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Intel Study Reveals Telehealth Will Dramatically Transform Health Care

September 2nd, 2010 by drlinsf in Uncategorized ShareThis

May 18, 2010 11:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time SAN ANTONIO–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–AMERICAN TELEMEDICINE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING – Health care delivery in the United States will undergo dramatic changes over the next 10 years through the adoption of telehealth, according to a national survey of health care and information technology professionals sponsored by Intel Corporation. http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20100518005407/en

Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

August 28th, 2010 by drlinsf in Lins Bits ShareThis

By GUY DEUTSCHER Published: August 26, 2010 NYT Magazine The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html

The seven secrets of a happy life

August 28th, 2010 by drlinsf in Lins Bits ShareThis

By Nick Powdthavee and Carl Wilkinson Published: August 28 2010 00:23 |in Financial Times Many of us struggle to find real happiness. Why is that? Studies in psychology suggest that part of the reason is that most of us are very bad at predicting how we’ll react when faced with many of life’s experiences. Consequently, we [...]

Are We Facing a Genderless Future?

August 17th, 2010 by drlinsf in Lins Bits ShareThis

by Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert Newsweek  August 16, 2010 A small but growing number of people are rejecting being labeled male or female. http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/16/life-without-gender.html

Medical treatment carries possible side effect of limiting homosexuality

August 15th, 2010 by drlinsf in Lins Bits ShareThis

A prenatal pill for congenital adrenal hyperplasia to prevent ambiguous genitalia may reduce the chance that a female with the disorder will be gay. Critics call it engineering for sexual orientation. By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times August 15, 2010 http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-adrenal-20100815,0,5576220.story

Don’t Write Off Men Just Yet

July 23rd, 2010 by drlinsf in Uncategorized ShareThis

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF NYT Published: July 21, 2010 Are the gains made by women putting the sexes on an equal footing? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/opinion/22kristof.html

The Moral Naturalists

July 23rd, 2010 by drlinsf in Lins Bits ShareThis

By DAVID BROOKS Published: July 22, 2010 NYT Scientific research is showing that we are born with an innate moral sense. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/opinion/23brooks.html

Easing the suffering of the world

July 17th, 2010 by drlinsf in Lins Bits ShareThis

Vancouver psychologist trains therapists in some of the globe’s most troubled places BY DARAH HANSEN, VANCOUVER SUN JULY 17, 2010 4:06 AM http://www.vancouversun.com/Easing+suffering+world/3290760/story.html

Accepting That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds

July 14th, 2010 by drlinsf in Lins Bits ShareThis

By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D. Published: July 12, 2010  NYT We marvel at the resilient child who survives the most toxic parents, yet the converse — the notion that some children might be the bad seeds of more or less decent parents — is hard to take. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/health/13mind.html

The Medium Is the Medium

July 9th, 2010 by drlinsf in Lins Bits ShareThis

By DAVID BROOKS Published: July 8, 2010  NYT The Internet culture has yet to incorporate the literary culture of traditional bookish learning. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/opinion/09brooks.html

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