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(Alexandria, VA) May 11, 2021 The Association for Talent Development announces the publication of
Introduction to Instructional Systems Design by instructional design expert Chuck Hodell. This comprehensive and first-ever instructional design textbook provides the prerequisites that every instructional designer needs to get started in the profession and become both informed and conversational in the basics of the field.
While the instructional design field has been around for a long time, it is only within the last 30 years that it has emerged more as a discipline with educational courses, resources, and methodologies. However, instruction is often offered under different names and different departments at colleges and universities, and often taught from varying experiences and perspectives given a lack of foundational resources. Hodell has created a comprehensive resource that will help set a
Maryland is a hotspot for research and production of superbug-killing bacteriophages. Author: Nathan Baca (WUSA9) Updated: 5:51 PM EDT May 7, 2021
GAITHERSBURG, Md. The CDC says 2.8 million Americans are infected by antibiotic-resistant bacteria every year. These so-called “superbugs” often baffle doctors, and can quickly kill.
Elaine Blake of Calvert County, Maryland, lost her 81-year-old mother Lou Ruth Blake, her 58-year-old brother Lowell Frederick Blake and 56-year-old sister Venessa Blake to just such a superbug a decade ago.
The Blakes came down with the H3N2 influenza strain March 2012. It weakened their immune systems, according to Elaine, who was also infected. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria reached their lungs, and Elaine s family was eventually killed by a pneumonia infection brought on by the superbug.
May 7, 2021 at 11:00 am
Placebos can make us feel better. Mild electric zaps to the brain can make that effect even stronger, scientists report online May 3 in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The finding raises the possibility of enhancing the power of expectations to improve treatments.
This is the first study to boost placebo and blunt pain-inducing nocebo effects by altering brain activity, says Jian Kong, a pain researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital in Charlestown.
The placebo effect arises when someone feels better after taking an inactive substance, like a sugar pill, because they expect the substance to help. The nocebo effect is the placebo’s evil twin: A person feels worse after taking an inactive substance that they expect to have unpleasant effects.
K-9 Lollipop (Photo: WAND-TV/University of Illinois Police Department)
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
A K-9 officer was instrumental in helping Urbana police save a man who was threatening suicide, according to WAND-TV.
In a tense situation that unfolded Saturday morning, Urbana police responded to a 911 call about a man who was inside of a bus shelter in the 1000 block of W. Green St. They found a 38-year-old man holding a knife.
The man had cut and stabbed himself in front of police, according to a press release, and was threatening to kill himself.
Urbana police spoke to the man for over an hour in an effort to calm the situation. They said they learned the man was fond of dogs.
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