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Dec 10, 2018

Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret

Posted by in categories: finance, mobile phones

Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.

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Dec 10, 2018

Therapies that Target the Aging Processes are in Human Trials Now

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

A number of therapies that directly target the aging processes are currently in human trials and could change medicine significantly in the next decade if the results are positive.

What is aging?

Aging is basically the accumulation of damage and errors caused by a collection of varied processes that harm the functions of the body through the accumulation of waste, imperfect repair, the deregulation of cellular processes, the dysfunction of the immune system, chronic inflammation, and other disorders.

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Dec 10, 2018

Increasing Dietary Fiber Intake Is Associated with a Distinct Esophageal Microbiome

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

There is increasing evidence that the microbiome contributes to esophageal disease. Diet, especially fiber and fat intake, is a known potent modifier of the colonic microbiome, but its impact on the esophageal microbiome is not well described. We hypothesized that dietary fiber and fat intake would be associated with a distinct esophageal microbiome.

We collected esophageal samples from 47 ambulatory patients scheduled to undergo endoscopy who completed a validated food frequency questionnaire quantifying dietary fiber and fat intake. Using 16S high-throughput sequencing, we determined composition of the esophageal microbiome and predicted functional capacity of microbiota based on fiber and fat intake.

Among all samples, the most abundant phyla were Firmicutes (54.0%), Proteobacteria (19.0%), Bacteroidetes (17.0%), Actinobacteria (5.2%), and Fusobacteria (4.3%). Increasing fiber intake was significantly associated with increasing relative abundance of Firmicutes (p = 0.04) and decreasing relative abundance of Gram-negative bacteria overall (p = 0.03). Low fiber intake was associated with increased relative abundance of several Gram-negative bacteria, including Prevotella, Neisseria, and Eikenella. Several predicted metabolic pathways differed between highest and lowest quartile of fiber intake. Fat intake was associated with altered relative abundance of few taxa, with no alterations at the phylum level and no changes in microbiome functional composition.

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Dec 10, 2018

Spot Mini Robot Dancing to Uptown Funk You up — Boston Dynamics

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

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Dancing to bruno mars uptown funk you up.

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Dec 10, 2018

Robot

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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Dec 10, 2018

Soft Robotics for the Disabled — Harvard University

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, wearables

Lightweight, soft, wearable robots that people can wear all day, every day, to help them regain use of their upper extremities.

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Dec 10, 2018

Bioquark Inc. — Bold Moves Podcast — Ira Pastor

Posted by in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, DNA, finance, futurism, genetics, innovation, life extension

Dec 10, 2018

Do social psychologists have an ideological aversion to evolutionary psychology?

Posted by in category: futurism

By Christian Jarrett. Part of the problem may be the lack of evolutionary science in many psychology degree courses.

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Dec 10, 2018

Moon Missions, Ancient Asteroids, And A Pioneering Professor

Posted by in category: space

50 years of discovery — and he’s not done yet.

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Dec 10, 2018

Supersensitive Space Telescope To Focus On Super-Earths

Posted by in category: space

The probe will seek out super-Earths.

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