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Due Dates on Holidays/Weekends/NIH Office Closures
When a postmark/submission date falls on a weekend, Federal holiday , or Washington, DC area Federal office closure (NOT-OD-17-041), the application deadline is automatically extended to the next business day.
Note: NIH FOAs are posted with a short grace period which allows applications to be submitted even if the submission deadline shifts beyond the expiration date of the FOA. As always, applicants must check the eRA Commons to view their application and ensure it has successfully made it to NIH.
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October 6, 2019Building a Career, One Academic Step at a Time
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““The four-year undergraduate experience is often out of reach for large segments of our population,” said Kemi Jona, associate dean for digital innovation and enterprise learning at Northeastern University in Boston. Moreover, he said, “the idea of getting that one degree and you’re set for life doesn’t really hold water anymore. Then the question becomes, ‘how do we make it easier for working adults and people who need to pick up new kinds of tools and technologies?’”
The answer: stackable credits, which Cassandra Horii, director of Caltech’s center for teaching, learning and outreach, defined as “a more bite-sized piece of education that stands on its own and has value in the workplace.” But “if you continue on your educational trajectory, that piece fully counts towards your next educational step.”
The stackable term itself, noted Jimmie Williamson and Matthew Pittinsky in an article in “Inside Higher Education,” is “clever, invoking the image of Lego blocks and the metaphor of assembly.”” “}}
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/education/learning/stackable-degree-continuing-education.html
How many times did modern humans mate with Neandertals? | Nature Research Ecology & Evolution Community
October 5, 2019Structure Software for Population Genetics Inference
October 4, 2019Should You Keep Taking Zantac for Your Heartburn? – The New York Times
September 30, 2019Zantac Pulled From Shelves by Walgreens, Rite Aid and CVS Over Carcinogen Fears – The New York Times
September 30, 2019Forget the new iPhones: Apple’s best product is now privacy
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“In iOS 12 Apple is also introducing anti-fingerprinting technology in Safari. Fingerprinting is a tracking technology advertisers and data firms use to identify your movements online. They do this by recording characteristics about the device you are using–such as hard drive size, screen resolution, fonts, installed, and more–and then recording a log of that device’s movements. Though fingerprinting doesn’t give the firms access to your name, they know what the owner of a specific device does online and can build a profile around those actions. Well, again, until Apple shut that down with iOS 12 by stripping the unique characteristics of your device away from advertisers’ tracking software. These same benefits are also found in Apple’s latest MacOS Mojave, by the way.”
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Forget the new iPhones: Apple’s best product is now privacy
https://www.fastcompany.com/90236195/forget-the-new-iphones-apples-best-product-is-now-privacy
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Low-Dose Aspirin Late in Life? Healthy People May Not Need It
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“The most widely used guidelines for using aspirin to prevent disease came out in 2016 from experts at the United States Preventive Services Task Force. They recommend the drug to prevent cardiovascular disease and colorectal cancer in many people aged 50 to 59 who have more than a 10 percent risk of having a heart attack or stroke during the next 10 years. (That risk, based on age, blood pressure, cholesterol and others factors, can be estimated with an online calculator from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.)
For people 60 to 69 with the same risk level, the guidelines say it should be an individual decision whether to take aspirin.
But for people 70 and over, the guidelines say there’s not enough evidence to make any recommendation.”
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Low-Dose Aspirin Late in Life? Healthy People May Not Need It
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/health/aspirin-older-people-heart-attacks.html
