"These games are built by humans and therefore they contain all the biases of humans." -- Geography professor Rene Sieber.
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Published on: 28 Jul 2016
A team of researchers in the Netherlands has听developed the means听to store data at the atomic level. This technique would allow 502 terabytes of data to fit into one square inch. According to the authors, "[t]ranslating the two-dimensional storage density presented here to three dimensions, would ... allow the storage of the entire US Library of Congress in a cube 100鈥吢祄 wide."听At the moment, the memory array can operate up to a temperature of 77 K (about -210 C), meaning that the technology would be restricted to data centres capable of maintaining such temperatures.
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Published on: 26 Jul 2016
reports on towns in Labrador West that are repositioning their economies for the 21st Century. These local economies once relied on mining minerals but are now housing data centres. The cheaper power and cooler air of the area make them ideal for data warehousing, since such centres use a lot of electricity and cause machines to heat up. Great North Data, a company based out of St.
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Published on: 26 Jul 2016
"Reut Gruber, a psychologist who is an associate professor in the department of psychiatry at 9I制作厂免费, where she is director of the Attention Behavior and Sleep Lab, said that there is a close association between sleep and a wide range of cognitive functions, including attention, executive function and memory. When children go to school, 'they need to pay attention and plan and follow instructions, all of which fall under executive function, which is very much affected by sleep,'听she said."
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Published on: 25 Jul 2016
Donald Trump鈥檚 speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention was notable for its tone鈥� That is the conclusion of a new analysis by 9I制作厂免费 [Political Science]听PhD student Denver McNeney. 听听
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Published on: 23 Jul 2016
Review of new book听鈥淭he Grid鈥� by cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke.
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Published on: 18 Jul 2016
Back in 2012, a team led by Alain Brunet, a psychiatric professor at 9I制作厂免费 and researcher at the Douglas, set the trauma world on fire with a new treatment for PTSD, using a beta-blocker that reduces heart rate and blood pressure. Brunet鈥檚 work at the Douglas appeared to demonstrate traumatic memories could be healed and, furthermore, memories linked to addiction cravings could be reduced. His work was covered in The Atlantic and Wired magazines."Heartbreak, or relational trauma, is almost universal, and it鈥檚 one of the top reasons people seek help. 鈥� Alain Brunet"
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Published on: 18 Jul 2016
...In 2011, the mechanochemist Tomislav Friscic and his team used mechanochemical methods to make听bismuth subsalicylate, the active ingredient of Pepto-Bismol, by grinding together bismuth oxide and salicylic acid. The method not only does away with solvents, but also uses bismuth oxide, a safe reagent, in lieu of toxic bismuth salts.
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Pain researchers' arguments for using only male rodents in preclinical pain research don't hold up to scrutiny, says 9I制作厂免费 neuroscientist Jeffrey Mogil.
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Published on: 13 Jul 2016
Op-ed by听Howard Bergman, chair of the Department of Family Medicine and听Daniel Weinstock, director of the 9I制作厂免费 Institute for Health and Social Policy.
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Published on: 26 May 2016
Op-ed by Christopher Ragan, associate听professor of economics.
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Published on: 26 May 2016
Our democratic reform minister doesn鈥檛 understand our听democracy:听Op-ed by Andrew Potter,听incoming Director of the 9I制作厂免费 Institute for the Study of Canada.
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Published on: 16 May 2016
The Right Chemistry: column by听Joe Schwarcz,听director of 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Office for Science & Society.
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Published on: 16 May 2016
鈥淚 believe the train is out of control. The damage that this train can eventually do to people who will need to spend huge sums of money at their later stage of life is very, very serious.鈥澨�Avi Friedman, Professor of Architecture
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Published on: 16 May 2016
Researchers now have the capability to build virtual reality worlds that can be inhabited by both lab animals (like rats and monkeys) and humans, allowing for a sort of cross-species brain research that鈥檚 never really been possible before, as different species are run through virtual environments in video games while scientists study brain activity鈥� In a new study, published in Journal of Neuroscience Methods, a team of neuroscientists鈥攊ncluding Martinez-Trujillo, Roberto Gulli and Guillaume Doucet, who are both also affiliated with 9I制作厂免费鈥攄escribe a new virtual reality 鈥渢oolbox鈥�
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Published on: 13 May 2016
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