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I mentioned in an addendum to my previous post on this word that the U.S. is in fact already a socialist country, it ' s just a matter of what we do and do not socialize.You don ' t have to take my word for it:“The roads hold such a special position in our brain that we use logic around them that we would never use around everything else,” [Prof. Michael] Manville said.Other countries have socialized health care, parental leave or housing, Jeffrey Tumlin, a transportation consultant at Nelson\Nygaard, pointed out. In America, we ’ve socialized driving — and housing for our cars.“We don’t let people put their se...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 5, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
From Human To Cyborg: Are You Willing To Augment Your Body?
What if you could have a heat-map vision to search
through an abandoned terrain? What if you could filter out unpleasant odors of
urban decay every now and then? Can you imagine hearing ultrasounds better than
bats? And what about lifting 20 tons or having a third, bionic arm? With the
rapid advancement of technologies, the future of healthcare might not just be
about being healthy, but even augmenting our bodies and “upgrading” ourselves.
Where would you draw the line between being a human and a cyborg?
Superhuman traits in sight: perceiving colors as sounds
The
wish for a perfect human body with enhanced capabi...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 30, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Biotechnology Cyborgization Health Sensors & Trackers artificial brain-computer interface digital tattoo exoskeleton future Healthcare implant Innovation Medicine Source Type: blogs
Multi-Parameter Sensors Detect Chemical and Physical Stimuli
Sensors are usually made to detect specific chemical or physical stimuli, making it difficult to create devices that can monitor a variety of different parameters at the same time. Now researchers at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed an unusual sensor, built out of conductive ink formed into origami arrays, that can detect both chemical and physical stimuli.
The device can measure the temperature, humidity, light, and the presence of volatile organic compounds. The technology is also impressive in that it can be used to tell apart isomers and chiral enantiomers of volatile organic compounds, chem...
Source: Medgadget - March 13, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Diagnostics Genetics News Source Type: blogs
Can Wheat Belly save you money?
Followers of the Wheat Belly lifestyle often ask: “If I need to buy higher quality food—organic, grass-fed, minimally processed—won’t my grocery budget explode? I can’t afford that on my limited food budget.”
We do indeed seek out higher quality foods on the Wheat Belly lifestyle, foods that recreate the high nutrient density of foods that our ancestors consumed as they hunted and foraged in the wild—higher folate, magnesium, phytonutrient, fat content. But, more than likely, you don’t have the time, inclination, or knowledge that would allow you to go out and kill or forage ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 10, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates cost gluten-free grain-free grains grocery bill money wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Itchy Eyes: Allergies are Crying Out for Attention
In many ways, the eyes are the windows of the body. When children have itchy eyes, it can disrupt their days – and nights. Itchy eyes often distract kids and decrease their ability to learn new material. If this weren’t bad enough, they can cause kids to sleep less well. For some kids, the difference in sleep can make them moody and hungry. Hangry is not what any parent, teacher or child wants.
Why Do Kids Get Itchy Eyes?
The human body is armed with an amazing immune system that includes an array of protection devices. The respiratory system tightens up when foreign particles are introduced. The nose secretes a flow o...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - March 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Allergies Hay fever Pollen Allergies Remedies Source Type: blogs
Itchy Eyes: Allergies are Crying Out for Attention
In many ways, the eyes are the windows of the body. When children have itchy eyes, it can disrupt their days – and nights. Itchy eyes often distract kids and decrease their ability to learn new material. If this weren’t bad enough, they can cause kids to sleep less well. For some kids, the difference in sleep can make them moody and hungry. Hangry is not what any parent, teacher or child wants.
Why Do Kids Get Itchy Eyes?
The human body is armed with an amazing immune system that includes an array of protection devices. The respiratory system tightens up when foreign particles are introduced. The nose secretes a fl...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - March 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Allergies Hay fever Pollen Allergies Remedies Source Type: blogs
Tiptoeing Around Facebook In Healthcare
Data privacy scandals, help in rigging elections, spreading fake news: Facebook has some tough months behind it and users are not happy with the social media giant’s performance. However, Mark Zuckerberg’s company does not only have a political and social impact, but it’s also quite relevant in healthcare. We looked around what Facebook currently does in healthcare and evaluated whether those are viable ways to follow in the future.
What have you done to the world, Zuck?
