iPad apps programming course at CMU
*Free videos for new iPad apps programming course at CMU now available* April 17, 2012 [image: developingipad_149x175] Carnegie Mellon University has announced that anyone can access video lectures on Developing iPad Applications for Visualization & Insight for free as HD videos at Carnegie Mellon University on iTunes U, taught by Niki Kittur, assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Students at Carnegie Mellon University this semester have been learning the fundamentals of programming for the … more…/.../
CURSERA Stanford U.
[image: logo for course wh1300] About Coursera We offer high quality courses from the top universities, for free to everyone. We currently host courses from Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and University of Pennsylvania. We are changing the face of education globally, and we invite you to join us./.../
Happy Birthday, Hubble!
*Happy Birthday, Hubble! A Stunning New Picture for a Special Day* By MICHAEL D. LEMONICK Friday, Apr. 20, 2012 An image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows young stars in the heart of the Tarantula nebula, named so by early astronomers because its glowing filaments resemble spider legs NASA gone into space with its light-gathering mirror polished to perfection, which was very good, but the mirror was also the wrong shape — which was very bad. It wasn't until 1993 that the shuttle Endeavour went aloft with a set of corrective optics — essentially space telescope glasses — th... mais »
Health Inequities
A New Resource in the Fight Against Health Inequities! The National Association of County and City Health Officials launched Roots of Health Inequity, the first comprehensive web-based curriculum about the root causes of health inequity. Go to rootsofhealthinequity.org for a free course and learning collaborative about concepts and strategies for taking action on health inequities. What to Expect [image: rootsofhealthinequity.org Homepage] Based on a social justice framework,Roots of Health Inequity includesfive course units featuring interactive presentations and case studies, rea... mais »
Love and other addictions...
*There's rehab for drug and other addictions, so why not for Mr Big?* [image: Do you suffer from Mr (or Ms) Big syndrome a la Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw?] I remember a time when Mr Big represented a ballad by a big haired bloke who wanted to be with an equally big-haired, double-denim clad lover. Anthropologist and relationship scientist Helen Fisher who conducted a study last year, titled *Reward, Addiction and Emotion Regulation Systems Associated With Rejection In Love*, drew the hypothesis that romantic love is like an addiction. *"My guess is that our modern add... mais »
The Web: Vague, But Exciting
The First Analysis Of The Web: Vague, But Excitingfrom the *true,-that* dept It's pretty common knowledge that Tim Berners-Lee is credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web, which we all know and love today. However, if you haven't ever done so, it's actually quite fun to read through his original proposal for the web, as a new way for managing information. Here's a snippet: *In providing a system for manipulating this sort of information, the hope would be to allow a pool of information to develop which could grow and evolve with the organisation and the projects it describes. ... mais »
From 100 to eternity
*From 100 to Eternity* Joel Stein's absolutely bulletproof list of the TIME 100 of All Time
World Influence 200 years
*200 Moments That Changed the World* Over the past two centuries, history has been changed by a series of interconnected events
Time 100 Most Influential People
- Select a SectionTIME 100: The ListRoguesJoel Stein EssayEditor's Letter - Story - TIME 100: The List Dilma Rousseff President - BACK - NEXT By CRISTINA FERNÁNDEZ DE KIRCHNER Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2012 LUKE WILSON FOR TIME I once saw a photograph of Dilma Rousseff at age 22. She was standing in front of a 1969 military tribunal made up of judges hiding their faces with their hands. She exuded defiance. The roles appeared to be reversed: it was Dilma who was indicting not only the military but an Establishment complicit in the injustice of excluding the m... mais »
Web freedom
Web freedom facing greatest threat: Google founder LONDON | Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:09pm EDT (Reuters) - The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the Internet's creation are facing their greatest-ever threat, the co-founder of Google Sergey Brin said in an interview published by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Monday. Brin said the threat to freedom of the Internet came from a combination of factors, including increasing efforts by governments to control access and communication by their citizens. Brin said attempts by the entertainment industry to crack down on pir... mais »
