An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A vending machine for powerful opioids has opened in Canada as part of a project to help fight the Canadian city’s overdose crisis. The MySafe project, which resembles a cash machine, gives addicts access to a prescribed amount of medical quality hydromorphone, a drug about twice as powerful as heroin. Don Durban,…
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HQ Trivia, the Once-Popular Mobile Game, Is Shutting Down
CNN Business has learned that the once-popular live mobile trivia game “HQ Trivia” is shutting down. From the report: When HQ launched in 2017, its first game HQ Trivia quickly attracted millions of people across the world who stopped whatever they were doing twice a day to play the game on their smartphones. The company was profiled by The New York…
For you, Valentine: 10 reasons we fall in love
On this Valentine’s Day 2020, what the world of science suggests about the mystery we call love. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/for-you-valentine-top-10-reasons-we-fall-in-love…
Drugs may be able to fix our romantic lives when things go wrong
Are we ready for real-life love potions? Book Love is the Drug explains how pills may affect everything from falling deeper in love to breaking up Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532690-300-drugs-may-be-able-to-fix-our-romantic-lives-when-things-go-wrong/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Facebook To IRS: Refund Me, I’m Irish!
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Among the techniques featured in a 2012 City Pages story on The 10 Most Corrupt Tax Loopholes was pretending to be Irish. Chris Parker wrote, “Most people associate such exhaustive money-laundering with drug cartels. But it’s now standard practice at firms like Eli Lilly, Google, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Facebook. The only difference is that when drug…
Will China Seize an American Company’s Drug For Fighting Coronavirus?
“Chinese researchers reportedly have applied for a local patent on an experimental Gilead drug that they believe could help fight the novel coronavirus outbreak — and also significantly bolster Gilead’s bottom-line going forward…” reports The Street. “If granted, Gilead will need to get Chinese patent owners on board when it wants to sell the drug for treating the novel coronavirus infection…
Men who took erectile-dysfunction drug had blue-tinted vision for days. Here’s why.
Some men in a recent study had persistent, blue-tinted vision after taking sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra. Source: https://www.livescience.com/viagra-sildenafil-vision-changes.html
Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes Represents Herself at Trial After Lawyers Say She Stiffed Them
McGruber quotes the Mercury News: In her regular attendance at the San Jose federal courthouse for hearings in her high-stakes criminal fraud case, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been flanked by expensive lawyers. But in an Arizona civil case, she took part in a hearing this week representing herself, and by phone, according to a report Friday. Holmes has seven lawyers…
Q&A with Shira Lee Katz, Head of Content Strategy at Coursera
1. Tell us about yourself and your experience. After 20 years of work (and play) in a variety of fields—content strategy, learning, kids, and more—one thing I can say is that anywhere, anytime learning is powerful. “Anywhere, anytime learning” is the notion that learning isn’t confined to the four walls of a classroom. Rather, it […]
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Scientists Discover ‘Why Stress Turns Hair White’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Scientists say they may have discovered why stress makes hair turn white, and a potential way of stopping it happening without reaching for the dye. Researchers behind the study, published in Nature, from the Universities of Sao Paulo and Harvard, believed the effects were linked to melanocyte stem cells, which produce melanin…