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En el Servicio de Ortopedia y Tramatología del Hospital Cullen, de la capital provincial, llaman a concurso para cubrir un cargo de Instructor de Residentes. Los días de inscripción son el 5 y 6 de junio, de 8 a 12. El Ministerio de Salud provincial, ...
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"Cuando no sopla el viento, incluso la veleta tiene carácter" (JERZY LEC, STANISLAW) 1909-1966
Ratas con una lesión medular recuperan la movilidad en las patas

Un grupo de investigadores suizos ha conseguido que ratas con una lesión medular puedan volver a caminar. Pese a lo llamativo del resultado, los propios responsables del trabajo han advertido de que ello no significa que se haya encontrado una cura para las víctimas de paraplejia, aunque sí "podría abrir la puerta a nuevas formas de tratar a estos pacientes".
Cuatro universidades españolas entre las cien mejores del mundo con menos de 50 años

Cuatro universidades españolas han logrado posicionarse entre las cien mejores del mundo con menos de cincuenta años de antigüedad, según el ranking de calidad "The 100 Under 50".
Un impulso europeo a la bionanotecnología

Una vez más, investigadores alemanes han realizado un avance pionero en bionanotecnología, en esta ocasión en el área de los sensores de nanoporos en estado sólido, mejorando su capacidad al equiparlos con placas de cobertura de ácido desoxirribonucleico (ADN).
Google World Wonders: un viaje virtual por las maravillas del mundo

Google ha lanzado el ambicioso proyecto World Wonders, un recorrido virtual por 132 espacios emblemáticos del mundo, la mayoría Patrimonio de la Humanidad, y que en el caso español muestra una docena de 'maravillas', como el casco antiguo de Salamanca, Toledo o la catedral de Santiago.
Puede que se haya descubierto ya un planeta con vida, afirma Didier Queloz

El descubridor del primer exoplaneta, un planeta que no pertenece al Sistema Solar, el astrofísico Didier Queloz, ha señalado que «puede que ya se haya detectado un planeta con vida, pero mientras no se analice su atmósfera no se podrá saber».
El hallazgo de otras 'Tierras', más cerca gracias al peine de frecuencias láser

Un equipo internacional con participación del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) ha demostrado que la técnica de calibración para espectrómetro conocida como peine de frecuencias láser mide las longitudes de onda que radian los objetos celestes con una precisión y exactitud sin precedentes.
España destaca el apoyo a las pymes en el próximo marco de investigación de la UE

La secretaria de Estado española de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación, Carmen Vela, apoyó el mayor protagonismo que tendrán las pymes en el próximo marco plurianual de financiación de la innovación de la UE, en el que contarán con unos 10.000 millones de euros entre 2014 y 2020.
Los tratamientos médicos están aumentando las dosis radiación en la población

Los residentes médicos están recibiendo una campaña de formación para ajustar "mejor" los tratamientos que implican radiaciones ionizantes, ya que está aumentando la dosis que recibe la población por estas exposiciones, según la presidenta de la Sociedad Española de Protección Radiológica, Marisa España.
José M. Carmena: Sentiremos un brazo robótico como si fuera propio

Entrevista a José M. Carmena, uno de los neurocientíficos más brillantes en su campo, los implantes cerebrales. Trabaja en la Universidad de California, Berkeley.
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Friedrich Hirzebruch (Hamm, Alemania, 1927), uno de los grandes matemáticos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX e impulsor fundamental de la construcción de la comunidad matemática europea, falleció el pasado domingo a los 84 años en Bonn.
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"Evidencias en Pediatría": publicado nº completo de junio de 2012

Hola a  tod@s

Ayer se publicó el número completo de la revista "Evidencias en Pediatría" correspondiente al nº de junio de 2012.

Puede consultarse el nº completo aquí: http://www.evidenciasenpediatria.es/NumeroActual/_qcAiZWAnljqD7ea_EoFDSA

Quincenalemente os hemos ido enviando las actualizaciones periódicas que conforman este número. Con el número completo se han incluido también estos artículos de los que no os habíamos dado cuenta y que se han publicado junto con el nº completo:

Editorial: 

Obesidad en la infancia y adolescencia y riesgo cardiovascular. Luces y sombras. Evid Pediatr. 2012;8:29. http://tinyurl.com/bresde3

Sección "Del artículo al paciente": 

Los preparados de arándano, inocuos pero de dudosa eficacia para la infección urinaria en niños. Evid Pediatr. 2012;8:30. http://tinyurl.com/cwatyk6