Matter and Anti-Matter
*The device is made of an indium antemonide nanowire, covered with a gold contact and partially covered with a superconducting niobium contact. The Majorana fermions are created at the end of the nanowire. (Credit: Copyright TU Delft 2012)* On the Border Between Matter and Anti-Matter: Nanoscientists Find Long-Sought Majorana ScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2012) — Scientists at TU Delft's Kavli Institute and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM Foundation) have succeeded for the first time in detecting a Majorana particle. In the 1930s, the brilliant Italian physicist E... mais »
Music & Mental Health & Alzheimer
Man in Nursing Home 'Awakens' When Listening to Music From His Past By AYLIN ZAFAR | @azafar | April 11, 2012 | To watch Henry—an elderly man who has spent over ten years in a nursing home, barely able to answer yes or no questions—come alive when listening to music from his past is a reminder of the powerful, inspiring, and affecting power of music. A new documentary, *Alive Inside*, follows the “awakening” that occurs when people suffering from memory loss and Alzheimer’s are given music they have a strong emotional connection to — often, music they grew up with. In the clip, Henr... mais »
Creativity
inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity The following is an excerpt from the book. - SHARE - PRINT - ORDER REPRINTS - COMMENT - RELATED STORIES By Tina Seelig *inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity* *Tina Seelig* 216 pages, HarperOne, 2012 Buy the book » Provocative. Just one word . . . provocative. Until recently, prospective students at All Soul’s College, at Oxford University, took a “one-word exam.” The Essay, as it was called, was both anticipated and feared by applicants. They each flipped over a piece of paper at the same time to reveal a single word. The word... mais »
Ottawa Charter
1. *Ottawa Charter* for Health Promotion www.who.int/hpr/NPH/.../*ottawa*_*charter*_hp.pdf - Traduzir esta página Formato do arquivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Visualização rápida *Ottawa Charter* for Health Promotion. First International Conference on Health Promotion. Ottawa, 21 November 1986 - WHO/HPR/HEP/95.1. The first *...* 2.
Higher HbA1c levels & mortality
Higher HbA1c levels predict better outcomes in advanced heart failure with diabetes *by Marlene Busko*APRIL 12, 2012 Marlene Busko *Los Angeles, CA* - Patients with advanced heart failure who were also diabetic had better two-year survival if their baseline glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels were *>*7.3% in a new study [1]. Among the nondiabetic patients with heart failure, HbA1C levels did not predict survival outcomes. The retrospective cohort study is published online March 27, 2012 in the *American Journal of Cardiology*. "We're finding that in heart failure [plus diabetes], high... mais »
Earthquakes
Does Fracking Cause Earthquakes? —By Alyssa Battistoni | Mon Apr. 16, 2012 3:00 AM PDT [image: seismograph]domesticat/Flickr There are plenty of reasons to worry about fracking—groundwater contamination,methane leaks, that flaming tapwater thing. But can it really cause earthquakes? That's the question the US Geological Survey set out to answer after a spate of tremors in the Midwest—an area not usually known for earthquakes—alerted scientists to the possibility that some of them might be manmade./.../
OCD
Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ScienceDaily (Apr. 10, 2012) — Did I remember to lock the back door? Did I turn off the stove? Were the lights still on when I left the house this morning? Such minor doubts are part our daily mental chatter. But for the over 650,000 Canadians who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), thoughts along these lines can lead to compulsive checking -- a potentially debilitating behaviour that keeps the sufferer locked in an endless cycle of fear and doubt. For Concordia University's Adam Radomsky, a professor in the Department of Psychol... mais »
Brain Research
Crowd-Sourcing Expands Power of Brain ResearchBy BENEDICT CAREYPublished: April 15, 2012 In the largest collaborative study of the brain to date, scientists using imaging technology at more than 100 centers worldwide have for the first time zeroed in on genes that they agree play a role in intelligence and memory. Scientists working to understand the biology of brain function — and especially those using brain imaging, a blunt tool — have been badly stalled. But the new work, involving more than 200 scientists, lays out a strategy for breaking the logjam. The findings appear in a se... mais »
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