In the 1850s, smallpox vaccination became compulsory in Britain. But the influence of anti-vaccination campaigners meant outbreaks were still possible – as one teenage girl found out to her cost. The child whose town rejected vaccines | Wellcome Collection
Humans are prolific procrastinators. People have struggled with habitual hesitation going back to ancient civilizations. 6 Brutal Truths About Productivity No One Wants to Talk About
Just a few weeks ago, ESO revealed a planetary system being born in a new, stunning VLT image (www.eso.org/public/news/eso2008). Now, the same telescope, using the same instrument (www.eso. First image of a multi-planet system around a sun-like star
Such tests, known as liquid biopsies, have become the focus of much research since they offer a non-invasive way to screen patients.. The new study is not the first to report positive results for a blood test for early detection of cancer. Researchers say blood test can detect cancer years before symptoms | Cancer
By chopping up large numbers into smaller ones, researchers have rewritten a fundamental mathematical speed limit. Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians invented multiplication. Last month, mathematicians perfected it. Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply | WIRED
TL;DR: I explored how to implement cosine using a few different approaches. One of the implementations is nearly 3x faster than math.h if you are ok with 4 decimal places of precision. Implementing cosine in C from scratch - Austin Z. Henley
Philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke paint a picture of humankind living out short, brutish lives of self-interest, held together by a tenuous social contract of mutual benefit. The self beyond brutality | Adrian Pabst » IAI TV
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2020 has been a historic year that will forever be associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past six months, we have seen societies, businesses, and entire industries unsettled. The situation at Cloudflare has been no different. Cloudflare Network expands to more than 100 Countries
Human organ transplantation is one of the most remarkable successes in the history of medicine. It is often the only hope for people suffering from organ failure. Organ donation is one of the greatest gifts that you can ever make. MOH | Human Organ Transplant Act
Multilevel Monitoring of Activity and Sleep in Healthy people (MMASH) dataset provides 24 hours of continuous beat-to-beat heart data, triaxial accelerometer data, sleep quality, physical activity and psychological characteristics (i.e. Multilevel Monitoring of Activity and Sleep in Healthy People v1.0.0
Patatap is a portable animation and sound kit. With the touch of a finger create melodies charged with moving shapes. Warning: contains flashing images. × Synesthesia by jonobr1 Take home a 27"x40" poster made with Patatap — $50. Patatap
On this page, we present a weekly evaluation of our model’s historical performance along with other models in the COVID-19 Forecast Hub. The forecasts from these models are sent to the CDC weekly and presented on the CDC COVID-19 Forecasting page. Historical Performance | COVID-19 Projections Using Machine Learning