Medical Reversals

Medical Reversals

We have clarified the definition for medical reversal in the Introduction.w

We have added to the Introduction that our broad method may permit others to prioritize which efforts of de-implementation. 13) Table 2 (and also the supplementary file 2 with all reversals) would be improved if they clearly stated the authors’ classification of the medical discipline and intervention type. We have added a column to the Table 2 of the primary medical discipline for each medical practice reversal.

Source: elifesciences.org

The new Dropbox

The new Dropbox

Building on our history of helping organize your content, the new Dropbox brings cloud content together with traditional files so you can keep it all in one place. The new Dropbox and Slack integration helps bridge the gap between content and communication, letting you collaborate seamlessly on shared content. All Dropbox users can opt in to the new desktop app through our early access program, and we’re rolling out the other features over the next few weeks.

Source: blog.dropbox.com

De-Googling My Life

De-Googling My Life

Recently I’ve spent some time changing my habits and changing the online services that I use so that I am less dependent on Google to participate in the internet. Since Google’s business model is inextricably connected to modern advertising (A.K.A. surveillance marketing I felt it was time to start distancing myself from its products and services. Besides search, my largest attachment to Google I have is through email – and I have been using Gmail for a very long time.

Source: nrempel.com

A Medieval Grape Is Still Used to Make Wine

A Medieval Grape Is Still Used to Make Wine

When geneticists crushed up the grape seed, extracted its DNA, and compared it with modern grapes, they found a perfect genetic match in Savagnin Blanc—a grape still grown, still picked, and still made into wine in Europe today. Nathan Wales, an ancient-DNA researcher at the University of York, and his collaborators came across the 900-year-old Savagnin Blanc among 28 grape seeds excavated from nine different archaeological sites around France. One group of these Roman-era grape seeds were genetically similar, but not identical, to a modern variety called Mondeuse Blanche.

Source: www.theatlantic.com

Green threads explained in 200 lines of Rust

Green threads explained in 200 lines of Rust

In this article I want to explore how they work by implementing a very simple example where we create our own green threads in 200 lines of Rust code. This is not the best way of displaying Rusts greatest strengths, its safety guarantees, but it does show an interesting use of Rust and the code is mostly pretty clean and easy to follow. Quentin Carbonneaux wrote an nice article back in 2013 which I used as inspiration for the main code example.

Source: cfsamson.gitbook.io

No charges for personal drug possession: Seattle’s gamble to bring ‘peace’

No charges for personal drug possession: Seattle’s gamble to bring ‘peace’

Seattle police officer Felix Reyes, left, and Washington Department of Corrections Officer Zachary Vaders speak to a man suspected of drug paraphernalia possession last month. Late last year, prosecutors in King County, which encompasses Seattle, and neighboring Snohomish County became the first in the nation to stop charging people for possessing small amounts of drugs — heroin, meth and crack included — in virtually all cases. ‘Seattle Is Dying’
Todd Wiebke patrolled the Seattle streets many drug users call home before quitting the city police department last year in frustration.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

We Have Four Years to Save Ourselves from Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says

We Have Four Years to Save Ourselves from Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says

Carbon pollution is rapidly forcing the climate back to a state last seen in the Eocene Epoch, when there was no ice on the poles, warned James Anderson, the Harvard scientist known for linking CFCs to erosion of the Ozone Layer. Shutterstock

The level of carbon now in the atmosphere hasn’t been seen in 12 million years, a Harvard scientist said in Chicago Thursday, and this pollution is rapidly pushing the climate back to its state in the Eocene Epoch, more than 33 million years ago, when there was no ice on either pole. The moral issue

Harvard Professor James Anderson, best known for his work linking chlorofluorocarbons to the Ozone Hole, warned about the irreversibility of climate change in an appearance Thursday at the University of Chicago.

Source: www.forbes.com

Nitric oxide radicals are emitted by wasp eggs to kill mold fungi

Nitric oxide radicals are emitted by wasp eggs to kill mold fungi

We have conducted an additional experiment to assess whether NO can be responsible for the strong antifungal effect of the gas emitted by beewolf eggs. Moreover, comparison of the hazard ratio (the appropriate measure of effect size for such survival analyses) calculated for this experiment and a similar experiment that was previously conducted with beewolf eggs instead of synthetic NO revealed similar values with mutually overlapping 95% confidence intervals. Thus, our results show that (i) beewolf eggs produce incredibly high concentrations of NO, while (ii) NO emission from paralyzed bees (if it indeed occurs at all, which seems very unlikely given that NO emission has never been shown previously for an adult insect) are ecologically negligible.

Source: elifesciences.org

KeePassXC 2.4.3 released

KeePassXC 2.4.3 released

We are happy to announce KeePassXC 2.4.3, the third maintenance release of the 2.4 series! This release fixes a couple of deployment bugs that we experienced with 2.4.2. The new release can be downloaded from our downloads page, our Ubuntu PPA, and Snapcraft.

Source: keepassxc.org

Historical Map of the Cognitive Sciences: An Attempt

Historical Map of the Cognitive Sciences: An Attempt

ABOUT THE MAP

This map is a macroscopic, historical, trans-disciplinary introduction to (the) cognitive science(s). This project took place during my Erasmus stay at the Department of Applied Informatics  (at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics) of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia) 

Next to educating others, one goal was to sort out my own understanding of (the) cognitive science(s). Lists

More about Paradigms in Cognitive ScienceMeta Studies about Cognitive Science ​
Maps of Cognitive Science and Related FieldsSummaries of and Introductions to Cognitive and summary of the changes in version 3The lack of sources in the last three decades was apparent.

Source: www.riedlanna.com