Just looking at a celebrity mugshot, I can tell if I think they're totally nuts, on drugs, or just looking really cool. Those are all just shallow assessments made by a human, what could I do if I was a technologically advanced, face-reading computer? More »
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I have a Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and the low space icon has been on for some time now. I tried deleting applications off the phone's storage. The icon at the top of the screen persisted. I deleted my launcher app and google play services (lol) and the icon still won't go away. It says I have...
Using fMRI scans of the brain, US scientists have for the first time developed a method of "seeing" pain and suggest it may lead to reliable ways for doctors to quantify objectively how much pain patients are feeling. They also propose their study may open the route to using brain scans to...
Last night I measured my height and I was just over 5"9, so I thought that was my height. This morning I measured myself to see if I grew and I was 5"10! I thought it was impossible to grow that much in one night, so I asked my Mum and she said that it's to do with the gravity, as in the morning...
Women live longer than men. Individuals can appear or feel years younger - or older - than their chronological age. Diseases can affect our aging process. When it comes to biology, our clocks clearly tick differently...
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Drinking silicon-rich mineral water may reduce aluminium levels in people with Alzheimer's, which could allow us to measure the effects of aluminium on the disease, according to a study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. This small study by Keele University took place over 12...
One of the key indicators of the quality of care provided by hospitals to acute stroke victims is the percentage of patients who die within a 30-day period. A new study shows that the decisions made by patients and their families to stop care may account for as many as 40 percent of these...
Researchers have developed a new metric to measure obesity, called A Body Shape Index, or ABSI, that combines the existing metrics of Body Mass Index (BMI) and waist circumference and shows a better correlation with death rate than do either of these individual measures. The full results are...
A new study from Educational and Psychological Measurement (published by SAGE) found that when it comes to homophobic bullying, there could be a gender gap. While male victims are more likely to be bullied by male homophobic bullies, female victims are bullied by both males and females equally...
In an interview with Health magazine, 36-year-old Eva Longoria spoke about her eating habits and exercise, but she also pressed an important point: That health isn't only about what you look like, eat, or do at the gym. Specifically, she points out that being thin doesn't equal being healthy...
travel at light speed? Because all we would have to do is create a electromagnetic disturbance big enough to launch us into light speed. Or is it just we don't have a suffcient energy source.
I was looking for a measure of several personality constructs and I came across an inventory that measures most of constructs I was interested in; however, the full measure has not been published in academic journals although it written about and studied. I found the organization that developed...
I am going to be jumping my horse more when it gets better, and we're going to be getting a cross country course. How do I measure for brushing boots and bell boots? I'm not sure what size he takes, I'm guessing at medium/cob. He's a welsh cob X, but has quite thin legs.
I'm wanna to put 22's on it and I'm researching rims and tires. I know it does have 5 lugs but apparently you need to know more than just that. I'm researching to try and save money.
Researchers studying the first national quality measure for hospitalized children have found that no matter how strictly a health care institution followed the criteria, it had no actual impact on patient outcomes. The scientists examined 30 hospitals with 37,267 children admitted for asthma...
Japan's foremost mobile phone company is planning to unveil a smartphone that has different "jackets", each with sensors and software that allows the owner to measure radiation levels in their surroundings, or tells them if they have bad breath, or how much body fat or muscle bulk they have...