Artículos valorados críticamente: 

Los niños obesos y la importancia de que no sean obesos de adultos. Evid Pediatr. 2012;8:31.http://tinyurl.com/cnvzsn7
La restricción de líquidos en la taquipnea transitoria neonatal grave podría reducir el soporte ventilatorio. Evid Pediatr. 2012;8:42. http://tinyurl.com/c634wxl

Fundamentos de medicina basada en la evidencia:


Lista de comprobación de estudios sobre precisión de pruebas diagnósticas: declaración STARD. Evid Pediatr. 2012;8:43. http://tinyurl.com/bnbmq6b

Os recordamos que si quereis suscribiros al boletín de novedades de la revista podeis hacerlo desde su página principal http://www.evidenciasenpediatria.es/ a través del enlace "Suscripción gratuita al boletín de novedades", a la derecha de vuestra pantalla.

Un saludo.

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Las mejores canciones basadas en libros


Las mejores canciones basadas en libros

Alfredo Álamo el 30 de mayo de 2012 en ArteAutores
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La literatura no sólo es una gran influencia para cineastas dentro del mundo del arte y su presencia también se puede apreciar de manera muy clara en la música, que se ha erigido como uno de los grandes componentes, junto al cine, de la cultura popular contemporánea. Así pues no nos debería sorprender quemuchos grupos hayan basado sus canciones en las novelas, cuentos y poemas más importantes o conocidas de las últimas décadas.
Uno de los autores cuyo legado ha tocado especialmente al mundo de la música es George Orwell, quizá por su carácter contestatario que conecta con esa rebeldía que, sobre todo hace unos años, tenían como bandera muchos grupos.1984 ha sido especialmente utilizada como fuente de inspiración por grupos como Muse (The Resistance) o Radiohead (2+2=5). Por su parte, Pink Floyd grabóAnimals tomando como base su famosa novela Rebelión en la granja.
Pero hay otras muchas canciones basadas en libros, como por ejemplo Killing an Arab, de The Cure, basada (más o menos) en El extranjero de Camus, o Cumbres Borrascosas, de Emily Brontë, cuya versión musical a cargo de Kate Bush es difícil de olvidar. La Velvet Undeground también se lanzó a la literatura, y al desafío contra el sistema, que es lo que estaba de moda, con su Venus in Furs, influencia directa de Sacher-Masoch y su Venus de las pieles.
Tenemos grupos musicales con gran afición a esto de adaptar novelas y relatos. Iron Maiden, por ejemplo, ha sacado temas con referencias a autores como H. P. LovecraftOrson Scott CardEdgar Allan Poe o Frank Herbert y su DuneBlind Guardian tiene discos temáticos dedicados al Señor de los Anillos yMetallica también ha compuesto temas sobre textos de Lovecraft y Poe.
No podemos olvidar éxitos menos conocidos basados en libros tampoco muy comunes, como el Atrocity Exhibition, de Joy Division, que tiene algunos toques de la obra de Ballard, o El Gravity’s Rainbow de los Klaxons, referencia directa a El arco iris de la gravedad, de Thomas Pynchon.
En castellano tenemos ejemplos también, como el famoso tema de Radio FuturaAnnabel Leebasada en el poema de Poe, o la genial versión de La nana de la cebolla, de Miguel Hernández cantada por Serrat. Sin embargo, haciendo memoria, la mayoría de las canciones en español están sacadas de poemas y menos de cuentos o novelas. ¿Recordáis alguna más de este estilo? Os esperamos, como siempre, en los comentarios.
 

El perverso vicio de leer



El perverso vicio de leer

Adela Celorio
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No hay vicios más difíciles de erradicar que aquellos que popularmente se consideran virtudes.

