Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
If He Only Had a Brain
Sorry, family farmers. You picked the wrong guy to protect you. https://t.co/NrLGWEFBsI pic.twitter.com/gBqU8MIuf7— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) July 30, 2018
Monday, July 30, 2018
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Stop Disability Fraud
Four on the Floor! @Publix new service animal policy. #stopdisabilityfraud #serviceanimals #servicedogs #enddisabilitydiscriminationhttps://t.co/Fjnmye5A5g pic.twitter.com/rSQbmiZ2jM— American Disability Rights, Inc. (@AmDisRights) July 27, 2018
Dental Chairs That Can Tell If You're Stressed
An excerpt from Popular Mechanics -
New Dental Tech Can Tell When You're Scared
Chairs at a high-tech dental center will record patient stress levels and attempt to standardize dentistry.
By Laura Yan
What if your chair at the dentist could tell the practitioner when you’re stressed? According to The Outline, dentists at Columbia University’s Center for Precision Dental Medicine wants to remake the often dreaded dentist visit into something more comfortable.
Visitors to the high-tech dental center gets assigned an RFID-enabled wristband that identifies them throughout the visit. RFID tags track practitioners and dental equipment, too, measuring when, where and how long instruments are used, as well patient whereabouts. In the next six months, the center will add a new feature to track patient stress: chairs will start measuring patients’ pulse and oxygenation levels.
Instead of waving down a dentist while you suffer in pain, data will be able to alert the practitioner right away. Cameras installed in the chair will record procedures for analysis, and could be someday equipped with facial recognition software to better detect stress or pain levels. Logging patient heart rates over time can give practitioners a sense of a patient’s overall health, too. “The biology of a person is actually best understood under stress,” Christian Stohler, Dean of the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia, told The Outline. “If someone is more vulnerable to stressful situations, they might be subject to a host of diseases aggravated by stress. If you understand a person’s resilience to stress, you may be able to understand what it means for the progression of disease.”
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a22580688/new-dental-tech-can-tell-when-youre-scared/
New Dental Tech Can Tell When You're Scared
Chairs at a high-tech dental center will record patient stress levels and attempt to standardize dentistry.
By Laura Yan
What if your chair at the dentist could tell the practitioner when you’re stressed? According to The Outline, dentists at Columbia University’s Center for Precision Dental Medicine wants to remake the often dreaded dentist visit into something more comfortable.
Visitors to the high-tech dental center gets assigned an RFID-enabled wristband that identifies them throughout the visit. RFID tags track practitioners and dental equipment, too, measuring when, where and how long instruments are used, as well patient whereabouts. In the next six months, the center will add a new feature to track patient stress: chairs will start measuring patients’ pulse and oxygenation levels.
Instead of waving down a dentist while you suffer in pain, data will be able to alert the practitioner right away. Cameras installed in the chair will record procedures for analysis, and could be someday equipped with facial recognition software to better detect stress or pain levels. Logging patient heart rates over time can give practitioners a sense of a patient’s overall health, too. “The biology of a person is actually best understood under stress,” Christian Stohler, Dean of the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia, told The Outline. “If someone is more vulnerable to stressful situations, they might be subject to a host of diseases aggravated by stress. If you understand a person’s resilience to stress, you may be able to understand what it means for the progression of disease.”
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a22580688/new-dental-tech-can-tell-when-youre-scared/
Saturday, July 28, 2018
Want to Rent a Tiny House?
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/travel/destinations/10greatplaces/2018/07/26/great-places-to-rent-a-tiny-house/37131701/
Black Man Pro Fishing at the Highest Level
An excerpt from the Undefeated -
Ish Monroe has found his perch in the heavily white world of bass fishing
‘Fish don’t see race,’ says Monroe, one of only two black men competing at the sport’s top level
BY PAUL WACHTER
“Fish don’t see race,” Ishama Monroe said on a recent morning as he flicked his rod from the front of the bass boat. Monroe, who is 44 and goes by “Ish,” had launched at dawn from the ramps on the outskirts of Orange, Texas, for the last of three practice days ahead of the 2018 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Elite at Sabine River Presented by Econo Lodge. It’s a mouthful of a name for a sporting event, but sponsorships are the bread and butter of the world’s most prestigious fishing tour. Monroe was one of two African-Americans in the 108-person field, and he’s the only black man who’s been a fixture at the top echelon of the sport for more than a decade. But he doesn’t make a big deal about the sport’s demographics.
