New breed of med schools may transform healthcare MiamiHerald.com Fortunately, a new breed of medical school education is arising. Increasingly, components of health science centers, professional schools have far-ranging ... Guidelines met with dose of skepticismMilwaukee Journal Sentinel Patient safety, medical liability focus of government grantsAmerican Medical News |
Amazon's own e-book reader won't be able to play back video or audio embedded in e-books the way the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad will. (Amazon mentions nothing about the Mac and PC versions.) But it probably doesn't matter too much to Amazon, who stands to make a killing on the books themselves, anyhow. More »
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 American Medical News | AMA meeting: More physicians needed to counter work force shortages American Medical News While medical school enrollment has climbed 2% annually over the past five years through new schools and expansion of existing schools, the number of ... AMA meeting: E-cigarettes need FDA regulation, limits on salesAmerican Medical News A prescription for America's health care systemAmerican Medical News |
Doctor Drain Sounds Alarm Among Policymakers NJ Spotlight Maybe more significant is that the School of Osteopathic Medicine is the region's only medical school. While it has increased enrollment over the last two ... Higher profits or better care?Worcester Telegram What can be done to halt doctor drain?Asbury Park Press Doctor shortage: Prognosis is bad and getting worseAsbury Park Press |
The Samsung Epic 4G joins the HTC Evo as Sprint's 4G handsets, but diverges with the fact that it has a slide-out keyboard. It looks like the Galaxy S Pro, which we've been hearing about leaked in the past few weeks. More »
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Seeing a lightning bolt flash before your eyes can be both awe-inspiring and terrifying. Watching this 1/16th-speed clip of it simultaneously striking three of Chicago's tallest buildings fills me with so much terror there's no room left for awe. [LikeCool] More »
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doctor takes hands-on approach to breast exams Chicago Tribune Pugh's fascination with human anatomy eventually led her to medical school, which eventually led to her frustration over watching doctors do breast, ... |
It's a shame that Gizmodo's image servers are all out of whack, because otherwise you'd be looking at a huge photograph of a truly inspired iPhone accessory called iPlunge. They say a picture's worth a thousand words, and if there was ever a product that really made you want to take that literally, it was this one. That's a little ambitious, but here anyway is my portrait of the iPlunge, painted in words. More »
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We've all seen futuristic movies with awesome Hal and Jarvis computers that are smart enough to recognize what we want them to do. They're like people. Today's computers are learning to be like that and they're already replacing us. More »
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The largest protest so far against the Toronto-area G8/G20 summits heads south on University Avenue from the Ontario legislature on Saturday afternoon. People were marching in support of a variety of causes, including the environment. (Timothy Neesam/CBC)
This is about how regular people have so little control over their own future, and little to say about whether the human race survives or not. It’s long and convoluted, but there are some interesting bits in it. In Obama’s speech at the end of the G20 today, he said that nations agree that fossil fuel use has to end and that they all have to work to get climate change stopped. However, he didn’t elaborate. There was a G20 “Climate agreement” and a document that I haven’t seen yet. It reportedly called for reductions in the use (or subsidies) of fossil fuels voluntarily, and President Obama pushed them to remove the “voluntary” wording, supposedly making it mandatory. Even if it is mandatory, it’s still not an official climate agreement, and there is no way of enforcing it that I’m aware of. When I find the text of it, I will reprint it here.
Unfortunately, calling for governments to keep on growing and spending and consuming and supporting bank health might sound good to people in America, and it’s what all the leaders did, but this is just more propping up a broken capitalistic system that’s falling apart, instead of inventing a new and more equitable economic system for everyone. That system should be based on renewable energy and ending hunger and poverty. Instead, they want to save all the banks. Everything world leaders and Obama and our Congress is doing amounts to putting Bandaids on an unsustainable system.
