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World Malaria Day - Bite Back
Today, Thursday April 25, is World Malaria Day. The statistics surrounding malaria are a bit overwhelming and for those of us who live in the United States it is a problem that doesn’t impact us...
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Super Sudoko
Cracking coded messages has been a target of spies – both industrial and otherwise – since the beginning of time. Surely as a kid you created your own secret code to pass along messages to a special...
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Magic Bullet
Recently a peer-reviewed article was published on PLOS Medicine which found a 25% lower relative risk of death through a specific treatment offered in a randomized trial to elderly Americans with at...
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America's Best Selling Pizza
I noticed a box on the kitchen counter last night. Totino’s Party Pizza which my husband had made himself for lunch (cooked in the microwave no doubt….thanks, but I pass….). What caught my attention...
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Powering the Cloud
The Information-Communications-Technologies (ICT) ecosystem consumes almost 10% of world electricity generation and 50% more energy than global aviation. Even more surprising to me was that streaming...
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Dialect Survey Maps
I came across a very interesting article a few weeks ago regarding visual representations of 122 linguistic differences in the speech of Americans. The maps were developed by Joshua Katz, a Ph.D....
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Predicting Colds and Flu
Cold and flu season is approaching and, of course, no one wants to get sick. For those of us doing battle with these germs, a new tool in the arsenal is the Kleenex cold and flu predictor tool, Achoo....
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Detecting Interactions Between Drugs
Interactions between drugs is a growing problem. Particularly as the population ages and the number of prescribed drugs (or over-the-counter treatments and supplements) increases, it is more and more...
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Data Mining...does it have similarities to "psychohistory"?
Reading articles and news stories about the data mining that companies and governments conduct on routine correspondence, telephone calls, purchases, and all varieties of habits such as web searches,...
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A Few of My Favorite Apps
There are a few apps that I use almost daily that help me do the work that I do and help keep me on track. I thought it would be useful to share these and see if others have suggestions for apps that I...
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Big Data is Watching You
While you can attend any number of conferences about big data and the benefits that companies can reap from this data, it is much rarer to hear anyone addressing the privacy concerns surrounding the...
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