https://theundefeated.com/features/ish-monroe-has-found-his-perch-in-the-heavily-white-world-of-bass-fishing/
Ish Monroe has found his perch in the heavily white world of bass fishing
‘Fish don’t see race,’ says Monroe, one of only two black men competing at the sport’s top level
BY PAUL WACHTER
“Fish don’t see race,” Ishama Monroe said on a recent morning as he flicked his rod from the front of the bass boat. Monroe, who is 44 and goes by “Ish,” had launched at dawn from the ramps on the outskirts of Orange, Texas, for the last of three practice days ahead of the 2018 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Elite at Sabine River Presented by Econo Lodge. It’s a mouthful of a name for a sporting event, but sponsorships are the bread and butter of the world’s most prestigious fishing tour. Monroe was one of two African-Americans in the 108-person field, and he’s the only black man who’s been a fixture at the top echelon of the sport for more than a decade. But he doesn’t make a big deal about the sport’s demographics.
https://theundefeated.com/features/ish-monroe-has-found-his-perch-in-the-heavily-white-world-of-bass-fishing/
Friday, July 27, 2018
Southern Movers & Shakers
From Time -
Meet the 31 People Who Are Changing the South
http://time.com/5349036/people-changing-the-south/
Meet the 31 People Who Are Changing the South
http://time.com/5349036/people-changing-the-south/
Any-Fruit Cobbler
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2018/07/25/this-cozy-cobbler-can-be-made-to-suit-almost-any-fruit-or-mood/?utm_term=.645693a55ae5
World Traveler
From the Huffington Post -
The Journey To Being The First Black Woman To Visit Every Country
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/theres-always-extra-scrutiny-for-me-when-im-traveling-theres-always-extra-scrutiny-for-me-when-im-traveling_us_5b58a284e4b0cf38668fba9e?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
The Journey To Being The First Black Woman To Visit Every Country
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/theres-always-extra-scrutiny-for-me-when-im-traveling-theres-always-extra-scrutiny-for-me-when-im-traveling_us_5b58a284e4b0cf38668fba9e?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
WOW! Black Girl Magic!
An excerpt from BlackAmericaWeb -
Meet The First Black Woman To Earn A PhD In Nuclear Engineering From MIT
By Jamai Harris
30-year-old Mareena Robinson Snowden walked across the commencement stage at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 8 and became the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the university.
https://blackamericaweb.com/2018/07/24/meet-the-first-black-woman-to-earn-a-phd-in-nuclear-engineering-from-mit/
Meet The First Black Woman To Earn A PhD In Nuclear Engineering From MIT
By Jamai Harris
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30-year-old Mareena Robinson Snowden walked across the commencement stage at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 8 and became the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the university.
https://blackamericaweb.com/2018/07/24/meet-the-first-black-woman-to-earn-a-phd-in-nuclear-engineering-from-mit/
Quote
“I’m a German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose,” wrote Mr. Ozil, who was born in Germany to parents who had immigrated from Turkey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/world/europe/mesut-ozil-germany-soccer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/world/europe/mesut-ozil-germany-soccer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Monday, July 23, 2018
We Should All Know Her
An excerpt from Wired -
MEET THE WOMAN WHO ROCKED PARTICLE PHYSICS—THREE TIMES
By JOSHUA ROEBKE
IN 1963, MARIA Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since.
One of the many women who, in a different world, might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu. Wu is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist at CERN, the laboratory near Geneva that houses the Large Hadron Collider. Wu’s name appears on more than 1,000 papers in high-energy physics, and she has contributed to a half-dozen of the most important experiments in her field over the past 50 years. She has even realized the improbable goal she set for herself as a young researcher: to make at least three major discoveries.
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-woman-who-rocked-particle-physicsthree-times/?mbid=nl_072318_daily_list_p
MEET THE WOMAN WHO ROCKED PARTICLE PHYSICS—THREE TIMES
By JOSHUA ROEBKE
IN 1963, MARIA Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since.
One of the many women who, in a different world, might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu. Wu is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist at CERN, the laboratory near Geneva that houses the Large Hadron Collider. Wu’s name appears on more than 1,000 papers in high-energy physics, and she has contributed to a half-dozen of the most important experiments in her field over the past 50 years. She has even realized the improbable goal she set for herself as a young researcher: to make at least three major discoveries.
