The five most-read stories on Scope this week were:
What are the consequences of sleep deprivation?: Brandon Peters, MD, an adjunct clinical faculty member at the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, explains how lack of sleep can negatively affect a person's well-being in this Huffington Post piece.
Researchers explain how "cooling glove" can improve exercise recovery and performance: The "cooling glove," a device that helps people cool themselves quickly by using their hand to dissipate heat, was created more than a decade ago by Stanford biologists Dennis Grahn and Craig Heller, PhD. This video demonstrates the device and explains how it can be used to dramatically improve exercise recovery and performance.
Can Joe Six-Pack compete with Sid Cyborg?: UC-Berkeley philosopher John Searle, PhD, and Stanford artificial-intelligence expert Terry Winograd, PhD, recently got together to explore the question: "Can a computer have a mind?"
The mystery surrounding lung-transplant survival rates: A 2012 article in the San Francisco Chronicle offered a look at the challenges facing lung transplant patients and explored why a significant number don't live beyond the five-year mark, despite improvements in survival rates.
Breaking Good: How to wipe out meth labs: Earlier this week, addiction expert Keith Humphreys, PhD, testified about methamphetamine laboratories to West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin's Advisory Council on Substance Abuse. He shares his idea on how to solve the problem here.
