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emergentfutures: The Cause of High Blood Pressure Revealed By Computer Modelling Full Story: Technology Review Computer simulations show that high blood pressure can be entirely explained by arterial stiffening as we age, say researchers

emergentfutures:

The Cause of High Blood Pressure Revealed By Computer Modelling

Full Story: Technology Review

Computer simulations show that high blood pressure can be entirely explained by arterial stiffening as we age, say researchers

RE.WORK: 3 burning questions in digital health

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What is digital health?
Digital health is mainframe turned mobile, and it hit its cardinal stride in the crosswalk between technology and medicine. Now, it’s everywhere.

From sensors to apps to platforms, most of the wireless tools that aim to make you healthier fall under the digital…

theparisreview: “I used to read an awful lot. Then I found that I had a lot of information and very little knowledge. I couldn’t learn from reading. I was doing something else by reading, just filling up this hopper full of information, but it was undigested information. I used to think the more intelligence you had, the more knowledge you had, but it’s not true. Look at Bill Buckley; he uses his intelligence to further his own prejudices. “Why one reads is important. If it’s just for escape, that’s all right, it’s like taking junk, it’s meaningless. It’s kind of an insult to yourself. Like modern conversation—it’s used to keep people away from one another, because people don’t feel assaulted by conversation so much as silence. People have to make conversation in order to fill up this void. Void is terrifying to most people. We can’t have a direct confrontation with somebody in silence—because what you’re really having is a full and more meaningful confrontation.”—Marlon Brando, Playboy, 1979 Thoughts?

theparisreview:

“I used to read an awful lot. Then I found that I had a lot of information and very little knowledge. I couldn’t learn from reading. I was doing something else by reading, just filling up this hopper full of information, but it was undigested information. I used to think the more intelligence you had, the more knowledge you had, but it’s not true. Look at Bill Buckley; he uses his intelligence to further his own prejudices.

“Why one reads is important. If it’s just for escape, that’s all right, it’s like taking junk, it’s meaningless. It’s kind of an insult to yourself. Like modern conversation—it’s used to keep people away from one another, because people don’t feel assaulted by conversation so much as silence. People have to make conversation in order to fill up this void. Void is terrifying to most people. We can’t have a direct confrontation with somebody in silence—because what you’re really having is a full and more meaningful confrontation.”—Marlon Brando, Playboy, 1979

Thoughts?

(via utnereader)