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-woman-who-rocked-particle-physicsthree-times/?mbid=nl_072318_daily_list_p
Say What?
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
Why some accents don’t work on Alexa or Google Home
By Drew Harwell
Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant are spearheading a voice-activated revolution, rapidly changing the way millions of people around the world learn new things and plan their lives.
But for people with accents — even the regional lilts, dialects and drawls native to various parts of the United States — the artificially intelligent speakers can seem very different: inattentive, unresponsive, even isolating. For many across the country, the wave of the future has a bias problem, and it’s leaving them behind.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/why-some-accents-dont-work-on-alexa-or-google-home/2018/07/19/80e33222-855f-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html?utm_term=.d89f2840cf04
Why some accents don’t work on Alexa or Google Home
By Drew Harwell
Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant are spearheading a voice-activated revolution, rapidly changing the way millions of people around the world learn new things and plan their lives.
But for people with accents — even the regional lilts, dialects and drawls native to various parts of the United States — the artificially intelligent speakers can seem very different: inattentive, unresponsive, even isolating. For many across the country, the wave of the future has a bias problem, and it’s leaving them behind.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/why-some-accents-dont-work-on-alexa-or-google-home/2018/07/19/80e33222-855f-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html?utm_term=.d89f2840cf04
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Again and Again and Again
This is what it's like for a black business owner in a gentrifying SF neighborhood: Racist graffiti and calls to the police for unlocking your own store. pic.twitter.com/F9lVsIaKM7— AJ+ (@ajplus) July 20, 2018
When Great Performances Hurt HBCUs
An excerpt from the Undefeated -
When Morgan State beat Grambling at Yankee Stadium, more than the score was at stake
That 1968 day changed the game for HBCU football
BY LONNAE O'NEAL
Five months after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a football game between two historically black colleges opened another field of play in the civil rights movement.
The Sept. 28 battle between what were then Louisiana’s Grambling College Tigers and Baltimore’s undefeated Morgan State Bears at Yankee Stadium marked the first time two historically black colleges or universities (HBCUs) had played in New York City.
The game was a cultural high-water mark and a commercial success, and it brought dozens of players to the attention of an NFL that had only recently merged with the upstart AFL and was thirsty for black talent. But it also set loose a cascade of events that grievously hurt the caliber of football at historically black schools.
https://theundefeated.com/features/when-morgan-state-beat-grambling-at-yankee-stadium-more-than-the-score-was-at-stake/
When Morgan State beat Grambling at Yankee Stadium, more than the score was at stake
That 1968 day changed the game for HBCU football
BY LONNAE O'NEAL
Five months after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a football game between two historically black colleges opened another field of play in the civil rights movement.
The Sept. 28 battle between what were then Louisiana’s Grambling College Tigers and Baltimore’s undefeated Morgan State Bears at Yankee Stadium marked the first time two historically black colleges or universities (HBCUs) had played in New York City.
The game was a cultural high-water mark and a commercial success, and it brought dozens of players to the attention of an NFL that had only recently merged with the upstart AFL and was thirsty for black talent. But it also set loose a cascade of events that grievously hurt the caliber of football at historically black schools.
https://theundefeated.com/features/when-morgan-state-beat-grambling-at-yankee-stadium-more-than-the-score-was-at-stake/
Saturday, July 21, 2018
The Great Debaters 2018
From the Huffington Post -
Atlanta Students Dominate Harvard Debate Competition
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blackexcellence-dominates-harvard-debate-competition_us_5b51039ce4b0cf38668f75f3
Atlanta Students Dominate Harvard Debate Competition
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blackexcellence-dominates-harvard-debate-competition_us_5b51039ce4b0cf38668f75f3
Powerful Indeed
Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, a drafter of the Refugee Act of 1980, resigns from the Homeland Security Advisory Committee. This is a powerful read: pic.twitter.com/PrUBHrXDYo— Mana Yegani (@Law_Mana) July 19, 2018
Missing Mr. O
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
This conservative would take Obama back in a nanosecond
By Max Boot
How I miss Barack Obama.
And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality.
Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.11f0bc86c02d
This conservative would take Obama back in a nanosecond
By Max Boot
How I miss Barack Obama.
And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality.
Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.11f0bc86c02d
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