Anthrocode

Sign In

Author: timbatchelder

  • East Village Molecule Cafe

    East Village’s Molecule Cafe Serves Nothing But Filtered NYC Tap Water! inhabitat.com Glass of water photo via Shut­ter­stock A new water­ing hole called the Mol­e­cule Cafe has opened up in New York’s East Vil­lage, and it serves only one thing – NYC tap water. Con­sid­er­ing that the cafe gets the water for free, fil­ters it…

    Read article →

  • Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email

    Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email Megan Garber, theatlantic.com Unless you hap­pen to get some sort of obses­sive com­pul­sive sat­is­fac­tion from keep­ing your inbox in ship­shape — and hey, if you do, more power to ya — deal­ing with email has got to be one of the most dead­en­ing aspects of any…

    Read article →

  • Bargain Homes Lure Buyers Worldwide to Detroit: Mortgages

    Bargain Homes Lure Buyers Worldwide to Detroit: Mortgages By Chris Christoff -, bloomberg.com Jim West/Zuma Press Peter Grosso of Long Island, New York, paid about $90,000 for 29 Detroit homes at an auc­tion for tax-delinquent prop­er­ties last Octo­ber. He’s sure they’ll sell at a prof­it with­in 10 years, while he rents them for… RT @BloombergNews:…

    Read article →

  • These Gorgeous Sustainable Pre-Fab Houses Fit In A Shipping Container

    These Gorgeous Sustainable Pre-Fab Houses Fit In A Shipping Container BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com Just because a house is pre-fabricated doesn’t mean it’s easy to move. But Connect Homes’ innovation is to make them fit in shipping containers, so high-end green design can end up anywhere on the planet. Pre-fab homes have found a new…

    Read article →

  • How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing

    How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing And Wowed Customers By Ekaterina Walter, fastcompany.com As mar­keters, we talk a lot about real-time response and true social agili­ty. But very few brands were able to mas­ter the art. So is agile mar­ket­ing a myth? A lot of brands strug­gle with agili­ty in mar­ket­ing: think­ing on…

    Read article →

  • Steelcase Anthropologist On Remaking Offices To Create Happier Workers

    Steelcase’s Anthropologist On Remaking Offices To Create Happier Workers By Drake Baer, fastcompany.com Human nature changes slowly, but the way we work and the idea of the “office” changes fast. Here’s how to harness those opposing forces for a happier work force. You text, you Gchat, you hop on Facebook—why? To com­mu­ni­cate. Soon you find……

    Read article →

  • The Government Open-Data Program

    The Government Open-Data Program At The Root Of Energy-Efficiency Startups BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com The Green Button program has forced utilities to standardize the way they present their energy use numbers to their customers. In turn, that data has caused an explosion of apps and services to help you save energy—and money. It’s only a……

    Read article →

  • 17 Career Lessons from Ideo’s David Kelley

    17 Career Lessons from Ideo’s David Kelley By Linda Tischler, fastcodesign.com David Kel­ley is well-known for his astute appli­ca­tion of design think­ing to many of life’s intractable prob­lems. Less known is that he’s also a ver­i­ta­ble Dr. Phil of good advice about life, careers, and the impor­tance of not being a… RT @FastCompany: “You’re the…

    Read article →

  • Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile

    Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile With Acquisition Of Health Innovator Epocrates By Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com Epocrates, the start­up whose mobile apps pro­vide drug ref­er­ence advice to more than half of Amer­i­can health care providers, is being acquired by Athenahealth, the data man­age­ment plat­form for doctors—a mar­riage of two Most Inno­v­a­tive… RT @FastCompany: #FCMostInnovative Health…

    Read article →

  • 4 Secrets For Doing Gonzo User Research

    4 Secrets For Doing Gonzo User Research By Brian Millar, fastcodesign.com Fast, cheap, and out-of-control insights can help you to outsmart the competition. Here’s how to gather them. A few years ago, I got to part­ner up with one of the world’s best ad cre­atives, Steve Henry. We spent the morn­ing work­ing on a brie……

    Read article →

  • This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart

    This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Test results become far easier to process, since they’re visual. Blood tests are one of those things that always seem to slow down doc­tor appoint­ments. You’re in the room. The nurse takes blood. The doc­tor sees you—speculates a lot—and…

    Read article →

  • A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated

    A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com To get definitive evidence if oil from the BP spill has seeped into water sources, citizen scientists need a device called a spectrometer. Sounds fancy and expensive. But a new project will send you one made with nothing but a few…

    Read article →

  • Dropbox’s Culture-Building, Product-Inspiring Outdoor Hikes

    The Curious Magic Of Dropbox’s Culture-Building, Product-Inspiring Outdoor Hikes By David Zax, fastcompany.com A hiking tour of San Francisco, with Dropbox coder Dan Wheeler. Dan Wheel­er is a pro­gram­mer for the file-sharing com­pa­ny Drop­box. Click around a lit­tle on Dropbox.com, and odds are Wheel­er had some­thing to do with a given prod­uct or… RT @FastCompany:…

    Read article →

  • Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics

    Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics By CARMEL MELOUNEY, fastcompany.com Researchers discover ways to identify the authors of anonymous online comments through linguistic analysis. If you want to ensure your anony­mous com­ments online real­ly do stay anony­mous, it’s prob­a­bly wise to start using leet­s­peak. … http://flip.it/IVsls Related articles Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users (disinfo.com)…

