Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments. A Japanese stem-cell scientist is the first to receive government support to create animal embryos that contain human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals since a ban on the practice was overturned earlier this year.
Hiromitsu Nakauchi, who leads teams at the University of Tokyo and Stanford University in California, plans to grow human cells in mouse and rat embryos and then transplant those embryos into surrogate animals. Nakauchi's ultimate goal is to produce animals with organs made of human cells that can, eventually, be transplanted into people. Until March, Japan explicitly forbade the growth of animal embryos containing human cells beyond 14 days or the transplant of such embryos into a surrogate uterus.
That month, Japan’s education and science ministry issued new guidelines allowing the creation of human–animal embryos that can be transplanted into surrogate animals and brought to term. Digital rights groups call for moratorium on biometrics in digital ID systems. Digital rights organization Access Now has posted an open letter to its website, co-signed by numerous other organizations in the space, challenging the assumption that digital identity programs empower users, and suggesting that the use of biometric identifiers in such systems pose an increased security risk to the individuals programs are supposed to benefit.
The letter starts with the basic question “Why ID?” And concludes with a call for a moratorium on biometric authentication for digital identity programs. The letter is addressed to the leaders of International Development Banks, the United Nations, International Aid Organizations, Funding Agencies, and National Governments, and is co-signed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Fight for the Future, Human Rights Watch, HumanFirst.Tech, the Internet Freedom Foundation, Privacy International, The Tor Project, and more than three dozen other organizations based in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Amazon's worldwide worker walkout is just the tip of employee activism.
An energetic crowd of hundreds of Amazon workers gathered around the Spheres, a 90-foot-tall glass building at the center of Amazon's Seattle headquarters, to hold up signs reading "No AWS for Oil and Gas" and practice chants like "Climate change is not a lie, do not let our planet die.
" Just before marching to City Hall, employees spoke on a podium in front of a large "Climate Leadership Now" banner, calling out their company for not doing enough on climate change. The workers, part of a group of nearly 1,800 Amazon employees who pledged to march in places including Los Angeles, Melbourne and London, were organized by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice. They were taking part in the Global Climate Strike, a worldwide walkout that took place Sept. 20. Veteran Launches Intelligence System to Increase Health IQs and Human Resilience.
Reservoire Health uses crowdsourcing and AI to improve health outcomes in a new Software-as-a-Service model.
NEW YORK - October 1, 2019 - (Newswire.com) Reservoire Health, the first artificial and human intelligence network for building personal resilience, today announces its self-care application designed to increase the health and wellness of millions. The application is geared for the modern workplace and is delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology for increasing employee self-care knowledge and health outcomes. In 2019, employees are living in an era where physical and mental health are becoming imperatives, at home and work, with the need to increase their personal resilience in a more regular and accessible way. No more exams for students in future classrooms: KHDA chief. This will encourage students to work together on solving real-world problems.
In the classrooms of the future, students will no longer have to sit down for exams. Instead, they will be busy working together to solve the problems of the world. Would you live in an apartment without an oven? It is evidently big news in Toronto that condos are being sold without ovens, but it shouldn't surprise anyone.
In New York City, at least according to Carrie Bradshaw of Sex and the City, people use their ovens as closets. In Toronto, citizens are apparently shocked that small condominiums like Minto's new Westside would be sold without without built-in ovens. According to the Toronto Star, some think it is a "disturbing trend. " New wave of women in construction are creating a community and a future for themselves.
Angela Cacace’s career began with a magazine contest.
The Washington, D.C., barber had moved to North Carolina for her husband’s job and so successfully remodeled their kitchen that she won a contest in This Old House. Encouraged by the story’s editor to pursue her contracting dreams, she enrolled in a local building program. “I was so nervous on the first day of class,” she recalls, “but six of the 12 students were women — I was blown away. I remember an instant feeling of confidence that we had a place here.” A new retirement era: How many years past 65 will you work? Let's have a moment of silence for the late, great dream of early retirement.
We're now transitioning to an era of delayed retirement, where it's common for people to work at least part time after age 65. New census data on working seniors prove it. In 2015, 53.5 per cent of men and almost 39 per cent of women who were 65 worked at some point in the year. Too much nostalgia for the old days of early retirement affects our thinking about our post-employment lives. For a series of columns on how the personal finance milestones of life are changing, we asked readers of all generations for the age at which they expected to move out, find a first career-building job, buy a home, have a first child and retire.
Use 4-Part Tool to Screen Your Patients for Social Determinants of Health. The American Hospital Association has developed a 4-part tool to help healthcare providers screen patients for social determinants of health (SDOH).
Social needs such as housing and food security can have a crucial effect on patient health. By making direct investments in initiatives designed to address SDOHs and working with community partners, healthcare organizations can help patients achieve positive health outcomes in ways beyond the traditional provision of medical services. Thanks to Student's Hunch, Seniors With Dementia Are ‘Coming Alive’ Again With the ‘Magic’ of Virtual Reality. Startup uses virtual reality to help seniors re-engage with the worldRendever’s VR platform brings new experiences and fond memories to aging adults in nursing homes.
Written by Zach WinnMIT News As Reed Hayes stood inside an assisted living facility in front of an elderly man struggling with dementia, he wasn’t quite sure what to expect. The man sat slouched in his wheelchair, unmoving, his eyes barely open. The Trolley Problem for medical artificial intelligence - AI Med. The discussion of ethics in artificial intelligence is on the table again when researchers from the Media Lab of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published the results of The Moral Machine experiment on Nature last week.
This thought experiment embarked in 2014, when a game-like platform was set up to crowdsource people’s opinions on how a self-driving car should react when faced with different Trolley problem scenarios. The classic Trolley problem was devised by philosopher Philippa Foot in 1967, which situated a moving trolley and two separate tracks. There are five people tied up to the first track and one tied up to the second track. Single Americans are now a majority of the population for the first time since marriage statistics have been recorded. Once upon a time in America, marriage was the norm for adults. But now, for the first time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking these numbers in 1976, there are more single Americans than people who are married. That is a huge change. About 50.2 percent — or 124.6 million American adults — are single.
More Americans living without partners. Whereas 39% of all US adults lived without a partner or spouse in 2007, that number has risen to 42% in 2017, according to data from the US Census Bureau. "People are more conscious of the potential costs" of living together, said Stephanie Coontz, director of research and public education for the Council on Contemporary Families, a nonpartisan group of experts and researchers. "A good part of it, of course, is the delay in marriage," said Coontz, who was not involved in the Pew analysis. The dropping marriage rate is large enough to tip the scales, despite an opposing trend: Unmarried adults are still more likely to live with a romantic partner than before, according to Pew Research.
More people than ever before are single – and that's a good thing. The 21st century is the age of living single. Today, the number of single adults in the U.S. – and many other nations around the world – is unprecedented. And the numbers don’t just say people are staying single longer before settling down. More are staying single for life. A 2014 Pew Report estimates that by the time today’s young adults reach the age of 50, about one in four of them will have never married.
The Rise of Single Fathers. A Ninefold Increase Since 1960 By Gretchen Livingston A record 8% of households with minor children in the United States are headed by a single father, up from just over 1% in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Decennial Census and American Community Survey data.
The number of single father households has increased about ninefold since 1960, from less than 300,000 to more than 2.6 million in 2011. In comparison, the number of single mother households increased more than fourfold during that time period, up to 8.6 million in 2011, from 1.9 million in 1960. As a result, men make up a growing share of single parent householders. The unbelievable rise of single motherhood in America over the last 50 years.
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