Writing op eds

Dr. Ariane Park is a movement disorder neurologist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. She contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.Not only can exercise help with the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but a new pilot study that I recently completed showed that patient participation in exercise — in earlier stages of the disease — can improve depression in patients. The study, at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, also found that long-term group exercise programs are feasible for people with Parkinson's disease.It is not clear how exercise improves depression, however one theory is that it may reduce inflammation in the central nervous system, and thus promote resilience in neurons.Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than one million Americans. Each year, about 60,000 Americans are newly diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Symptoms of Parkinson's … [Read more...] about Exercise Improves Depression in People with Parkinson’s

Jane Goodall on Instinct | The Experimenters | Blank on Blank from Quoted Studios on Vimeo.David Gerlach is the Executive Producer of Blank on Blank and he contributed this article and video to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Jane Goodall is so nice and so good, it's intimidating. She seems an almost mythic figure.  She made groundbreaking discoveries about the behavior of chimpanzees when she was only in her 20s, and without any formal training or degree, and she continues to be an authority in the world of primatology. Even now, she's always on the go, speaking up for the rights of animals, campaigning for conservation and working slavishly on her environmental education program. And, she's a role model for young girls to get into science. With all of that, it's sometimes hard to imagine her as one of us ordinary humans.At Blank on Blank, our mission is to uncover lost interviews with iconic figures and bring these remarkable conversations to life as new … [Read more...] about Why Jane Goodall Believes in Bigfoot (Video)

CNET Decade in Review: 2010-2019 From the iPad to selfies to fake meat, we look back at an action-packed decade Read More Over the past decade, the information security (infosec) field has seen a near-constant rise in malware activity.Without a doubt, the 2010s was the decade when malware exploded from a casual semi-ammateriush landscape into a full-blown criminal operation, capable of generating hundreds of millions of US dollars per year for the actors involved.While there were thousands of malware strains that have been active in the 2010s, a few malware botnets have risen above the rest in terms of spread and size, ammounting to what some security researchers would call "super botnets."Malware strains like Necurs, Andromeda, Kelihos, Mirai, or ZeroAccess have made a name for themselves after they've infected millions of devices across the globe.This article aims to summarize the biggest malware botnets that we've seen over the past ten years. Since tracking botnets is never … [Read more...] about A decade of malware: Top botnets of the 2010s

Advertisement The Internet is angry at Microsoft. After promising unlimited storage with the Office 365 subscription An Introduction to Office 365: Should You Buy Into the New Office Business Model? An Introduction to Office 365: Should You Buy Into the New Office Business Model? Office 365 is a subscription based package that offers access to the latest desktop Office suite, Office Online, cloud storage, and premium mobile apps. Does Office 365 provide enough value to be worth the money? Read More , and 15 GB of storage for free users, the company has reneged on its promise. All because some users apparently abused the system.In 2016, the following changes will be implemented: Office 365 users will no longer get unlimited storage. It will be reduced to 1 TB. Free users will no longer get 15 GB of storage, and will be bumped down to 5 GB. Remember that promotional 15 GB bonus offered to store your smartphone’s photos? That space is gone, too. Basically, … [Read more...] about How to Move OneDrive to Google Drive After Storage Cut

What a keen observer saw in the first six years of AI Tiernan Ray explains that Pamela McCorduck, who wrote a groundbreaking history of AI, returns with a very personal tale of the humans who shaped AI such as John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky. Read more: https://zd.net/2Dlbrwl Forty-one years ago, Pamela McCorduck wrote a history of the still-young field of artificial intelligence. It was incredibly ambitious, and the result was a superb work of scholarship. She updated that book, Machines Who Think, twenty-five years later, and declared then that she wouldn't write another volume on the subject.  Fortunately for all of us, she went back on that vow. "A history exists of all this, a human story about the invention of artificial intelligence by a handful of brilliant scientists," she writes in This Could Be Important, which went on sale last month (Carnegie Mellon Press). This Could Be Important is marvelous, and very different from that earlier volume. Machines was an epic … [Read more...] about The minds that built AI and the writer who adored them