Food Facts for Every Day

History Made Every Day

With the explosion in the number of images and videos on the Internet and ongoing amassing of huge volumes of visual data from digital cameras and mobile devices, we are unknowingly logging our own history. Consider that the number of digital cameras and camera phones in the world has surpassed one billion and that 500 billion consumer photos are taken each year. Given the world’s population of...

The Case for Every-Other-Day Dialysis.

Until daily dialysis becomes widely available, we believe that hemodialysis patients would benefit enormously from every-other-day dialysis (EODD), which may be implemented both by home patients and in centers. Benefits of EODD over the routine, three-times-weekly schedule would include decreased mortality after the weekend interval without dialysis; increased weekly dose of dialysis, resulting...

Reasoning in every day life

To be rational means to be able to reason. Thirty years ago psychologists believed that human reasoning is depending on formal rules of inference akin to those of the logical calculus. This hypothesis ran into difficulties, which led to creating more categories of reasoning. They are trying to describe human reasoning with all pros and cons and to simulate reasoning of human mind. We will descr...

Bring Your Self to Work Day—Every Day

But at other moments, the classroom is so lifeless or painful or confused—and I am so powerless to do anything about it—that my claim to be a teacher seems a transparent sham. Then the enemy is everywhere: in those students from some alien planet, in that subject I thought I knew, and in the personal pathology that keeps me earning my living this way. What a fool I was to imagine that I had mas...

The Use of Virtual Reality in Studying Complex Interventions in Our Every-Day Food Environment