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  • Drug companies return to nutritional supplements for innovation

    (via Consumer, Drug Firms Vie in Vitamins – WSJ.com) Related articles We mistook drugs for food supplements: Ram Singh (thehindu.com) Myths In The Pricing Of New Drugs (forbes.com) Decreasing Diabetes Risk In Obese Children And Adolescents Through Vitamin D Supplementation (medicalnewstoday.com)

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  • Pier 57 “Incubox” Shipping Container Mall Set to Open Next April in NYC Youngwoo Pier57

    inhabitat.com Start­ing in April, sixty ship­ping con­tain­er shops will open their doors on the for­mer ship­ping indus­try pier under the uni­fied name “Incubox”. For the first two years of oper­a­tion (basi­cal­ly until the entire pier makeover is com­plete)… http://flip.it/hF0GX Pier 57 “Incubox” Shipping Container Mall Set to Open Next April in NYC Youngwoo Pier57

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  • Coco mat Eco mattress: get a sustainable night’s sleep

    Get a Sustainable Night’s Sleep On an Ultra-Comfy, Uber-Cozy Coco-Mat Mattress | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Yuka Yoneda says:, inhabitat.com The aver­age per­son sleeps around eight hours a night — which amounts to a third of your life spent in bed. But despite the amount of time that we find…

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  • Green holiday gift guide

    Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide inhabitat.com http://flip.it/M3Ixh Related articles Inhabitat’s Week in Green: stair-climbing vacuum cleaner, carbon dioxide diapers and a real 3D-printed face (engadget.com)

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  • Egg shape office of the future

    Egg-Shaped Mobile House Extension is No Ordinary Blob | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building caeman says:, inhabitat.com Believe it or not, this adorable egg-shaped “blob” is actu­al­ly a house! Orig­i­nal­ly built as a home office exten­sion for Xfac­tor Agen­cies, the unique design was vehe­ment­ly opposed by Bel­gian author­i­ties. In order to…

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  • Green peace compels Mango, Esprit to clean up their supply chains

    Mango, Esprit Pledge to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals From Supply Chains by 2020, Thanks to Greenpeace Campaign ecouterre.com Green­peace’s “Detox” cam­paign is hav­ing a ban­ner month. Not only did the envi­ron­men­tal non­prof­it con­vince Zara, the world’s No. 1 appar­el retail­er, to com­mit to elim­i­nat­ing haz­ardous chem­i­cals from its sup­ply chain by 2020, but… http://flip.it/L9zUA Related articles…

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  • Bio mimicry and Steve Jobs last remarks

    How Can Designers and Architects Use Biomimicry to Stay on the Cutting Edge of Innovation? | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Diane Pham says:, inhabitat.com Short­ly before his death in 2011, Steve Jobs said, “I think the biggest inno­va­tions of the 21st cen­tu­ry will be at the inter­sec­tion of biol­o­gy and…

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  • Fossil Fuel Subsidies In Focus At Doha Climate Talks

    AP, huffingtonpost.com DOHA, Qatar — Has­san al-Kubaisi con­sid­ers it a gift from above that dri­vers in oil- and gas-rich Qatar only have to pay $1 per gal­lon at the pump. “Thank God that our coun­try is an oil pro­duc­er and the price of gaso­line is one of the… Fossil Fuel Subsidies In Focus At Doha…

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  • Soda stream disrupts beverage industry waste

    SodaStream’s Banned Ad Helps Home Carbonation Company Hit It Big Rachel Tepper, huffingtonpost.com An ad for SodaS­tream, a home car­bon­a­tion prod­uct, has been mak­ing the rounds world­wide. In it, bot­tles of soda seem to com­bust spon­ta­neous­ly every time some­one uses the SodaS­tream else­where in the world. The take­away: why pay for… http://flip.it/BgTFD Related articles 3…

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  • Cancer survivor uses social media to improve medical help

