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POPSHealth News:Future doctors oversharing on Facebook Future doctors are seen to be oversharing on Facebook, a popular social networking Web site. More than half of the pages of medical students provided lifestyle information, including dating relationships and sexual orientation, a research by the University of Florida says.
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POPSWhat Do Your Genes Say About You? The Future of Personal Genomics The company 23andMe announced its DNA testing service last month in San Diego. You might think such a comprehensive analysis would costs thousands, but the process is actually relatively affordable. For less than $1,000 customers are able to learn virtually everything science currently knows about their biological code. For those wary of needles, you’ll be comforted to know that the DNA is retrieved conveniently and painlessly from a home mail-in saliva test kit.
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POPSThe Future This is a special report that appeared on Forbes on 10.15.07 and has an impressive list of visionaries talking about the future. highly recommended reading. click the names to read the visions
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POPSArtificial Intelligence under the spotlight at BA Festival ‘Computers are now one million times more powerful than when I started my research career – no field has come close to this rate of development,’ he says. ‘If transport had progressed at the same rate we would be flying from London to New York in less than a tenth of second.’
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POPSJensen Touch-Screen Portable The Jensen 3.5? Touch-Screen Portable Navigation System features: 1 GB of embedded flash memory, turn-by-turn voice prompts, a rechargeable Li-Polymer battery and 1.7 million points of interest, Additional highlights include an on-screen keyboard, a 3.5? color touch screen with a built-in loud speaker and an SD/MMC card slot for future expansion.
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POPSHealth News : Diabetes Research has shown that a protein which is produced in the liver might help doctors to predict who might be at a high risk to get diabetes in the future.
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POPSFuture Climate Change
The average surface temperature of the Earth is likely to increase by 2 to 11.5°F (1.1-6.4°C) by the end of the 21st century, relative to 1980-1990, with a best estimate of 3.2 to 7.2°F (1.8-4.0°C) (see Figure 1). The average rate of warming over each inhabited continent is very likely to be at least twice as large as that experienced during the 20th century. Warming will not be evenly distributed around the globe (see Figure 2): Land areas will warm more than oceans in part due to water's ability to store heat. High latitudes will warm more than low latitudes in part due to positive feedback effects from melting ice (as discussed above). Most of North America; all of Africa, Europe, northern and central Asia; and most of Central and South America are likely to warm more than the global average. Projections suggest that the warming will be close to the global average in south Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and southern South America. The warming will differ by season, with
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POPSThe Worlds Most Valuable Mars Bar Sold for $60,000 http://www.MalEmeryOnline.com The Worlds Most Valuable Mars Bar Sold for $60,000 Proceeds of this auction donated to: The Jenny McKenna Foundation and Ganngjalah Cultural Gardens Jenny McKenna, a 34 year old accomplished triathlete and cyclist, after a tragic accident is now facing an uncertain future, a long with over 6500 other young Australians who are forced into Age Care Nursing Home to receive the on going care they desperately need.
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POPSHow dumb are we? Though I tend to agree to the general proposition here, it might be that we witness the arising of a different kind of intelligence, that adapts to the information explosion. Perhaps knowledge is not equated with understanding, and books are not the nexus of intelligence anymore? Perhaps nowadays we need to learn more about the future than we learn about the past?
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POPSFinancial Planning Handbook A Step-By-Step Financial Planning System to Ensure You Do Everything to Protect the Financial Health of you and your Loved Ones
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