Technology
- Well Latte Duh, Latte Duh.
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For most of humanity's existence, our kind have worried about getting enough to eat. So we may see it as a good sign that now some of our species are worried about not getting organic milk in their lattes and frappes. "Where oh where shall I ever ...
Blog Post - Norm Benson - Oct 12 2014 - 12:30am
- 3-D Printer Creates Emergency Trachea Implant, Saves Baby's Life
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By Marsha Lewis, Inside Science (Inside Science TV) – You've seen toys and prosthetics made on a 3-D printer but now, scientists are using 3-D printers to build implants that help babies breathe. Natalie Peterson, a parent of a child who was having ...
Article - Inside Science - Oct 13 2014 - 10:20am
- Do We Want An Augmented Reality Or A Transformed Reality?
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We are only beginning to see what augmented reality can do. Credit: Flickr/ Karlis Dambra, CC BY By Nick Kelly, University of Southern Queensland ...
Article - The Conversation - Oct 13 2014 - 3:08pm
- Follow Your Oven On Twitter: A Common Interface For The Social Web Of Things?
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A paper in the International Journal of Web-Based Communities suggests that the familiar interfaces of online social networking sites might be adapted to allow us to interact more efficiently with our networked devices such as cars, domestic appliances an ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2014 - 3:14pm
- ACA Lessons Learned: Cost Of Enrollment High Due To Website Issues
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Though lots of people used the expensive government health insurance portal healthcare.gov to get information on the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, far fewer could successfully use it to sign up. As the stories of its flaws mounted, larger pe ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2014 - 9:55am
- Group Sequencing Means High-Speed Evolution In The Lab
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DNA analysis has become increasingly cost-effective since the human genome was first fully sequenced in the year 2001. Sequencing a complete genome, however, still costs around $1,000 each so sequencing the genetic code of 100s of individuals would be exp ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2014 - 10:17am
- New.Health Internet Domains Could Risk Public Health
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Image credit: Ph0neutria via shutterstock By: Benjamin Plackett, Inside Science (Inside Science) — Until last year, website designers had a choice of just 22 Internet domains to use as suffixes at the end of URLs, excluding country-specific ones. The fam ...
Article - Inside Science - Oct 17 2014 - 5:35pm
- KAMRA Inlay: Reading Glasses May Soon Be A Thing Of The Past
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Reading glasses have served us for centuries. Why fix a good thing? Because science and technology can. Presbyopia, blurriness in near vision experienced by many people over the age of 40, could one day be relegated to olden days if a thin ring inserted ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 18 2014 - 11:07am
- Digital Death And The Digital Afterlife: How To Have It And How To Avoid It
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Image: the conversation By David Glance, University of Western Australia In 2012, the UK’s Sunday Times reported that actor Bruce Willis was going to sue Apple because he was not legally allowed to bequeath his iTunes collection of music to his children. ...
Article - The Conversation - Oct 19 2014 - 11:30am
- Psychiatry Should Switch From Symptom-based Prescriptions To Target-based
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Psychology and psychiatry have a big problem- they are trapped in the past. While most areas of medicine have moved beyond symptom-based diagnosis, the mental health community is instead adding new symptom-based diagnoses, and as a result the National Ins ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2014 - 6:32am