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Angela S

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    world picture of how science, health & envrionment has changed
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    mcahs
Megan Gillespie

List of open-source healthcare software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    The following is a list of software packages and applications licensed under an open-source license or in the public domain for use in the healthcare industry.
brooke garretson

JMLA - 0 views

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    talks about health used over the web
Elizabeth S

Obama and Twitter: White House Social-Networking - 0 views

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    This article is about the president using social networking to gain support for various things, such as health-awareness.
Giacomo P

Bionics: The next generation - 0 views

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    This talks about how a wireless chip can tap into the nervous system, and control bionic arms
Sana Seth

6F, How science enviroment and health affect outsorucing. - 1 views

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    This website helps alot. It states the basic meaning of outsourcing and gives an overview of how outsourcing affects us today in many different ways.
Ben henry

Cellphones and Cancer: What's the Risk? - 0 views

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    Article discussing what possible risks and causes of cancer are and relating that to cell phone use.
Joseph Pasquino

Internet Use Affects Memory, Study Finds - 0 views

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    The widespread use of search engines and online databases has affected the way people remember information, researchers are reporting. The scientists, led by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia, wondered whether people were more likely to remember information that could be easily retrieved from a computer, just as students are more likely to recall facts they believe will be on a test.
Taylor Wasem

How Mobile Technology Is Poised To Revolutionize Healthcare - 1 views

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    There are now multiple different additions for smartphones that allow doctors to perform certain tasks through their phones, as opposed to through large, expensive machines.
Liz A

Wireless monitoring of patients - 1 views

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    "Rajasekaran and colleagues have developed a real-time monitoring system for patients."
Megan Van Doren

Negative Effects of Globalization - 0 views

  • Fast food chains like McDonalds and KFC are spreading in the developing world. People are consuming more junk food from these joints which has an adverse impact on their health.
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      It can also be a positive effect when looked at from a different perspective. Standardisation of product: the same products can be seen in some many places - e.g coke and McDonalds. Besides simply making a profit, it can be a benefit because the products and mass media can relate people all over the world.
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    Explains what globalization is and the effects of it.
Vicki Davis

Google Flu Trends - 0 views

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    Explore flu trends around the world. Great for class discussions. You can also download world flu activity data.
Vicki Davis

BLUE MEN - Inconvenient Youth - 1 views

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    In this case, arts, entertainment and leisure influences science and health -- viral videos and the new way that information spreads is fundamentally changing activism and promoting change. Talk about something to another person and just have a "jab session" -- make a video that goes viral and you can change the world.
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    Interestingly, inconvenient youth is built on the Ning platform. Fascinating use. This video from the blue man group on the environment has been widely viewed around the world. Such videos spark social change -- these are not TV commercials but viral videos that spread from blog to blog and email to email. How information travels has fundamentally changed.
Vicki Davis

FOXNews.com - Cyberbullying: Parents, Tech Companies Join Forces to Keep Kids Safe - Sc... - 0 views

  • An ex-friend’s mother faces charges in federal court as a result, and Missouri has made Internet harassment a crime.
  • Cyberbullies often commandeer e-mail accounts and social-networking profiles, attacking kids while pretending to be someone they trust, like a best friend. They use cell phones and the Web to spread embarrassing and cruel material, and they can harass their victims well beyond the schoolyard -- even when they're "safe" at home.
  • 85 percent of 5,000 middle-school students surveyed said they had been cyberbullied. Only 5 percent of them said they’d tell someone about it.
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  • Fake profiles and anonymous screen names are used in 65 percent of cyberbully attacks,
  • she went to a mental-health clinic
  • assuming that if they haven’t received a death threat or had a picture of their face posted on a naked body on the Internet, they haven’t been bullied.
  • They think that’s just part of online life,
  • Aftab said she knows of three other teens who have committed suicide after cyberbullying attacks, and that the problem is on the rise.
  • Cyberbullying peaks in 4th and 7th grade
  • 4th graders are especially into blackmail and threatening to tell friends, parents or teachers if the victim doesn’t cooperate.
  • The most outrageous recent way is through theft of a cell phone for a few minutes," Aftab said. "If your kids leave their cell phone unattended or accessible in their backpack, the cyberbully will take it and send a bunch of bad text messages or reprogram it.”
  • “This whole password thing freaks people out ... but a good password doesn’t have to be hard to remember, just hard to guess,” Criddle said. “Friends don’t ask friends for passwords.
  • October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month,
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    Excellent article on cyberbullying and an example of a girl who was harrassed online and killed herself. This sort of thing is tragic and we should consider what we think aboutinternet harrassment penalties, particularly against children. There are mention of several websites including one I'd never heard of called CyberBully Alert.
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    You should consider mentioning cyberbullying as an issue. This might also be a topic of interest to push forward for a social entreprenuership video.
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