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nikolas smyrlakis

At 70, I can't wait to have my happiest years - Telegraph - 1 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...to-have-my-happiest-years.html

Social Indicators Research

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  • nikolas smyrlakis on 26 Feb 10
     
    how happier than now can it get in 40 - 45 years?
pacome delva

981.pdf (Objet application/pdf) - 6 views

www.seo.nl/...981.pdf

shared by pacome delva on 14 Dec 09 - No Cached
  • pacome delva on 14 Dec 09
     
    Where do you want to go to do academic research and still have a decent salary ? certainly not sweden, France or Germany... prefer the UK, US or the top... Switzerland !
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  • Luzi Bergamin on 14 Dec 09
     
    Where do you want to go to do academic research and still have fun? Where can you really do research instead of becoming an overpaid secretary? If you want to get rich go and work in investment banking...
  • pacome delva on 14 Dec 09
     
    well.. i'd better live decently than get rich... which is not possible in Paris (take 1680 euros for one family and a 1000 euros rent, minus all normal expenses (health, car, insurance, ...), it's difficult to finish the month...) Without mentioning that in France you would become an underpaid secretary...!!! My ex phd director is a professor and she doesn't even have a secretary to manage the 150 applications to the master she is in charge... My experience would rather say that the salary and the time you have for research are quite decorrelated.
  • Luzi Bergamin on 14 Dec 09
     
    Sure, 44k for a full professor, that's a bad joke! Just my experience from conferences: high saleries do not make good research, I rather suspect there's something like an optimal salery. People with too high saleries often seem to feel obliged to make much noise (whatever the reason might be), the result is not research but PR campagns.
  • pacome delva on 14 Dec 09
     
    I agree ! Just a correction, net salary for a full professor starting in France: 36456 euros/year... For a McF (equivalent junior prof.): 20160 euros/year, and of course a shitload of admistrative tasks and teaching. I don't know why i still dream to have a position...?
Francesco Biscani

Official Google Blog: Announcing Google's Focused Research Awards - 0 views

googleblog.blogspot.com/...-googles-focused-research.html

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shared by Francesco Biscani on 02 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Today, we're announcing the first-ever round of Google Focused Research Awards — funding research in areas of study that are of key interest to Google as well as the research community. These awards, totaling $5.7 million, cover four areas: machine learning, the use of mobile phones as data collection devices for public health and environment monitoring, energy efficiency in computing, and privacy.
  • Francesco Biscani on 02 Feb 10
     
    Might be of some interest to Christos?
pacome delva

Higgs hunters face long haul - 2 views

physicsworld.com/...41631

phy higgs particles

shared by pacome delva on 05 Feb 10 - Cached
  • to reduce the chances of the LHC being derailed again by a similar accident, physicists at the Geneva lab have decided to run the collider at just half its design energy for the next 18-24 months.
  • Once the 7 TeV run is over, CERN will shut the LHC down in 2012 for a year or more to prepare it to go straight to maximum-energy 14 TeV collisions in 2013. This will be a complex job that will involve replacing some 10,000 superconducting magnet connections with more robust ones.
  • choosing to stay at lower energies is a big price to pay in terms of the Higgs search. "We will need more than twice the data at 7 TeV compared to that needed at 10 TeV to reach the same discovery potential," she says. "At this energy we can at best expect to exclude a Higgs with a mass between 155 and 175 GeV."
  • pacome delva on 05 Feb 10
     
    no Higgs boson before 2013... and a replacement of 10,000 superconducting magnet connections ! Reminds me of the the gravitational detectors... no detection before an upgrade in 2013...! There are the big announcements to make the cash flow... and reality !
  • Luzi Bergamin on 05 Feb 10
     
    Higgs is almost 81, so he should better invest in his health if he wants the Nobel prize... But who cares, it's another 5 years window where high-energy theorists can produce nonsense with no experimental evidence. They should be happy!
Luís F. Simões

