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Gaming: Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus

Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus By James Scott-Brown How do you spend your free time? If you were an average American, you would spend 20 hours a week watching television, and another 3 hours playing games [1]. Clay Shirky has written about how, after the Second World War, enormous changes in society occurred, so that “society [...]

Staphylococcus Aureus: Horizontal Gene Transfer Scaring Antibiotics

Effective policy implementation is a challenging task, especially when taking into account a particular country’s large size and vast bureaucracy, such as those of the United States. One of the many fields that require constant attention is healthcare policy.  Factors like age, social backgrounds, and community settings interact together to create a complex dynamic wave [...]

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