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Brazilian Wasp Venom Kills Cancer Cells (0:00)
phys.org/news/2015-09-brazilian-wasp-venom-cancer-cells.html
Hedgehog Comet-Exploring Robot (0:06)
jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4712
Bionic Suit Helps Paralyzed Man Walk (0:16)
youtube.com/watch?v=tPej2l6dVbw
nih.gov/news/health/jul2015/nibib-30.htm
online.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/neu.2015.4008
ETER9 Virtual Self (0:52)
eter9.com
Evolution Of Self-Organized Specialization In Robot Swarms (1:11)
youtube.com/watch?v=8mlHXcCNzjg
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004273
Cosmic Neutrino Confirmation (1:45)
https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/view/348
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.081102
Transsolar Membrane To Cool Cities (2:10)
transsolar.com
cop21-pickyourclimate.olympe.in
Solar Sunflowers (2:32)
airlightenergy.com/high-concentration-photovoltaic-thermal
Real Virtuality (2:54)
http://www.artanim.ch/en/projects-detail.php?id=12
youtube.com/watch?v=ur4KQakkmA8
3D Printed Microscopic Fish (3:19)
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1797
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/adma.201501372/abstract
Water-Healed Bioplastic From Squid Genes (3:42)
http://news.psu.edu/story/367826/2015/09/01/research/water-heals-bioplastic
MultiFab Multi-Material 3D Printing (4:06)
youtube.com/watch?v=poRFPjiB9vw
http://cfg.mit.edu/sites/cfg.mit.edu/files/paper.pdf
Glass 3D Printing Mediated Matter Group MIT (4:30)
vimeo.com/136764796
Monarch Butterfly Metamorphosis by FrontYardVideo (4:41)
youtube.com/watch?v=9whwif5kIhg
Bell Laboratory Science Series: Our Mr. Sun (1956) (4:54)
youtube.com/watch?v=6zhuBw5rjj0
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Mind Blow features the latest news in science, technology and amazing!
**** SOURCES AND LINKS ***
Brazilian Wasp Venom Kills Cancer Cells (0:00)
phys.org/news/2015-09-brazilian-wasp-venom-cancer-cells.html
Hedgehog Comet-Exploring Robot (0:06)
jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4712
Bionic Suit Helps Paralyzed Man Walk (0:16)
youtube.com/watch?v=tPej2l6dVbw
nih.gov/news/health/jul2015/nibib-30.htm
online.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/neu.2015.4008
ETER9 Virtual Self (0:52)
eter9.com
Evolution Of Self-Organized Specialization In Robot Swarms (1:11)
youtube.com/watch?v=8mlHXcCNzjg
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004273
Cosmic Neutrino Confirmation (1:45)
https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/view/348
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.081102
Transsolar Membrane To Cool Cities (2:10)
transsolar.com
cop21-pickyourclimate.olympe.in
Solar Sunflowers (2:32)
airlightenergy.com/high-concentration-photovoltaic-thermal
Real Virtuality (2:54)
http://www.artanim.ch/en/projects-detail.php?id=12
youtube.com/watch?v=ur4KQakkmA8
3D Printed Microscopic Fish (3:19)
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1797
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/adma.201501372/abstract
Water-Healed Bioplastic From Squid Genes (3:42)
http://news.psu.edu/story/367826/2015/09/01/research/water-heals-bioplastic
MultiFab Multi-Material 3D Printing (4:06)
youtube.com/watch?v=poRFPjiB9vw
http://cfg.mit.edu/sites/cfg.mit.edu/files/paper.pdf
Glass 3D Printing Mediated Matter Group MIT (4:30)
vimeo.com/136764796
Monarch Butterfly Metamorphosis by FrontYardVideo (4:41)
youtube.com/watch?v=9whwif5kIhg
Bell Laboratory Science Series: Our Mr. Sun (1956) (4:54)
youtube.com/watch?v=6zhuBw5rjj0
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![Making A Math Murderer
Just think of all the questions that arise when a seemingly-healthy baby dies. Was there an illness that went undetected? Was there a rare genetic defect that couldn’t possibly have been known? Are any signs of physical trauma related to the resuscitation efforts of a fragile infant, or something more sinister? Every time a baby dies, police investigate with a host of complex questions to determine whether the death is natural and accidental, or… not. And the odds are anything but clear.
So what do we do when it happens twice to the same person? What are the odds of THAT?
A British mother named Sally Clark suffered two separate tragedies with the deaths of her infant sons. Her resulting trial for murder included expert testimony from Sir Roy Meadow, a noted expert on child abuse cases. And Meadow’s misuse of conditional probability painted Sally Clark as perpetrator rather than a victim.
Math is often theoretical, but sometimes doing it right is the difference between life and death.
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Ben-Israel, Adi. “Using Statistical Evidence in Courts: What Went Wrong in the Case of Sally Clark?” http://ben-israel.rutgers.edu/711/Sally_Clark.pdf
Dyer, Clare. “Falsely Convicted Sally Clarke Dies Suddenly.” BMJ: British Medical Journal, vol. 334, no. 7594, BMJ, 2007, pp. 602–03, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20506708.
General Medical Council v. Meadow, England and Wales Court of Appeals (Civil Division), http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2006/1390.html
Nobles, Richard, and David Schiff. “A Story of Miscarriage: Law in the Media.” Journal of Law and Society, vol. 31, no. 2, [Cardiff University, Wiley], 2004, pp. 221–44, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1410525.
Scheurer, Vincent. “Convicted on Statistics?” http://understandinguncertainty.org/node/545
Schneps, L., & Colmez, C. (2013). Math on trial: How numbers get used and abused in the courtroom. https://www.amazon.com/Math-Trial-Numbers-Abused-Courtroom/dp/0465032923
Watkins SJ. Conviction by mathematical error? Doctors and lawyers should get probability theory right. BMJ. 2000;320(7226):2-3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117305/
Webster, Richard. “Roy Meadow and the Statistics of Cot Deaths.” http://www.richardwebster.net/cotdeaths.html
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