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  • I’m Tim Ferriss, and This Is How I Work

      lifehacker.com Tessa Miller View Profile • Google Plus • RSS When we kicked off the How I Work series in August, we encour­aged read­ers to tell us whose pro­duc­tiv­i­ty tips and tricks they were dying to know. No one has been more… http://flip.it/zcWep I’m Tim Ferriss, and This Is How I Work Related articles Tim Ferriss…

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  • Review: The Hobbit Is Insanely Gorgeous at 48 Frames Per Second Hugh Hart, wired.com Watching The Hobbit at 48 frames per second makes one thing crystal clear: the movie looks like nothing you’ve seen before. http://flip.it/EPLua

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  • Marijuana Vending Machine Maker’s Stock Skyrockets

        Mike Epstein, mashable.com Based on this month’s elec­tion, the idea legal­iz­ing mar­i­jua­na seems more pop­u­lar than ever. Two states, Wash­ing­ton and Col­orado, have legal­ized pot at the state level. With the legal mar­i­jua­na mar­ket look­ing stronger than ever, th… http://flip.it/cTo9v Marijuana Vending Machine Maker’s Stock Skyrockets Related articles Ready For Marijuana Vending Machines?…

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  • Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Coming True

      yahoo.com Almost one year ago today, we laid out the night­mare sce­nario for Microsoft (MSFT) that could lead to its busi­ness col­laps­ing. After lay­ing it all out, we con­clud­ed, “For­tu­nate­ly for Microsoft, none of this is going to happen.” We wer… http://flip.it/GwzT7 Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Coming True Related articles How Steve Ballmer Became…

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  • The new golden age of biotech in Massachusetts – Business

    By Steven Syre, bostonglobe.com We’re liv­ing in a new a gold­en age of biotech­nol­o­gy in Mass­a­chu­setts. By this I don’t mean the sheer num­ber of start-ups and other young local com­pa­nies hop­ing to make their marks. Nor am I high­light­ing the impres­sive list of glob… http://flip.it/mReYH The new golden age of biotech in Massachusetts –…

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  • Philips Survey Reveals One in 10 Americans Believe Online Health Information Saved Their Life

      philips.com ANDOVER, Mass., U.S.A. – A recent U.S. sur­vey com­mis­sioned by Royal Philips Elec­tron­ics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a lead­ing health and well-being com­pa­ny, found that con­sumers believe web-enabled, mHealth and mobile apps are part of their… http://flip.it/N9jfs Philips Survey Reveals One in 10 Americans Believe Online Health Information Saved Their Life Related articles…

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  • The Consumerization of Healthcare

    by Lauren Soelberg Treasure, orcahealth.com The sys­temic change in US health­care deliv­ery has been called many things, but they all refer to one thing: the future of health­care will be in the hands of the con­sumers. Today, con­sumers are bet­ter able to make choic­es about their… http://flip.it/e36yc The Consumerization of Healthcare Related articles Dr. Kizer…

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  • Survey: Patients Welcome Active Role in Care

    Written by Heather Punke |, beckershospitalreview.com Decem­ber 12, 2012 Amer­i­can health­care con­sumers are buy­ing into the notion that they must take an active role in their health­care, accord­ing to a recent sur­vey by Wolters Kluw­er Health, part of Wolters Kluw­er, a glob­al infor­ma­tion… http://flip.it/EWQoI Survey: Patients Welcome Active Role in Care Related articles Rate your…

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  • Climate change caught in action in iceberg destruction

    Behold: The Largest Iceberg Breakup Ever Caught on Film Eric Liu, theatlantic.com The effects of climate change, in one gorgeous, terrifying video So, wow. Wow­wow­wow. A group of film­mak­ers, mak­ing a movie called, aptly, Chas­ing Ice, have cap­tured what they claim to be the largest ice­berg calv­ing ever filmed.… RT @megangarber: This is *literally* awesome:…

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  • NASA shows that earth looks like one big disco ball at night

    Satellite images of Earth, city lights at night Posted By: Bryan Chan, latimes.com Photography NASA has released images of Earth at night from the Suomi Nation­al Polar-Orbiting Part­ner­ship satel­lite that is orbit­ing 512 miles above the Earth’s sur­face. The agency stitched some of these images togeth­er to cre­ate a… http://flip.it/qaOMz Related articles This gorgeous video…

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  • Ravi Shankar, champion of ethnomusicology

    Remembering Ravi Shankar, the ‘Godfather of World Music’ Arun Rath, theworld.org Remembering Ravi Shankar, the ‘Godfather of World Music’The World You’ve been hear­ing uni­ver­sal praise Wednes­day for Ravi Shankar, and it is deeply deserved: His music was so good, he man­aged to open a door and raise the bar at the same… RT @pritheworld: For…

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  • Why cable tv is no longer necessary

    Cut the cord and say goodbye to cable Deborah Méndez-Wilson, special to USA TODAY, usatoday.com On-demand and online services offer more choices than cable—sometimes for free. Like every­one else, Audra Shar­i­fi Isfa­hani and her hus­band James McCol­lough want­ed to trim their costs in this down econ­o­my. They fig­ured if they cut their… http://flip.it/lTsTR Related articles…

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  • Strum makes your clips into appealing videos

    This App Turns Your Video Clips Into Instant Music Videos Emily Price, mashable.com Videos you shoot on your iPhone are about to get a lot cooler, with Strum, a new video app that instantly turns 15-second video clips into rock masterpieces.Similar to how you might put a filter on a photo with Instagram, Strum offers…

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  • Discovering the next cures from indigenous medicine

