Health, Fitness and Style
A Web Resource Helps Doctors Calculate Life Expectancy of Older Patients
A team led by researchers from the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco has completed the first systematic review of prognostic indices used to calculate a patient’s life expectancy, and created a website that puts these indices in one central location. more »
What if the Mayan Calendar is Right?
It’s become an annual tradition for my husband and me to create a calendar for an intimate group of friends. This year we decided to add an extra page. After the month of November 2012 is an illustration of the Mayan calendar with a 3-week ‘bucket list’ of things to do before the world is predicted to end on December 21st more »
Bicentennial of Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel; Nation's Oldest Natural History Museum
With eight books and a map of Switzerland, the founders began a library, which ranks among the world’s finest natural history libraries. Each founder also contributed a few specimens; the collections now number 17 million specimens more »
MIT's Agnes Suit, An Instrumented Aware Car and the Miss Daisy Driving Simulator
These tools can be used to trigger driver feedback systems that are under development. Sensing systems include: six video cameras for operator monitoring, measures of vehicle velocity, lane position, radar; driver physiology issues includes heart rate, respiration rate and eye tracking more »
