Tetris blocks traumatic flashbacks even after the memory is fixed – health – 06 July 2015 – New Scientist

Special message for automatic login ID change Blocking trauma with coloured blocks (Image: Oli Scarff/Getty) Manoeuvring the colourful tiles of Tetris can help block flashbacks of traumatic events, even after the memory has fixed itself in your mind. Playing the game could be an easy way to reduce the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)….

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Google Reveals Health-Tracking Wristband – Bloomberg Business

Google Inc.’s life sciences group has created a health-tracking wristband that could be used in clinical trials and drug tests, giving researchers or physicians minute-by-minute data on how patients are faring. The experimental device, developed within the company’s Google X research division, can measure pulse, heart rhythm and skin temperature, and also environmental information like…

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Mapping the disciplined ranks of anti-vax Twitter – Boing Boing

CONTENT OF THE POST Anti-vax Twitter consists of several thousand vaccine denialists whose present project is stopping California’s mandatory vaccine bill, through campaigns of lockstep tweeting to lawmakers, workplace and home-based harassment of dissenters, and coordinated SEO campaigns that muddy the waters for concerned parents who try to research the subject. Renee DiResta (a vaccination…

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