Category: Knowledge Management
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Top chemicals causing autism
Top 10 Chemicals Most Likely to Cause Autism and Other Learning Disorders Jennifer Chait, inhabitots.com This year, the CDC reported that autism now affects 1 of every 88 American children, which is an unusually high increase from previous years. Now, we may have some more clues as to what is causing the dramatic increases. The…
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Countries where climate change kills
The 10 Countries Where Climate Change and Pollution Is Killing the Population Timon Singh, inhabitat.com When you hear about the effects on climate change on global populations, some of the places that might immediately spring to mind might include the low-lying island of Tuvalu or Haiti, which is increasingly bearing the brunt of ever-more powerful……
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Facts about guns and mass shootings
Nine facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States Ezra Klein, washingtonpost.com When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid “politicizing” the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for “don’t talk about reforming our gun control laws.”Let’s be……
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Neuroscience of reading with children
The Importance Of Reading With Children Zoë Triska, huffingtonpost.com It’s safe to say that I’ve always been a big reader. I can clearly remember the first time I sat and read a full book, when everything just clicked. It was magical. I grew into a full on reading nerd. When I was around seven, I…
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Neuromarketing with Affectiva
Life With Mind-Reading Machines Bianca Bosker, huffingtonpost.com Smile: Your computer is watching.Affectiva, a nearly 2-year-old startup that grew out of MIT’s Media Lab, is teaching machines to understand what you feel.Affectiva has developed a way for computers to recognize human emotions based on facial cues… RT @HuffingtonPost: What happens when machines know what you’re feeling?…
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Turn your iPhone into an action cam with Optrix
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