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Friday December 21, 2012 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines We’re all living longer, but longevity increases not benefiting everybody Pocket test measures 50 things in a drop of blood Finally: a free, open-source medical journal Woman with quadriplegia feeds herself chocolate using mind-controlled robot arm Research debunks the ‘IQ myth’ MIT researchers discover a new kind of magnetism Latest News We’re all living longer, but longevity increases not benefiting everybody December 21, 2012   Global lifespans have risen dramatically in the past 40 years, but the increased life expectancy is not benefiting everybody equally, say University of Toronto researchers. In particular, adult males from low- and middle-income countries are losing ground. People are living longer on average than they were in 1970, and those extra years of life are … more… Pocket test measures 50 things in a drop of blood December 21, 2012   A new device about the size of a business card could allow health care providers to test for insulin and other blood proteins, cholesterol, and even signs of viral or bacterial infection all at the same time — with one drop of blood. Preliminary tests of the V-chip, created by scientists at The Methodist Hospital … more… Finally: a free, open-source medical journal December 21, 2012   Stanford neurosurgeon John Adler, MD, has launched Curēus, a new open-source medical journal that leverages crowdsourcing to make scientific research more readily available to the general public. Leveraging the power of an online, crowd-sourced community platform (readers can rate material based on the article’s quality), Curēus promotes medical research by offering tools that better serve and … more… Woman with quadriplegia feeds herself chocolate using mind-controlled robot arm December 21, 2012   Reaching out to “high five” someone, grasping and moving objects of different shapes and sizes, feeding herself dark chocolate. For Jan Scheuermann and a team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC, accomplishing these seemingly ordinary tasks demonstrated for the first time that a person with longstanding quadriplegia can maneuver a mind-controlled, human-like … more… Research debunks the ‘IQ myth’ December 21, 2012   After conducting the largest online intelligence study on record, with more than 100,000 participants, a Canadian Western University-led research team has concluded that the notion of measuring one’s intelligence quotient or IQ by a singular, standardized test is highly misleading. Utilizing an online study open to anyone, anywhere in the world, the researchers asked respondents … more… MIT researchers discover a new kind of magnetism December 21, 2012   MIT researchers have demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind of magnetic behavior called a quantum spin liquid (QSL),adding to the two previously known states of magnetism. Ferromagnetism — the simple magnetism of a bar magnet or compass needle — has been known for centuries. In a second type of magnetism, antiferromagnetism, the magnetic … more… New VIDEOS   Bringing light: an innovation in detecting brain tumors   LS3 Follow Tight (mobile, semi-autonomous legged robot)   Flying Legos Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.