Random links
- Mediterranean Diet Can Cut Heart Disease, Study Finds
- This clinical trial compared a low-fat diet to a Mediterranean "diet rich in olive oil, nuts, beans, fish, fruits and vegetables" allowing participants to "even drink wine with meals." Worth noting is the following comment from a cardiologist: "Low-fat diets have not been shown in any rigorous way to be helpful, and they are also very hard for patients to maintain" and per the NYT vegan diets have never been rigorously tested.
- GOP has lost another key bloc: Silicon Valley techies
- California GOP consultant Kevin Spillane: "Technologists are often single, socially moderate-to-liberal, much more secular than the population as a whole, and those demographics are a problem for the Republican Party right now." In the recent US presidential race 85% of contributions went to the Democrats - and that figure doesn't yert account for things like this case study on the Obama campaign's use of Amazon's cloud that I've encountered oodles of links to over time.
- Study of the Day: Soon, You May Download New Skills to Your Brain
- A thoughts on a study that seems to have successfully used an fMRI to induce some sort of learning. "Interestingly, behavioral data obtained before and after the neurofeedback training showed improved performance of the relevant visual tasks especially when the subjects were unaware of the nature of what they were learning."
- Tuition at Learn-to-Code Boot Camp Is Free — Until You Get a Job
- "New recruits signing up for App Academy promise to pay 15 percent of what they earn during their first year on the job, payable over the first six months after they start working." Seems like a fairly reasonable model. They'd likely to be lacking some of the theoretical stuff you'd learn in a CS program but still it's not a bad start.