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The Prevailing Narrative On Trigger Warnings Is Just Plain Wrong
Despite the media scare stories, trigger warnings are not widely used by college professors across the country, according to a survey released in full on Tuesday. They're not even widely demanded by students. And when they are used, the warnings address both liberal and conservative concerns.
The nonscientific survey, conducted by the National Coalition Against Censorship, is the first of its kind to gather data on the actual use of trigger warnings in college classes. The conclusion: While professors are fretting about the possibility, there is "no crisis."
Trigger warnings advise readers that ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - December 1, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Science: Not just for scientists
In a landmark essay to mark the relaunch of the British Science Association, Chief Executive Imran Khan argues that science is too important to be left to scientists alone No-one should feel the need to apologise for not being a scientist. And yet when I tell people I work for the British Science Association (BSA), embarrassment is a common response. “I don’t really understand science”, I hear. “Oh, I’m more of an arty person”, they say, or, “the last time I did science was at school”.Such embarrassment is misplaced; not liking science is fine. The real concern is when people are excluded when they don’t ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 1, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Imran Khan Tags: Science Science policy Source Type: news
Boost your residency application with these 5 writing tips
Summarizing years of training, your passion for medicine or why you’re choosing a particular specialty in one eloquent personal statement can feel daunting. That’s why professors designed a special workshop to teach medical students how to beat “writer’s block” and craft effective essays for their residency applications. Follow these steps to begin writing your personal statement.
Professors at the Medical College of Wisconsin offered 109 fourth-year students a two-hour writing workshop and found that certain tools—such as writing prompts and peer critiques—helped students overcome anxiety about reflectiv...
Source: AMA Wire - November 10, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Lyndra Vassar Source Type: news
A Way Out of Loneliness
Every one of us will experience loneliness in our lifetime. It may hit us when we're single and spending Saturday night on our couch watching reruns or when we're smack at the center of a packed and pulsating party. There is one clear reason for this, and that is that loneliness is not just being alone, it is a perception of seeing ourselves as alone. Obviously our circumstances will play a part in how we feel. Break ups, losses, separations and moves can make us feel pretty lonely. However, a great amount of what leads to chronic loneliness is the way we think and feel about ourselves and the world around us. Research now...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Got Science? Coca-Cola's Disclosures Reveal Large-Scale Effort to Influence the Science on Sugar
In response to a growing number of critiques charging that Coca-Cola has actively attempted to skew the science on the connection between sugar and disease, the company--the world's largest soft drink manufacturer--recently made the laudable decision to disclose its corporate funding over the past five years. The jaw-dropping list shows that Coca-Cola spent more than $100 million in this period to fund medical organizations, disease foundations, and athletic groups--including more than $21.8 million specifically earmarked to fund scientific research. There's a lot to say about the Coke-funded scientific research. But perh...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 16, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Previous driving experience, but not vision, is associated with motor vehicle collision rate in bioptic drivers - Dougherty BE, Flom RE, Bullimore MA, Raasch TW.
PURPOSE: Bioptic telescopic spectacles (BTS) consist of a small telescope (or telescopes) mounted high in a pair of spectacle lenses. More than 40 states allow for some form of bioptic driving licensure for people with decreased central vision. The purpose...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 10, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
'Being a gay woman doesn't mean you can't have truly loved a man'
Sue Perkins discusses her first boyfriend, falling in love and finding out she's infertile
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - September 28, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: biological clock brain tumour memoir Great British Bake Off adoption GBBO Sue Perkins gay Spectacles Anna Richardson Source Type: news
Chemical-Soaked Photographs Explore The Wild Realities Of Polluted Places
According to his online biography, artist Brandon Seidler grew up in a part of New Jersey "where the ocean and the mountains met," a place that taught him to see the beauty in imperfections. These days, those early imperfections take center stage in Seidler's career as a photographer. His hallucinatory series, "Impure," features landscapes that appear to be ripped straight from a vintage science-fiction film, with colors and shapes blending in ways both creepily familiar and altogether alien. But sci-fi they are not. Seidler captures real places, mostly lands in and around New Jersey and the Hudson Rive...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 31, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Intermediate addition multifocals provide safe stair ambulation with adequate 'short-term' reading - Elliott DB, Hotchkiss J, Scally AJ, Foster R, Buckley JG.
PURPOSE: A recent randomised controlled trial indicated that providing long-term multifocal wearers with a pair of distance single-vision spectacles for use outside the home reduced falls risk in active older people. However, it also found that participant...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - August 29, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
The Need for Venture Science
I just spent several hours down a rabbit hole. The topic was the "electric universe," an unconventional cosmological theory that emphasizes electromagnetism rather than gravity as the primary structuring force of the universe. It offers alternative explanations of redshift, cosmic background radiation, cosmogenesis, star formation, galaxy formation, solar physics, and more. After re-familiarizing myself with the theory (it has been ten years since I first explored it) I proceeded to read a number of its critics (most of whom used the term "debunking"). What a fool I'd been for giving such a theory, "popular on the Interne...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 27, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Half of people with learning disabilities suffer eye problems pilot reveals
Over half the people with learning disabilities seen in specialist sight tests suffered an eye health issue. And almost two thirds required spectacles, new results from a pilot scheme in London have revealed.
Source: NHS Networks - August 24, 2015 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Safety of spectacles for children's vision: a cluster-randomized controlled trial - Ma X, Congdon N, Yi H, Zhou Z, Pang X, Meltzer ME, Shi Y, He M, Liu Y, Rozelle S.
PURPOSE: To study safety of children's glasses in rural China, where fear that glasses harm vision is an important barrier for families and policy-makers. DESIGN: Exploratory analysis from a cluster-randomized, investigator-masked, controlled trial...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - August 22, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
A scientific answer to a scientific question: the gender debate on intimate partner violence - Hamby S.
This article addresses Winstok's critiques and comments on my review and analysis of the status of scientific information on intimate partner violence (IPV). I present some background on the development of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2), an ana...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - August 18, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Commentary Source Type: news
Doctor-rating websites offer helpful but limited advice
If you’ve ever used the Internet to find a health care provider, chances are you’ve run across doctor rating sites like Healthgrades.com or RateMDs.com. In addition, websites that offer reviews of everything from restaurants to repairmen (such as Yelp and Angie’s List) also feature critiques of doctors, dentists, and other clinicians. A recent survey found that nearly a third of Americans had read patients’ online comments about clinicians, and that 21% had used them when choosing a clinician.
Narrative reviews, in which patients describe their experiences with clinicians in their own words, can be helpful for cons...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - August 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: Health care doctor Source Type: news
Why We All Need a Creative Outlet
The other day I got to talking with a client about writing. She used to write several years ago and was even published in a magazine, but stopped because she, basically, got all caught up in working her full-time job and, well, living life. Currently, she has been feeling the urge to start writing again, but has been really struggling to get started. Needless to say, I could definitely relate. About two years ago I started my coaching business and setup the website. I knew I wanted to blog in order to help market my coaching because I absolutely loved writing, but, to be completely honest, I had no clue what to write about...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
