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Minorities and poor have more advanced thyroid cancers when diagnosed, UCLA study shows

Black patients fare worst; Asians, Hispanics survive longest with disease

UCLA researchers have found that minority patients and those of lower socioeconomic status are far more likely to have advanced thyroid cancer when they are diagnosed with the disease than white patients and those in higher economic brackets.

In one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind, the UCLA team looked at nearly 26,000 patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer and analyzed the impact of race and socioeconomic factors on the stage of presentation, as well as patient survival rates. (more…)

Future of Fashion Retail in Pop-ups

Economy, Small Business

Reckoning with high rental fees, the onslaught of online shops and multinationals, brick-and-mortar fashion retailers are realising the perks of a pop-up shop.

Wait, pop-up what?

A pop-up is a store that takes up retail space temporarily (i.e. a few days to several months) as opposed to one taking on a year- or decades-long lease. The setup effectively frees the lessee from the constraints of a lengthy contract. (more…)

Maue Bilanz bei den Schneedeckentagen

Environment

Der 45. Tag des meteorologischen Winters (der am 1. Dezember 2013
begann) ist am heutigen Dienstag angebrochen. Eine Halbzeitbilanz in
Sachen Winterwetter fällt äußerst mau aus. So meldeten viele
Stationen in Deutschland bisher keinen einzigen Tag mit einer
geschlossenen Schneedecke. Einige Stationen haben in diesem Winter
sogar nicht mal eine einzige Schneeflocke zu Gesicht bekommen. (more…)

Ladies And Gentlemen, Boot Your Robots!

Science

Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla., was the place to be late last month for an unusual two-day competition: the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials. But if you went expecting high-octane cars zooming around the track at blazing speed, you might have been disappointed. The 16 robots participating in the challenge moved more like the tortoise than the hare, as they performed such tasks as opening doors or climbing a ladder; tasks aimed to speed the development of robots that could one day perform a number of critical, real-world, emergency-response tasks at natural and human-made disaster sites. (more…)

IBM Sets U.S. Patent Record

Technology

Achieves 21st Straight Year of Patent Leadership
IBM inventors received more than 6,800 U.S. patents in 2013

ARMONK, N.Y. – 14 Jan 2014: IBM today announced that its inventors received a record-setting 6,809 patents in 2013 – the 21^st consecutive year the company topped the annual list of U.S. patent leaders. (more…)

Klimaschutz in Gorontalo

Nature

NABU startet neues Projekt im indonesischen Tropenwald

Hilfe für einen der 34 globalen „Hotspots der biologischen Vielfalt“: Der NABU und sein indonesischer Partner Burung Indonesia haben ein neues Projekt zum Tropenwaldschutz auf der indonesischen Insel Sulawesi gestartet. „68,5 Prozent dieser Provinz sind noch mit Wäldern bedeckt, die sich durch eine einzigartige, sehr hohe Biodiversität auszeichnen“, sagt NABU-Vizepräsident Thomas Tennhardt. Allein im Projektgebiet leben 36 endemische Vogelarten und zahlreiche weitere Tierarten, die nur hier vorkommen, darunter Gorontalo-Makaken und Sulawesi-Hirscheber. (more…)

Racism May Accelerate Aging in African American Men

Health

UMD-led study is first to link racism-related factors and cellular age

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A new University of Maryland-led study reveals that racism may impact aging at the cellular level. Researchers found signs of accelerated aging in African American men who reported high levels of racial discrimination and who had internalized anti-Black attitudes. Findings from the study, which is the first to link racism-related factors and biological aging, are published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Racial disparities in health are well-documented, with African Americans having shorter life expectancy, and a greater likelihood of suffering from aging-related illnesses at younger ages compared to whites. Accelerated aging at the biological level may be one mechanism linking racism and disease risk. (more…)

Es ist das Wetter, Dummkopf

Politics

Steigt die Arbeitslosigkeit, wenn sie nicht soll, dann ist auch das Wetter schuld.

»It’s the economy, stupid» (es geht um die Wirtschaft, Dummkopf). Mit diesem Slogan punktete Bill Clinton im Wahlkampf von 1992. Die Entwicklung von Bruttoinlandprodukt, Aktienkursen oder Arbeitslosenzahlen beeinflusst nicht nur Wahlkämpfe in den USA, sondern auch Volksabstimmungen in der Schweiz – und mithin die Schlagzeilen in den Medien. (more…)