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A US report on comparing the quality and cost effectiveness of healthcare systems in seven major countries ranked the UK #2 overall. Hardly surprising since, on 11 indicators it ranked in the top 3 of 8, and if quality and access are treated at their combined rather than disaggregated levels then it was in the …
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MOOCS, “massive open online courses” – the teaching of undergraduates wholly, or partly, through the internet are here to stay. At a time when college fees are going up 6% or 7% a year, blending teaching with online learning may help make the system more affordable. This is alarming college professors, who say that education …
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Professor Christian Cajochen, a chronobiologist at the University of Basel, has found that those who had come to his sleep lab during a full moon took five minutes longer to fall asleep; had 20 minutes less sleep; and spent 30% less time in deep sleep than others who came when themoon wasn’t full. They also …
Some people may be more prone to anxiety than others because they “caught” their mother’s stress in the womb, scientists claim. The team, from the Queen’s Medical Research Unit at the University of Edinburgh, has found that a component of the placenta which protects unborn babies from high levels of stress hormones in the mother’s …
Epicureans are individualists. They think for themselves and don’t want bishops and priests, gurus or “personalities” to do their thinking for them. I suspect (the writer being a bit introvert himself) that there are a lot of introverts among them. The people who go to church tend to be the more interested in social interaction …
