Human Factors Weekly News
Our Top News Stories
These consist of news stories that we feel have enough substance to them to justify a 20-30 minute segment on the podcast. Our Patreons decide which topics we discuss on the show from these types of news stories.
- VR study finds vertical greenery useful as stress buffer
- Drama llama or sleep deprived? New study uncovers how consistent sleep loss impacts mental and physical well-being
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Human Factors News
These consist of news stories that have a human factors application, but may just be a brief one-liner (e.g. not a whole lot to talk about but cool enough for us to share).
- Technology that restores the sense of touch in nerves damaged as a result of injury
- Training helps teachers anticipate how students with learning disabilities might solve problems
- Governing commercial space transportation
- A new look at colour displays
- Virgin Galactic and Richard Branson complete first fully crewed spaceflight
- World's deepest pool opens in Dubai, part of huge underwater city
- Virtual learning may help NICU nurses recognize baby pain
- Hand-writing letters shown to be best technique for learning to read
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Photo Credit:
- Photo by Francesco Ungaro from Pexels
- Photo by Ron Lach from Pexels
- Photo by Virgin Galactic
