Posts by Marcellino Nehme
Winners of the 2019 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest
The judging for the eighth annual Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest, organized by the Underwater Photography Guide, has wrapped up, and the winning images and photographers have been announced. Greg Lecoeur took Best in Show with his image of a crabeater seal in Antarctica. The contest organizers have shared with us some of the winners…
Read MoreHow Artificial Intelligence Will Change Medicine
Right now the biggest bets are being placed in the realm of drug discovery. And for good reason. The average cost of bringing a new drug to market nearly doubled between 2003 and 2013 to $2.6 billion, and because nine out of 10 fail in the final two phases of clinical trials, most of the…
Read MoreBarcelona is Europe’s richest football club by revenues
BARCELONA’S FOOTBALLERS do not sparkle quite as they used to. Granted, at the season’s halfway mark they are top of La Liga, just ahead of Real Madrid, their perennial rivals, and may win a third consecutive Spanish title. But they have not won the European Champions League since 2015, in which time Real have lifted…
Read MoreThere are now more women working in the US than men—and these cultural shifts are part of the reason why
As the U.S. economy continues to see consistent job gains, women are now outnumbering men in the U.S. workforce for the first time since 2010, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Currently, women make up 50.04% of payroll jobs in the U.S., signaling that women are benefiting more than men…
Read MoreA guide to 16:8 intermittent fasting
16:8 intermittent fasting, which people sometimes call the 16:8 diet or 16:8 plan, is a popular type of fasting. People who follow this eating plan will fast for 16 hours a day and consume all of their calories during the remaining 8 hours. Click here to read the full article.
Read MoreU.S. government limits exports of AI software
(Reuters) — The Trump administration took measures on Friday to crimp exports of artificial intelligence software as part of a bid to keep sensitive technologies out of the hands of rival powers like China. Under a new rule which goes into effect on Monday, companies that export certain types of geospatial imagery software from the…
Read MoreHow Long Does It Take for a New Behavior to Become Automatic?
According to a 2009 study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, it takes 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit. The study also concluded that, on average, it takes 66 days for a new behavior to become automatic. Read on to learn why this is, how this figure…
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