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  • Get Back Inc.: Saving, and Creating, the Best American-Made Industrial Furniture

    Get Back Inc.: Saving, and Creating, the Best American-Made Industrial Furniture core77.com Connecticut-based design­er Tim Byrne has my dream job: He found­ed and runs Get Back Inc., a com­pa­ny that scours the Amer­i­can coun­try­side gath­er­ing up U.S.-built fur­ni­ture from the Indus­tri­al Rev­o­lu­tion era and onwards. Gems like t… http://flpbd.it/d8EfS

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  • Design and cleantech: a winning combination

    Design and cleantech: a winning combination Posted by Chris Sherwin, guardian.co.uk In his third article on sustainability and design, Chris Sherwin makes the case for using design to help clean and green technologies succeed A few years ago, green start-up Intelligent Energy (IE), the proud owners and developers of a world-cla… http://flpbd.it/ex0Vi Related articles Denmark…

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  • Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Saying Hurricane Sandy Affected Decision

    Awareness of science, environment and climate change is increasingly moving voters towards Obama. Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Saying Hurricane Sandy Affected Decision – NYTimes.com. Related articles Bloomberg’s Obama endorsement is a vote for big government in time of crisis | Ana Marie Cox Bloomberg endorses Obama, citing Sandy and climate change Michael Bloomberg endorses Obama to lead…

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  • Flotspotting: Biomimetic Personal Equipment

    Flotspotting: Biomimetic Personal Equipment by Jean-Marc Sheitoyan core77.com Indus­tri­al design­er Jean-Marc Sheitoy­an is cur­rent­ly a Project Man­ag­er at Que­bec’s Mawashi Pro­tec­tive Cloth­ing, Inc., where he’s designed sev­er­al ‘per­son­al equip­ment’ prod­ucts since he start­ed work­ing there over five years ago.… http://flpbd.it/SLdiU Related articles Flotspotting: Joe Warren’s Quad Micro Bar (core77.com) Flotspotting: Lawrence Chu’s Tuck Storage Box…

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  • Hipster redemption? How local, made-in-USA, artisan-focused entrepreneurs are reviving American manufacturing

    Hipster redemption? How local, made-in-USA, artisan-focused entrepreneurs are reviving American manufacturing | MNN – Mother Nature Network mnn.com Photo: ett­labenn/flickr Hip­sters have been mocked every which way; from their pen­chant for skin­ny jeans to their high­brow cof­fee tastes (and low-brow incomes), from their love of vin­tage records to their dis­dain for cor­po­rate chains an… Related…

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  • How to Mind Map in Three Small Steps

    How to Mind Map in Three Small Steps Matt Tanguay, lifehack.org Is your head full of ideas or thoughts? Do you have any con­fu­sion around an idea, project or prob­lem? Do you sim­ply wish to get them out of your head quick­ly and in an orga­nized man­ner? Tra­di­tion­al­ly, you would open a Word or Text……

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  • 10 Hacks to Help You Stop Worrying Now

    10 Hacks to Help You Stop Worrying Now Bobbi Emel, lifehack.org Does worry dom­i­nate your life? Try these ten short­cuts to stop wor­ry­ing for good. 1. Stop being super­sti­tious that your worry is pre­vent­ing bad things from hap­pen­ing. Even if it’s some­what uncon­scious, wor­ri­ers some­tim… http://flpbd.it/Wuvow Related articles Hacker Challenge: Hack Your Home Theater (lifehacker.com)…

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  • DNA Pioneer Craig Venter Developing a 3D Printer for Vaccines

    DNA Pioneer Craig Venter Developing a 3D Printer for Vaccines | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Alyssa Alimurung says:, inhabitat.com Geneti­cist J. Craig Ven­ter told atten­dees at the recent Wired Health Con­fer­ence in New York City that his sci­en­tif­ic team is work­ing on what he calls “a 3D print­er for DNA,…

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  • CellScope Smartphone Device Allows Parents to Diagnose Ear Infections at Home

    CellScope Smartphone Device Allows Parents to Diagnose Ear Infections at Home inhabitots.com The U.S. Nation­al Library of Med­i­cine says that ear infec­tions are one of the most com­mon ill­ness­es in babies and young chil­dren. In fact, more than 3 out of 4 kids have had at least one ear infec­tion by 3 years of age…

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  • The Biggest Sites In Social Publishing

    The Biggest Sites In Social Publishing info@buzzfeed.com (http://www.buzzfeed.com/about), buzzfeed.com The goal for web­sites, more than ever, is to get con­tent to go social. These are the ones who are suc­ceed­ing. Update: More data added below. Image by Beck Diefen­bach / Reuters One way to mea­sure how well a web­site is doing is by the… http://flpbd.it/TZ1H5…

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  • Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing

    Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing: This… tumblr.com Tom Wolfe on his soci­o­log­i­cal approach to writ­ing: This atten­tion to sta­tus … start­ed when I was in grad­u­ate school and I was in a pro­gram called Amer­i­can Stud­ies, which was a mix­ture of dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines but one [in which… http://flpbd.it/CjoBc Related articles Tom Wolfe’s…

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  • 50 Amazing Job Perks

    MoneyTalksNews, huffingtonpost.com Mon­eyTalk­sNews: Tech com­pa­nies will go to amaz­ing lengths to recruit tal­ent­ed employ­ees – and keep them from jump­ing to com­peti­tors. An increas­ing­ly impor­tant part of the equa­tion is ben­e­fits. A recent New York Times… http://flpbd.it/fG8hC 50 Amazing Job Perks Related articles Get Creative with Job Perks (business.time.com) Looking for a Lesson in Google’s…