Hace algunas semanas apareció en este Siglo nuestro una nota en que yo mencionaba (en descargo del desleído candidato Peña Nieto) que no es fácil responder de inmediato a la pregunta sobre los tres libros que lo han marcado a uno. Es necesario bucear en la memoria y reflexionar. ¿Cuáles y en qué momento y circunstancia fueron leídos? Fue una agradable sorpresa la respuesta de los lectores y lectoras que escribieron para relatar los diferentes caminos por los que llegaron a la lectura; me hablaron de sus autores favoritos y de las obras que fueron para ellos la puerta de entrada a los pasajes más selectos de su espíritu. Quiero aprovechar este espacio que hace posible nuestro contacto, para decirles a todos los que escribieron que ha sido para mí una fiesta darles la bienvenida al club de los perversos y extravagantes lectores.Edith Wharton
Explico por qué digo perversos y extravagantes. Aunque se ha puesto de moda considerar la lectura como una proeza intelectual y una virtud de la misma solidez moral que la frugalidad, la sobriedad, la ‘buena’ costumbre de madrugar o la media hora diaria de caminata, la obsesión de leer obedece sólo al hecho de sentirnos desamparados si carecemos de un libro que nos distraiga para no transpirar de ansiedad en las filas que nos impone la burocracia, en los embotellamientos de tránsito, en la antesala del dentista o a medianoche para ahuyentar a nuestros personales fantasmas. Por lo tanto no es virtud sino una especie de vagancia intelectual, un vicio solitario y egoísta que nos proporciona placeres secretos e incompatibles.
Además, hay que aceptar que acercarnos íntimamente al pensamiento de nuestros autores favoritos nos contamina. Después de ciertas lecturas ya nunca somos los mismos. Basta recordar a don Alonso Quijano, el tranquilo hacendado que transformado por los libros de caballería a los que era adicto, acabó por imaginarse caballero andante y salir a los caminos a “desfacer entuertos”, con los resultados que todos conocemos. Emma Bovary es otro ejemplar personaje a quien las lecturas románticas conducen a habitar un mundo imaginario... pero no, no voy a contarles nada más, quienes no lo hayan hecho todavía, tendrán que leer la magnífica novela de Gustave Flaubert. Y es feo ponerse de ejemplo, pero yo misma muchas veces me reconozco contaminada por la osadía de Borola Burrón.
Leemos para ampliar nuestro pequeño mundo, para conocer lugares exóticos y meternos hasta la recámara de casas y palacios para olfatear las sábanas y la intimidad de sus dueños, conocer sus amores, desamores, infidelidades, avaricia, hipocresía y sus traiciones. Los libros nos acercan a ideologías y religiones diferentes que nos fuerzan a cuestionar las nuestras. Conocemos sexualidades, bisexualidades y qué se yo cuántas formas, todas válidas de estar en el mundo.
El ejercicio de imaginación y reflexión que impone la lectura hace flexible el pensamiento, más anchos los caminos, la vida más abundante y el mundo más complejo, pero no hay que olvidar que la experiencia es personal, intransferible y de ninguna manera nos hace acreedores de autoridad moral ni nos autoriza a predicar. Leer de modo tan inconsciente como respirar, no es virtud sino una manera de estar en la vida que nada tiene que ver con la disciplina o la obligación. Quien lee obligatoriamente y con disciplina, suele fijar un día, una hora precisa y un lugar exacto para leer. El lector nato lee igual en el WC que en el metro, porque la lectura forma una corriente continua para todas sus ocupaciones. Ahora sólo me resta subrayar que la riqueza de lo que leemos no depende de los libros sino del lector.
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MANUSCRITO DE LA VIDA DE ALEJANDRO EL GRANDE


http://www.odisea2008.com/2012/06/manuscrito-de-la-vida-de-alejandro-el.html

VIERNES, 1 DE JUNIO DE 2012

MANUSCRITO DE LA VIDA DE ALEJANDRO EL GRANDE

En e-codices Fondation Martin Bodmer tienen el codex Quintus Curtius, The Life and Deeds of Alexander the Great (Quinto Curcio, la vida y obra de Alejandro Magno), signado como Cod. Bodmer 53. ENLACE .

Esta traducción al francés de la historia de Alejandro, destinado a pertenecer a Carlos el Temerario, fue encargada por Vasco da Lucena, "El portugues", un partidario de la Infanta Isabel, que estaba casada con Felipe el Bueno. Este resurgimiento de la obra de Quinto Curcio Rufo, se ve aumentada por los textos de Plutarco, Valerio Máximo, Aulo Gelio y Justin, y permite al autor liberarse de las leyendas perpetuadas por la tradición medieval sobre el conquistador macedonio. Desarrolla y presenta el modelo de un héroe en el marco del movimiento humanista iniciado por los duques de Borgoña, en la Baja Edad Media. El manuscrito fue copiado en Borgoña y se puede precisar la fecha con bastante exactitud entre 1470 y 1475, decorado con miniaturas por el círculo artístico que rodeaba al Maestro de Margarita de York.

Les presento a continuación las miniaturas que contiene, para ampliar pulse sobre las láminas.(Recomendado pues están a un tamaño optimo para apreciar los detalles).