    Read article →

  • FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating Depression

    FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating Depression By Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com Today the Unit­ed States Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion approved a device that treats depres­sion using… mag­nets. About 14.8 mil­lion Amer­i­can adults, or 6.7 per­cent of the U.S. adult pop­u­la­tion, are diag­nosed with major depres­sion in … RT @FastCompany: FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating…

    Read article →

  • Tag, Share, And Set Your Life To Music With SoundTracking

    Tag, Share, And Set Your Life To Music With SoundTracking By Tyler Gray, fastcompany.com Schematic Labs cofounder and CEO and former imeem CMO Steve Jang says he’s making it easier to share yourself through music (and maybe hook up with your rock ‘n’ roll crush). You’re already sound­track­ing your life, whether or not you use……

    Read article →

  • Want To Work For An Innovative Company? Be Prepared To Answer These Unusual Interview Questions

    Want To Work For An Innovative Company? Be Prepared To Answer These Unusual Interview Questions By Christina Chaey, fastcompany.com “If you were to get rid of one state in the U.S., which would it be and why?” and more oddball questions you might be asked on your next job interview. The next time you step…

    Read article →

  • New API Lab Lets Wannabe Devs Tinker

    Codecademy’s New API Lab Lets Wannabe Devs Tinker With NPR, Twilio, SoundCloud, And More By Sarah Kessler, fastcompany.com Learning to code is more fun when you’re building something you can use. Codecademy’s new lesson plans use APIs to help students build more complex projects earlier. After com­plet­ing the first HTML project at online pro­gram­ming school……

    Read article →

  • TalentBin Takes On LinkedIn

    TalentBin Takes On LinkedIn By Targeting Recruiters By David Zax, fastcompany.com By trolling various sites, TalentBin builds a database of people’s hidden talents. Can it reinvent headhunting in the process? Tal­ent­Bin, as its founder Pete Kazan­jy explains, is a LinkedIn com­peti­tor. And yet, if the aver­age per­son with … RT @FastCompany: TalentBin Takes On LinkedIn…

    Read article →

  • Diesel Tells You How Many Days Are Left In Your Life

    Diesel Tells You How Many Days Are Left In Your Life Joe Berkowitz, fastcocreate.com The brand expands on its “Time to Be Brave” philosophy by calculating roughly how much time each of its fans has in which to be brave.If you knew the extent of your projected longevity, it would probably change the way you…

    Read article →

  • Google Analytics For Real Life

    Google Analytics For Real Life: Tracking Retail Customers Through Smartphones By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com A new technology debuting at New York’s National Retail Federation expo lets retailers track in-store customer activity through their smartphones’ MAC addresses. A new prod­uct released at this year’s Nation­al Retail Fed­er­a­tion expo in New Y… RT @FastCompany: Google Analytics For…

    Read article →

  • 10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter

    10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter By Russell S. Reynolds, Jr., with Carol E. Curtis, fastcompany.com Whether you’re being interviewed to be an intern or a CEO, you’re going to run into a few notoriously tricky questions—here’s a road map of what you’ll be asked, and how to craft impressive answers to even…

    Read article →

  • A New Kind Of Concrete Gives Regular Buildings Living Walls

    A New Kind Of Concrete Gives Regular Buildings Living Walls BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com This new building material is engineered to easily keep plant life living on it to create easy-to-care-for green buildings. Build­ings cov­ered in veg­e­ta­tion aren’t just beau­ti­ful. They also cap­ture CO2 and pro­vide insulation—you just ha… RT @FastCompany: A New Kind Of…

    Read article →

  • A New Test To Find Out If Your Water Has Been Fracked

    A New Test To Find Out If Your Water Has Been Fracked BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com There is a lot of talk about the dangers of fracking, but few hard facts. BaseTrace’s new technology—using DNA—will let you test to see if the natural gas extraction process has contaminated your water. Depend­ing on whether you’ve just…

    Read article →

  • A New Company Uses Big Data To Fight Cancer

    A New Company Uses Big Data To Fight Cancer (And Rethink Basketball) BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcoexist.com Ayasdi, a new big-data firm with close ties to Stanford University and DARPA has plans to change the way researchers analyze cancer, money laundering, and professional sports. Cre­at­ing visu­al­iza­tions of huge data sets is big busi­ness.… RT @FastCompany: A…

    Read article →

  • CO2 Is Why You’re Fat

    CO2 Is Why You’re Fat BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com As the atmosphere fills with more carbon dioxide, it might mean that breathing creates a chemical reaction that makes you want to eat more. And more. And even more. There is no sin­gle fac­tor that has caused wide­spread obe­si­ty in the… CO2 Is Why You’re Fat…

    Read article →

  • In the Future, Will Libraries Look More Like Apple Stores?

    In the Future, Will Libraries Look More Like Apple Stores? BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com A new library in Texas appears to be normal, until you realize it doesn’t have any books in it. In Bexar Coun­ty, Texas, the cen­ter of the San Anto­nio met­ro­pol­i­tan area’s break­neck growth, a pop­u­la­tion boom has left some res­i­dents… RT…

    Read article →