In November 2018, a Fortune poll suggested that Americans consider Facebook to be the least trustworthy of all the major technology companies...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 28, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Security & Privacy Social media in Healthcare AI facebook fake news future Innovation Mark Zuckerberg smart healthcare technology VR Source Type: blogs
The Language of Organic Chemistry
ConclusionAn array of powerful tools awaits problems that can be recast in terms of computational linguistics. But as the work highlighted here shows, finding the right interface and working at scale could prove tricky. Nevertheless, maximum common substructure has been established as a linguistic unit in organic chemistry, and as such could offer a roadmap for travellers wanting to make the journey. (Source: Depth-First)
Source: Depth-First - February 20, 2019 Category: Chemistry Authors: Richard L. Apodaca Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly: Ten Rules for Healthy Eating
A hundred thousand years ago, you’d have no doubt what and how to eat. You would wake up every morning, grab your spear, club or axe and go kill something, wander and gather berries, nuts, or dig in the dirt for roots and tubers, or set traps for fish and reptiles. If you succeeded in the hunt, you would consume every organ that included thyroid, thymus, pancreas, stomach, liver, as well as meat. You’d drink water from streams and rivers, allow skin surface to be exposed to sunlight. You would NOT shower with soap or shampoo, apply hand sanitizer, drink chlorinated water, consume foods laced with herbicides and...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 20, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly works . . . unless you make 1 of these 7 common mistakes!
Follow our discussions here and on the Wheat Belly Facebook page, and you will see that newbies make the same mistakes, over and over again. While all of these issues are discussed in the original Wheat Belly book, and even more extensively in Wheat Belly Total Health and Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox books, somehow they missed some crucial pieces of the message. So, to help you avoid such common mistakes that booby trap both health and your ability to lose weight, here is the list.
Don’t make these common mistakes:
Eat gluten-free foods–Gluten-free foods made with cornstarch, tapioca starch, potato flour, ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 17, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune gluten-free grain-free Inflammation Weight Loss wheat belly Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Is It Love or Infatuation?
Falling in love feels euphoric, transporting us into a world of vivid colors. Everything is new and exciting. At first glance, it’s not much different from the experience of infatuation. However, over time, a love relationship evolves into a deep intimacy that strengthens each partner, while infatuation erodes one’s self-esteem, triggers addiction, and fosters insecurity.
How do you know if what you have is love or infatuation? Here are a few ways you can begin to distinguish between the two.
Love breeds peace, infatuation breeds chaos.
Among her “30 Ways You Can Tell The Difference Between Love And Infatuation&#...
Source: World of Psychology - February 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: General Relationships Self-Esteem Self-Help Dating Infatuation Intimacy Love valentine's day Source Type: blogs
Distributed Chemistry
ConclusionLab automation is a good match for any problem that can be reduced to a parallelizable search through some well-understood space. For years, the majority of such efforts have centered on analytical chemistry and biochemistry. Although a network of ChemPU units optimizing azo dye colors is a far cry from a graduate student optimizing a palladium-coupling reaction, it's not that far off. The availability of platforms like ChemPU, built from cheap, off-the-shelf components, infinitely hackable, and under the control of potentially very sophisticated software, could help transform those areas of experimental chemistr...
Source: Depth-First - February 12, 2019 Category: Chemistry Authors: Richard L. Apodaca Source Type: blogs
New Biosensor Accurately Measures Glucose in Saliva
The iQ Group Global, an Australian consortium, has announced that it developed a biosensor capable of accurately measuring glucose in a person’s saliva. The technology, originally acquired from the University of Newcastle in Australia, uses modified organic thin film transistors, which work in combination with glucose oxidase, to measure the concentration of glucose in a sample.
The complete system consists of a Glucose Biosensor Unit, which does the measurements, and an accompanying smartphone app that talks to the biosensor and displays the readings once they’re taken.
Glucose in saliva is present in lower...
Source: Medgadget - February 5, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Chemception: Deep Learning from 2D Chemical Structure Images
ConclusionI doubt that the current accuracy of Chemception's predictions would be of practical use today. Rather, Chemception provides a platform from which such systems may eventually emerge. Recent history suggests that such an emergence may be closer than it seems.Chemception offers a glimpse into a future in which lightly processed chemical datasets can be fed directly into off-the-shelf data learning pipelines to yield highly accurate predictive models. In this future, an iteratively hand-crafted molecular representation is no longer necessary. Instead, the system adapts itself to a much more raw form of structural da...
Source: Depth-First - February 5, 2019 Category: Chemistry Authors: Richard L. Apodaca Source Type: blogs
Race, ethnicity and social history
People often talk past each other because they ascribe different meanings to the same word. Sometimes they don ' t realize they are doing this, sometimes they ought to know better. For example, I knew a guy who insisted that the concept of " organic food " was nonsensical because " organic " means carbon compounds, and all food consists of carbon compounds. He could not be made to see that the word was being used in a different sense. (You could also say that all food is organic because it comes from organisms. Same mistake.)Here in the U.S. we use " white people " as a shorthand term, but most people, most of the time, ar...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 1, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
