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August 26, 2024 Ferris State University has partnered with Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services to provide greater mental health and wellness support to students. BIG RAPIDS, Michigan — Ferris State University students will have more access to mental health support through a partnership with Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services. Andy Slater, director of the Personal Counselling Centre, said the partnership will help the centre and the Barkham Health Centre achieve a long-held goal: Free weekly sessions with psychiatrist Dr Jayanthi Peters will be available to referred students. The service will begin in the autumn semester. Pictured is the…
I don’t know what it says about me, but I genuinely enjoy looking at a full list of college football betting odds.It's a real treat to see, especially after the interminable college football offseason.And I don't just love watching the lines, I love checking them multiple times a day to see how they move based on the news and what the betting is going on as kickoff approaches. It's like the stock market for sports, and it's pure fun every week.And at last, our long national nightmare is over: college football games are back, with packed stadiums.Praise the Lord.Last week…
Even as many emerging technology companies are increasing their investments in the artificial intelligence (AI) space, Nvidia's NVDA remains unmatched. Nvidia's high-performance GPUs power nearly every industry. Still, as the AI era advances, many undervalued small companies have the potential to thrive. These companies have strong AI capabilities and show great growth potential. If you missed out on Nvidia, investing in these stocks gives you the opportunity to benefit from the AI boom.#1. UI PassUiPath PATH is an enterprise and AI automation software company valued at $7.1 billion. The company is best known for its Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software…
The UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, taking place from August 28th to September 1st, will feature the world's best downhill, cross-country and short track riders, including some of the athletes who competed in the Paris Olympics. The UCI MTB World Championships take place in Andorra, a small country in the Pyrenees between Spain and France. One of the Americans was Hailey Batten, who won the silver medal in the women's cross country race in Paris, finishing in an American record time of 1 hour, 28 minutes and 59 seconds.The three major elite events – men's and women's elite short track,…
A new version of the world's first raspberry-picking robot is a four-armed machine equipped with artificial intelligence that allows it to work with the same speed and efficiency as a human, and is due to be deployed on farms in the UK, Australia and Portugal over the next 12 months.Developers claim that the Field Worker 1, nicknamed RoboCrop, can detect whether a berry is ripe more accurately than previous models and can pick fruit faster thanks to the increased reach and flexibility of its grippers.The machine was developed in less than a year by Plymouth University spin-out Fieldwork Robotics and…
Want to stay on top of the latest health news? Sign up for the Morning Rounds newsletter in your inbox. Happy First Daughter's Day. I'm not the first daughter in my family, but I was always the oldest sibling in the house growing up. I often want to discuss that burden, but this weekend I watched the movie “Dìdi”. It was so lovely and reminded me that my little brother is a person too. Anyway, the news: Anthony Fauci has been infected with West Nile virus. STAT's Helen Branswell tells you everything you need to know about the infection. How…
European defense companies such as Thales and Rheinmetall are reporting a surge in orders as military budgets grow. Here are some companies that stand to benefit from geopolitical uncertainty: advertisementEurope's largest defense and aerospace companies are experiencing record order and cash flow levels amid a surge in government orders for new weapons.These include Germany's Rheinmetall, Britain's BAE Systems, France's Thales and Sweden's Saab. The increase in orders is believed to be largely due to growing geopolitical uncertainty, given the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine and the conflict between Israel and Hamas.As a result, government military budgets are growing and…
Joan Tapons There is no such thing as “can.” Life is stressful. And it has always been that way since the beginning of time. Knowing the signs, symptoms, and when to seek help is important not only for our own health, but also for the health of those around us. Stress comes in two forms: acute and chronic. Acute stress, which occurs suddenly, can activate the brain's “fight or flight” response. “This response was useful to our ancestors when they lived in the wild. The surge of cortisol and adrenaline that accompanies this response helps prepare the body for action.…
Mitochondria pass through nuclear pores to release DNA segments that can integrate into the cell's chromosomes. Courtesy of Martin Picard's lab at Columbia University Vagelos College of Medicine. It's been an interesting week for the study of human behavior. A team of cognitive scientists at MIT has figured out why laws are written in an incomprehensible style because it confers “a special kind of authority” and lawmakers feel compelled to follow tradition. And a team of archaeologists at the University of California, Berkeley has debunked the myth that early human hunting bands threw spears to kill mammoths. They found evidence…
Governments are rushing to get ahead of the AI tsunami, and for good reason. Like any useful technology, AI presents huge economic opportunities for governments around the world. In fact, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) estimates that AI will contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030, an amount larger than the current economic output of China and India combined. PwC also provides a breakdown of where this money is likely to come from. The organization says that around $6.6 trillion could come from productivity gains and another $9.1 trillion from “consumption-side effects.” To learn more about how much governments…