Daily Archives: November 3, 2014

IBM and Cleveland Clinic Use Watson to Advance Genomic Research. Source: www-03.ibm.com This use of Watson aims to find the “needle in the haystack” through identifying patterns in genome sequencing and medical data to unlock insights that will help clinicians … Continue reading →

Most voters care more about domestic issues than ISIS and Ebola. Source: http://www.ibtimes.com See on Scoop.it – iLife

Just days before his 10th birthday, a boy identified by his classmates as having a “good sense of humor” hanged himself in his family’s home — his lifeless body was discovered by his 9-year-old sibling. Source: madworldnews.com See on Scoop.it … Continue reading →

Time for drugs to get smarter. Source: http://www.fastcoexist.com See on Scoop.it – iLife

A transfusion of youthful blood may halt or even reverse the ageing process as two studies find that the chemical make-up of younger blood has surprising health benefits Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk See on Scoop.it – iLife

There is a bold new project from the Google X research lab to monitor your state of health from the inside. The core technology will be an army of magnetic nanoparticles that are injected into to your circulatory system. Source: … Continue reading →

In the war on cancer, cyberwarfare may have some important insights in discovering a treatment that would tip the balance in favor of the immune system. Source: nocamels.com See on Scoop.it – iLife

In college, it wasn’t rare to hear a verbal battle regarding artificial intelligence erupt between my friends studying neuroscience and my friends studying computer science. One rather outrageous fellow would mention the possibility of a computer takeover, and off they … Continue reading →

Technology is shaping our thinking about mental abilities and their improvement Source: http://www.scientificamerican.com See on Scoop.it – iLife

Better we rely on death-proof drones than human tornado-chasers. Source: http://www.fastcoexist.com See on Scoop.it – iLife

A forum post urges terrorists to look for the easy targets in expat communities across the Middle East Source: http://www.vocativ.com See on Scoop.it – iLife

What do Monica Lewinsky, Thomas Eric Duncan, and Elvis Costello Have In Common? Zero. Source: medium.com See on Scoop.it – iLife

MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom [Tony Robbins] (2014) 688 pp.  Tony Robbins has coached and inspired more than 50 million people from over 100 countries. More than 4 million people have attended his live events. … Continue reading →

A discreet alternative to the tech frenzy for wearables, explore the world of the ‘implantables’ taking us that step closer to turning superhuman Source: http://www.dazeddigital.com See on Scoop.it – iLife

Behind Amy Poehler’s impossibly cheery persona is a multimedia empire built almost by stealth Source: http://www.macleans.ca ‘I am not underestimating the access I get as a BLOND, WHITE lady from AMERICA.’ – Amy Poehler  See on Scoop.it – iLife

The 29-year-old said she intended to end her own life on Nov. 1 if her suffering became too great Source: http://www.people.com See on Scoop.it – iLife

Nate Silver and Richard Feynman walk into a bar and bump into a biologist… While this may sound like the setup to some late-night nerd sketch, researchers have taken this premise and applied it to an increasingly cumbersome problem in … Continue reading →

The scene in the cramped office in Berkeley on a recent Saturday feels like a typical start-up carried along by the tech boom, with engineers working through the weekend in a race against time. The long whiteboard down one wall … Continue reading →

Report says logging and burning of Amazon might be connected to worsening droughts – such as the one plaguing São Paulo Source: http://www.theguardian.com See on Scoop.it – iLife

Fifty members of the U.S-allied Albu Nimr tribe were taken from their homes by ISIS fighters in Iraq on Saturday, a tribal leader told CNN. Source: edition.cnn.com See on Scoop.it – iLife

Billions upon billions of dollars of cash. Source: http://www.businessinsider.com See on Scoop.it – iLife

GamerGate reacts to a kind of toxic feminism. Source: splicetoday.com See on Scoop.it – iLife

This is how cops react to informed individuals who refuse to be bullied by costumed thugs with shiny metal badges….they leave you alone. Source: thefreethoughtproject.com Man at home cites 4 Cops for ‘intimidation’ and failure to produce identification; cops leave. … Continue reading →

Answer by Yishan Wong: There is going to be a huge and consistent pro-human bias in any set of answers written solely by humans, especially when confronting the possibility of total and complete obsolescence.  I find that a lot of … Continue reading →