La adaptación de las viviendas y el espacio público son desafíos inmediatos para Chile ante el acelerado envejecimiento de su población.

El estudio, realizado gracias el radiotelescopio ALMA, observó detalles sin precedentes de galaxias formadas poco después del Big Bang y pudo medir por primera vez el movimiento del gas en estos objetos. Los resultados fueron publicados en la última edición de la revista Nature Astronomy.Por primera vez la comunidad científica pudo estudiar galaxias formadas poco después del Big Bang, gracias a las observaciones realizadas con el radiotelescopio ALMA por un equipo multinacional encabezado por la Dra.

Aus dem historischen Bestand der ULB wurden während der Projektlaufzeit (01. Juli 2016 bis 31. Dezember 2017) 1.500 Bände historischer Monographien auf nationalbibliographischem Niveau katalogisiert, digitalisiert (268.824 Images), strukturell erschlossen (18.200 Strukturelemente) und der Öffentlichkeit frei zugänglich online bereitgestellt.

Unter dem Dach des Comprehensive Cancer Centers (CCC), das als onkologisches Zentrum der Deutschen Krebsgesellschaft seit 2014 zertifiziert ist, bündelt das UKD die zertifizierten Organkrebszentren und die weiteren Kompetenzen in der Krebsbehandlung und Diagnostik.„Gemeinsam mit meinen Kolleginnen und Kollegen möchte ich die Behandlung von Krebspatienten hier am UKD weiter ausbauen und besser regional vernetzen. Das Universitätstumorzentrum garantiert die enge Zusammenarbeit aller an Diagnostik und Behandlung beteiligten Experten und Berufsgruppen.

Strongly recommended video about how we are bio-physical-social beings and how relationships directly affect health.
“Gabor Maté is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician who specializes in neurology, psychiatry, and psychology, as well as the study and treatment of addiction.”

“We are the ones who make the robots, with our own labour,” he says. “We make the criteria according to which they operate. And then we teach them to learn how to improve. The problem is not that robots are stealing our work, but that we continue to work more and more, and that the platforms are fragmenting and rendering invisible the labour that is necessary to make the algorithms work.”

The Economist: “The timing could not have been better. In the same week as two civil servants in Nigeria appeared in court for embezzling funds earmarked for International Anti-Corruption Day, the finalists of “Integrity Idol” were announced. In this reality television show, honest civil servants working in corrupt countries compete for glory, fame and, occasionally, a live chicken.

Book edited by Hubert Heinelt: “Can participatory governance really improve the quality of democracy? Concentrating on democracy beyond governmental structures, this Handbook argues that it is a political task to engage individuals at all levels of governance.

Executive Summary: “Volatility brews beneath a stagnant surface. If a single theme captures the state of the world’s trust in 2018, it is this. Even as people’s trust in business, government, NGOs and media across 28 countries remained largely unchanged, experiencing virtually no recovery from 2017 (Fig. 1), dramatic shifts are taking place at the country level and within the institution of media.

Essay by Cass R. Sunstein,  as  part of a series by Facebook on social media and democracy: “On balance, the question of whether social media platforms are good for democracy is easy. On balance, they are not merely good; they are terrific. For people to govern themselves, they need to have information. They also need to be able to convey it to others.

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I consider myself a high-functioning lazy person. I do my laundry regularly, but leave clean clothes in a pile on the floor. I make it to work on time, but have to set my alarm for an hour earlier than I’d like because I hit the snooze button so many times. I will wear a blazer to my business casual office, but only to cover up my terribly wrinkled shirts… which I pick up off my bedroom floor each morning.

Ambika Kandasamy: Cognitive neuroscientist Christopher Madan says open-access data or data that is freely shared among researchers to use in their studies can not only save time and money, it can enable scientists to “skip straight to doing analysis and then drawing conclusions from it,” if the datasets they need already exist.

Originally published in Red Pepper a few months ago, but still hugely relevant:

‘As an open platform, anyone can use our platform no matter who they are, where they live, and what they believe… This is why you’ll see an extremely wide range of petitions, as they’ve all been created by people in the community.’ Ben Rattray, founder and CEO of Change.org

Internet governance, blockchain, algorithms, free speech, net neutrality, IoT, cybersecurity, fragmentation … and so much more!  On Monday, January 29, 2018, the State of the Net 2018 conference will be streaming live out of the Newseum in Washington DC. You can watch starting at 9:00am US EST (UTC-5) Monday morning at:
http://www.stateofthenet.org/live/

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Observations from the China-US Workshop in Beijing (December 2, 2017)

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In December 2017, the Berkman Klein Center co-hosted an exploratory workshop in Beijing, China with Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy and Management and the MIT Media Lab’s Ethics Initiative.

This panel considered issues of national jurisdiction in relation to Internet platforms’ voluntary content removal policies. These policies, typically set forth in Community Guidelines (CGs) or similar documents, prohibit content based on the platforms’ own rules or values—regardless of whether the content violates any law.

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Desde septiembre de 2013 el gobierno de la República Popular China, encabezado por el Presidente Xi Jinping, se encuentra impulsando la iniciativa "Un cinturón, una ruta", una serie de grandes inversiones en infraestructura comercial que abarca 65 países en Asia, Europa y América Latina, estimada en 1 billón de dólares, a la que se suman proyectos de desarrollo en materia educacional y salud, entre otros.

La versión 2017 de esta actividad, cuarta desde que se iniciara por iniciativa de este Centro de Excelencia de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) de la Universidad de Chile, atrajo a 262 profesores que actualizaron sus conocimientos con metodologías de vanguardia en matemáticas y otras asignaturas.Este año un total de 262 profesores de colegio volvieron a sentarse en un pupitre en el Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (CMM) de la FCFM de la Universidad de Chile.

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