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Let’s build a semantic web by creating a Wikipedia for relevancy Jim Benedetto, gigaom.com Everyone is always asking me how big our ontology is. How many nodes are in your ontology? How many edges do you have? Or the most common — how many terabytes of data do you have in your ontology? We live…
Why The FDA Can’t Be Flexible With 23andMe, By Law David Kroll, forbes.com “One of the challenges is the world has been evolving and yet we have legislation that reflects a different era.”– Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Almost a year ago, at the inaugural Forbes… http://flip.it/690F3 Related articles Why The FDA…
I Rented Apartments Just to Rent on Airbnb for Profit Marshall Haas, thenextweb.com I rented apartments to rent on Airbnb for profit. Here’s how it turned out By Marshall Haas, , 04:59pm http://flip.it/ykRdo Related articles Airbnb updates Android app, brings reviews and host calendar view (otroandroidblog.wordpress.com) Could The Party Soon Be Over For Airbnb? (npr.org)…
No DNA Testing For You, Thanks to the FDA By Nick Gillespie, thedailybeast.com Personal genetic tests are safe, innovative, and the future of medicine. So why is the most transparent administration ever shutting down a cheap and popular service? Because it can. In its infinite wisdom, the Food and Drug… http://flip.it/Np3Bq Related articles Nick Gillespie:…
The Eye-Popping Images On Colossal Will Make Art Lovers Of Us All BY BRYAN LUFKIN, fastcompany.com Christopher Jobson’s knack for finding the most stunning, share-worthy pictures on the Internet make his site Colossal required browsing for anyone remotely interested in the visual arts. Between celebrity Twitter feuds, televised nip slips, … http://flip.it/FUUZv Related articles The…
Everyone In The World Hates Their Jobs—But Americans Hate Theirs The Most fastcoexist.com A survey asked people if they were happy to go to work in the morning. The answer was a rather emphatic “no.” What are we going to do about this global case of the Mondays? We suppose this survey of 8,000 workers…
Want To Be More Productive? Buy Some Desk Plants fastcodesign.com Evidence Seriously, like yesterday. Office vegetation offers “micro-restoration”—the chance for our brains to recharge throughout the day. Few things rouse our appreciation for nature as much as spending every day in an office. Employees… http://flip.it/M0VAY Related articles Having a potted plant in the office makes…
You’re Not Alone: Most People Hate Open Offices fastcoexist.com People in cubicles and open offices long for privacy and probably get less work done. That this is surprising at all speaks to the current trendiness of open layouts. The growing open office trend seems reasonable enough. The thinking goes t… http://flip.it/WcFcH Related articles You’re Not…
The Simplest Way To Know What Everyone’s Doing At Work BY JANET CHOI, fastcompany.com In the modern—often remote—workplace, sharing work is essential to an efficient and collaborative team. Writing is the simple, powerful tool that can foster that culture of sharing. Here’s why. We share so much on our digital streams and fee… http://flip.it/YIFRR Related…
New York City’s (Many) Toxic Sites, Mapped For Your Avoidance Convenience fastcoexist.com An interactive map of every bad pollution situation in the city creates a history of our urban development. Take one look at this interactive map of New York City’s toxic sites, and the city appears to be one giant minefield loaded with… http://flip.it/Tgp5F…
Meet Pencil: The Best iPad Stylus Yet, From the Makers of ‘Paper’ Kyle VanHemert, wired.com As Georg Petschnigg, one of FiftyThree’s founders, puts it, a stylus gives you the chance to “think with your hands.” http://flip.it/3Xc8i Related articles The Company Behind The iPad App Of The Year, Paper, Is Making A Stylus For The iPad…
By Jason Tetro, popsci.com Psychobiotics Source: Wikipedia; Modifications: Jason Tetro For millennia, the human race has sought to combat psychological disorders through the intervention of natural – and eventually synthetic – chemicals.… http://flip.it/yhLb0 Forget Prozac, Psychobiotics Are the Future of Psychiatry | Popular Science
Circle of Life: The Beautiful New Way to Visualize Biological Data Brandon Keim, wired.com When Martin Krzywinski took a systems administrator job at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Center, he didn’t plan on becoming a pioneer of 21st century biological data visualization. Now his distinctive aesthetic is synonymous with the informational… http://flip.it/eM8Vh Related articles Martin Krzywinski…
What Health Care Needs Is a Real-Time Snapshot of You Daniela Hernandez, wired.com Healthcare can be a very slow-moving beast. Getting something as seemingly easy as a basic metabolic panel or an HIV test done can take days. That’s a problem because while the lab was working its slow magic, your body was … http://flip.it/iJ4KW…
Electric Brain Stimulation Helps Rats With Spinal Cord Injuries Walk | Popular Science popsci.com Lab Rat Janet Stephens via Wikimedia Commons Stimulating a set of neurons deep in the brain has allowed rats with severe spinal cord injuries to walk almost normally again, a group of Swiss researchers reports in Science… http://flip.it/MvMj5 Related articles Drug…
Can Facebook Tell When Your Relationship Is Doomed? | Popular Science popsci.com A Facebook Employee’s Network The circle in the middle represents the Facebook user. In the lower left, one circle serves as a bridge between two more sparse clusters. That’s the user’s spouse. Backstrom and Kleinberg Give up now… http://flip.it/fgooX Related articles Kickstarter Alum…
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David Hockney’s iPad drawings go big, 12 feet big by Leslie Katz, cnet.com A giant exhibit at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum highlights the influential artist’s foray into iPhone and iPad art, as well as films he made using multiple digital cameras. There are iPad drawings you look at on a screen, and there are iPad……
Livescribe 3 sends handwritten notes straight to your iPhone or iPad by Rick Broida, cnet.com This pen is definitely mightier than the stylus, as it gives you real-world note-taking coupled with mobile device world syncing. The Livescribe 3 is a wireless ink pen that automatically syncs your handwritten notes with your iPhone or… http://flip.it/A0lDq Related…
Unlikely Multiple Sclerosis Pill On Track To Become Blockbuster by Scott Hensley, npr.org There aren’t very many drugs that are also, essentially, industrial chemicals available in railroad-car volumes, pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe noted on his blog, In The Pipeline, this spring. But there are a few. One is lithium… http://flip.it/q4X0F Related articles [WATCH]: Multiple Sclerosis…
Dropcam trades silver for black with its new, smarter Dropcam Pro Ricardo Bilton, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Dropcam has come a long way from selling someone else’s hardware. The home surveillance hardware company, which started out by selling cameras made by Axis, is updating its product line again with the $200… http://flip.it/jfUNF Related articles…
Even grandma can be a graphic designer with DesignMantic’s HTML5 tools Eric Blattberg, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Forget Photoshop and 99designs — DesignMantic could be the next big thing in graphic design for the common man. Or woman. Or grandma. DesignMantic offers a do-it-yourself design studio built with HTML5, so you c… http://flip.it/0U5ws Related…
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