20 predictions for the next 25 years | guardian.co.uk - 5 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...25-predictions-25-years

future politics economy BIO health energy advertising neuroscience BMI physics PHY dark_matter planck food biotechnology nanotechnology game internet privacy environment biodiversity transport religion entertainment population climate_change crisis

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  • Giusi Schiavone on 06 Jan 11
     
    the 10th is interesting, connected with our crowdsourcing experiments with the spacegame
Ma Ru

Phineas Gage - 3 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...health-12649555

neuroscience science

shared by Ma Ru on 06 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Ma Ru on 06 Mar 11
     
    As I now work in the Centre for Robotics *and Neuroscience*, here's a story for you. Some highlights: "It sent the iron straight up into his skull and out of the top of his head, landing some 30 metres away. (...) Phineas was unconscious before getting up and riding an oxcart into town with, 'a big bleedin' hole in his head'. (...) although Phineas survived, he was a changed man. Now he was reportedly unreliable, partial to swearing and often making inappropriate remarks." I guess If I were him I'd be a little partial to swearing too.
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  • LeopoldS on 07 Mar 11
     
    what sort of story is this please???
  • Ma Ru on 07 Mar 11
     
    Apparently you didn't read it... This is a story about how science is born :)
  • LeopoldS on 07 Mar 11
     
    now I did ... :-) just had read your comment ....
Tobias Seidl

The Cochrane Collaboration - Welcome first-time visitors! - 0 views

www.cochrane.org/index_newcomers.htm

BIO health ACT

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  • Tobias Seidl on 22 Jul 09
     
    This is an idependent organisation reviewing healthcare studies and basically judging the results. Something like the ACT for international medicine. Sounds interesting in the approach. Their suggestion for swine-flu prevention: wash your hands frequently. Nothing helps better.
Nina Nadine Ridder

The Great Beyond: Industry wants to try climate change - 0 views

blogs.nature.com/...ry_wants_to_try_climate_1.html

Climate_change

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  • pacome delva on 11 Sep 09
     
    Completely crazy these guys !!!
  • LeopoldS on 12 Sep 09
     
    same story as the tobbacco industry which also tried to make people doubt about the health effects of smoking as long as they could ....
ESA ACT

Carbon nanotubes causing asbestos-like effects in lab mice - Engadget - 0 views

www.engadget.com/...estos-like-effects-in-lab-mice

nanotechnology biology environment health

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    any new findings in there?
ESA ACT

This Is a Computer on Your Brain - 0 views

www.wired.com/...71364

AI bng curiosity

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Curiosity Cloning? This is 2006 but are there any publication related? Can someone track the results of this research?
Joris _

In Eyes, a Clock Calibrated by Wavelengths of Light - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...05light.html

bio science NASA

shared by Joris _ on 05 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Joris _ on 05 Jul 11
     
    Maybe you can use some blue light during the wednesday meeting to keep people awake and alert :p
  • LeopoldS on 06 Jul 11
     
    highly needed indeed ...
LeopoldS

Evolution: Selection for positive illusions : Nature : Nature Publishing Group - 4 views

www.nature.com/...477282a.html

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  • LeopoldS on 13 Oct 11
     
    Let's keep going then ...
  • Dario Izzo on 14 Oct 11
Nicholas Lan

PLoS ONE: Why Do Woodpeckers Resist Head Impact Injury: A Biomechanical Investigation - 1 views

www.plosone.org/...10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0026490

BIO structural drilling

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  • Nicholas Lan on 27 Oct 11
     
    FEM modelling of bone structures in woodpeckers combined with high speed video of pecking motion etc headgear? shock absorbing structures? low mass hammering penetrators? Lizhen Wang1,2, Jason Tak-Man Cheung3, Fang Pu1, Deyu Li1, Ming Zhang2*, Yubo Fan1* 1 Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 2 Department of Health Technology and Informatics, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 3 Li Ning Sports Science Research Center, Beijing, People's Republic of China Head injury is a leading cause of morbidity and death in both industrialized and developing countries.
Nicholas Lan

