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Medical students open to learning with video games

Submitted by Gwmaw
Gwmaw writes "A reported 98 percent of medical students surveyed at the University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin-Madison liked the idea of using technology to enhance their medical education, according to a study published online in BMC Medical Education. For example, a virtual environment could help medical students learn how to interview a patient or run a patient clinic. In the survey, 80 percent of students said computer games can have an educational value."

Why We Need To Abolish Software Patents->

Submitted by eagledck
eagledck writes "During my tech days, I co-authored four software patents. Each cost my startup about $15,000—which seemed like a fortune in those days. I didn’t really expect these to give me any advantage; after all if my competitors had half a brain, they would simply learn all they could from my patent filing and do things better."
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Kids vegetable intake linked to Popeye cartoon->

Submitted by markmark57
markmark57 writes "Popeye cartoons, tasting parties and junior cooking classes can help increase vegetable intake in kindergarten children, according to new research published in the journal Nutrition & Dietetics. Researchers at Mahidol University in Bangkok found the type and amount of vegetables children ate improved after they took part in a program using multimedia and role models to promote healthy food. Twenty six kindergarten children aged four to five participated in the eight week study. The researchers recorded the kinds and amounts of fruit and vegetables eaten by the children before and after the program."
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Why Wave Failed 350

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the exciting-thursday-morning dept.
Florian Wardell submitted a little discussion piece about Why Wave Failed. He blames marketing and the staged rollout. Personally I think that what killed it was that I should have transparently been able to see my gmail inside wave. Requiring a separate window guarantees that I wouldn't use it regularly. Had I been able to read my regular mail in the same UI, I might have been tempted to use it more.

Compact microscope a marvel

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "A compact microscope invented at Rice University is proving its potential to impact global health.In a paper published online today in the journal PLoS ONE, Rice alumnus Andrew Miller and co-authors show that his portable, battery-operated fluorescence microscope, which costs $240, stacks up nicely against devices that retail for as much as $40,000 in diagnosing signs of tuberculosis."
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Why Recordings From World War I Aren't Public Domain 329

Posted by samzenpus
from the that-old-timey-sound dept.
An anonymous reader writes "While Disney and others have done a great job pushing the end date for works entering the public domain ever further forward, most people have assumed that anything from before 1923 is in the public domain. However, it turns out that this is not true for sound recordings, in part due to an accidental quirk in copyright law history — in that Congress, way back in 1909, believed that sound recordings could not be covered by copyright (they believed the Constitution did not allow recordings to be covered), and thus, some state laws stepped up to create special copyrights for sound recordings. A court ruling then said that these state rules were not overruled by federal copyright law. End result? ANY recorded work from before 1972 (no matter how early it was recorded) won't go into the public domain until 2049 at the earliest."

Women attracted to men in red, research shows 1

Submitted by RedSky
RedSky writes "What could be as alluring as a lady in red? A gentleman in red, finds a multicultural study published Aug. 2 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.Simply wearing the color red or being bordered by the rosy hue makes a man more attractive and sexually desirable to women, according to a series of studies by researchers at the University of Rochester and other institutions. And women are unaware of this arousing effect."

Team-working robots huddle together to boost comms->

Submitted by eagledck
eagledck writes "WHEN you are in hostile territory, it pays to stick together — especially if you are a robot. Falling into line will be easier with an innovative communication system that combines the clout of robots' individual radio antennas, making sure they stay in touch with their headquarters. Communicating with robots on the ground gets harder once they move beyond the line of sight, but equipping a group with the "sparse antenna" technology improves communications by extending the radio range. The technology eliminates dead spots, where contact is lost completely, and minimises interference from large buildings or potential signal jammers."
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