Lighting Up Lingshed: A Remote Village in the Himalayas Gets Lights and Internet Access
Source: ieee.org
The future of advertising is ‘fewer, better ads’: "By giving away stuff for free for so long, we’ve created an ad economy that is bigger than it should be," Deep Focus CEO Ian Schafer says.
Source: recode.net
Paramedics spend 500,000 hours outside busy A&Es, say auditors: Ambulance trusts breaching call response targets and struggling to recruit and retain staff, National Audit Office finds
Source: theguardian.com
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
Deep learning network as good as medics at identifying skin cancers. "While there are still many visual tasks where humans perform better than computers, computers are catching up. Part of the reason for computers' progress has been the development of what are called "deep neural networks," which chain...
Source: arstechnica.com
China, already dominant in supercomputers, shoots for an exascale prototype in 2017 - ExtremeTech: China is working on a prototype exascale (1,000-petaflop) system that it aims to complete by the end of this year, according to state media.
Source: extremetech.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
Brexit and Trump explained and how (liberal) globalists have probably got it wrong. "When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism: And how moral psychology can help explain and reduce tensions between the two. ... ... globalists often support high levels of immigration and reductions in
national sovereignty;...
Source: the-american-interest.com
Association of Body Mass Index with DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Blood Cells and Relations to Cardiometabolic Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Approach Michael M. Mendelson. Riccardo E. Marioni. Roby Joehanes. Chunyu Liu. Åsa K. Hedman. Stella Aslibekyan. Ellen W. Demerath. Weihua Guan....
Source: plos.org
Calorie restriction diet extends life of monkeys by years: Macaques on permanent diets live significantly longer – the equivalent of nine years in people. But is the detailed meal planning and loss of libido worth it?
Source: newscientist.com
Feds Call Tesla's AutoPilot Safe: Not only does NHTSA exonerate AutoPilot for the May 2016 fatality, it credits the system for reducing crashes by 40 percent overall
Source: ieee.org
Axios goes live, with a Trump interview (in 19 bullet points and a bunch of little posts)
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
RIP Lily Robotics: The Flying Camera Drone Was a Great Idea That Others Will Get Off the Ground
Source: ieee.org
MIT researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known | KurzweilAI
Source: kurzweilai.net
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
Trump team denies new vaccination commission after Kennedy claims post: The president-elect may create autism commission, Trump spokeswoman said, which is at odds with vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy’s announcement
Source: theguardian.com
What can this Peru slum teach the world about stopping the spread of TB?: Peru, one of the hotspots for tuberculosis, has some of the highest global recovery rates thanks to a community-based method for fighting the disease
Source: theguardian.com
Firearm Deaths in the United States and Globally, 1990-2015: This Visualizing Health Metrics infographic, based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015, provides information on mortality resulting from assault by firearms in the United States and globally from 1990 to 2015. The burden of firearms—excluding...
Source: jamanetwork.com