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32 innovations that will change your tomorrow


The electric light was a failure.
Invented by the British chemist Humphry Davy in the early 1800s, it spent nearly 80 years being passed from one initially hopeful researcher to another, like some not-quite-housebroken puppy. In 1879, Thomas Edison finally figured out how to make an incandescent light bulb that people would buy. But that didn’t mean the technology immediately became successful. It took another 40 years, into the 1920s, for electric utilities to become stable, profitable businesses. And even then, success happened only because the utilities created other reasons to consume electricity. They invented the electric toaster and the electric curling iron and found lots of uses for electric motors. They built Coney Island. They installed electric streetcar lines in any place large enough to call itself a town. All of this, these frivolous gadgets and pleasurable diversions, gave us the light bulb.
We tend to rewrite the histories of technological innovation, making myths about a guy who had a great idea that changed the world. In reality, though, innovation isn’t the goal; it’s everything that gets you there. It’s bad financial decisions and blueprints for machines that weren’t built until decades later. It’s the important leaps forward that synthesize lots of ideas, and it’s the belly-up failures that teach us what not to do.
When we ignore how innovation actually works, we make it hard to see what’s happening right in front of us today. If you don’t know that the incandescent light was a failure before it was a success, it’s easy to write off some modern energy innovations — like solar panels — because they haven’t hit the big time fast enough.
Worse, the fairy-tale view of history implies that innovation has an end. It doesn’t. What we want and what we need keeps changing. The incandescent light was a 19th-century failure and a 20th- century success. Now it’s a failure again, edged out by new technologies, like LEDs, that were, themselves, failures for many years.
That’s what this issue is about: all the little failures, trivialities and not-quite-solved mysteries that make the successes possible. This is what innovation looks like. It’s messy, and it’s awesome. Maggie Koerth-Baker
Physicists at Wake Forest University have developed a fabric that doubles as a spare outlet. When used to line your shirt — or even your pillowcase or office chair — it converts subtle differences in temperature across the span of the clothing (say, from your cuff to your armpit) into electricity. And because the different parts of your shirt can vary by about 10 degrees, you could power up your MP3 player just by sitting still. According to the fabric’s creator, David Carroll, a cellphone case lined with the material could boost the phone’s battery charge by 10 to 15 percent over eight hours, using the heat absorbed from your pants pocket. Richard Morgan
Chris Nosenzo
Soon, coffee isn’t going to taste like coffee — at least not the dark, ashy roasts we drink today. Big producers want uniform taste, and a dark roast makes that easy: it evens out flavors and masks flaws. But now the best beans are increasingly being set aside and shipped in vacuum-sealed packs (instead of burlap bags). Improvements like these have allowed roasters to make coffee that tastes like Seville oranges or toasted almonds or berries, and that sense of experimentation is trickling down to the mass market; Starbucks, for instance, now has a Blonde Roast. As quality continues to improve, coffee will lighten, and dark roasts may just become a relic of the past. Oliver Strand
Your spandex can now subtly nag you to work out. A Finnish company, Myontec, recently began marketing underwear embedded with electromyographic sensors that tell you how hard you’re working your quadriceps, hamstring and gluteus muscles. It then sends that data to a computer for analysis. Although the skintight shorts are being marketed to athletes and coaches, they could be useful for the deskbound. The hope, according to Arto Pesola, who is working on an advanced version of the sensors, is that when you see data telling you just how inert you really are, you’ll be inspired to lead a less sedentary life. Gretchen Reynolds
The problem with laptops and tablets, says Mark Rolston of the design firm Frog, is that they’re confined by a screen. He wants to turn the entire room into a monitor, where you can have the news on your kitchen table while you place a video call on your fridge. And when you’re done, you can swipe everything away, like Tony Stark in “Iron Man.”Clay Risen
This 15-minute shampoo treatment begins when you lean your head back into a machine that looks like a sink at the salon. First it maps your scalp, then it shoots streams of warm water and foam shampoo from its 28 nozzles before 24 silicone “fingers” work up a lather. One conditioning mist, scalp massage and light blow-dry later, you’re done. Nathaniel Penn

Q&A

Tim WuAuthor of “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”

What are your two best million-dollar ideas?

