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Omega-3’s are emerging superheroes in the nutrition world. Over two decades ago, scientists noticed that Greenland Eskimos had very low rates of coronary heart disease compared to Western populations. Their secret, it turned out, was eating fish—particularly, fatty fishes like salmon that contain a lot of omega-3 fatty acids. An avalanche of studies have since [...]
Concept for a new kind of surgical robot (click to enlarge) Inventors and engineers tend to come up with ideas and technologies first, then say, “This is cool, what’s it good for?” Clinicians tend to say, “Here’s my clinical problem, how can I solve it?” This was roughly the thinking that brought together Boston University [...]
Recently, I’ve started to spend more time interacting and learning on Twitter. Twitter is starting to catch on in a big way; if you want a quick summary, check out David Pogue’s recent New York Times article. I see Twitter as a way of sharing ideas and resources with people with whom I have something [...]
You’ll almost never hear innovators say, ‘Can we do something?’ You will sometimes hear them say, ‘How can we do something?’ I heard this last week from Kim Smith, a founding team member of Teach For America and founder/CEO of Bellwether Education Partners, at MIT’s Innovation in Healthcare Symposium. It reminded me of the innovators [...]
I heard about this rule from a friend when I was studying the history of spelling, phonetics and efforts to simplify spelling. Thus, I was surprised recently to realize a whole category of words, the ae and oe ligatures, have largely been simplified, some going through two-steps, with the original two vowels first separated, then [...]
For decades, Chile’s shoreline has had problems with periodic algal blooms – referred to as Red Tide, but actually containing a mix of microorganisms including bluegreen algae. Their toxins accumulate in shellfish, landing seafood consumers in the hospital, partially paralyzed, sometimes needing ventilators to breathe. The nerve block caused by the toxins is reversible, so [...]
Half way through Biology 1622 – Microbes: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, I invited a doctor from the UNB Student Health Centre to come and give a talk about sexually transmitted infections (STIs). I asked students to read this pamphlet and come prepared with four questions each to ask the doctor. With well [...]
I have found that Civics concepts can be particularly challenging for seventh graders, especially when they are taking a straight Civics course. Last week I began a unit on the Executive Branch and created several days of lessons to help students understand the President’s responsibilities and what his job is really like. I’ve been considering [...]
EEG signals may reflect underlying brain connectivity patterns in autism. This brain has less dense local clusters linked by long-range connections, which may represent a normal pattern. The brain at right has denser, more uniform local connectivity with fewer long-distance connections in some regions. Bill Bosl is used to looking for patterns. A computer scientist [...]