    Horseradish Tea And Other Global Cold Cures All Things Considered, npr.org Horseradish Tea And Other Global Cold Cures NPR All Things Considered From chick­en noo­dle soup to alcohol-spiked drinks, every­one has a pre­ferred rem­e­dy for cold symp­toms. Since she was feel­ing a lit­tle under the weath­er, Melis­sa Bloc… http://flip.it/e61h1 Related articles Patent Medicines Get A…

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  • Windows 8 is another UX fiasco

    Nielsen Norman Group: UX Research, Training, and Consulting nngroup.com Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users Sum­ma­ry: Hid­den fea­tures, reduced dis­cov­er­abil­i­ty, cog­ni­tive over­head from dual envi­ron­ments, and reduced power from a single-window UI and low infor­ma­tio… http://flip.it/XhVs9 Related articles Are you a Designer? – Windows 8 UX Design Camp in Finland…

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  • UX makeover from ISite design

    UX Makeover ISITE Design, isitedesign.com Sub­mit­ted by Jes­si­ca Cheng S… on Novem­ber 12th, 2012 in UX Makeover: Laying the Foundation to Support Your Website Content Of the many ben­e­fits we enjoy being part of the ISITE Design team is a true com­mit­ment to pro­fes­sion­al… http://flip.it/5zdH7 Related articles ISITE Design’s Kam Figy Recognized as Sitecore Most…

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  • Rebooting medicine info graphic

    Digital Health Infographic wirelesshealthstrategies.com 6 Char­ac­ters (0,1,A,C,G,T) Reboot­ing Med­i­cine & Health I cre­at­ed this con­cep­tu­al info­graph­ic with the great team at Mis­fit Wear­ables. It’s based on the work of Dr. Eric Topol, author of “The Cre­ative Destruc­tion of… http://flip.it/ZfjsN Related articles What Digital Health Is (and Isn’t) (rockhealth.com) The Creative Destruction of Medicine (canadacloud.net)

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  • Ginger.io behavioral health IT startup

    Smartphone app that assesses behavioral health raises $6.5M Stephanie Baum, medcitynews.com A health IT startup that got its start evaluating college students behavior based on their smartphone use has raised $6.5 million, according to a company statement.The San Francisco behavior analytics firm Ginger.io co-founder and CEO Anmol Madan… http://flip.it/vRhhX Related articles Guest Post: The Ginger.io…

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  • Google knowledge graph on drugs

    Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs by Casey Newton, cnet.com Google’s evolv­ing data­base of the rela­tion­ships between peo­ple, places and things gets a new dose of med­i­cine. Search­ing for infor­ma­tion about med­i­cine on Google? You’ll soon find drugs inject­ed into your search… http://flip.it/tRy2u Related articles Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com)…

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  • Vinod Khosla says tech will replace 80% of what docs do

    Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do – Fortune Tech cnn.com Data-driven healthcare won’t replace physicians entirely, but it will help those receptive to technology perform their jobs better. By Vinod Khosla FOR­TUNE — Health­care today is often real­ly the “prac­tice of med­i­cine” rather than the… http://flip.it/t2nZy Related articles Vinod Khosla To Entrepreneurs: Venture…

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  • How to use Creative Commons visuals

    How to Use Creative Commons Visuals on Your Site Nina Frazier, mashable.com Tracking down quality visuals to accompany stories and blog posts can be difficult. Luckily, there are more than 200 million free photos on the web that are available for almost anyone to use — as long as they follow the tenets of Creative…

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  • Why health IT is the core of reform

    Why IT is the core of the healthcare renaissance kevinmd.com Warning! I am a practicing doctor who sees real patients using an electronic medical record (EMR). My sole agenda is to provide the best patient care. I have no financial stake in information technology (IT). However, unlike the editorial board at… http://flip.it/YDFkX Related articles Practice…

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  • The Leaderless Organization: more makers and fewer managers

      Greg, digitaltonto.com Good leadership, after all, is defined by its absence. Related posts:• 3 Levels of Strategy • Apple’s (not so) Stupid Strategy • How Companies Fail • 21st Century Strategy • Why The Lunatics Really Do Run The Asylum http://flip.it/Qfaj5 The Leaderless Organization Related articles Why Some Of The World’s Best Leaders Are…

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  • Popcorn: turn video into a computable medium

    Popcorn: Content Creation that Tastes Good iqagency.com A new type of video content creation. This post is about a brand new dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy for video called Pop­corn. It’s one of a num­ber of tech­nol­o­gy led efforts to broad­en what video is capa­ble of, and in a world where soon 90% of da… http://flip.it/EZTdB

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  • Best lenses for your micro four thirds camera

    (via Top 10 Native Lenses for Micro Four Thirds cameras 2012 | OSGFilms) Related articles Panasonic’s Beginner-Friendly Lumix GF6 Brings Wi-Fi to Micro Four Thirds (gizmodo.com) Panasonic 14-140mm f/4.0-5.8 OIS Video Optimized Micro Four Thirds Lens for Panasonic Digital SLR Cameras@’ (hkzwes.wordpress.com) Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera: The 1080HD RAW Pocket Camera (cultofmac.com) Olympus M. Zuiko…

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  • John Hodgman’s Apocalypse Survival 101

    beeeeeenr, youtube.com YouTube http://flip.it/W9TP2 http://flip.it/hVJfB John Hodgman’s Apocalypse Survival 101 Related articles Design, explained: John Hodgman at TED2012 (ted.com) Chaos, squeaky toys, and deranged millionaires: 5 TEDx Talks to get you laughing (tedx.com)

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