Gleanings of the Week Ending May 25, 2013
/The items below were ‘the cream’ of the articles I read this past week. Click on the light green text to look at the article.
The Art of Data Visualization - Video about using geographic data.
Visual Rendering of Animal Sounds - Mandalas from colorized sound waves
Breakup of Physician, Drug Company Relationship Could Improve Health Care, Cut Cost - Published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine….and seems logical…but there is a lot of money that locks in the status quo
Onomap - Put in a name…and the tool will feedback cultural, ethnic, linguist roots based on patterns from a database that includes 28 countries.
Annotated Map of Moore, OK Tornado Damage
Scientific Tooth Fairies Investigate Neanderthal Breast-Feeding - Evidently during breast-feeding, barium levels in teeth are higher….making it possible to tell from teeth how long a child was breast-fed
The Nutrition class I am taking via Coursera was about dietary supplements this week and the list of sites below was provided. Since there is little regulation of supplements, it is much more up to the consumer to determine if a particular supplement is worthwhile for them. The last one provides abstracts of research papers; I did a quick search for Vitamin D….lots of interesting findings.
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Mayo Clinic - Drugs and Supplements