The first is permanent sunblock. No one likes putting the stuff on, so there should be a one-time treatment that embeds the skin with a permanent level of S.P.F. 30, akin to having Lasik eye surgery once and then forgetting about it. Sunburn vanquished like smallpox. The other is the “brain map” — a technology that maps out every neural connection in your mind and then, effectively, stores your brain on your hard drive. That information — more than your DNA even — is you.
Traffic jams can form out of the simplest things. One driver gets too close to another and has to brake, as does the driver behind, as does the driver behind him — pretty soon, the first driver has sent a stop-and-go shock wave down the highway. One driving-simulator study found that nearly half the time one vehicle passed another, the lead vehicle had a faster average speed. All this leads to highway turbulence, which is why many traffic modelers see adaptive cruise control (A.C.C.) — which automatically maintains a set distance behind a car and the vehicle in front of it — as the key to congestion relief. Simulations have found that if some 20 percent of vehicles on a highway were equipped with advanced A.C.C., certain jams could be avoided simply through harmonizing speeds and smoothing driver reactions. One study shows that even a highway that is running at peak capacity has only 4.5 percent of its surface area occupied. More sophisticated adaptive cruse control systems could presumably fit more cars on the road. Tom Vanderbilt
  • When a quarter of the vehicles on a simulated highway had A.C.C., cumulative travel time dropped by 37.5 percent.
  • In another simulation, giving at least a quarter of the cars A.C.C. cut traffic delays by up to 20 percent.
  • By 2017, an estimated 6.9 million cars each year will come with A.C.C.
Chris Nosenzo
Rob Vandermark of Seven Cycles imagines his dream commuter bike. Alex French

Anti-theft handlebars

Here’s an old idea whose time has come again. The bearing system that allows the bike to turn can be locked so that a thief can’t steer his stolen bike. The lock is internal, meaning that he’d have to destroy the bike to ride it away.

No more greasy chains

An updated shaft drive — which replaces the chain with a rod and internal gear system — would be perfect for urban riders. They’re popular in China right now, but new versions will be lighter and have more sophisticated gearing.

One-piece plastic and carbon-fiber frames

Plastic frames were tried back in the ’90s, but they were too heavy. The materials and technology have improved. Thermoplastics are cheap and practically impervious to the elements.
Chris Nosenzo
Your car is already able to call for help when an accident occurs, but within a few years, it’ll tip paramedics off to probable injuries too. E.M.T.’s would know the likelihood of internal bleeding or traumatic head injury, for example, before arriving on the scene, which would help them decide whether to move you to a Level 1 trauma center or a standard emergency room. Researchers at the University of Michigan International Center for Automotive Medicine have created the predictive models by cross-referencing the crash data provided by sensors on cars, like speed and location of impact, with 3-D scans of accident victims. Tamara Warren
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The typical plane cabin is drier than the Arizona desert, and the air is so thin it feels as if you were visiting Machu Picchu. This brutal environment contributes to the parched, exhausted feeling you get after you fly. But there are already planes in the air — made mostly of carbon fiber — that solve this problem. Carbon fiber is markedly stronger by weight than the aluminum used for most existing planes, which means that the interior air pressure can be adjusted to more comfortable levels without the risk of damaging the fuselage. Airlines also keep humidity levels low now to prevent the plane’s metal skin from corroding, but carbon fiber doesn’t rust. That will allow a new system to maintain humidity at a more comfortable 15 percent (up from around 5 to 10 percent). Japan Airlines and Nippon Airlines bought the first crop of these new planes. They’re currently in service between Tokyo and Boston. Jad Mouawad
Attitude AdjustmentsThe new planes maintain a more comfortable cabin pressure, which feels more like the altitude of Denver than that of the Andes.
The industrial designer Jiang Qian has conceived of a subway strap that’s also a video game. It has a button on each side that you push with your thumb as you hang on; instead of a joystick, you control movement by twisting the handle from side to side. Jiang imagines that new types of games could be created, where keeping your balance while the train is in motion is part of the challenge. And unlike Angry Birds on your phone, Strap Game (that’s the official name) will alert you when your stop is approaching. Jenna Wortham

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Peter SchwartzFuturist and film consultant

What technology that you wanted to put into a film were you not able to because it seemed too far-fetched?