Hands-on with the Muse brain sensing headband -- the most important wearable of 2014 (e... - 4 views

venturebeat.com/...ant-wearable-of-2014-exclusive

technology BIO BMI wearable

shared by Nicholas Lan on 26 May 14 - No Cached
  • Nicholas Lan on 26 May 14
     
    interestingly it looks like a subject could wear it all day while doing normal stuff http://www.choosemuse.com/ "I got my hands on an early version of Interaxon's brainwave reading headband, the Muse, and I think this could be the most important wearable of the year. And that's saying a lot, considering I've seen 2014′s entire lineup for health tech at the Consumer Electronic Show as well as a few undisclosed athletic devices slated for later this year."
  • johannessimon81 on 03 Jun 14
     
    ..."alerts the users with sights and sounds when they are producing brain waves associated with calm and focus." ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! YOU ARE CALM AND FOCUSSED! :-D
  • Nicholas Lan on 04 Jun 14
     
    indeed the app that comes with it sounds really lame but it comes with an sdk
Thijs Versloot

The Port - Hackathon at CERN - apply now - 3 views

www.theport.ch

cern hackathon

shared by Thijs Versloot on 05 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 05 Aug 14
     
    Interdisciplinary teams of handpicked individuals chosen for their field-leading expertise and innovative mind combine humanitarian questions with state of the art science, cutting-edge technology and endless fantasy. Organised by THE Port Association, hosted by CERN (IdeaSquare tbc) and with partners from other non-governmental organisations, a three-day problem solving workshop hackathon will be devoted to humanitarian, social and public interest topics. Interdisciplinary teams of selected participants will work together in the fields of: communication - transport - health - science - learning - work - culture - data
Thijs Versloot

Is increased light exposure from screens and phones bad for your health? @Wired - 1 views

www.wired.com/...ificial-light-may-be-unhealthy

shared by Thijs Versloot on 19 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 19 Mar 15
     
    As Stevens says in the new article, researchers now know that increased nighttime light exposure tracks with increased rates of breast cancer, obesity and depression. Correlation isn't causation, of course, and it's easy to imagine all the ways researchers might mistake those findings. The easy availability of electric lighting almost certainly tracks with various disease-causing factors: bad diets, sedentary lifestyles, exposure to they array of chemicals that come along with modernity. Very difficult to prove causation I would think, but there are known relationships between hormone levels and light.
  • Paul N on 21 Mar 15
     
    There is actually a windows program called flux, that changes the temperature on your screen to match normal light cycles. When the sun sets it switches to a "warmer" more reddish tint on your screen to promote sleepiness. The typically bright blue/neon white settings of most pc settings is quite "awakening" and keeps your brain running for longer. This impacts your sleeping patterns and all the consequences of that. Amazingly, this flux thing does have an effect. That being said, I wouldn't be too quick to blame it all on PC/artificial lighting time. Sedentary lifestyles, etc can very well place one in a position of long term pc/phone usage so it's quite hard to draw a causal link.
  • LeopoldS on 23 Mar 15
     
    nice - also exists for MAC btw: https://justgetflux.com/news/pages/mac/
Luís F. Simões

Nature's special issue on Interdisciplinarity - 2 views

www.nature.com/...interdisciplinarity-1.18295

nature science collaboration

shared by Luís F. Simões on 06 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Nature’s special issue probes how scientists and social scientists are coming together to solve the grand challenges of energy, food, water, climate and health. This special scrutinizes the data on interdisciplinary work and looks at its history, meaning and funding. A case study and a reappraisal of the Victorian explorer Richard Francis Burton explore the rewards of breaking down boundaries. Meanwhile, a sustainability institute shares its principles for researchers who work across disciplines. Thus inspired, we invite readers to test their polymathy in our lighthearted quiz.
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