A Food Market Without Bees (Whole Foods Photo) Tafline Laylin, greenprophet.com A corporate natural foods store in the United States has captured a photograph of what their shelves would look like if bee populations completely collapse. Whole Foods teamed up with the Xerces Society, a wildlife conservation group, to illustrat… http://flip.it/4ozxA
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7 Incredible Uses for Nanocellulose gizmodo.com The world’s hottest new supermaterial isn’t as fancy as you might think; in fact, it’s produced by feeding wood pulp to algae. The result, nanocellulose, is amazingly light, super-strong, and conducts electricity. That versatili… 7 Incredible Uses for Nanocellulose http://flip.it/V5dW1 http://flip.it/5Qf2H Related articles Poisons You Didn’t Know You Were…
New algorithm maps cancer cells like nodes on a social network Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Often times, the best way to to get a sense of your data is to look at it. A bunch of of numbers or words might not mean anything sitting within a table, but they start to make a lot more…
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16-Year-Old Student Uses Fruit Flies to Investigate Benefits of Organic Produce Morgana Matus, inhabitat.com Anyone who has ever taken a course in biology or left produce out on the counter for a little too long will recognize the noble fruit fly. Easy to breed, feed and observe, they are the subject of choice for many…
Weak or Powerful: How Does Your Posture Make You Seem? Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP Practicing your posture before a big meeting may sound silly, but scientists have found that how your stand has dramatic effects on your mood and therefore how you are perceived. If you came into the bathroom one day to…
Is Your Email Making You Sick? One Thing New, inc.com Researcher Linda Stone says 80% of us suffer from so-called email apnea. That quelches our creativity and can contribute to stress-related diseases. Your inbox may be causing you more stress than you realize. According to Linda Stone, a… Is Your Email Making You Sick? http://flip.it/21Hqu…
The Next Big Thing in Business: Food Steve Tobak, inc.com LAST WORD If you’re looking for a business, industry, or career to sink your teeth into, look no further than your next meal. 10 reasons the food industry is booming. You’d never know the economy is in a slump from the state of the food……
Turning Big Pharma Toward The Developing World, From The Inside BY MARZENA ZUKOWSKA, fastcoexist.com How three intrapreneurs at GlaxoSmithKline created a program to help diagnose disease in places without access to medicine, and how they convinced the company to support it. How many high-end research scientists does it take to make a dent in ……
This Spleen-On-A-Chip Will Clean Your Blood Like A Machine BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com Using nanobeads that strip out anything bad in your blood, this machine could be a solution to deadly blood infections, especially in places far from a hospital. Which is why the military is very interested. Sepsis is a whole-body inflammato… This Spleen-On-A-Chip…
Dream Of A Future Where You Don’t Have To Waste Time Sleeping BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com Scientists are working hard on finding ways—pharmaceutical, neurological—to end the tyranny of eight hours a night. Think about what we might do with 50% more “conscious lifetime”? You could spend more time with the kids, visit Africa, or st……
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com Munchies aside, new science indicates that getting high might have shockingly beneficial effects to your health and weight. The stereotype of pot smokers as people who wolf down Cheetos, brownies, and whatever else happens to be in the r… Not Smoking Weed Is Why You’re Fat http://flip.it/tWgqn http://flip.it/P9HMl Not Smoking Weed…
A Grand Plan For Feeding The World With Insects BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com We need more protein for the developing world, but we really don’t need to be raising more livestock. The solution might be buzzing around your head right now. How do you feed 9 and half billion people without destroying the planet? Accord……
SV Angel Says Health Informatics Is One Of Its New “Megatrends” Kim-Mai Cutler, techcrunch.com SV Angel, one of the Valley’s best-known early-stage firms, says it’s starting to look heavily at health startups that take a “software-first approach” towards human biology, medical research and patient care. The firm has always had a l… RT @Techmeme: SV…
ProScope Micro Mobile lets your iPhone get mega-close-ups Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com Optics manufacturer Bodelin is no stranger to hand-held microscopes, having previously brought us a series that can be connected to the USB port of a laptop. Given that smartphones are in many ways replacing laptops, however, it shouldn’t come as … ProScope Micro Mobile…
The Data Doc: Meet the MD who wants to bring custom healthcare to the masses Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com Here’s a phrase I’ve never heard during a doctor’s visit: “We need your data, girl!” I was at MDRevolution’s La Jolla, Calif., office about a month ago, sitting in on a consultation as a patient huffed…
How crowds, not doctors or supercomputers, could diagnose rare diseases Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com When it comes to serious medical conditions, you probably want a doctor – or at least a medically trained supercomputer – delivering your diagnosis. But CrowdMed, a startup launched in public beta at TEDMED on Tuesday, is showi… How crowds, not…
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