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Sunday, July 23, 2006 |
Posted by
ScuttleMonkey
on Sunday July 23, @01:05PM
from the ubiquitous-search dept.
With the recent release of a modified version of their search engine,
Google is receiving praise from many different groups. The new Google Accessible Search
was released as a Google labs project which prioritize pages based on
their likelihood of being accessible to visually impaired users after
the original search results are returned. From the article: "The
best-known guidelines for building an accessible site are the Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) from W3C. But these are not the
basis of Google's new service. Raman said: 'We don't test against WCAG.
We think in the spirit of those guidelines, but we don't test against
them verbatim.' Instead he endeavored to identify 'what works for the
end-user,' describing a process of 'experimentation, training and
machine learning.'"
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |
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Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
Detecting prejudice in the brain. Three Florida teenagers recently pleaded not guilty to the brutal beatings and in one case, death, of homeless men. One of the beatings was caught on surveillance video and in a most chilling way illustrates how people can degrade socially outcast individuals, enough to engage in mockery, physical abuse, and even murder. According to new research, the brain processes social outsiders as less than human; brain imaging provides accurate depictions of this prejudice at an unconscious level.
read more [Science Blog -]
11:13:35 PM
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Ultrasound may help regrow teeth. Hockey players, rejoice! A team of University of Alberta researchers has created technology to regrow teeth--the first time scientists have been able to reform human dental tissue. Using low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS), Dr. Tarak El-Bialy from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and Dr. Jie Chen and Dr. Ying Tsui from the Faculty of Engineering have created a miniaturized system-on-a-chip that offers a non-invasive and novel way to stimulate jaw growth and dental tissue healing.
read more [Science Blog -]
10:12:50 AM
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Gaming to Save the World. The recent Games for Change Conference was covered on NPR, featuring interviews with the developers of games such as Darfur is Dying and Peacemaker. The premise of these games is that to reach the Net Generation with socially progressive ideas, you need to engage them with their favorite interactive media. Since one of the familiar objectives in many of our campus' strategic plans is to develop the next generation of leaders, and to ensure that our graduates participate effectively in the political process, these new models of developing thoughtful and yet engaging game environments to teach progressive values seem worth paying attention to, both for the lessons they teach, and more generally as models of platforms for thinking about future educational environments. [Academic Commons -]
9:57:45 AM
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A Sixth Sense for a Wired World. What if, seconds before your laptop began stalling, you could feel the hard drive spin up under the load? Or you could tell if an electrical cord was live before you touched it?
For the few people who have rare earth magnets implanted in their fi... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] suggest a new role for piercing using extra sensory sensors -- BL
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
Therapy beats drugs for insomina. Patients with insomnia who implemented cognitive behavioral therapy interventions such as relaxation techniques had greater improvement in their sleep than patients who received the sleep medication zopiclone, according to a study in the June 28 issue of JAMA.
read more [Science Blog -]
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 |
Building a better brain. With flashy toys, expensive classes and music compilations all promising to make your child smarter, it's hard to sort out the best way to help your child's brain thrive. A new policy paper helps put those worries to rest. The gist of the paper is this: what kids need is a secure relationship with adults who adore them.
read more [Science Blog -]
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Monday, June 26, 2006 |
Virtue regretted more than vice. The older we get, the more we regret not having more fun, says new study in the September issue of the Journal of Consumer Research. Researchers from Columbia University show that choosing work over play leads to regrets about having missed out on the pleasures of life. Over time, these regrets intensify, while guilt about indulging tends to fade.
read more [Science Blog -]
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Sunday, June 25, 2006 |
Reprogramming Biology. We are developing the tools to reprogram the processes involved in disease and aging, says Ray Kurzweil in his article, "Reprogramming Biology," in the July 2006 Scientific American and available free in an extended Web version.
Now that biology i... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News]
11:29:24 AM
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Axons and dendrites carry electrical signals between neurons. The
electrical activity of the neural network can easily be measured
because carbon nanotubes conduct electricity and so can function as
electrodes.
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© Copyright 2006 Bruce Landon.
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