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Environmental Health: March 2013
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Monday, March 18, 2013. Nothing is certain, but blood pressure does increase in the end of winter and beginning of spring. According to Aurametrix. Statistics. As a matter of fact, it highly correlates with tax fever - as found by Google Correlate algorithm comparing millions of web queries - see the figure on the right with searches for property taxes shown in red. Or check it yourself. Could utilize the wealth of empirical evidence and use it for prediction and prevention. Halonen, J., Zanobetti, A...
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Environmental Health: May 2015
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Sunday, May 17, 2015. Cities of the Future. Picture your dream home. Chances are you did not think much about cutting edge technology, but more about luscious green grass, backyard oasis, fresh clean air, soothing pool of water or watching the sunset in your rocking chair. But, as most people now live in cities and urban dwellers are likely to reach 70% of the world population by 2050, will it be actually possible to build happy cities where we can relax and rejuvenate? Meanwhile the Netherlands is exper...
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Environmental Health: October 2013
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Sunday, October 20, 2013. Are You What You Read or Do You Read What You Are? The environment plays a significant role in our health. We are exposed to multiple physical, chemical and biological challenges, including information - like news and gossip stories related to health and wellness. How exactly is it affecting us? Consumption of health information does affect specific behaviors. But the effect is not as straightforward or as strong as one might think. Bennett, A. 7 Surprising (or not? Subscribe to...
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Environmental Health: September 2013
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013. Asthma sufferers know that when it rains it spores - as fungi and mold get moving through the air. But many don't realize that the most dangerous month for children's asthma symptoms is dry September. Asthma hospitalizations in children 2-15 years in Canada. Dust mites, animal dander, chalk. Dust, cleaning agents, scented and unscented. Personal care products and fumes. So what can you do to manage asthma at school? 3), 526-9 PMID: 17658590. Lin S, Jones R, Liu X, and Hwang...
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Environmental Health: November 2013
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Monday, November 4, 2013. Keeping Pollutants Out with Exercise. Food, drugs, air and everyday products like soap, cloth and grocery receipts are polluting our bodies with hundreds of toxic chemicals. New chemicals are constantly being introduced into our environment and the effects of most of them on human health are not known. Of human diseases are due to environmental exposures as genetics is not the whole story. A pair of earmuffs to filter excessively negative information in the press. Air pollution ...
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Health Technologies: August 2010
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Sunday, August 15, 2010. Predicting catastrophic health events - noninvasively and short term. I've just picked up a fault in the AE35 unit. It's going to go 100% failure in 72 hours". These were famous words of the almighty computer HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey". Few of us believe too much in software forecasts - be it weather, earthquakes or computer hard disk failures. Yet, we all know that sometimes it works. And such systems are very valuable, assuming they continuously improve. Gordon Bell predict...
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Health Technologies: Is the Internet of Things the Real Thing?
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Saturday, September 6, 2014. Is the Internet of Things the Real Thing? The Internet of Things: an exciting new world with a digital nervous system or a nightmare where objects take decisions while we are unconscious? Consumers are not ready to embrace the flood of smart wearables and appliances - as they don't really know what to do with them, don't perceive their value and are concerned about privacy and prices. However, the current generation of "smart things" is focused mostly on better designed hardw...
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Health Technologies: On Luck, Skill and Hard Work - in Soccer and Life
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Saturday, June 28, 2014. On Luck, Skill and Hard Work - in Soccer and Life. Big data doesn't always get us closer to truth. Especially if there a fair bit of luck involved. And many think this applies to football/soccer games ( Sally and Anderson. For example, say that soccer results are 50% luck). Yet data analysis provides valuable, sometimes counter-intuitive insights into this beautiful sport and the science of winning and losing in general. How can we measure luck in soccer separate from skill?
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Environmental Health: May 2012
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Saturday, May 26, 2012. More apps, less flu? Fewer people caught the flu this season compared with past years. And many more apps tracking the flu have been developed. Any relationship between these two trends? The flu is inherently social. "Nip the flu in the bud by spreading information, not germs, through the social network", says Flu Alert app. And lets you sort your friends by their flu exposures. Virtual flu in Fluville. Is promoting healthy habits by showing how flu can spread. Fluspotter. Social...
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