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  • President Obama tears into Mitt Romney at last debate Alexander Burns, politico.com Pres­i­dent Barack Obama tore into Mitt Rom­ney as a vac­il­lat­ing for­eign pol­i­cy novice dur­ing the final pres­i­den­tial debate Mon­day, as the for­mer Mass­a­chu­setts gov­er­nor sought to close Obama’s long-standing advan­tage on…

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  • Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout

    Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout Byron Tau, politico.com The Obama cam­paign emails sup­port­ers in Penn­syl­va­nia this handy graph­ic remind­ing them to find out some sim­ple infor­ma­tion about elec­tion day. The email seems straight­for­ward enough, but it’s actu­al­ly an exact clone of a social… http://flpbd.it/QUp0x Related articles Get wired or wither: GOP…

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  • How Fly Farming May Help More Fish Stay In The Sea

    How Fly Farming May Help More Fish Stay In The Sea Eliza Barclay, npr.org What’s the lowly house fly got to do with the $60 bil­lion fish farm­ing indus­try? Quite a lot, says Jason Drew, a jet-setting British entre­pre­neur who is so enthu­si­as­tic about the poten­tial of flies, he’s just writ­ten a book called T……

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  • ZocDoc: Investment in Digital Health Triples

    Investment in Digital Health Triples Over Past Year Richard MacManus, readwrite.com It’s not just mobile health (mHealth) that is grow­ing fast. The over­all dig­i­tal health sec­tor – which includes mHealth, B2B apps and con­sumer ser­vices such as Zoc­Doc – is also rapid­ly expand­ing. That’s if ven­ture cap­i­tal fund­ing is… http://flpbd.it/eKNSC Related articles ZocDoc plans to…

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  • TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out

    TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out Of Big Airports And Shipping Them Off To Smaller Ones Chris Morran, consumerist.com Image from a backscat­ter machine Accord­ing to reports, the TSA is remov­ing backscat­ter full-body scan­ners, which use very small amounts of ion­iz­ing radi­a­tion, from major air­ports and replac­ing them with less-controversial mil­lime­ter… http://flpbd.it/CHJnN Related articles TSA…

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  • 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb

    Erik Sherman, inc.com TECHTOWN It seems like smart just-in-time staffing: You hire for big projects and then let people go when they wrap up. But here’s why it hurts more than it helps. For the most part, there aren’t many par­al­lels between the cutting-edge… http://flpbd.it/wfdkE 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb Related articles AFL-CIO’s Trumka:…

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  • Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education

    Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education bloomberg.com Cour­tesy of Udac­i­ty Udac­i­ty, the dig­i­tal uni­ver­si­ty co-founded by arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and robot­ics pio­neer Sebas­t­ian Thrun, has raised $15 mil­lion, join­ing a crop of online edu­ca­tion star­tups to attract ven­ture cap­i­… http://flpbd.it/1FyIx Related articles Google Launches HTML Game Development Course with Udacity (apievangelist.com) Is…

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  • Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job

    Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP According to one expert’s counter-intuitive advice, here’s who you should hire instead. Inter­view­ing for many small busi­ness own­ers is more of an art than a sci­ence, rely­ing on gut instinct and a col­lec­tion of care­ful­ly… http://flpbd.it/k2Svl Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job Related articles Slow into Flow…

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  • The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills

    The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills Eliza Barclay, npr.org Sure­ly you’ve heard of crowd fund­ing sites like Kick­starter that have helped thou­sands of film­mak­ers, musi­cians and painters lever­age Face­book and Twit­ter to raise money for cre­ative projects. But crowd fund­ing isn’t just for hip­ste… http://flpbd.it/qq3h9 Related articles To Fund a Political…

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  • Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings

    Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com Online real estate ser­vice Zil­low is expand­ing its real estate list­ings today by adding “pre-market inven­to­ry” — specif­i­cal­ly, homes that have either been fore­closed or are in the fore­clo­sure process. Increas­ing the selec­tion of… http://flpbd.it/vNkbI Related articles No longer a…

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  • Etsy HQ breathing rooms and gross happiness

    Handmade Desks, “Breathing Rooms,” And Gross Happiness: Take A Look Inside Etsy HQ fastcocreate.com Beyond just quirk, crafty marketplace Etsy offers employes a green (B Corp certified) place to work where happiness is measured and learning is encouraged (two words: therapeutic doodling). Seven years into its exis­tence, the online hand­made a… http://flpbd.it/39vka Related articles Crafty…

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  • GMO in my foods: there’s an app for that

    An App To Tell You If There Are Genetically Modified Ingredients In Your Food BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com There are no laws that say companies have to tell you if they’re using genetically modified ingredients. If that doesn’t sit right with you, there’s now an app to help you sort out which foods’ genes have…

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  • The digital campaign

    The Digital Campaign: How Obama And Romney Are Targeting You Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com Hors­es and bay­o­nets may have become the lat­est Inter­net meme to come from the last of the sur­pris­ing­ly comedic pres­i­den­tial debates (see also: binders), but as a metaphor for how candidates—who, as of yes­ter­day, were locked in a dead… http://flpbd.it/DViFx Related…

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  • Tradesy is an EBay for clothing hoarders

    Tradesy Brings New Life To Your Closet By Helping You Sell It To Others By Christina Chaey, fastcompany.com The secondhand fashion startup is streamlining the process of putting items up for sale to help you make more money in less time. Tradesy, an e-com­merce mobile app and web­site that launch­es today, is attempt­ing to take…

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  • It is possible to be a happy, financially stable freelancer

    How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer (Or Work With One) fastcocreate.com Freelancers share their best practices for being their own boss, and why you should so totally just do it. When talk­ing to cre­ative free­lancers, there’s one phrase that’s often repeat­ed: “I don’t mean to sound cheesy or cliché but…” What… http://flpbd.it/Mtogd…

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