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Shared Decision Making and Improving Health Care: The Answer Is Not In: Achieving health care of higher quality at lower

Shared Decision Making and Improving Health Care: The Answer Is Not In: Achieving health care of higher quality at lower cost has fueled policy interest in shared decision making (SDM).1 In SDM, clinicians and patients work together to understand the patient’s situation and determine how best to address...
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Japan's 'golden coder' making games apps aged 82 - BBC News: Masako Wakamiya took up programming when she retired from her

Japan's 'golden coder' making games apps aged 82 - BBC News: Masako Wakamiya took up programming when she retired from her bank clerk job.
Source: bbc.co.uk

“Anger is a useful metric” and other evil tips for making money off hyper-partisan content: Plus: A quick way to make

“Anger is a useful metric” and other evil tips for making money off hyper-partisan content: Plus: A quick way to make money off other people's content, an invitation to fact-check U.K. local news, and BuzzBeed vs. BuzzFeed.
Source: niemanlab.org

How Airlines Use Facebook Bots.: It’s nothing new — Big companies such as Starbucks, CNN, Microsoft, Tommy Hilfiger,

How Airlines Use Facebook Bots.: It’s nothing new — Big companies such as Starbucks, CNN, Microsoft, Tommy Hilfiger, KIA, Pizza Hut and Co are making use of bots to support…
Source: chatbotsmagazine.com

Health inequality research offers UK wake-up call - BBC News: Research shows that health inequality is blighting children's

Health inequality research offers UK wake-up call - BBC News: Research shows that health inequality is blighting children's lives, but the gap between rich and poor is making it hard to remedy the problem.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Good read - The Path. A quick overview of 5 Chinese philosophies making them relevant to how we should think about how we

Good read - The Path. A quick overview of 5 Chinese philosophies making them relevant to how we should think about how we live today. I've not read much about them and assumed they were pretty much ancient and irrelevant, reduced to one-liner aphorisms, but Michael Puett has been teaching a popular...
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Making Waves in the Sky off of Africa : Image of the Day: The rise and fall of colliding air columns can make cloud patterns—gravity

Making Waves in the Sky off of Africa : Image of the Day: The rise and fall of colliding air columns can make cloud patterns—gravity waves—similar to a boat’s wake.
Source: nasa.gov

3D Printed Bone Replacements Made Using Natural Bone and Plastic |: At Johns Hopkins University researchers have created

3D Printed Bone Replacements Made Using Natural Bone and Plastic |: At Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a recipe for making material that can be used to 3D print new bones. Unlike most previous attempts at
Source: medgadget.com

No excuse for doctors who refuse to treat transgender people: Society is making strides but doctors are still far behind

No excuse for doctors who refuse to treat transgender people: Society is making strides but doctors are still far behind when it comes to giving trans people the treatment they ask for and the respect they deserve, says Jessica Hamzelou
Source: newscientist.com

Is evidence-based policymaking in crisis? « Healthcare Economist

Is evidence-based policymaking in crisis? « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Machines Just Got Better at Lip Reading: New speech recognition technology can distinguish sounds that look the same on

Machines Just Got Better at Lip Reading: New speech recognition technology can distinguish sounds that look the same on lips, making lip reading easier for machines
Source: ieee.org

"Startups are better at detecting and unlocking emerging and latent demand. But they often stumble at scaling their proof

"Startups are better at detecting and unlocking emerging and latent demand. But they often stumble at scaling their proof of concept, not only because they’re often doing it for the first time, but also because the skills necessary for creating are not the same as scaling." Eddie Yoon, Steve Hughes....
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Beyond investing: Making global health a reality for all | PLOS Biologue: A grand convergence in global health will require

Beyond investing: Making global health a reality for all | PLOS Biologue: A grand convergence in global health will require strategic investments in R&D and an aggressive scale-up of health-care delivery systems to ensure health tools reach those who need them most.
Source: plos.org

The state of gaming in 2016: Here’s what to expect | ExtremeTech: As the year comes to a close, our focus shifts to 2016.

The state of gaming in 2016: Here’s what to expect | ExtremeTech: As the year comes to a close, our focus shifts to 2016. The consoles have a solid install base new, long-awaited VR helmets are making their way into the hands of consumers, and we're finally seeing new games instead of just sequels....
Source: extremetech.com

Making healthy foods the default menu dupes people into eating better: In theme park experiment, Disney got guinea pig guests

Making healthy foods the default menu dupes people into eating better: In theme park experiment, Disney got guinea pig guests to swap fries for fruit.
Source: arstechnica.com

A fingerprint test for ivory has been developed to help identify poachers: Police officers may soon be able to identify

A fingerprint test for ivory has been developed to help identify poachers: Police officers may soon be able to identify wildlife poachers by retrieving fingerprints from smuggled ivory, new research has revealed. Around 50,000 African elephants are thought to be poached each year, but it had been thought...
Source: independent.co.uk

How mobile phones are making childbirth safer in Ethiopia: In Ethiopia where almost nine in every 10 women give birth at

How mobile phones are making childbirth safer in Ethiopia: In Ethiopia where almost nine in every 10 women give birth at home after pregnancies with little or no medical support, a mobile phone app is coming to the rescue with lifesaving guidelines when things go wrong.
Source: medicalxpress.com

Let's Encrypt Enters Private Beta: For years, EFF has been working to protect the Web from surveillance and censorship by

Let's Encrypt Enters Private Beta: For years, EFF has been working to protect the Web from surveillance and censorship by making encryption ubiquitous. Fixing problems with the Internet's certificate infrastructure has been at the top of that list.
Source: eff.org

These 5 paintings continue to amaze people even today! - e-Learning Feeds: For centuries now, paintings have been making

These 5 paintings continue to amaze people even today! - e-Learning Feeds: For centuries now, paintings have been making statements. They represent the most fundamental issues of a period through a form that is entertaining, intel
Source: elearningfeeds.com