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...Internet may have officially run out of ideas. The World Wide Web used to be full of video games and chatrooms, scandal-breaking bloggers and celebrity sex tapes, but nobody pays attention to that stuff anymore. These days, people only use the Internet to search for pictures of adorable animals. Unfortunately, most of them are cats...
...authors of the Science paper based their findings on early data from the H1N1 outbreak, estimating that about 23,000 people had been infected in Mexico by late April, with a fatality rate of about 0.4%. Those numbers come with a wide margin for error on either side, and there are still holes in the epidemiology that need to be filled, but the consensus is that the WHO's handling of H1N1 was reasonable. "Our research indicates that the WHO was justified in its actions in the early days," says Christophe Fraser, an epidemiologist at Imperial College and the lead...
...including the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) contributes $13.5 million annually to the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC) to support intra-faculty science initiatives, part of a $53 million university-wide funding level. Historically, HUSEC has allocated funds from the $53 million on a competitive basis as requests come in. HUSEC will work without a predetermined funding allocation. Rather, it will review funding requests, approving only those that are deemed critical to advancing the scientific priorities of the University...
...more than 6,000 landline phones with a wide variety of telephone service features. Most of these are digital phone lines, also known as ISDN, which cost roughly twice as much per month as analog lines. Many faculty and staff do not need the additional features – such as call forwarding and conferencing capabilities – available in a digital phone, and due to advances in analog phone technology, many other digital phone features are now available for analog phone lines. An ongoing audit of our usage and needs has so far yielded substantial annual savings through...
...catching the H1N1 swine flu have decreased substantially over the past week, though more people have been taking action to protect themselves, according to a Harvard School of Public Health survey released Friday. The survey, conducted by the Harvard Opinion Research Program at HSPH, is the first comprehensive nation-wide survey that polls the reactions, beliefs, level of alarm about the outbreak. Results were announced through the Center for Disease Control, which funds the survey, as part of the CDC’s daily update on swine flu. This is the second HSPH survey on Americans’ response...