by david allan van nostrand | Jun 25, 2018 | Gatekeepers, Items in the News
The National Institutes of Health have shut down a controversial study of how moderate drinking promotes good health after a task force found severe ethical and scientific lapses in the study’s planning and execution. Credibility for sale. The NYTimes reported that...
by david allan van nostrand | Jun 18, 2018 | Items in the News, Surveys, Technology
There are more than five million mobile apps, yet consumers only download a tiny fraction of them, and regularly use no more than 20 or 30 a month. Mobile users favor them over websites and expect them to be fast, comprehensive, and easy to use. How big is the mobile...
by david allan van nostrand | Jun 11, 2018 | Items in the News, Surveys, Technology
The Centers for Disease Control released a study that showed some things many of us would already have supposed to be true. For the first time ever, a majority of U.S. homes are cellphone-only. Ten years ago, nine of ten U.S. households had a landline, and now...
by david allan van nostrand | Jun 4, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Human Behavior, Items in the News
An article in Gizmodo says scientists have developed a way to identify people by their walk. They did this in the highly controlled environment of a lab where study subjects walked on a special pressure-sensitive floor while being filmed. An A.I. system analyzed...
