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Rage has long shadowed American health care. It’s rarely produced big change.

News Medical Health Sciences

Among the biggest-grossing films in America in February 2002 were a war drama about American troops in Somalia ("Black Hawk Down"), an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie ("Collateral Damage"), and a future Oscar winner about a brilliant mathematician struggling with schizophrenia ("A Beautiful Mind").

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How dancing honey bees could help us save pollinators

Frontiers

In 2002, I was an unhappy graduate student in neurobiology without the vocabulary to understand why. That was when I stumbled across a paper by Ben-Shahar et al (2002) describing the effect of gene expression on the age-related transition of worker honey bees from nurses to foragers. What inspired you to become a researcher?

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Here’s How Data Analytics In Sports Is Changing The Game

Smart Data Collective

Oakland Athletics become famous in the 2002 season for a 20-game winning streak. Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team used sabermetrics to help recruit players for the team, despite having a shoestring budget.

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Predictive Analytics Improves Trading Decisions as Euro Rebounds

Smart Data Collective

Since December 2002, the single currency has fallen to its lowest level versus the US dollar since the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic in July because of energy worries, supply constraints, and rate rises from the European Central Bank (ECB).

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Lil Jon Wants Us To “Get Low” To Check For Colon Cancer

Black Health Matters

The twenty-somethings standing on nightclub couches when the original song was released in 2002 are now forty-somethings at the prime age to get screened. Cologuard allows anyone to collect a stool sample, ship it out, and have it screened. The majority of the process occurs in the privacy and comfort of their homes.

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Why is Covid-19 more severe in some patients? Using AI, we found a likely answer

Frontiers

Dr Emmanuelle Logette studied molecular biology and biochemistry at the University of Burgundy in France and, in 2002, received her PhD, for her work on the transcriptional regulation of caspase-2, a not very well known member of the caspase family of enzymes involved in apoptosis.

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Data Privacy and Internet Safety Tips for College Students

Smart Data Collective

Studies by the Pew Research Center twenty years ago (2002) reveal that even then over 70% of college students used the internet more than the library, as well as email communications. It highlights the need for data encryption and other data security measures. What Research Shows. First of all, let’s look into some statistics.