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Comment Re:The Elephant In The Room (Score 1) 602

by wbackner (#42172947) Attached to: No More "Asperger's Syndrome"
Obviously you do not know what you are talking about. This is not about "popular" rejection of Freud. Professionals in the field no longer use it. And what would you say about the research linking genetics and autism. You may not be able to understand how genetic and nurturing effects on children can be separated, but I assure you that there are plenty of professionals who spend their time doing just that. It is easy to blame parents. Some are bad and some are wonderful. Until you spend some time working with these families maybe you should reserve your opinion since it seems to lack a factual basis.
Apple

Submission + - Apple's A6 Details and Timeline Emerge (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid writes: "For a CPU that hasn't seen the light of day, there's a great deal of debate surrounding Apple's A6 and the suggestion that it may not appear until later in 2012. The A6 is a complex bit of hardware. Rumors indicate that the chip is a quad-core Cortex-A9 CPU built on 28nm at TSMC and utilizing 3D fabrication technology. While the Cortex-A9 is a proven design, Apple's A6 will be one of the first 28nm chips on the market. The chip will serve as a test case for TSMC's introduction of both 28nm gate-last technology and 3D chip stacking. This is actually TSMC's first effort with an Apple device. The A4 and A5 have both historically been manufactured by Samsung."
Chrome

Submission + - 3D Gaming Coming To Chrome (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Video gaming is a big topic for web browsers as well as HTML5, but there are few enthusiast gamers who are taking this scenario serious. Can a Joystick API and a 3D Client change the perception?

Submission + - Hurricane reduction with 1 year payback (intellectualventureslab.com)

Submitted by doug141
doug141 writes: Salter sinks, which are wave power pumps, could cool hurricane-producing surface waters just enough to reduce hurricanes to any desired level. They can be made out of old tires so cheaply, the payback in reduced hurricane damage happens the first year.

Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 594

by wbackner (#33545056) Attached to: Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award
You are correct. Intensive ABA therapy which is one of the most costly treatments (and best empirically supported, there are lots of meta-analyses) costs around $40,000 a year. The cost is basically just paying a full time aid to do the treatment. And that isn't even a lifetime cost since it is an early intervention. Even if you were to say that you needed a full time aid for the entire life that is only about $40,000 a year with adjustments for inflation.
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Artist Builds a Real-Life Working Hoverboard (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Who hasn’t wished at some point that they could take a spin on Marty McFly’s hoverboard from Back to the Future II? The hoverboard may not be an actual form of transportation yet, but French artist Nils Guadagnin has built a working replica of McFly’s floating board. The hoverboard features an electromagnetic system that allows it to levitate as well as a laser system that stabilizes the object.
Science

Submission + - Bone marrow transplant cure "mental illness" (utah.edu)

Submitted by wbackner
wbackner writes: Researchers found that a bone marrow transplant cured mice that had a gene that cause them to excessively groom. Various permutations of deficient and normal bone marrow in the mice demonstrated the obsessive grooming was caused by mutant microglia cells that originate in the bone marrow and travel to the brain. The researchers state that this is the first study that demonstrates a mechanism for the immune system to affect behavior and cause psychiatric disorders. Although they don't know how the microglia cause the disorder or effect the brain they found that mice that had the gene for excessive grooming had 15% fewer microglia cells in the brain.

The authors are claiming that the excessive grooming is equivalent to trichotillomania and that a bone marrow transplant cures the disorder. The senior researcher Mario Capecchi is even supporting the media in claims that they may have found a new way of treating mental illnesses in general. Also, all media is focused on Mario, due to him being a Nobel Prize winner, even though he is not he first author and he is claiming all of the credit rather than properly giving it to the team. He was only the "senior researcher".

Submission + - Cameras catching crooks AND cops (skunkpost.com)

Submitted by crimeandpunishment
crimeandpunishment writes: Is it police brutality caught on video, or just police officers trying to do their job? Video from their own dashboard cameras, along with cell phones and other sources is putting the focus on the cops, not the criminals. And it raises the question of whether this is exposing bad behavior that police have gotten away with for years, or if a brief clip of video from an incident puts police unfairly in the spotlight.
Apple

Submission + - Will the iPad ruin books? 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The New York Times is leading a backlash against the recent success of a strange eBook called Alice for the iPad. The newspaper claims that, on this evidence, the iPad will ruin books. Alice, a physics-enabled version of Alice in Wonderland was made by two hobbyist coders, using public domain illustrations. It's more like a hallucination than a book, but has stormed to the top of the iPad Book store, outselling Disney, Marvel and Amazon. However the NYT says this goes against the whole point of traditional books , knocking Alice and other interactive titles: "what I really love [about traditional books] is their inertness. No matter how I shake “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” mushrooms don’t tumble out of the upper margin, unlike the “Alice” for the iPad.". The NYT also worries that new eBook titles could distract kids from the tougher task of actually concentrating on literature: "what will become of the readers we’ve been — quiet, thoughtful, patient, abstracted — in a world where interactive can be too tempting to ignore?"
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Never Trust Your Spell Checker, Lesson DCXVII (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by nightcats
nightcats writes: In a bad economy, publishers often bring the axe down on editors and proofreaders first. And every so often, it costs them big time. But at least the rest of us get to laugh. The opening paragraph of this BBC story says it all:

An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.

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