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The Surfing Solution: How Seawater Can Help Treat Cystic Fybrosis Ariel Ramchandani, wired.com Cystic fibrosis, it turns out, doesn’t like salt water. Inhaling it rehydrates the airways, allowing mucus to flow more easily and be dislodged by coughing. Patients have used saline nebulizers to achieve this effect for years, and new units are … http://flip.it/Id2qW…
By Jason Tetro, popsci.com Earlier this week, the media caught the stinky wind of a rather unique art exhibit at the Dublin Science Gallery. Called SELFMADE, the installation featured a number of cheeses made by a variety of different bacteria. While this may … The Microbiome and the Future of Artisanal Gastronomy
Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic] By Kelsey D. Atherton, popsci.com Several times a day, human bodies release a stream of data about internal health. Unfortunately, the data comes analog, and so isn’t immediately accessible as useful information. Now an infographic from the Cleveland Clinic off… http://flip.it/IfZGH Related articles Is Your Pee The Right…
Software Scans Journal Papers, Finds 1 In 4 Have Suspicious Images By Francie Diep, popsci.com Italian biologist Enrico Bucci originally developed his startup’s software to make scientists’ lives easier. The software is a search engine that automatically pulls images from published scientific papers. Say you’re study… http://flip.it/kf1lf
Hunt ghosts with Snooperscope smartphone night vision lens by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com This magnetic device lets you act like a creepy spy, observe nocturnal wildlife, or see Kinect infrared dots. Maybe you want to check out whatever it was that just went bump in the night. Or maybe you just want to see things in…
What Separates A Healthy And Unhealthy Diet? Just $1.50 Per Day Maria Godoy, npr.org If you want to eat a more healthful diet, you’re going to have to shell out more cash, right? (After all, Whole Foods didn’t get the nickname “Whole Paycheck” for nothing.) But until recently, that widely held bit of conventional wisdom……
Peter Meiszner Online News Producer Peter is an Online News Producer at Global BC and has been on the web desk since 2008. You can also catch him on “Trending” and on BC1., globalnews.ca Three different models are proposed, starting at $25,000 for the base model, and $28,000 for the model that includes kitchen appliances…
Steely Cottage steven, tinyhouseswoon.com A fully off-grid tiny house in New Mexico. http://flip.it/Wfb7D
My New Rigblogspot.com Well, this sure isn’t what I had expected to buy, but I guess it just goes to show how well we sometimes misunderstand and underestimate ourselves. When I made a comment on one of my posts t … http://flip.it/bc7eU
New wave of online peer review and discussion tools frightens some scientists Chris Lee, arstechnica.com Sites like Publons and PubPeer hope to quicken the pace of scientific conversation. PublonsEarlier this year, I wrote a story about a new HIV/Aids detection kit that was under development. Since that time, the same group has published two more…
Casey Johnston, arstechnica.com Homebrewing hard cider: The basics (video link)My relationship with beer has grown too comfortable. We share an easy routine: I buy it at the store—a different kind almost every time—take it home, and drink it. I’m not sure how the beer feels abou… http://flip.it/jzIq1 Store-bought is not enough: My first hard cider…
Chilly temperatures foster cancer growth in mice Ars Staff, arstechnica.com Flickr user Duncan HillAt low temperatures, the human body has a hard time. As the cold sets in, blood vessels constrict to maintain heat, and some body parts—like fingers and toes—begin to suffer. Metabolism ramps up to fight the cold and shiveri… http://flip.it/Trhjf Related articles…
Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm John Koetsier, venturebeat.com Tickets on Sale Now In 2002 Stephen Wolfram released A New Kind of Science and immediately unleashed a firestorm of wonder, controversy, and criticism as the British-born scientist, programmer, and entrepreneur overturn… http://flip.it/kLzwP Related articles Sentient code: An…
King of the Road: A Guide to Buying your Own Wheels in Australia admin, bootsnall.com Australia: Vast expanses of red earth, broken and furrowed by the constant hammering of an unforgiving sun. Images of engulfing waves that funnel around tall blokes bent over multi-colored surfboards. A dense tropical rain forest populated by stra… http://flip.it/I5ssX
Vintage Typewriter Keys + New Tech = Diesel Punk Keyboard? Michael Colombo, makezine.com Richard Nagy has designed and built The Executive Keyboard, taking design cues from vintage mechanical keyboards. Combined with a leatherette top and aluminum sides, it’s certainly a piece for computer gearheads to swoon over. But t… http://flip.it/lvXwo Related articles Steampunk inventor Richard…
MichaelVail, stratrisks.com Using 3D printing, A British artist has produced prototypes of “frankenstein-esque hybrid organs” that could hypothetically solve a variety of serious human health problems. Agatha Haines from the Royal College of Art 3D-printed organs utilizing… http://flip.it/gC2hV “Frankenstein” organs proposed for human enhancement
If your pot isn’t organic, you’re probably inhaling pesticides Lisa Hymas, grist.org Bummer news for pot smokers: Up to 70 percent of the pesticides found on a marijuana bud can end up in the smoke you’re inhaling. That’s according to recent research conducted by Jeffrey Raber, who holds a PhD in chemistry from the University…
2013 High-End Mirrorless Camera Comparison Guide Simon Crisp, gizmag.com It’s looking increasingly certain that interchangeable lens cameras have got a mirrorless future. In 2013 we’ve seen new models which can rival all but the very best of their mirrored counterparts in terms of features, build, and image quality. In… http://flip.it/YYHRA Related articles Canon launches Interchangeable…
(via Bad Elf GPS for Lightning Connector brings precise location to devices without GPS | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog) Related articles Bad Elf Dongle Adds GPS to Your Wi-Fi iOS Device (iClarified.com) EU Could Force Apple To Alter Its Lightning Connector For iDevices (appadvice.com) Reversible connectors for all; next-gen USB to get all…
Ten Things Your Boss Doesn’t Want You To Know Deborah L. Jacobs, forbes.com This is a guest post by Donna Ballman, a Florida employment lawyer and author of the book, Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired: Resolve Workplace Crises Before You Quit, Get Axed or Sue the Bastards. Her blog is Screw You… http://flip.it/ilhia
The jobs of the future belong to data scientists and user experience designers Stacey Higginbotham, gigaom.com GE and design may not seem to go together, but as it connects its industrial products, medical devices and home appliances to the internet and rethinks its business for the connected age, the company is focusing on user interfaces…
White House To Universities: We Need More Data Scientists BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcompany.com New York University, University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Washington are launching a $37.8 million project to boost the numbers of American data scientists. It’s official: America needs more data scientists. This week, a… http://flip.it/i9VYj Related articles UC Berkeley BIDS Launch…
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