artificial intelligence
Building the greatest artificial intelligence lab on Earthby vaughanbell *The Guardian* has an article on technologist Ray Kurzeil's move to Google that also serves to review how the search company are building an artificial intelligence super lab. Google has gone on an unprecedented shopping spree and is in the throes of assembling what looks like the greatest artificial intelligence laboratory on Earth; a laboratory designed to feast upon a resource of a kind that the world has never seen before: truly massive data. Our data. From the minutiae of our lives. Google has bought almost... mais »
« Snow-fuelled neurophilosophy The Society of Mutual Autopsy The Society of Mutual Autopsy was an organisation formed in the late 1800s to advance neuroscience by examining dead members’ brains and to promote atheism by breaking sacred taboos. It included some of the great French intellectuals and radicals of the time and became remarkably fashionable – publishing the results in journals and showing plaster-casts of deceased members brains in world fairs. In October 1876, twenty Parisian men joined together as the Society of Mutual Autopsy and pledged to dissect one another’s brains ... mais »
Estatísticas mundiais
*Recomendação de minha amiga e conterrânea * *Albertina Helena Pires da Rocha* [image: Imagem inline 1]*http://www.ibge.gov.br/paisesat/main.php* *Esta é uma ferramenta fantástica : você pode obter centenas de dados sobre a economia , demografia , condições sociais , os padrões de vida , etc .. de todos os países da Terra. *
José Antônio Brenner
Feira do Livro – Homenageados são escolhidos *Brenner vem a ser nosso primo de 5a geração. Nos encontramos no imigrante Johann Friederich Böbion, professor que emigrou com duas filhas: uma delas casada com Schirmer em cuja descendência ele se acha e outra que casou com Adami de onde saímos nos.* *Notícia do Jornal A Razão de hoje:* [image: Foto Juliano Mendes/ A Razão] Foto Juliano Mendes/ A Razão A comissão organizadora da Feira do Livro de Santa Maria divulgou hoje o patrono e homenageados da edição de 2014. O patrono é o pesquisador da história do município, *José Antonio Brenner (f... mais »
Prions and Memory
Prions Are Key to Preserving Long-Term Memories The famed protein chain reaction that made mad cow disease a terror may be involved in helping to ensure that our recollections don't fade Feb 18, 2014 |By Beth Skwarecki [image: permanent memory] A protein called Tob (*green*) binds and allows another protein, monomeric Orb2A (*red*) to persist intact in a neuron and thereby enable a chain reaction to maintain a permanent memory. *Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, Sayo-Art* Prions, the protein family notorious for causing "mad cow" and neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's, can play a... mais »
Why doctors commit suicide
Why doctors commit suicide PAMELA WIBLE, MD | CONDITIONS | FEBRUARY 18, 2014 [image: Why doctors commit suicide] I’ve been a doctor for twenty years. I’ve not lost a single patient to suicide. I’ve lost only colleagues, friends, lovers — all male physicians — to suicide. Why?/.../
shortage of primary care physicians
Why is there a shortage of primary care physicians? STEPHEN C. SCHIMPFF, MD | POLICY | FEBRUARY 17, 2014 *Next in a series.* Primary care physicians (PCPs) are becoming extinct. It’s true. Not many medical students choose primary care as their career path. Older PCPs are retiring early. Many others are closing their practices or seeking employment at the local hospital. And there has always been a shortage of primary care physicians in rural and urban poor areas. Today only 30% of all physicians practice primary care (compared to about 70% in most other developed countries and about ... mais »
dor
Finding that brain uses serotonin to perpetuate chronic pain signals in local nerves may aid development of less addictive medications Sunday 26 January 2014 - 12am PST ------------------------------ email ------------------------------ Setting the stage for possible advances in pain treatment, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland report they have pinpointed two molecules involved in perpetuating chronic pain in mice. The molecules, they say, also appear to have a role in the phenomenon that causes uninjured areas of the body to be more sensitiv... mais »
ICD-10
Practice Management ICD-10 Follies: The Birds Published: Feb 19, 2014 By David Pittman, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today save | A A It is 224 days before the move to ICD-10 becomes a must-do. Lest the deadline slip your mind,*MedPage Today* is spotlighting some of those thousands of new codes that might just be getting a bit too granular. Today's code: W61.92: Struck by other birds (There are also separate billing codes for being struck by parrots, macaws, psittacines, chickens, geese, and ducks. W61.92 is for all other types of birds. Here is a re-enactment for your viewing ple... mais »
Violence
Syria’s war must endBy Stephen Hawking, Published: February 14 Stephen Hawking is the author of “A Brief History of Time” and a former professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the universe had existed forever. The reason humanity was not more developed, he believed, was that floods or other natural disasters repeatedly set civilization back to the beginning. Today, humans are developing ever faster. Our knowledge is growing exponentially and with it, our technology. But humans still have the instincts, and in particular th... mais »
Fibromuscular Dysplasia
*Fibromuscular Dysplasia: State of the Science and Critical Unanswered Questions* : State of the Science and Critical Unanswered Questions A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Jeffrey W. Olin, DO, FAHA, Co-Chair;
Museu da História da Medicina
*Projetos MUHM: ajude a construir esta história* Os projetos do Museu de História da Medicina do Rio Grande do Sul já aprovados pelo Ministério da Cultura envolvem a produção de um livro sobre o acervo do Museu; uma exposição itinerante - "Mulheres e Práticas de Saúde: Medicina e fé no universo feminino" - que passará por 30 cidades; uma série de entrevistas com médicos para o projeto de história oral do MUHM; e o Natal na Praça Dom Sebastião - evento voltado para os pequenos pacientes do Hospita...
Addictive Games
Disruptions: Using Addictive Games to Build Better BrainsBy NICK BILTON [image: For weeks, Flappy Bird nested atop the most downloaded app charts for Apple and Android mobile devices before it was suddenly pulled by its creator.] Casinos mastered the art of the game long ago. We know the odds are against us, but we play anyway. In Las Vegas and elsewhere, the slot machines beckon with their bright lights and the promise of hitting that elusive jackpot. The temperature is kept cool. There are no clocks to remind us that it’s getting late. Drinks are free. ................................. mais »
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