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Thursday, December 03, 2015

In laptop reliability survey, one brand trumps all | ZDNet

In laptop reliability survey, one brand trumps all | ZDNet: "Apple, as in year's past, has the most reliable notebooks by far - a 10 percent breakdown rate in the first 3 years - with Samsung and Gateway distant seconds at 16 percent, and the rest of the industry - including Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba, HP, Dell and Asus, at 18-19 percent."



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Hip exercises

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/PDFs/Rehab_Hip_3.pdf





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'Daily News' provokes with cover on Calif. shooting: 'God isn't fixing this'

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

'Daily News' provokes with cover on Calif. shooting: 'God isn't fixing this'

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/02/ny-daily-news-provokes-cover-calif-shooting-god-isnt-fixing/76703060/


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Thursday, November 05, 2015

Best slate comments are science comments


What annoys me about this debate is that the people who hold this anti-GMO view also tend to be staunch environmentalists. So if you were to say, "What if we had a way of increasing farm productivity so we can use less land, reduce the water needs of crops so we can use less water, make crops disease and pestilence resistant so we can use less harmful pesticides, and increase the nutritional value of crops so we can feed the poor more cheaply." They would respond, "YES! What is this magical technology?!"
But when you ask them, "Are you in favor of the development of GMO's?" they would say, "No, I want to buy 'pure' food, not to enrich corporations!" The two thoughts are seemingly incompatible.

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