Author: timbatchelder
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Mapping your DNA could save your life
Why Mapping Your DNA Could Save Your Life Lauren Drell, mashable.com You may think you know yourself like the back of your hand, but unless you’ve been DNA tested, there’s probably a lot you don’t know about yourself. Within each of the 50 trillion cells in your body rests the microscopic DNA that programs your…
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Living with a lot less
Living With Less. A Lot Less. By GRAHAM HILL, nytimes.com I LIVE in a 420-square-foot studio. I sleep in a bed that folds down from the wall. I have six dress shirts. I have 10 shallow bowls that I use for salads and main dishes. When people come over for dinner, I pull out my…
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Google glass: high tech, low cool
If You Wear Google’s New Glasses You Are An Asshole Adrian Chen, gawker.com Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has developed a brilliantly concise definition of an asshole: “A person who demands that all social interaction happen on their terms.” He was inspired by the assholes who talk in Amtrak’s quiet car, but thi… RT @core77: A…
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Hyper realistic CGI and the end of product photography
Hyper-Realistic CGI Is Killing Photographers, Thrilling Product Designers Joseph Flaherty, wired.com Computer-generated images are moving out of theaters and onto store shelves and catalog pages, thanks to new software that makes it nearly impossible to distinguish the real from the photorealistic. RT @core77: “Hyper-Realistic CGI Is Killing Photographers, Thrilling Product Designers” – http://flip.it/6ZNXV http://flip.it/KMl3H
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Good interview questions to avoid a bad job
Don’t Get Fooled Into Taking a Bad Job by Asking These Questions in the Interview Alan Henry, lifehacker.com If your job sucks, and there’s nothing you can do about it, you may be tempted to look for another one. Be careful: remember job interviews are sales pitches as well as candidate evaluations, and all that…
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Saving your work email
How Can I Save All My Work Emails for a Personal Backup? Melanie Pinola, lifehacker.com Dear Lifehacker, I’m leaving my job and want to take my work emails with me. I’ve been burned at jobs before, and it became very useful to have an email paper trail behind me. How can I save all the…
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Chronic pain and happiness
How Chronic Pain Has Made Me Happier Rob Heaton, lifehacker.com Seven years ago I did so much cycling that my legs blew up. My body completely gave out and my brain decided that from now on everything was going to hurt all the time so that I would stop running myself into the ground. Since…
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Tips for selling your unused stuff online
The Complete Guide to Selling Your Unwanted Crap for Money Alan Henry, lifehacker.com We’ve shown you how to kick your clutter habit, but why trash all of those things you don’t need when you could make some money off of them? In this guide, we’ll walk you through how you can appraise your items, where…
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Americans have closets full of unused clothes
Average Woman Owns 22 Garments She Never Wears But Refuses to Junk ecouterre.com Photo by cohdra A wardrobe full of clothes but nothing to wear? You’re in good company. The average British woman has 22 unworn items in her closet that she refuses to throw or give away, accord … http://flip.it/Zs5SZ Related articles Ecouterre talks…
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A turtle deformed by a six pack ring
Peanut: The Story Behind a Poor Turtle Deformed by a Six-Pack Ring Ana Lisa Alperovich, inhabitat.com You may recognize Peanut, the small waisted turtle that obviously didn’t get her slender figure from exercising. Photos of this poor turtle have been making the rounds across the internet over the last couple weeks, but what’s the story…
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Starting a Company? 8 Free Online Courses You Can’t Miss
Julie Strickland, inc.com Inc.com staff Mar 19, 2013 Looking for new skills or insider know-how? Hop online and hone your expertise for free. Entrepreneurial education is slowly but surely becoming more mainstream. Traditional universities are offerin… Starting a Company? 8 Free Online Courses You Can’t Miss http://flip.it/oxJH8 http://flip.it/KgYxc Starting a Company? 8 Free Online Courses…
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The invisible UI
No to NoUI Timo, elasticspace.com ‘The best design is invisible’ is the interaction design phrase of the moment. The images above are from my ever-expanding collection of quotes about how design and technology will ‘disappear’, become ‘invisible’ or how the… No to NoUI – Timo Arnall http://flip.it/DXd0v http://flip.it/BZVXF Related articles The curse of the invisible…
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Write a good bio
The Art Of Writing Your Own Bio: How To Toot Your Horn Without Sounding Like A Blowhard By Jonathan Rick, fastcompany.com The problem with your bio isn’t the boasting—it’s who’s doing the boasting. After college, I did what most liberal arts grads do when they come to Washington: I interned at a think tank. As…
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Hollywood is learning from Silicon Valley
6 Lessons Hollywood Is Learning From Silicon Valley By Nicole LaPorte, fastcompany.com NoCal to SoCal: Cash and talent are nothing compared to equity and IP; corner offices do not equal happiness; and get off that damn phone! The differences between Northern and Southern California have long formed the basis for a… 6 Lessons Hollywood Is…
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The man who wants to teach the world to code
Meet the Man on a Mission to Teach the World to Code Issie Lapowsky, inc.com Inc. magazine Mar 4, 2013 Hadi Partovi wants to expand computer science education. Here’s how he got Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and a few other famous friends to spread the coding gospel. For entrepreneurs, the “aha moment” can co… Meet…
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Data science of gambling
(via Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) Related articles Project ECHO: Can We Teach Physicians to Better Diagnose… (medfinder.wordpress.com) Health Care: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars (conniejohnsonresearchfunding.wordpress.com)
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How to make an arts degree pay off
Laura Entis, inc.com Inc.com staff Mar 4, 2013 Maria Giudice, founder and CEO of design firm Hot Studio, turned her love for the arts into a $15.5 million business. For as long as she can remember Maria Giudice, founder and CEO of the design company Hot… Why My Art Degree Paid Off http://flip.it/fNTC3 http://flip.it/3a82n Why…
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NASA based air purifier
The Ultimate Air Purifier Uses NASA Technology By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com This $800 device, designed by NewDealDesign, zaps particles using titanium dioxide. As the space program shifted its focus from putting life into space to sustaining life in space, the plentiful technologies to emerge from its hollowed… The Ultimate Air Purifier Uses NASA Technology http://flip.it/QjvGU…
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What to do if you are hacked
What to Do After You’ve Been Hacked Mat Honan, wired.com Whether you were hacked, phished, had malware installed or just don’t know what the heck happened but there’s somebody all up in your e-mail, here are a few good first steps to take following an incident. This is by no … Mat Honan What to…
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Can the iPad rescue education?
Can the iPad Rescue a Struggling American Education System? Christina Bonnington, wired.com Tablets are reinventing how students access and interact with educational material, and how teachers assess and monitor students’ performance at a time when many schools are understaffed and many classrooms overcrowded. Christina Bonnington Can the iPad Rescue a Struggling American Education System? http://flip.it/Ym399…
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