You Ought to Have a Look: Close-hold Embargos, Scientific Outsiders, and Activists Behaving Badly
You Ought to Have a Look is a regular feature from the Center for the Study of Science. While this section will feature all of the areas of interest that we are emphasizing, the prominence of the climate issue is driving a tremendous amount of web traffic. Here we post a few of the best in recent days, along with our color commentary. —With last week ’s news dominated by the debates—both in front of the American people (Trump v. Clinton) and in front of the American courts (West Virginia v. EPA) —we figured we’d highlight a couple of other stories that may have not have gotten the attention that they deserv...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 4, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger Source Type: blogs
The 5 Best Podcasts On Optimism
You're reading The 5 Best Podcasts On Optimism, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Favorable outcomes support the optimistic, could there be truer words?
Yes, actually, there probably are truer words. Truth is, optimism is not about things always working out the way you’d like them to. It is about discovering that you can find happiness again, just by focusing on understanding it. Optimism is often thought to be an innate quality, however, most of us have to work at it.
As human beings we are complex, o...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Larissa Gomes Tags: blogging featured happiness self improvement best self-improvement blogs how to be more optimistic pickthebrain positivity Source Type: blogs
MED-EL SYNCHRONY EAS Electric and Acoustic Hearing System for Partial Deafness FDA Cleared
MED-EL, an Austrian firm, received FDA clearance for its SYNCHRONY EAS (Electric Acoustic Stimulation) Hearing Implant System. The product is the first hearing aid system that simultaneously works as both a cochlear implant and a more traditional audio amplifier. A central processor with a microphone splits the signal into high and low frequencies. The high frequencies are passed to an implant from which an electric lead is used to stimulate the cochlea, particularly the region responsible for high frequency sounds. The low frequencies are boosted by the conventional device since sensitivity for deeper sounds is ...
Source: Medgadget - September 26, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: ENT Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 26th 2016
This study included 647 patients 80 to 106 years of age who had audiometric evaluations at an academic medical center (141 had multiple audiograms). The degree of hearing loss was compared across the following age brackets: 80 to 84 years, 85 to 89 years, 90 to 94 years, and 95 years and older. From an individual perspective, the rate of hearing decrease between 2 audiograms was compared with age. The researchers found that changes in hearing among age brackets were higher during the 10th decade of life than the 9th decade at all frequencies for all the patients (average age, 90 years). Correspondingly, the annual rate of ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 25, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
FDA Violated Ethics Rules to Censor Dissenting Opinions about Its E-Cigarette Regulations
According to a shockingexposé in the October 16th issue ofScientific American written by Charles Seife, the FDA censored dissenting opinions about its e-cigarette regulations by prohibiting journalists covering the release of these regulations from speaking with anyone who might oppose them.The FDA ' s e-cigarette regulations were initially released on April 24, 2014. On April 23, the FDA ' s Center for Tobacco Products held a press briefing for a select group of reporters to provide information so that they could publish news stories about the regulations at the expiration of the embargo, which was set for April 24th. It...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 23, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
