C.D.C. Postpones Session Preparing U.S. for Nuclear War

C.D.C. Postpones Session Preparing U.S. for Nuclear War

After the agency’s workshop attracted considerable media attention, especially given President Trump’s recent words with North Korea, the session has been postponed. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/health/cdc-nuclear-war.html?partner=rss

Dr. Ronald Fieve, 87, Dies; Pioneered Lithium to Treat Mood Swings

Dr. Ronald Fieve, 87, Dies; Pioneered Lithium to Treat Mood Swings

Dr. Fieve and a colleague identified lithium as the first naturally occurring medication to prevent and control a specific psychiatric disorder. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/obituaries/dr-ronald-fieve-87-dies-pioneered-lithium-to-treat-mood-swings.html?partner=rss

Business ideas for 2018: Alexa skills

Business ideas for 2018: Alexa skills

If you’re a tech savvy developer with coding capability, 2018 could be the year you say: “Alexa… make me some money, please”…In What business to start this year Source: https://startups.co.uk/business-ideas-2018-alexa-skills/

Searching for the Dark: The Hunt for Axions

The Axion Dark Matter Experiment just entered the most sensitive phase yet in its search for invisible particles to explain the universe's hidden mass -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/searching-for-the-dark-the-hunt-for-axions/

Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions

This paper proposes to tackle open-domain question answering using Wikipedia as the unique knowledge source: the answer to any factoid question is a text span in a Wikipedia article. This task of machine reading at scale combines the challenges of document retrieval - finding the relevant articles...