For years, other countries have been far more cautious about the impacts of electromagnetic radiation on human health than in the US and far too little is known about this as we increasingly expose ourselves to these fields. In parts of Europe for example there are much stricter regulations on exposure to EMFs than in…
I’ve been an early adopter of services such as Mint to track my spending but I have just never been able to get around to switching my checking account out of the mega banks and into a more web friendly, agile resource. Finally it seems that the Internet is penetrating the previously fortified world of consumer…
As with other fields such as medicine, after years of massive costs and sometimes ineffective methods, resulting in catastrophic failures such as 9/11, new leadership at our intelligence agencies such as Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper are adopting digital and social science methods such as crowd sourcing, data science, knowledge management. Social scientists have…
A scientific ethics of code : Effect Measure. Related articles With Morality Seemingly in Decline, the In View with Larry King TV Series Announces Plans for A New Series on Business Ethics (prweb.com) Male Scientists More Likely to Commit Research Misconduct than Females (sci-news.com) Men more likely than women to commit scientific fraud (eurekalert.org)
Book Review – ‘The Accidental Guerrilla,’ by David Kilcullen – NYTimes.com. Anthropologist David Kilcullen is a former officer in the Australian Army, a strategist and a scholar. He is also an expert on counterinsurgency, or how to combat a rebellion, and one of the few brave souls who had the ear of people in the…
This is really kind of sad…To improve drug safety, FDA should check its mixed-up files – The Boston Globe. Related articles FDA Issues New Cautionary Guidelines for Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants, Parker Waichman LLP Reports (prweb.com) DrugRisk Announces Updated Information on Mirena Lawsuits (prweb.com) FDA’s Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food and Current…
Popular movies like the new Chernobyl film point to a disturbing trend: Many of the residents of radiation exposure such as Chernobyl and Fukushima experience long term health problems such as thyroid disease, heart disease, heart valve/vascular disease that take decades to appear leaving them disabled and requiring disability benefits but with little sources of support.…
Tech hiring is on upswing, but not where you’d expect – The Boston Globe. Related articles Pathology Informatics Conference Moved to May 13-16, 2014 (labsoftnews.typepad.com) National Informatics Center of India Hacked by Code Injector and Yash (news.softpedia.com) Week 1: What is Social Informatics? (taylormharvey.wordpress.com)
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