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What AI Gets Right In Medicine Is Giving Patients Time To Talk
In a new Lancet paper, 98 real urgent care patients corresponded with a Google DeepMind (Gemini et al.) medical LLM before their appointment with a physician. Though as a society we stopped doing Symp...
Earth Sciences
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Leaf Them On The Ground: Benefit More By Doing Less Yardwork
Every autumn, homeowners and gardeners tend to engage in a familiar ritual. As trees shed their leaves, people drag out rakes, leaf blowers and lawn bags to strip their yards bare before winter arrive...
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194 Year Old Tortoise DNA Shows Lifestyle Diseases Accelerate Aging
Genetic analysis of a Aldabrachelys gigantea tortoise named Jonathan reveals that if you take care of your DNA, it will take care of you. Jonathan, age 194, maintains good DNA repair and good ins...
Medicine
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Wellness Grifters Switched To Republican With Kennedy, But The Sketch Remains The Same
Just a few short years ago, if you believed that weedkillers cause cancer, vaccines cause autism, and supplements were medicine, your political leaning was so predictable you draw a county-size circle...
Physical Sciences
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More on Radiacode 110
This is the second post reporting a few tests of the Radiacode 110 spectrometer, an extra-cool pocket dosimeter/radiation counter/spectrograph sold by RadiaCode.I have had the chance today to test the...
Social Sciences
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When Natives Are Smarter Than Ecologists About Energy
There's an asymmetrical dilemma among native populations, say ecologists. They should be opposed to oil extraction, because they are told to be, but many are not.Instead, they welcome progress even as...
