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Gathering Health Care Insights from Data About People’s Daily Lives

March 17, 2018

https://hbr.org/2018/03/gathering-health-care-insights-from-data-about-peoples-daily-lives

The First Image Ever of a Hydrogen Atom’s Orbital Structure

March 17, 2018

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-image-ever-of-a-hydrogen-atoms-orbital-struc-509684901

Wikipedia shapes language in science papers, an “RCT” study

March 17, 2018

All of a sudden, scientists become guinea pigs.

Nature News:
https://www.nature.com/news/wikipedia-shapes-language-in-science-papers-1.22656

Thompson and co-author Douglas Hanley, an economist at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, commissioned PhD students to write 43 chemistry articles on topics that weren’t yet on Wikipedia. In January 2015, they published a randomized set of half of the articles to the site. The other half, which served as control articles, weren’t uploaded.

By February 2017, the chemistry articles had together received more than 2 million views. The researchers then analysed the text of 50 of the highest-impact chemistry journals published by Elsevier to see whether the language used in scientific papers had shifted by November 2016, nearly two years after the Wikipedia articles were posted

Bottled water containing tiny particles of water: Alert to San Pellegrino drinkers

March 17, 2018

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43388870

Peter Townsend (RAF officer) – Wikipedia

March 17, 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Townsend_(RAF_officer)

Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon – Wikipedia

March 17, 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Armstrong-Jones,_1st_Earl_of_Snowdon

Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos C.E.O. and Silicon Valley Star, Accused of Fraud – The New York Times

March 16, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/health/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-fraud.html

NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2018: route and street closures – Curbed NY

March 16, 2018

https://ny.curbed.com/2018/3/9/17101022/nyc-st-patricks-day-parade-route-street-closures-2018

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When is the St. Patrick’s Day Parade?
The parade kicks off at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 17and it’ll broadcast live on NBC New York.
What is the parade route?
It’s a straight shot north on Fifth Avenue: The parade will begin on 44th Street, making its way north and passing the St. Patrick’s Cathedral on 50th Street and Fifth Avenue, and wrapping up outside of the American Irish Historical Society on 80th Street.
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Amazon’s cashier-less Seattle grocery store is opening to the public – MIT Technology Review

March 11, 2018

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610006/amazons-checkout-free-grocery-store-is-opening-to-the-public/

UC Davis MIND Institute

March 11, 2018

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mindinstitute/