Less Medicine, More Health from Dr. Gilbert Welch
September 8, 2015
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch is an academic physician, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School, and a nationally recognized expert on the effects of medical testing. He sees the value of medical care, particularly in those who are acutely ill or injured. But in many other settings, we have exaggerated the benefits of medical care and understated its harms. In this video, Dr. Welch examines some widely held assumptions about the value of medical care.
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Call for entries AUTOR 14 – Autor
August 25, 2015
AUTOR 14: The autumn edition 7 – 8 november 2015, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA The International Jewelry Fair AUTOR is the most important event in this field South-Eastern Europe. The biannual event aims to create a dynamic environment with high selection standards. The participants to Autor are offered access to a select and attractive clientele. Autor is […]
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Jo Pond: Intimate | Velvet da Vinci
August 24, 2015
A cloud of nanoparticles washes through a field. Tiny sensors gather data on variants in air current, moisture and temperature. The pH balance of the water and the soil is constantly monitored and the growth rate, health and sustainability of the crop is continually assessed. The dust of nanoparticles—some may call it smart dust—can detect invaders in the field, be it a disease infecting the crop, small animals or humans and dispatch another cloud of dust to combat the threat.
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The Invisible Universe Of The Human Microbiome – YouTube
August 24, 2015
The next time you look in a mirror, think about this: In many ways you’re more microbe than human. There are 10 times more cells from microorganisms like bac…
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Introduction to Empathic Design with Edwin Rutsch
August 24, 2015
This is an initial description of the mini empathic design workshop that Edwin Rutsch, director of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy is prototyping and testing. We are inviting a select group of people who have a proven background and interest in design or empathy to take part.
Participants: 4 to 5 per workshop
Time Required: 3 hours
Dates/Times: Various dates and time during the coming months.
Location: Meet Online Using Google Hangouts.
Recording: The call is recorded for educational purposes.
No cost to take part in the testing phase.
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Leslie Hawthorn: Cultivating Empathy – YouTube
August 24, 2015
When considering how to design products, teams or even common everyday household objects, empathy often doesn’t end up on the required features list.
Yet, without empathy, teams with enormous technical skills can fail in their quest to deliver quality products to their users. Incredible projects fail to create communities because they don’t exercise it. Fail at empathy and your chances of failing at everything skyrocket.
Leslie Hawthorn
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10 Wearables That Could Save Your Life
August 24, 2015
Ten pieces of wearable technology that just may save your life one day.
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Sleeping in the lateral, or side position, as compared to sleeping on one’s back or stomach, may more effectively remove brain waste, and could reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neurological diseases, according to researchers at Stony Brook University.
Stony Brook University researchers discovered this in experiments with rodents by using dynamic contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to image the brain’s glymphatic pathway, a complex system that clears wastes and other harmful chemical solutes from the brain. They also used kinetic modeling to quantify the CSF-ISF exchange rates in anesthetized rodents’ brains in lateral, prone, and supine positions.
Colleagues at the University of Rochester used fluorescence microscopy and radioactive tracers to validate the MRI data and to assess the influence of body posture on the clearance of amyloid from the brains.
Their finding is published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Most popular position in humans and animals
“It is interesting that the lateral sleep position is already the most popular in human and most animals —even in the wild — and it appears that we have adapted the lateral sleep position to most efficiently clear our brain of the metabolic waste products that built up while we are awake,” says Maiken Nedergaard, PhD, a co-author at the University of Rochester.
“The study therefore adds further support to the concept that sleep subserves a distinct biological function of sleep and that is to ‘clean up’ the mess that accumulates while we are awake. Many types of dementia are linked to sleep disturbances, including difficulties in falling asleep. It is increasing acknowledged that these sleep disturbances may accelerate memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease.”
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ILLUMINATING BODIES (Illuminate: to help to clarify and explain; to decorate. Body: the physical structure of a person; a material object) 