In “Minority Report,” Tom Cruise gets into a car that drives itself. We considered giving him neural control of that car, but we deliberately held back on how far biology could go. It would have overwhelmed the story. And here we are today with real neurological control of machines. It’s transformative technology. In 50 years, you’ll be able to drive cars with your mind.
If you slump down when you’re typing on an ErgoSensor monitor by Philips, it’ll suggest that you sit up straighter. To help office workers avoid achy backs and tired eyes, the device’s built-in camera follows the position of your pupils to determine how you are sitting. Are you too close? Is your neck tilted too much? Algorithms crunch the raw data from the sensor and tell you how to adjust your body to achieve ergonomic correctness. The monitor can also inform you that it’s time to stand up and take a break, and it will automatically power down when it senses that you’ve left. Jason Fagone
When you aim the SpeechJammer at someone, it records that person’s voice and plays it back to him with a delay of a few hundred milliseconds. This seems to gum up the brain’s cognitive processes — a phenomenon known as delayed auditory feedback — and can painlessly render the person unable to speak. Kazutaka Kurihara, one of the SpeechJammer’s creators, sees it as a tool to prevent loudmouths from overtaking meetings and public forums, and he’d like to miniaturize his invention so that it can be built into cellphones. “It’s different from conventional weapons such as samurai swords,” Kurihara says. “We hope it will build a more peaceful world.”Catherine Rampell
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Researchers at Wharton, Yale and Harvard have figured out how to make employees feel less pressed for time: force them to help others. According to a recent study, giving workers menial tasks or, surprisingly, longer breaks actually leads them to believe that they have less time, while having them write to a sick child, for instance, makes them feel more in control and “willing to commit to future engagements despite their busy schedules.” The idea is that completing an altruistic task increases your sense of productivity, which in turn boosts your confidence about finishing everything else you need to do. Catherine Rampell
A team of Dutch and Italian researchers has found that the way you move your phone to your ear while answering a call is as distinct as a fingerprint. You take it up at a speed and angle that’s almost impossible for others to replicate. Which makes it a more reliable password than anything you’d come up with yourself. (The most common iPhone password is “1234.”) Down the line, simple movements, like the way you shift in your chair, might also replace passwords on your computer. It could also be the master key to the seven million passwords you set up all over the Internet but keep forgetting.Chris Wilson

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Jonathan ZittrainHarvard professor of law and computer science

What innovation scares you the most these days?

The Internet is not merely connecting computers together for the benefit of humans; it’s connecting humans together to reinvent labor. This opens terrific opportunities along with real worries. Soon we’ll have to question whether an earnest-looking group of protesters with hand-lettered signs is genuine or simply rapidly convened as a paid flash mob: a crowdsourced crowd. We’ll be able to one-click shop for cheering throngs or protests at a particular location on a moment’s notice, indistinguishable from genuine collective sentiment. A house can be surveilled and a spouse tailed because an online bounty has been put out for anyone nearby to take a photo of the building at a particular address, or to “follow that car.”
Two Norwegian psychologists think that modern playgrounds are for wimps. Instead of short climbing walls, there should be towering monkey bars. Instead of plastic crawl tubes, there should be tall, steep slides. And balance beams. And rope swings. The rationale is that the more we shield children from potential scrapes and sprained ankles, the more unprepared they’ll be for real risk as adults, and the less aware they’ll be of their surroundings. Leif Kennair and Ellen Sandseter’s ideas have won the support of playground experts on both sides of the Atlantic; one company, Landscape Structures, offers a 10-foot-high climbing wall that twists like a Möbius strip. Clay Risen
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What’s the new psychological trick for improving performance? Strategic lying. When amateur golfers were told, falsely, that a club belonged to the professional golfer Ben Curtis, they putted better than other golfers using the same club. For a study published in March, human cyclists were pitted against a computer-generated opponent moving at, supposedly, the exact speed the cyclist had achieved in an earlier time trial. In fact, the avatars were moving 2 percent faster, and the human cyclists matched them, reaching new levels of speed. Lying is obviously not a long-term strategy — once you realize what’s going on, the effects may evaporate. It works as long as your trainer can keep the secret.Gretchen Reynolds
On traditional roller coasters, your weight is centered over the wheels, but two new coasters — the X Flight at Six Flags Great America and Dollywood’s Wild Eagle — have you hanging off the side of the track, dangling in midair. It’s kind of like you’re sitting on the wings of a plane. The Swiss company Bolliger & Mabillard had to completely reimagine the seat design to handle the stress caused by the differently distributed weight. Cora Currier
Researchers at Imperial College London are closing in on a formula for a new kind of booze — synthetic alcohol, it’s called — that would forever eliminate the next morning’s headache (not to mention other problems associated with drinking). The team, led by David Nutt, a psychiatrist and former British drug czar, has identified six compounds similar to benzodiazepines — a broad class of psychoactive drugs — that won’t get you rip-roaring drunk but will definitely provide a buzz. According to Nutt, the alcohol substitute would be a flavorless additive that you could put in a nonalcoholic drink. And when you want to sober up, all you’d have to do is pop a pill. Clay Risen
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David PogueNew York Times tech columnist

What tech problem needs to be addressed most urgently?

