Your oral health is connected to your mortality
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Looking at multiple dental health conditions and behaviors paints a clearer picture of long-term health and mortality, researchers report. People who report having poor oral health are as likely to have negative long-term systemic health outcomes as those previously […]
Dog DNA Company Insists Human DNA Is Actually Alaskan Malamute
An at-home DNA testing kit for dogs claimed that human saliva returned various dog breed results — and when pressed, the firm held firm. As Boston’s WBZ-TV reports, the Toronto-based DNA My Dog company told not one but two humans who sent cheek swabs in that their results contained dog DNA, calling into question the accuracy of […]
Only optimism can save us. But plenty of reasons for optimism!
Far too many of us seem addicted to downer, ‘we’re all doomed’ gloom-trips. Only dig it, that foul habit doesn’t make you sadly-wise. Rather, it debilitates your ability to fight for a better world. Worse, it is self-indulgent Hollywood+QAnon crap infesting both the right and the left. In fact, we’d be very well-equipped to solve all problems […]
What Does Virtual First Mean In Healthcare?
In recent years, the term “virtual first” has been gaining traction in the healthcare space. Health insurance companies have been adopting such approaches and there’s even the IMPACT consortium from the Digital Medicine Society that was formed to support virtual first initiatives. However, the novelty of the concept and similarities with terms such as “telehealth” […]
World’s Fastest AI Chip with 4 Trillion Transistors
Cerebras Systems has doubled its existing world record of fastest AI chip with the introduction of the Wafer Scale Engine 3. The WSE-3 delivers twice the performance of the previous record-holder, the Cerebras WSE-2, at the same power draw and for the same price. Purpose built for training the industry’s largest AI models, the 5nm-based, […]
This Gene Increases the Risk of Alzheimer’s. Scientists Finally Know Why
At the turn of the 20th century, Dr. Alois Alzheimer noticed peculiar changes in a freshly removed brain. The brain had belonged to a 50-year-old woman who gradually lost her memory and struggled with sleep, increased aggression, and eventually paranoia. Under the microscope, her brain was littered with tangles of protein clumps. Curiously, shiny bubbles […]
High schoolers who use cannabis & tobacco get lower grades
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. High school students who use both tobacco and cannabis products miss more school and have lower grades compared to students who don’t use either product or who use the products individually but don’t combine them, according to a new […]
Man Pleads Guilty to Trying to Clone Giant Sheep
“This was an audacious scheme to create massive hybrid sheep species to be sold and hunted as trophies.” Sheepy Situation The Marco Polo argali sheep is the biggest sheep in the world. These creatures, native to Central Asia, can weigh up to 300 pounds, and they sport on their heads massive, heavy spiraling horns that […]
Will the Supremes Dump Donald? And the Doctorow Doctrine on AI
So now there’s speculation that the U.S. Supreme Court might back up Colorado and disqualify Trump, by saying ‘it’s up to each state.’ I am skeptical. In fact, there’s just one way that could happen…. … and that would be if Thomas, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and especially John Roberts get orders to do so, from the […]
Using ChatGPT Offline: How Small Language Models Can Aid Healthcare Professionals
By now, you might have come across the term large language models (LLMs), which is a type of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). If not, you have likely encountered GenAI applications that are based on LLMs. This includes the likes of ChatGPT, Google Bard and Microsoft Copilot. While such models have proved useful, in the healthcare […]