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Clips from “Yuck” - Battle of the Salads

So a 4th grader took a camera to his school for six months straight to record the quality of his school lunch. Then he made a documentary out of it.

(by Maxwell Project)

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Tetris can help correct lazy eye: researchers

Now researchers at McGill University in Montreal are testing an innovative means of improving visual function in adults with lazy eye — a puzzle video game that forces both eyes to work together to overcome the common condition.

In a study published Monday in the journal Current Biology, the researchers compared the use of the online video game Tetris with patching, a treatment in which the “good” eye is covered for a lengthy period of time. The idea is to make the weak eye do all the visual work in the hope of strengthening its acuity.

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emergentfutures:

Through app, diabetes is gamified as a monster to be tamed

mySugr makes it more fun for diabetics to monitor and treat their condition by treating it as a virtual monster that reacts to their actions.

Full Story: Springwise

I love things like this.

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It gets funnier the longer you look at it.

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theatlantic:

Are Your Facebook Friends Stressing You Out? (Yes.)

The stress comes, Marder theorizes, from the kind of personal versioning that is so common in analog life — the fact that you (probably) behave slightly differently when you’re with your mom than you do when you’re with your boss, or with your boyfriend, or with your dentist. And it comes, even more specifically, from the social nuance of that versioning behavior colliding with the blunt social platform that is The Facebook. Behaviors like swearing and drinking and smoking, the study suggests, are behaviors that you (might) do with friends — but not (probably) with your boss. And, more subtly, language that you might use with your friends — in-jokes, slang, references to Breaking Bad — probably won’t track when you’re not with your friends. The awareness of that discrepancy — Facebook’s tendency to disseminate even highly targeted social interactions — leads to stress.

Read more. [Image: Shutterstock]

Fascinating.

Getting in Bed with Gadgets: Your Technology is Keeping You Awake [INFOGRAPHIC]

Among the key findings:

• 90% of 18-29 year olds sleep with their smartphones
• 95% of people use the phone for something just before going to bed
• Half of people check their phones immediately if they wake up during the night

Studies Link Students’ Boredom to Stress

A group of researchers has published a study in Perspectives on Psychological Science linking student boredom to feelings of stress. While it’s still important for teachers to create a stimulating and engaging environment, students might have some internal emotion or frustration causing their boredom.

(Source: energizestudents)

I can tolerate it. As long as they have muffins or something.

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A new iPhone app turns your device’s camera into a biosensor to measure your heart rate. It does this by measuring light reflected off your face. The app from the Rock Health accelerator program is called Cardiio.

The company explains how the app works on its website: “Every time your heart beats, more blood is pumped into your face. This slight increase in blood volume causes more light to be absorbed, and hence less light is reflected from your face. Using sophisticated software, your iPhone’s front camera can track these tiny changes in reflected light that are not visible to the human eye and calculate your heart beat!”

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iPhone App Turns Your Phone’s Camera Into a Heartrate Monitor [VIDEO] (via everythingisdisrupted)

What is this I don’t even

Scientists Invent Particles That Will Let You Live Without Breathing →

This may seem like something out of a science fiction movie: researchers have designed microparticles that can be injected directly into the bloodstream to quickly oxygenate your body, even if you can’t breathe anymore. It’s one of the best medical breakthroughs in recent years, and one that could save millions of lives every year.

The invention, developed by a team at Boston Children’s Hospital, will allow medical teams to keep patients alive and well for 15 to 30 minutes despite major respiratory failure. This is enough time for doctors and emergency personnel to act without risking a heart attack or permanent brain injuries in the patient.

Don’t let anyone tell you differently: Science is AMAZING.

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Really? No one thought this was a bad idea?

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This 15 year old just won $75,000 for developing a test for pancreatic cancer that’s over 90 percent accuracy, and 28 times faster, 28 times less expensive and over 100 times more sensitive than current tests.

(Source: societyforscience.org)

Federal Student Loan Legislation Turns To Partisan Fight →

With Congress returning from a weeklong spring recess, the Senate plans to vote Tuesday on whether to start debating a Democratic plan to keep college loan interest rates for 7.4 million students from doubling on July 1. The $6 billion measure would be paid for by collecting more Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes from high-earning owners of some privately held corporations.

Republicans want a vote on their own bill, which like the Democrats’ would freeze today’s 3.4 percent interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans for one more year. It would be financed by eliminating a preventive health program established by President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.

Each side scoffs that the other’s proposal is unacceptable.

Yes…unacceptable. Because if there’s one thing we don’t need, it’s preventative medicine. Who wants to prevent obesity anyway? It’s only linked to dozens of major (and expensive) health issues.

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thedailywhat:

Chuck & Beans.

Didn’t think through that smoking cessation campaign.