    Drew Olanoff, Cancer Survivor, gets Tattoo of Biggest Donor’s Twitter Handle Jay Scott, huffingtonpost.com The name Drew Olanoff may be one that you have heard before. If you are a twit­ter afi­ciona­do (like me!), you may have once uti­lized the hash­tag #blamedrewscancer. If you haven’t, well here are a few things you should know: after…

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  • Paul Krugman analyzes GOP fiscal cliff proposal on health

    Paul Krugman: GOP Plan Only ‘Sounds Serious Because It Hurts Vulnerable People’ Bonnie Kavoussi, huffingtonpost.com In an inter­view with PBS’ Gwen Ifill on Tues­day, Nobel Prize-winning econ­o­mist Paul Krug­man tore into the GOP’s fis­cal cliff pro­pos­al and launched a spir­it­ed defense of Pres­i­dent Barack Obama. Krug­man explained that Oba­macare has d… http://flip.it/ZuD2u Related articles Paul…

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  • FDA approved iPhone EKG machine

    This $200 iPhone Case Is An FDA-Approved EKG Machine Co.Design, huffingtonpost.com Most iPhone cases just pro­tect your phone from drops. If you’re get­ting fancy, it may have a fish­eye cam­era lens or a screen-printed back. But what about diag­nos­ing coro­nary heart dis­ease, arrhyth­mia, or con­gen­i­tal heart defects? The… http://flip.it/tkpwY Related articles EPI Life: World’s first…

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  • GOP and UN disability treaty position

    Jon Stewart: Have Republicans Hit ‘Rock Bottom’ With Failed United Nations Disability Treaty? Carol Hartsell, huffingtonpost.com For the sec­ond day in a row, Jon Stew­art ham­mered at Repub­li­cans over irra­tional par­ti­san­ship. On Tues­day, he took down Boehn­er and com­pa­ny’s inde­cent fis­cal cliff pro­pos­al, and on Wednes­day “The Daily Show” host took sen­ate… http://flip.it/iamVo Related articles…

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  • Broadband index ranks states in Internet access

    2012 Broadband Index: States Making Progress On Boosting Broadband Blair Christie, huffingtonpost.com Imag­ine a future where every class­room in Amer­i­ca has a high-speed con­nec­tion to the inter­net, where stu­dents have the entire cat­a­log of books and videos at their fin­ger­tips. A future where access to the high­est qual­i­ty health care… http://flip.it/5nSKe Related articles Comcast VP…

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  • Does 48 fps cause motion sickness?

    ‘Hobbit’ Motion Sickness, Nausea Critics Shot Down By Warner Bros. And Peter Jackson Cavan Sieczkowski, huffingtonpost.com Warn­er Bros. and Peter Jack­son are respond­ing to claims that “The Hob­bit: An Unex­pect­ed Jour­ney” is caus­ing motion sick­ness and nau­sea among view­ers. Peter Jack­son’s fan­ta­sy flick pre­miered in New Zealand on Nov. 28 and claims of… http://flip.it/WRhuh Related…

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  • Smartest cities in America Fast Company ranking

    Smartest Cities In America: Fast Company Ranks Brainiest Cities Aaron Sankin, huffingtonpost.com How brainy is your ‘hood? That’s the ques­tion posed by Dr. Boyd Cohen in a recent arti­cle pub­lished in Fast Com­pa­ny. Cohen looked at cities across North Amer­i­ca and rated them on a “smart city” scale based on char­ac­ter­is­tics rang­ing… http://flip.it/S4G4J Related articles…

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  • iPhone, Panasonic GH 2 match pro video cameras in shoot out

    (via The Best Video Camera Revealed in Shootout) Related articles Evacuate, North Korea urges foreigners in latest ‘thermo-nuclear war’ threat – Telegraph.co.uk (telegraph.co.uk) EOSHD competition – Win a place at Panasonic’s exclusive Lumix GH3 workshop (eoshd.com) MōVI set to revolutionise filmmaking – Vincent LaForet shows gyro stabiliser by Freefly Systems (with footage from GH3 and…

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  • Papa John’s Obamacare Stance Costs Company Its Reputation: Study

    Joe Van Brussel, huffingtonpost.com Turns out nobody wants a side of politics with their pizza. Public opinion of Papa John’s dropped precipitously after CEO John Schnatter’s public comments about Obamacare, according to a new study from YouGov BrandIndex, which researches brand… http://flpbd.it/Ch49y Papa John’s Obamacare Stance Costs Company Its Reputation: Study Related articles Suck it,…

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  • IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?

