Friday 13 April 2012

FLERE-UP, CLIMBDOWN

/////////////////////////The richest 358 people on earth possess as much wealth as the poorest 45% (2.3 billion people).



/////////////////// ......the world as a complex place on the edge of chaos


////////////////////MOVING UP...LIVING DOWN



////////////////////Working the graveyard shift can increase the risk of developing diabetes via two separate mechanisms, according to a Harvard Medical School study, The double whammy of sleep deprivation and a sleep/wake schedule that’s out of sync with the body’s internal biological clock reduces the amount of insulin secreted by the pancreas


/////////////////////Trinity College researchers have constructed an artificial neural network model that demonstrates that human intelligence evolved from the need for social teamwork. The high levels of intelligence seen in humans, other primates, certain cetaceans, and birds remain a major puzzle for evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and psychologists. It has long been held that social interactions provide the selection …


SOCIAL COOPERATION >>>>INTELLIGENCE



////////////////////////.......The famed futurist Ray Kurzweil’s “Singularity” makes Kaku’s predictions seem modest. Kurzweil postualtes that somewhere around the middle of this century, Artificial Intelligence will have progressed to the point that it exceeds human intelligence.



///////////////////////////COOPERATION cf DEFECTION



///////////////////////////........Rapid Increases In HbA1c, FPG May Predict Type 2 Diabetes Onset.

MedWire  (4/13, Grasmo) reports that according to a study  published online March 28 in the journal Diabetes Care, "trajectories for glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) rapidly increase in the late stage prior to diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, following gradual long-term increases.


////////////////////////// ........even toddlers have a tendency to follow the crowd



////////////////////////////.........Those who frequently use different types of media at the same time appear to be better at integrating information from multiple senses -- vision and hearing in this instance -- when asked to perform a specific task, new research shows.



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