Scientists develop material that could regenerate dental enamel

People with a low pain thresh-hold will welcome this new technology. They’ve developed a material that would regenerate dental enamel. Rebuilding your teeth on the spot.

“Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed a new way to grow mineralised materials which could regenerate hard tissues such as dental enamel and bone.” Quoted from a ScienceDaily article.

Creating both the enamel and bone would be a lot better than paying for fillings. I doubt it will do much to take root canals off the dental menu. We’re talking exterior matters. So roots and missing teeth might be excepted. Until the next level of development comes about. Read more →

Cell Phones Got Smaller

Not that long ago, the size of a mobile phone determined its value. The smaller, the better! That’s because the first mobile phones were so large.

Cell phones have reduced. No longer the 2.5 pound original. We measure in 4-6 ounce range. No longer 10 inches long and very thick. We measure in screen size of 4-6 inches and extremely thin. Even bendable. No longer a 20 minute battery. We measure, if you’re careful, in days, although 4-6 days may be pushing it. Unless you have a dumbphone.

Computers Got Smaller

In the meantime, computers have also reduced. Their dietetic reduction started with room-sized, down to desk-sized. Thin clients have carried the game further, losing a lot of weight as well as desk space. The name says it all!

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Mental activity makes you known

Branding your business is a technology of the human mind. As computer users, we don’t consider the mind a technology. Mental synapse still responds in fascinating ways far surpassing the biggest agglomeration of computer intelligence. In spite of the computing power available in the machine, we are aware that it is the human mind that creates computers and feeds data to them. So let’s do some thinking! Read more →

Six ways to deal with negative reviews

Many business stay offline because they fear the negative review. Is there a case to be made for the benefit of a negative review? There is. Consider the following six concepts regarding negative reviews.

Freedom

Allowing consumers to give a negative review is a statement of our belief that within certain parameters freedom of speech is a healthy thing. As we know, that can be misused or legally thwarted. For example: Should a company be allowed to threaten a consumer with disparagement for a negative review? As recently as 2015, this was a common practice. Read more →

Amazon may seem to be taking over the world. They are moving into many industries other than the product search and distribution of their Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now Amazon is entering other industries: healthcare, grocery and physical retail stores. These areas will increase what is already a noticeably large digital footprint.

In addition, Amazon is offering up things like AI-as-a-Service and gesture-based computing. Further, the recent acquisition of the genomics startup Grail, allows Amazon to develop application of its machine learning base with healthcare. Read more →

The awakening of the sleeping giant – China!

The famous French General, Napoleon Bonaparte, remarked about China — “There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! For when he wakes he will move the world.”

China is awakening.

One indication of China’s new alertness is the desire to no longer simply imitate the technology of other nations, but to innovate new technology of its own. Christina Larson writes for Wired about her experience of going to Beijing to visit Kai-Fu Lee, a venture capitalist focused on artificial intelligence (AI). Her visit, in October of 2017, was interrupted briefly by what seemed to be a quick slip through a wormhole, leaving Ms. Larson in the Beijing of the last century. It was not a real wormhole, of course. Nor a time machine. It was something far more prosaic – an elevator. She took the wrong one. Read more →

“Afternoons are the Bermuda Triangles of our days”

Daniel Pink provides this great descriptive of sluggish afternoons in his provocatively titled LinkedIN article, You’re more likely to screw up in the afternoon.

Here’s how to stop afternoon errors. How severe is the problem? “Across many domains, the trough represents a danger zone for productivity, ethics, and health.”

How to stop afternoon error? “Go home early!” This is doubtless not a good idea. Let’s agree that typically people are more productive in the morning than the afternoon. “But doesn’t it simply have to do with the amount of sleep we got the night before?” Yes. But there is something more deeply responsive to the habits of our typical sleep schedule. Something called the circadian cycle. Read more →

Multitasking is not a skill to add to your resume, but rather a bad habit to put a stop to.

–Larry Kim, Warning: Multitasking is Killing Your Brain

Even the ancient Romans knew better: “A man who chases two rabbits catches none.”

MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller points out that the human brain is designed to focus on one thing at a time. Those who try to multitask are actually switching from one task to another as rapidly as they can. Producing overload!

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Instead of killing bacteria, turn it off!

Apparently, there is close at hand the ability to reprogram bacteria. This is significant because people tend to develop resistance to antibiotics. The antibiotics are effective at killing the bacteria. But the body tends to resist the antibiotic making it no longer effective.

Solution? By reprogramming the DNA of the bacteria to turn the gene off, there is no need for the antibiotics in your body, or the potential of the body building resistance to the antibiotic. Read more →

What is the test of loyalty?

My mom saved green stamps. That was a long time ago, so I was just a kid. But I got it. When she made a purchase, she was rewarded with sheets of stamps. She pasted these in a book and when she had sufficient number of books, she turned them in for a nice toaster. Or some other kitchen appliance.

Yes, I know. Green stamps are dated. In fact, I went to look for a picture of “green stamps,” and all I came up with were markers about being eco-friendly. Green. Of course! I settled for a girl and her dog. Subtle. But lots of loyalty! Read more →