The Geneticist Will Skype you Now
One of the more startling statistics I learned last year came from something by geneticist and science writer Misha Angrist: At least as of a couple years ago, there were roughly as many board-certified physician-geneticists as astronauts in the United States. This is a problem, given that our need for trained geneticists is likely to be a great deal higher than our need for astronauts in the coming decade.
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Previewing Your Future Self
A few months ago, I highlighted a treadmill at Japanese gyms that flashes pictures of desserts at exercisers as they hit certain calorie counts in order to keep them motivated. Want that milkshake? Just run another half hour.
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Longer Lives Make Suicide a More Popular Option
I was presenting some of the forecasts from our recently released HC2020 map last week when I saw a detail in one the map that I had never seen before. Check out this image from the map--something we call an artifact from the future--that highlights our forecast for neurointerventions:
Neurointerventions
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When the real world starts to catch up with science fiction
Unlike some of my colleagues at the 'tute, I am not a big science fiction fan, which may explain why I was unfamiliar with the movie, Gattaca. It was brought to my attention during a discussion of probabilistic medicine, which is an idea based on knowing the probability of risk one bears for developing certain diseases.
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Got Game at Health Horizons
It's a hectic time for us in the Health Horizons Program. Our 2009 Spring Conference on Health and Health Care is less than two weeks away. A couple of days before the conference starts, we will be participating in the sneak preview of a street game that IFTF's director of game research and development, Jane McGonigal, has created as part an American Heart Association collaboration with Health Horizons.
CryptoZoo is about inventing the future of physical activity, about
making play and gaming a bigger part of how we take care of ourselves. It is a proof-of-concept game, a way for us to show what
physical activity could (and we think, should) be like in the future:
more fun, more social, and better integrated with our everyday lives.
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