Author: timbatchelder

  • How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know

    How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know Eliza Barclay, npr.org Our impulse to share inti­mate details about our lives with­in our social net­works (and even some­times with com­plete strangers) seems to know few bounds. Now devices loaded with health apps let us mon­i­tor and share our sleep pat­terns, stre… http://flpbd.it/Yqlsu Related articles Childhood Obesity…

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  • The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

    Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives [Hardcover] Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, amazon.com Har­vard pro­fes­sor and health care pol­i­cy spe­cial­ist Chris­takis (Death Fore­told: Prophe­cy and Prog­no­sis in Med­ical Care) became inter­est­ed in social con­nec­tiv­i­ty when observ­ing that the mor­tal­i­ty rate of spous­es spike after … http://flpbd.it/0isRt Related articles Gastrophysics: Some…

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  • Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign

    Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign buzzfeed.com Leaked fundrais­ing doc­u­ments show Sil­i­con Val­ley emerg­ing as a key source of Demo­c­ra­t­ic money and power. Val­ley money bests Hol­ly­wood. Pres­i­dent Obama with Google chair­man (and occa­sion­al advi­sor) Eric Schmidt SAN FRAN­CIS­… http://flpbd.it/mrFd3 Related articles Razor Burned: The Beard-less Women of Obama’s Tech Team…

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  • Why Cancer Treatment Is Fatally Flawed

    Margaret I. Cuomo, M.D., huffingtonpost.com Good Morn­ing Amer­i­ca co-anchor Robin Roberts’ recent announce­ment that she had been diag­nosed with myelodys­plas­tic syn­drome (MDS) — a group of con­di­tions in which the cells in the bone mar­row are dam­aged — cer­tain­ly came as … Why Cancer Treatment Is Fatally Flawed Related articles New cancer treatment used for…

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  • Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health

    Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health David Schultz, npr.org Liv­ing next to a noisy high­way can be annoy­ing. The rack­et can also dis­rupt your sleep. Too many bad nights’ sleep can raise the risk of heart attack, high blood pres­sure and other ail­ments. Curi­ous researchers with the Cen­ters for… http://flpbd.it/tUoKj Related articles Prevent…

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  • The Social Network Is All Around You

    The Social Network Is All Around You: A Lesson From Burning Man Jon Mitchell, readwriteweb.com Every year at Burn­ing Man, I have the same argu­ment. Some­one plays the role of the starry-eyed futur­ist, some­one else is the griz­zly sur­vival­ist. The futur­ist says, “If only we had map and chat apps out here, we could meet…

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  • Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore

    Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore John Timmer, arstechnica.com Some of the most suc­cess­ful drugs we know about have come from plants, includ­ing the can­cer drug Taxol, the malar­i­al treat­ment artemisinin, and even aspirin. The lat­ter two were iden­ti­fied because of their use in herbal reme­dies that… http://flpbd.it/IKidw Related articles Drug…

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  • Boosted Board electric longboard

    Boosted Board electric longboard is lightweight enough to carry, powerful enough to haul riders uphill Michael Gorman, engadget.com Boost­ed Board isn’t the first pow­ered skate­board to grace these pages, but it is the light­est. In its cur­rent pro­to­type form, it weighs just 12 pounds, thanks to a high-end Loaded Van­guard long­board, 2,000W brush­less elec­tric motor,…

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  • The Science Of Sleep

    ‘Dreamland’: Open Your Eyes To The Science Of Sleep Maureen Corrigan, npr.org ‘Dreamland’: Open Your Eyes To The Science Of Sleep Fresh Air from WHYY Step, if you will, into my bed­room at night. (Don’t worry, this is a PG-rated invitation.) At first, all is tran­quil: My hus­band and I, exhaust­ed by our day’s labors,……

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  • Mitt Romney: I believe in basic science

    Mitt Romney: I believe in basic science, and by “basic science” I mean “cold fusion” Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I’m not entire­ly sure what to say about this excerpt from a Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er inter­view other than, “*head­desk*”. Mitt Romney: I do believe in basic science. I believe in participating in space. I believe in analysis of…

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  • Top 20 TED Talks That Can Improve Your Life

    Mike Vardy, lifehack.org TED.com recent­ly released their list of the 20 most-watched TED talks to date, and while they have quite a few of the ones list­ed that can serve to improve your life, there are sev­er­al out there that are on the list at deserve some… http://flpbd.it/hr70D Top 20 TED Talks That Can Improve…

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  • Am I a Cyborg Now?

    Am I a Cyborg Now? Achieving a Sixth Sense Through Tech Marek Majkowski, lifehacker.com Fas­ci­nat­ed by a story of how a mag­net­ic implant impart­ed a “sixth sense” in its host, engi­neer and enthu­si­as­tic geek Marek Majkows­ki was eager to test this sup­ple­men­tal sense with­out the inva­sive surgery. With the help of cheap… http://flpbd.it/CiKpC Related articles…

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  • Roll Your Own DIY Security System

    Roll Your Own DIY Security System This Weekend Adam Dachis, lifehacker.com Your home is a place you want to keep secure, but get­ting all the high-end secu­ri­ty gad­gets and ser­vices avail­able to help you do that is a pricey endeav­or. This week­end, roll your own DIY secu­ri­ty sys­tem. It’s more fun and it’ll save y……

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  • Kicking Off a Year of Open Source Everything

    Kicking Off a Year of Open Source Everything Sam Muirhead, lifehacker.com Berlin film­mak­er Sam Muir­head is attempt­ing to live a com­plete­ly open source life for one year. Here’s why. The phrase ‘Open Source’, to many peo­ple, means ‘soft­ware you don’t have to pay for’—but real­ly it’s so much more than th… http://flpbd.it/xl5Kt Related articles The…

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  • Lifehacker universities

    Fall Semester 2012 Alan Henry, lifehacker.com Your edu­ca­tion doesn’t have to stop once you leave school—free­dom from the class­room just means you have more con­trol over what you learn and when you learn it. We’ve put togeth­er a cur­ricu­lum of some of the best free online class­es… http://flpbd.it/U1gpJ Related articles Plan Your Free Online Education…

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  • I’m Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work

    I’m Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work Tessa Miller, lifehacker.com The inter­net wouldn’t be the same with­out Cate­ri­na Fake. In 2004, she launched Flickr, one of the largest photo host­ing and shar­ing sites. Later, she co-founded Hunch, which aims to per­son­al­ize the web through rec­om­men­da­tions and a… http://flpbd.it/Ixrmx Related articles The meaning of…

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  • Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic

                              Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic Related articles There are 6 types of healthcare consumers; Which ones would you like to target? (medcitynews.com) When Allergies Attack – Asthma & Allergies in America [INFOGRAPHIC] (epicahealth.com) Do You Have 20/20 Vision or…

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  • How the U.S. Health-Care System Wastes $750 Billion Annually

        How the U.S. Health-Care System Wastes $750 Billion Annually Brian Fung, theatlantic.com   As we approach health-care system reform, a breakdown of our biggest losses   Every year, the Unit­ed States spends eight times as much money on unnec­es­sary health-care costs as the Pen­ta­gon spent for each year of its oper­a­tions in Iraq.…

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  • Food Waste Is Overwhelming

    Food Waste Is Overwhelming. Here Are Five Things People Are Doing About It April Fulton, npr.org The food world is buzzing today about the lat­est news on just how often we waste per­fect­ly good food. And we admit, the sta­tis­tics are pret­ty depress­ing. About 40 per­cent of food in the Unit­ed States today goes uneat­en.…

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