That we’re heading for a bandwidth crunch. We’re saddling the Internet with amazing new features — movies on demand, streaming TV, Siri voice recognition, whole-house backup — but they’re starting to overwhelm the existing Internet’s capacity, especially on cellular networks. The Internet and phone companies respond by imposing monthly limits, and the F.C.C. is trying to make more wireless frequencies available. But unless something gives, “high-speed Internet” will soon become an oxymoron. You’ll just have to get used to pauses in your streaming video.
In February, Chaotic Moon Labs began testing a robotic shopping cart that acts a bit like a mind-reading butler. To start it up, you can text message the cart’s built-in tablet computer. Now it knows who you are and what you need for dinner. The cart uses Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensor technology to track and follow you through the store, pointing you — in a synthy voice reminiscent of a G.P.S. navigator — toward products on your list. The system will also warn you if you’ve added something that violates your dietary restrictions. Still only a prototype, the cart isn’t nearly as nimble as its human-powered cousin, but it does have one main advantage. Items you add to the cart can be automatically scanned, and you can finalize your purchase from the device, skipping the checkout line entirely. Farhad Manjoo
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A movie projector flashes 24 images across the screen each second to create the illusion of motion — kind of like a flipbook. The directors James Cameron and Peter Jackson propose kicking that number to 48 or even 60 frames per second. It’ll change the way we experience movies: colors will appear brighter, images sharper, motion smoother. Steven Poster, president of the International Cinematographers Guild, says the effect can be “almost holographic in quality.” Proponents say it’s what 3-D was supposed to feel like — a kind of immersive reality. Still, the image quality takes some getting used to. At an industry conference where Jackson previewed scenes featuring higher-frame-rate hobbits, critics complained that the hyperclarity made the scenes look like live television rather than cinema. It will doubtless take some getting used to. “When sound came out, a lot of people said this will last about three years,” says cinema-studies professor Tom Gunning of the University of Chicago. “Instead it became totally dominant and wiped silent film off the map.” Addie Morfoot

A Short History of Frame Rates

Scientists at Princeton and Tufts are working on a superthin tooth sensor (a kind of temporary tattoo) that sends an alert when it detects bacteria associated with plaque buildup, cavities or infection. It could also notify your dentist, adding an extra layer of social pressure to make an appointment. The sensor may have wide-ranging use: the researchers have already used it to identify bacteria in saliva associated with stomach ulcers and cancers. While the sensor won’t last long on the surface of a well-brushed and flossed tooth, Michael McAlpine, the project’s leader, says that the sensors will be inexpensive enough that you can replace them daily. Clay Risen
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Wearing a small sensor on your head, at home, while you sleep, could be the key to diagnosing diseases early and assessing overall health. “This tech,” says Dr. Philip Low, the founder of a medical technology firm called NeuroVigil, “enables us to look for faint signals of, say, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s, depression or Alzheimer’s in the brain, even though there may be no obvious symptoms.” Thus far, Low’s device has found a number of applications: evaluating children with autism, studying the efficacy of trial-phase drugs and assessing traumatic brain injury in soldiers. Currently, Low is working on a newer version of the device, which will be the size of a quarter and will transmit brain scans directly to smartphones and tablet computers. “We’re using sleep,” Low says, “as the gateway to the brain.” Howie Kahn

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Jacqueline Barton2010 National Medal of Science winner

What innovation are you clamoring for?

