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2022-06-18 The Long, Uncertain Road to Artificial General Intelligence by Tristan Greene Last month, DeepMind, a subsidiary of technology giant Alphabet, set Silicon Valley abuzz when it announced Gato, perhaps the most versatile artificial intelligence model in existence. Billed as a “generalist agent,” Gato can perform over 600 different tasks. It can drive a robot, […]
Buy and Bust: When Private Equity Comes for Rural Hospitals Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News MEXICO, Mo. — When the new corporate owners of two rural hospitals suddenly announced they would stop admitting patients one Friday in March, Kayla Schudel, a nurse, stood resolute in the nearly empty lobby of Audrain Community Hospital: […]
2022-06-17 Covid Funding Pries Open a Door to Improving Air Quality in Schools Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News Many U.S. schools were in dire need of upgrades — burdened by leaking pipes, mold, and antiquated heating systems — long before the covid-19 pandemic drew attention to the importance of indoor ventilation in reducing […]
Trouble paying bills can take a heavy toll on fathers’ mental health, leading to family conflict Most research on poverty has focused on the effects on mothers, but a new study shows the importance of turning increased attention to fathers’ mental health. kieferpix/iStock via Getty Images Plus Joyce Y. Lee, The Ohio State University The Research […]
How Smiling More Can Benefit Your Well-Being By Dr. Lou Graham What’s your facial expression right now? Are your brows furrowed as you read this article? Maybe you’re already smiling because you learned from the title that your grin can benefit your well-being. You might be surprised to learn that Yale Research found […]
On Mental Health Friday, we post, in alphabetical order, one per week, information on mental health disorders. Mental Health Friday is for informational purposes only, and is in no way meant to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. Please do not self diagnose and seek professional help for what ails you. Today’s […]
2022-06-16 Preventive Care May Be Free, but Follow-Up Diagnostic Tests Can Bring Big Bills Michelle Andrews When Cynthia Johnson learned she would owe $200 out-of-pocket for a diagnostic mammogram in Houston, she almost put off getting the test that told her she had breast cancer. “I thought, ‘I really don’t have this to […]
WHO: Let’s talk about depression – focus on adolescents and young adults Source: World Health Organization under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Intergovernmental Organization (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO) license. Articles posted on this site are the works of their respective authors. They may be for informational or entertainment purposes and do not […]
Potentials: Enriching The World With Yours By Chude, Arinze Timothy (Aristotle) “Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.” Sir Winston Churchill. Potential is an unborn ability, capacity and tendency possessed by every living being which can be tapped or developed for the existence and survival of […]
2022-06-15 As Biden Fights Overdoses, Harm Reduction Groups Face Local Opposition Renuka Rayasam HOUSTON — Casey Malish had just pulled into an intersection in the 2nd Ward when a woman with tattoos and pinkish hair unexpectedly hopped into the back seat of his gray Mazda. He handles outreach for the Houston Harm Reduction […]