What we need right now is a better system, one that phases out constant consumption, waste and corruption, and takes all the money out of politics. Money in politics is the main reason why we have no climate change bill. We have an economic system that feeds on itself, looping itself in with our politics, and that is bound to fail. Unlimited growth on a limited planet will be disastrous, and we are already seeing evidence of that. It’s harder and harder to get the oil and the coal out of the ground, because there is less of it, yet we need more and more of it. Something, besides the oil rig that sank, is bound to crash and burn very soon. From the LA Times:
G-20 climate pact erases word ‘voluntary’ from efforts to cut oil-firm subsidies
International negotiators, under pressure from the Obama administration, agree to omit the term when describing efforts to cut production and consumption incentives. Summit also focuses on arriving at a consensus on the global economic crisis.
In a last-minute turn in global climate talks, international negotiators agreed over the weekend to adopt more ambitious plans than expected to trim government subsidies to oil [...]
My recent conversation/debate with Greg Fish on Skeptically Speaking Radio about transhumanism is now available in streaming audio and download.
A recent spate of suicides at Foxconn factories brought scrutiny to the working conditions in the factories where big-brand gadgets are manufactured. But tracing gadget guts to their mineral sources reveals that Foxconn overtime is far from the ugliest link of the supply chain. More »
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Global Politician columnist Sam Vaknin argues in a recent article that science fiction is guilty of ten specific mistakes when postulating the characteristics of advanced extraterrestrial life. Specifically, he contends that sci-fi writers consistently buy into fallacies about:
While the article certainly raises some food for thought, Vaknin's call for writers to think more 'outside of the box' is a bit of a stretch, if not condescending. Science fiction writers, for the most part, take great pains to weave a coherent narrative around novel imaginings of what ETIs might look like. Moreover, Vaknin is himself guilty of considerably hand-waving, arguing that ETIs may be existentially and qualitatively of a different sort than what we might expect, but at the same time he doesn't provide any substantive or compelling evidence for us to believe otherwise.
Sure, I agree that ETIs may be dramatically different than what we can imagine and that they may exist outside of expected paradigms, but until our exoscience matures we should probably err on the side of the self-sampling assumption and figure that the ignition and evolution of life tends to follow a similar path to the one taken on Earth. Now, I'm not suggesting that we refrain from hypothesizing about radically different existence-states; I'm just saying that these sorts of extraordinary claims (like alternative intelligences spawning different quantum realities) require the requisite evidence. It's far too easy to fantasize about some kind of energy-based hive-mind living in the core of asteroids, it's another thing to prove that such a thing could come about through the laws of physics [my example, not Vaknin's].
In the article, Vaknin also posits six basic explanations to the Fermi Paradox (and the apparent failure of SETI) that are not mutually exclusive:
Very quickly, point number one is possible but grossly improbable, points two to five are essentially the same argument—that we don't yet know where, how and what to look for, and point six violates the non-exclusivity principle (explains some but not all ETI behavior). It's odd that Vaknin selected these particular six arguments. There are many, many potential resolutions to the FP with these not being particularly stronger than any other (though point #1 has a lot of traction among the Rare Earthers.). And where is the Great Filter argument, which is possibly the strongest of them all?
Nice try, Vaknin, but the Great Silence problem is more complex than what you've laid out.
The TED conference brings together some of the greatest minds of our time, all offering their own unique world-changing ideas. In between those people, Hillel Cooperman gave this breathless, highly entertaining rundown of the weird world of adult LEGO. [Geekosystem] More »
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That was quick: Just a few days after Apple's iPhone 4 went on sale— featuring video chat capabilities — the "FaceTime" sex chat services are already starting up. More »
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Well this is kinda wacky. Citing a "very credible source," Digg founder Kevin Rose tweeted that Google is readying "Google Me," a social service intended to go toe-to-toe (face-to-face?) with Facebook. It's like Google stalking, but official, and thus marginally less creepy! More »
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A leaked T-Mobile slide is showing off the Motorola Charm, a square-ish Android device running Motoblur with a physical keyboard. Though Motoblur is definitely not for us, the Charm's Blackberry-esque, candybar form factor is interesting since it hasn't been done with Android before. If the keyboard is better than typical Motorola-fare, this could serve as a great messaging device for tweens everywhere. It's supposed to run Android 2.1, which means you won't be that behind when it releases. [Engadget] More »
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