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Social media require 'Community Relations 2.0'

October 30, 2009

Chestnut Hill, Mass. (October 30, 2009) -- The rise of social media and real-time advocacy have re-written the community outreach rules companies followed for decades.

The curious case of H.M.

October 25, 2009

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Recently I watched a lecture by the renown neuroscientist, Eric Kandel, on Youtube. In his talk he unsurprisingly made mention of the famous patient H.M. in which most of us are familiar with. I've always been curious as to who the person was behind the famous initials. What did he/she look like? What were some of his/her hobbies?

Mayo Clinic clinicians develop new decision aid tool to help type 2 diabetes patients

October 15, 2009

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic clinicians and designers, along with colleagues from other institutions, have developed and tested a tool to involve patients more in their diabetes treatment and medication choices. The tool, a set of decision aid cards, could help patients make decisions involving their disease and perhaps lead to better outcomes.

Students, teachers need to be transculturally literate, expert says

September 24, 2009

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The current generation of college students and teachers need to be as culturally fluent with people from different cultures as they are with their own, a soft skill that has become an essential part of life in the 21st century, a University of Illinois expert on teacher education says.

Many medical schools report incidents of students posting unprofessional content online

September 22, 2009

A majority of medical schools surveyed report they have experienced incidents of students posting unprofessional content online, including incidents involving violation of patient confidentiality, with few schools having policies to address these types of postings, according to a study in the September 23/30 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education.

YouTube videos yield clues to brain injury symptom

September 2, 2009

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 2, 2009) -- Brain injury researchers at the University of Kentucky have spent hundreds of hours watching YouTube videos of people getting smacked, punched and knocked in the head during sporting events and recreational activities. But those researchers weren't goofing off on the Internet; they were doing hard science.

K-State study finds 18- to 24-year-old group more politically active, but not more knowledgeable

August 13, 2009

A study by three Kansas State University graduate students finds that the 18- to 24-year-old demographic became more politically active during the 2008 U.S. election season through the use of new media, but that the young adults were not necessarily more knowledgeable about politics.

LHC to run at 3.5 TeV for early part of 2009-2010 run rising later

August 6, 2009

Geneva, 6 August 2009. CERN 's Large Hadron Collider will initially run at an energy of 3.5 TeV per beam when it starts up in November this year. This news comes after all tests on the machine's high-current electrical connections were completed last week, indicating that no further repairs are necessary for safe running.

Anime's fan girls

June 18, 2009

Girls are gathering online to remake male-oriented Japanese animation videos into romances -- and in the process are picking up skills in film editing, storytelling and feminist literary criticism.

Return to the moon

June 18, 2009

The Interdisciplinary A building on the Arizona State University Tempe campus looks rather average from the outside. There isn't anything that hints at the excitement, talent and innovation hidden behind its nondescript doors, and there is certainly no indication that the first steps of a great journey are taking place inside.

YouTube is now a news portal

June 17, 2009

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The controversial Iranian election outcome has turned a social network portal into a news portal.

'GEOSET' Putting Science at Teachers' Fingertips Worldwide

June 15, 2009

“What makes thunder?” “Why do frogs jump?” “What are we made of?”

Those are the sorts of questions that curious children often spring on unsuspecting schoolteachers -- and that their teachers sometimes struggle to answer.

Some vocal-mimicking animals, particularly parrots, can move to a musical beat

April 30, 2009

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Researchers at Harvard University have found that humans aren't the only ones who can groove to a beat -- some other species can dance, too. This capability was previously believed to be specific to humans. The research team found that only species that can mimic sound seem to be able to keep a beat, implying an evolutionary link between the two capacities.

Putting heads (and computers) together to solve global problems

February 2, 2009

Imagine if the planet's collective brainpower and computing power could be brought together to tackle some of the world's toughest problems, including global climate change and cancer.



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