    The Huffington Post, huffingtonpost.com Pity the poor text message — a mere 20 years young this week and already they are talking about its retirement party. Actually, nobody holds retirement parties anymore, do they? We don’t retire from our jobs, we get pink-slipped. Which is apparen… http://flpbd.it/Y10fU IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?…

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  • Religion v science R.M. | WASHINGTON, DC, economist.com Earth, to Rubio WE ARE now about 1,400 days out from the next pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, so it’s time for the poten­tial can­di­dates to start jock­ey­ing for posi­tion. Hence Marco Rubio’s fab­u­lous­ly elu­sive (now viral) answer to the rather… RT @TheEconomist: Trending: A Republican senator from Florida, has…

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  • Economist ranks best countries to be born in

    The lottery of life economist.com International Where to be born in 2013 War­ren Buf­fett, prob­a­bly the world’s most suc­cess­ful investor, has said that any­thing good that hap­pened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right coun­try, the Unit­ed… RT @TheEconomist: Trending: Which country will provide the best…

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  • Language generation on the Internet:Reddit is the meme hatchery

    S.A.P. | LOS ANGELES, economist.com The Erkernermerst JOHN­SON reads Red­dit from time to time. Red­dit, as the web’s most promi­nent meme hatch­ery, is an incu­ba­tor of new trends in writ­ten lan­guage. The Inter­net has changed so much of our lives, but few things have changed … RT @TheEconomist: Reddit, as the web’s most prominent meme…

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  • Obama campaign sparks new political tech startups

    The Obama start-ups economist.com Innovation and electioneering Techniques from the president’s election campaigns have spawned one lot of young firms AT THE inau­gu­ra­tion ball held for staff of Barack Obama’s cam­paign team in Jan­u­ary 2009, the new pres­i­dent “told us al… RT @TheEconomist: Techniques from the Barack Obama’s election campaigns have spawned one lot of…

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  • Gatorade contains flame retardant according to petition

    Petition Claims Ingredient In Gatorade Is A Flame Retardant, Unsafe For Consumption Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Clean Wal-Mart)Gatorade is under fire from a new consumer petition claiming that the company’s beverage contains an unhealthy ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (or BVO), that was developed as a flame retardant. Opponents of the emulsifier, whi… Related articles Top…

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  • Best B-Schools 2012businessweek.com How each school fared on each ele­ment of Bloomberg Busi­ness­week’s rank­ing method­ol­o­gy A new gen­er­a­tion of busi­ness stu­dents is opt­ing for spe­cial­ized mas­ter’s degrees straight out of col­lege, rather than the tra­di­tion­a… http://flpbd.it/X0RLD

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  • Why Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy

    Editorials, bloomberg.com After Hur­ri­cane Sandy, sur­vivors need­ed, in addi­tion to safe­ty and power, the abil­i­ty to com­mu­ni­cate. Yet in parts of New York City, mobile com­mu­ni­ca­tions ser­vices were knocked out for days. The prob­lem? The com­pa­nies that… http://flpbd.it/aV6Ma Why Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy Related articles Coldplay’s Chris Martin Supports Hurricane Sandy Relief…

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  • MBA Pay: The Devil’s in the Details Louis Lavelle, businessweek.com For many years, prospec­tive busi­ness school stu­dents have stud­ied the career stats for the nation’s top MBA pro­grams like hand­i­cap­pers por­ing over the Daily Rac­ing Form before the big race. But unlike that august pub­li­ca­tion,… http://flpbd.it/IFCzV

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