Are patients swimming in a sea of health information? Or are they drowning in it?
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Young Brains Can Be Trained To Behave
Young boys take turns listening and speaking without interrupting each other.
AFTER inflicting months of sleep deprivation on their parents, young children often switch course and begin what could be called a thought-deprivation campaign.
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The Opposite of War is Not Peace
Thomas Frey: In 1976, President Gerald Ford issued an executive order forbidding the assassination of any foreign head of state. This order was issued when word leaked out that the
This is a topic that I’ve often struggled with because today’s solution to global conflict is often measured in the destruction of the many as opposed to the destruction of the few. Not that I was in favor of assassinating Castro, but placing boundaries on the fighting of a war nearly always insures a larger, longer military engagement than simply removing a few problem people at the top.
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Smoother Steering When Driver’s Fix Gaze On Specific Targets
This video frame shows the blue target bar positioned on the tangent point — the point at which the edge line on a road seems to begin changing direction — as the road curves to the left.
A study recently published in ARVO’s online Journal of Vision may inform the next generation of in-car driving assistance systems. New research finds that when drivers fix their gaze on specific targets placed strategically along a curve, their steering is smoother and more stable than it is in normal conditions.
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RC Helicopters With Intelligent System
Experts from Stanford University created an intelligent system which was installed on some RC helicopters. A mixture of these two devices now allows them to fly alone… with out human help. The software is capable of learning. Data comes from a few sources such as other RC helicopters that it is surrounded by and also it grabs data from the ground too.
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Nissan Working on Cars That Help Prevent Accidents
An error in judgment, simply not paying attention, an act of good ol’ stupidity – next thing you know you’re in an accident. That is, you would have been, if your car didn’t take control of the wheel.
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Shopping Robot
Looks like telepresence really will be all the rage in the future. The TMSUK-4 created by Japanese robotics developer Tmsuk will let shoppers enjoy the full tactile experience of browsing shelves without having to step into the store.
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Ray Gun Remote
You might already have a mountain of remotes sitting on your coffee table, but are any of them modeled after a classic 1950’s science fiction ray gun? I didn’t think so. While the Channel Changer Ray Gun can only be used to advance one channel at a time everytime you pull the trigger, it apparently also makes a cool sound effect each time.
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Wealthy Women Control Household Purse Strings
For women, shopping should be an Olympic sport
Wealthy women were responsible for 64% of family buying decisions, according to a recent Luxury Institute survey of women in US households with $150,000 or more in annual income.
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US Air Force Wants “Full Control” Of “Any And All” Computers
“The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it “access” to — and “full control” of — any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their “adversaries’ information infrastructure completely undetected.”
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Revisiting The Universal Remote
But Can It Do The Dishes?
What if you could control everything in your home with a little handheld gadget? That’s what this universal remote by David Chacon got us thinking about, with its roomy screen – a nerve center right in your pocket.
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Controlling the Weather
NCAR’s Roelof Bruintjes (left) with Abdulla Al Mangoosh, director of UAE’s Department of Water Resources Studies.
Roelof Bruintjes dismisses the old saw that everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
The Boulder scientist has made it rain in Australia, Turkey, the Middle East, Africa and Wyoming.
Even the Chinese asked Bruintjes — one of the world’s leading experts on weather modification — whether he could advise them on how to make it not rain for the Beijing Olympics.
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