What I’d really love to see is full genomic sequencing at moderate costs that individuals can do at home. When taking a given drug or even deciding what to eat or how much to exercise, wouldn’t it be good to know what you really need to be concerned about and what you don’t? If you had high cholesterol, you could know if you should really be taking a statin, which, based on your particular genomics, could have limited benefit and some associated risk.
This year, Eva Redei, a professor at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, published a paper that identified molecules in the blood that correlated to major depression in a small group of teenagers. Ridge Diagnostics has also started to roll out a test analyzing 10 biomarkers linked to depression in adults. “Part of the reason there’s a stigma for mental illness, including depression, is that people think it’s only in their heads,” Redei says. “As long as there’s no measurable, objective sign, we’re going to stay in that mind-set of ‘Just snap out of it.’ ” Blood tests will take mental illness out of the squishy realm of feelings. And as Lonna Williams, C.E.O. of Ridge Diagnostics, says, they’ll help people understand “it’s not their fault.” Elizabeth Weil
Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard are working on a technology that would make household cleaning supplies much smarter — almost like a sprayable forensics team. When the spray hits a surface where there are pathogens present, like your bathroom sink, it would bind to the bad stuff and turn a color — orange, say, for E. coli. Then you could knock it out with a stronger disinfectant.Nathaniel Penn
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You need a lot of water to put out a sizable blaze, and the chemicals used in fire extinguishers can be toxic (halons, the most effective chemical fire suppressant, create holes in the ozone layer). So the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon has developed a hand-held wand that snuffs out fires, without chemicals. According to the program’s manager, Dr. Matt Goodman, an electric field destabilizes the flame’s underlying structure rather than blanketing the fire to smother it. Eventually, the technology could be used to create escape routes or extinguish fires without damaging sensitive equipment nearby. Nathaniel Penn
Frozen food may soon be on par with anything you can get at a three-star restaurant. Sous vide — a process in which food is heated over a very long period in a low-temperature water bath — has been used in high-end restaurants for more than a decade. (Thomas Keller and Daniel Boulud were early proponents.) But the once-rarefied technique is becoming mass market. Cuisine Solutions, the company that pioneered sous vide (Keller hired it to train his chefs), now supplies food to grocery stores and the U.S. military. Your local Costco or Wegmans may sell perfectly cooked sous vide lamb shanks, osso buco or turkey roulade. Unlike most meals in the freezer aisle, sous vide food can be reheated in a pot of boiling water and still taste as if it were just prepared. And because sous vide makes it almost impossible to overcook food, it’s perfect for the home cook. Fortunately, sous vide machines are becoming more affordable. “It’s like the microwave was 30 years ago,” Keller says. Michael Ruhlman
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It’s depressing to think how much food packaging there is in your kitchen right now — all those juice cartons, water bottles and ice-cream containers. But what if you could eat them? “We’ve got to package in the same way nature does,” says a Harvard bioengineer named David Edwards. And so he has devised a way to convert foods into shell-like containers and films that he calls Wikicells. Yogurt will be encased in a strawberry pouch, for instance. You could wash and eat the packaging, like the skin of an apple, or you could toss it, like the peel of an orange, since it’s biodegradable. The newly wrapped ice cream and yogurt will be available later this month at the lab store in Paris, with juice and tea coming within the next year or two.Nathaniel Penn
Rather than spray water, fertilizer and pesticides across their fields, many industrial farms are taking a more targeted approach, using wireless soil sensors and G.P.S.-enabled equipment to determine which spots need the most attention. Soon, you’ll be able to use similar technology in your front yard. The home landscaping company Toro already has a line of consumer-grade moisture sensors that turn on the sprinkler system when your lawn is dry. It’s a good start, but Sanjay Sarma, of the Field Intelligence Lab at M.I.T., is working to produce tiny, inexpensive sensors that you scatter across your lawn by the dozens and that will track everything from bug infestations to mineral deficiencies. Then they’ll tell you what to do about it: three spritzes of pesticide to the tomato plants, stat. Howie Kahn
Petting a living animal has long been known to lower blood pressure and release a flood of mood-lifting endorphins. But for various reasons — you’re at work, or you’re in a hospital, or your spouse is allergic to dogs — you can’t always have a pet around to improve your mental health. So researchers at the University of British Columbia have created something called “smart fur.” It’s weird-looking (essentially just a few inches of faux fur) but its sensors allow it to mimic the reaction of a live animal whether you give it a nervous scratch or a slow, calm rub. Creepy? Yes. But effective. Clay Risen
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Researchers at Merck have created a pill called suvorexant that essentially makes you a narcoleptic for a night. It turns out that might be the best cure for insomnia. Unlike existing sleep aids, the drug (which will likely be reviewed by the F.D.A. later this year) works by turning off wakefulness rather than by inducing sleep. “There’s good reason to believe this pill brings on more R.E.M. sleep and better rest,” says Dr. Emmanuel Mignot of Stanford University. “It’ll be less of a hammer on the brain.” Howie Kahn

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Margaret AtwoodNovelist

Is there any invention you find particulary sinister?

A smaller, even stealthier drone — something called the Cyberbug Drone, currently under development. In this model, a microsystem is embedded in an insect larva, and when the adult emerges — whether bee, butterfly or ant — a “bug” really will be a bug, and the proverbial fly on the wall will be actual. Tiny winged avengers can hunt down invasive beetles, cabbage whites can snoop on destructive raccoons and six-legged nanospies can insert themselves into the air-conditioning systems of even the most impenetrable buildings. As for bedbugs, they’ll wedge themselves under mattresses to snoop on errant spouses. The hive mind really will be the hive mind! Coming soon to a crevice near you.