Scurvy cases reported in Australia reveal modern diet failings: Diabetic patients found to have symptoms of scurvy in Sydney reported they ate few vegetables, or overcooked them, destroying vitamin C
Source: theguardian.com
In a final betrayal of the Cadbury brand, Kraft has quietly abandoned its promise to stick with Fairtrade: When John Cadbury founded his legendary confectionary firm in 1824, he was selling just three products: tea, coffee and – perhaps more predictably – drinking chocolate. With the help of his...
Source: independent.co.uk
Opec may have done the world a good turn for once: It is not often that the interests of an industry cartel and the global environment are aligned, but the Opec agreement to limit oil production may prove to be just one. The agreement, for the first cut in eight years, had an immediate impact on the...
Source: independent.co.uk
APOD: 2016 November 28 - Arp 240: A Bridge between Spiral Galaxies from Hubble
Source: nasa.gov
Reuters built its own algorithmic prediction tool to help it spot (and verify) breaking news on Twitter: "The world has a lot more witnesses now, and we can't be at everything. Our tool helps shift some of the burden of witnessing and lets journalists do much more of the high value-added work."
Source: niemanlab.org
What Edtech Can Learn from Theranos (EdSurge News): In 2014, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes graced the covers of Forbes, Fortune and Inc. magazines. The next year, Holmes was named one of Time's Most Influential People and the Stanford drop-out had raised more than $600M in private capital. When I...
Source: edsurge.com
This Smart Watch Will Charge Itself Using Heat From Your Skin: Matrix Industries comes out of stealth today to say that wearables can—and should—power themselves
Source: ieee.org
Tobacco firms lose plain packaging appeal - BBC News: Three tobacco companies lose their appeal against the government's plain cigarette packaging rules.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Machine Learning Detects Diabetic Retinopathy with High Accuracy: By Joe Elia
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM
A computer algorithm, based on "deep machine learning," evaluated retinal fundus photographs for … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org
EU energy use to fall by 30% under new efficiency plans for 2030 - BBC News: New proposals from the European Commission see binding targets for energy efficiency as key method of curbing carbon.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Meta-Analysis Supports Lower Prediabetes Cutoff: By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and André Sofair, MD, MPH
Adults with fasting glucose concentrations as low as 100 mg/dL or hemoglobin A1c levels of 5.7% could face increased risk for cardiovascular events, a BMJ meta-analysis...
Source: jwatch.org
Environmental-impact tax on food? People healthier, planet benefits: Healthier, less environmentally damaging foods could be made more affordable.
Source: arstechnica.com
Battery breakthrough charges in seconds, lasts for a week | KurzweilAI
Source: kurzweilai.net
Here’s another startup trying to make it easier for publishers to engage with readers: Antenna allows readers to react to stories with pre-set emotions, and the company is expanding into e-commerce.
Source: niemanlab.org
Australian woman gets pregnant twice in 10 days - BBC News: An Australian woman gives birth to twins conceived 10 days apart after having hormone treatment.
Source: bbc.co.uk
3D Printed Model Brains Being Studied for Neuro Surgeries |: Stratasys, a manufacturing technology company based in Valencia, California, is touting the use of 3D printed brains it helped to create as a tool for plan
Source: medgadget.com
Homeopathic Syrup for the Treatment of Pediatric Colds: Randomized Controlled Nonsense is Still Nonsense. "Jacobs and Taylor describe the results of this study as “provocative.” I disagree. After admitting their complete failure to find any benefit in the primary outcome being measured, or in any...
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org
Python is the Growing Platform for Applied Machine Learning - Machine Learning Mastery: You should pick the right tool for the job. The specific predictive modeling problem that you are working on should dictate the specific programming language, libraries and even machine learning algorithms to use....
Source: machinelearningmastery.com
Patients and staff shut out of NHS transformation plans, says thinktank: King’s Fund says local health leaders have been told not to reveal plans until they are finalised and have been approved
Source: theguardian.com
Learning Objects Debuts Competency-Based Education Platform -- Campus Technology: The new Competency-Based Learning Platform from Learning Objects supports flipped, fully online, blended and face-to-face instruction.
Source: campustechnology.com