We hope everyone who attended Science Online London over the weekend had as much fun as we did. The two-day event at the British Library certainly highlighted some intriguing and stimulating issues. Reports in various media are beginning to appear, and we’ll use this page as a central location for compiling links
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Science Online London 2010: Index Of Blog Posts, Videos, Photos And Stuff
SWARTHMORE, Pa. – Junior Fabian Castro scored two goals in a 10-minute span of the second half as the No. 17 Swarthmore College men’s soccer team (2-0) shook off a sluggish start to defeat Immaculata 3-0 in the finale of the 13th Annual Garnet Alumni Classic on Sunday afternoon from Clothier Field Stadium.
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Castro Nets Two as No. 17 Garnet Defeat Immaculata 3-0 to Claim Title
From an Aug. 16 article ” Industry pushes meaningful use through incentives ” in Modern Healthcare (signup unfortunately required): …
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American Board of Medical Specialties to "incorporate tools to promote meaningful use of health IT into its maintenance-of-certification…
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants account for at least 10% of outpatient visits and increasingly are being used to handle patient care in emergency departments, according to previous research. But a new survey said 80% of patients expect to see a physician when they come to the ED. Fewer than half would be willing to see an NP or PA for an ankle injury — they would rather wait two more hours to be cared for by a physician. via amednews: Most ED patients willing to wait longer to avoid nondoctor care :: Aug
A New York City judge has held that two beauty salon workers can sue their employer for retaliating against them after they complained about overtime pay . The Court held that prior rulings to the contrary were wrong.
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Retaliation Claims Based on Overtime Pay Complaints are Now Kosher in NY
By Bianca Grogan Cliquez pour la vidéo en français Panelists include Sermo CEO Daniel Palestrant, Miguel Cabrer from Medting, Tim Ringrose from Doctors.net.uk, David Payne from the British Medical Journal, doc2doc, Thomas Skoglund from Neurosurgic, and Pierre-Emmanuel Aubert from Santé…
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Health 2.0 Europe: Physicians and Online Communities
I recently posted questions on mathoverflow about chessboard complexes and on TCSexchange about Markov chains on 3-colorings of cycles. There’s actually a (tenuous) connection between the two problems, which I wanted to explain here. The chessboard complex is an abstract simplicial complex formed from an m × n grid of points by making an edge between every two points that are on two different rows and columns, a triangle for every three points that are on three different rows and columns, a …
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Chessboards and colorings
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: “Distorted perceptions and an altered state of mind: two reasons why psychedelics have always attracted not only fascination, but also controversy for decades.” Noah Gray at Nature Blogs has curated a mini-carnival of sorts centering around a new paper called “The neurobiology of psychedelic drugs: implications for the treatment of mood disorders.” Included are posts by Mo at Neurophilosophy, the Neuroskeptic, the Neurocriti…
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Editor’s Selections: Psychedelic Drugs, Narcissism, Cephalopods, and Friendship
Bradley Merrill Thompson, an attorney with expertise in the FDA approval process for medical devices, is stating that the FDA is actively monitoring app stores on various platforms. Regulating medical devices and health care-related applications falls under the FDA’s jurisdiction. James Kendrick from JkOnTheRun spoke with Thompson, where he stated the following: The FDA is actively engaged in surveillance of various app stores to see if apps should trigger their involvement
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FDA Actively Monitoring Medical And Healthcare Apps
I’m about to tell you the TRUTH about The Last Traffic Secret . I’m not sure what all you’ve been reading about “The Last Traffic Review”, but I’ll wager you it’s a bunch of mystery crap. You hear about all the traffic, all the commissions, how you don’t need know anything about SEO, building huge websites, etc
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The Last Traffic Secret Review
Join Executive Chef Dylan Giordan for a delicious and educational afternoon in the kitchen. Chef Dylan will provide hands-on instruction and take you on a culinary adventure through Italy and the Mediterranean.
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Eastlake Ave. | Food & Drink | Serafina and Cicchetti Introducing …
Sweet Vegan Week! Everyone participating is welcome to bring home samples of what they have made. The fee for each of these 3-hour classes, which includes a bound notebook of recipes, is from 80 to 95 euros. Discounts from 10-20% of the total price are available when several people sign up together or when you sign up for two or more classes
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September Cooking Classes
As with all gripping real estate topics of monumental import (termites, our blog’s birthday, and my 2008 trip to New Orleans come to mind), we have written about this one before. Since it seems to be the Topic du Week this, uh, week among our clients, I shall don my Ms
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More on the moving mess that is the contingent purchase
For the past year I’ve had a private affiliate program running, which allows my Elite Members to refer new members to my Private Brainstorming Group.
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My nightmare experience with iDevAffiliate + vBulletin & 3 things we are ALL responsible for
When William McDonough and other pioneers of the sustainable architecture movement first envisioned the concept of living, breathing buildings, it’s safe to say that they probably didn’t have structures teeming with actual living, breathing bacteria in mind. But don’t tell that to Henk Jonkers of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. What he and his colleagues have developed—a self-fixing bacteria-concrete hybrid—may do more to propel sustainable architecture into the mainstream …
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Concrete + Extremophile Bacteria = Walls That Repair Themselves | Science Not Fiction
Any Trekker (or Trekkie) knows that the warp drives in Federation starships are powered by dilithium-moderated matter/antimatter reactions. When matter and antimatter come into contact: BOOM! There’s a huge release of energy and the Enterprise leaps ahead at incredible speeds. Of course that’s all sci-fi, right? What fewer Trekkers, and the public in general, realize is that antimatter is not solely the purview of science fiction: it actually exists in the real Universe–it’s not just a common…
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Antimatter: Coming Soon to a Warp Nacelle Near You? | Science Not Fiction
A grandfather and granddaughter travelled and made their living performing balancing acts. They asked a wise man what was the best way to safeguard and care for each other. The grandfather suggested that each should care for the other, that he should care for his granddaughter in the balancing and she should take care of him
In 1994, after a lengthy and fine career, Aretha Franklin was on the decline. Robert Clivillés and David Cole however were at their prime. At the time, dance was hot, soul was not
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Aretha Frank1yn – A Deeper Love (1994)
When Peter Drucker originally articulated the idea of a “knowledge worker” in 1959, he was proposing a classification with the primary goal of describing the work of people who applied knowledge directly, and in a unique way, to the tasks assigned to them. One important differentiator of the knowledge worker was that he or she owned their means of production—which literally means people have brains, and they bring their brains to work
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What is an Information Worker?
There are plenty of restaurants and culinary schools offering Italian cooking courses. And no, you don’t have to be a little bit Italian to take the courses! You can have fun, improve your Italian cooking skills and enjoy some …
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Should You Take an Italian Cooking Class? – Bleeding Espresso