A Decade after The Decade of the Brain â Educational and Clinical...
(Editor’s Note: In 1990, Congress designated the 1990s the âDecade of the Brain.â President George H. W. Bush proclaimed, âA new era of discovery is dawning in brain research.â During the...
View ArticleWebsites That Suck Increase Stress
We know that slow, balky, and confusing websites aren’t a good thing. Traffic metrics show this, as does conversion data. Google, whom some think of as passively indexing the web, believes...
View ArticleMy Thoughts for the Dayâ¦
Food Situation Rectified and Dadâs Obsession⦠I went to bed last night at eight. I was just exhausted from the previous week. George woke me up at ten with a knock on the door. He had a vegetable...
View ArticleHow Can We Be at Cyberwar if We Donât Know What It Is?
By Jim HarperBrilliant column from William Jackson on GCN.com debunking “cyberwar”: âThe United States is fighting a cyberwar today and we are losing it,â former National Security Agency chief and...
View ArticleMy Thoughts for the Dayâ¦
Shall I Howl??? I am a firm believer that the gravitational pulls of a full moon have effects on our brain chemistry. Last night, I was sitting here at this computer and looked out the window: A full...
View ArticleDay By Day March 30, 2010 â Bite Me
Day By Day by Chris Muir Apple Computer can advertise where and when it wants. This is private enterprise. More than 200 companies have joined a boycott of Beck’s program, making it difficult for Fox...
View ArticleMy Thoughts for the Dayâ¦
I had an old grade school friend visit the house yesterday. He didnât recognize me, but I recognized him. He was a social outcast in school and had a terrible stuttering problem. I felt for him as...
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Are computer screens bad for your eyes? Slate.com says your mom was wrong. Post from: BlissTree (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3)
View ArticleiPad Arrives
Well, with the Easter weekend over and Apple’s iPad gaining more headlines than anything else, I have to say I want one, but I can wait. I actually got to touch one. Someone at the hospital brought it...
View ArticleA new behavioral intervention: adding calendaring
It's easy to persuade someone who can reason about past and future, and who can connect actions and consequences.It's much harder to influence someone when reward or consequences must instantly follow...
View ArticleNew Safari Version??
I’ve just spent the last 40 minutes on the phone with Union Bank tech support because for the past 2 weeks I’ve been unable to log in to my online account with Safari. After all this time the tech...
View ArticleDonât Send iCal Replies
I came across a great hint in Mac OS X Hints today. It seems that there’s an easy way to interrupt the process of sending an email reply when accepting iCal invites. As I tend to play around with iCal...
View ArticleEarth Week Photo of the Day: Recycled Printed Circuit Board Art
Steven Rodrig’s PCB Creations are made of recycled printed circuit boards (PCBs) â a perfect example of innovative recycling for Earth Week. The artwork is meant to encourage consumers to find a PCB...
View ArticleFact-Checking âCyberwarâ
This report in Government Computer News, for example, relates the findings of a recent Symantec report on threats to government systems and gives reason to settle down about cyberthreats from China....
View ArticleThree Key ICD-10 questions providers should answer right now
What with many vendors and providers behind schedule on both HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10, Computer Sciences Corp. published a report offering advice on creating a balanced approach to migration and...
View ArticleAn Artificial Pancreas For Type 1 Diabetes
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston University have reported that an “artificial pancreas” has worked in 11 patients enrolled in a study sponsored by the Juvenile Diabetes...
View ArticleCollecting Dots and Connecting Dots
By Julian SanchezAs Jeff Stein notes over at the Washington Post, the declassified summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the Christmas underpants bomber ought to sound awfully...
View ArticleCasual games that are educational
I recently wrote that too many educational computer games look too educational and are not fun to play. Â I have recently, however, come across a couple of causal games that although they don’t set out...
View ArticleAdolescence and beyond
The years go by.One SNC (special needs child) is doing very well. So well his teachers want to end his services and his IEP. We think they're premature, so we're negotiating for measurable milestones....
View ArticleSynthetic Life Created: The First âMicro-Avatarâ
For the first time in history, a living organism has been manufactured with the help of a computer-generated genome. Dr. Jon LaPook reports on the groundbreaking discovery’s widespread implications....
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