Americans are sicker and die younger (with VIDEO)

Being American Is Bad for Your Health By Marty Kaplan, Director, Norman Lear Center and Professor at the USC Annenberg School “Americans are sicker and die younger than people in other wealthy nations.” That stark sentence appears in…

Health Benefits of High Definition Videoconferencing

Lev Gonick discusses innovations using HD videoconferencing. Next Generation High Definition Video Conferencing Will Provide Immediate Public Benefits Researchers expect it to revolutionize health care delivery and STEM education By Marlene Cimons, National Science Foundation, January 31,…

Teaching Computers to Hear Emotion

  Listen to the podcast above, as Steven Cherry introduces the topic and then interviews professor Wendi Heinzelman. Listen carefully, because it’s short: “March 21st” That person sounded sad, right? Let’s try another one. “Six hundred five!”…