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5 Tools You Should Keep in Your Car By Colin Payne, popularmechanics.com Automotive Staying safe on the road can be fun. These space-conscious tools will give you peace of mind and save you time. http://flip.it/z9JLL Related articles Automotive Diagnostic Tools (obdtwo.wordpress.com)
bbc.co.uk The maker community wants to build cheap tech to help us figure out why we sleep – and more. http://flip.it/DYanI Solving the mystery of why we sleep
How Efficient Is Your City? America’s 34 Largest Towns Get Ranked thinkprogress.org CREDIT: National Geographic / Gregory KushmerekEven the U.S. cities that have gone the furthest in building energy efficiency still have a lot of ground they could cover, according to a new report. Boston, Massachusetts — the report’s highest-scor… http://flip.it/tQvi2
The Duck Chalet Kent Griswold, tinyhouseblog.com My husband, Jeff, and I wanted to share our latest summer side-project that is now for sale – the Duck Chalet! It stemmed from our love for small, intuitively designed, and cost effective dwellings.We are both green home designers and builders her… http://flip.it/FEJnw
Raw Cacao Shake – figgy & sprout figgyandsprout.com Chocolate: most people are used to calling it cocoa, cocoa beans, cocoa powder. But when it comes to raw food, why do people use the word cacao (ka-COW), which looks like a misspelling of the mo … http://flip.it/72vpU Related articles Make chocolate from cocoa beans with this…
6 favorite L.A. juice bars By Betty Hallock, latimes.com Lately it seems like there’s no L.A. neighborhood without a juice bar. They’re expanding faster than you can say kale-avocado-cilantro-lemon-cucumber-caraway-jalapeno-celery smoothie. It’s no wonder. Fans of juice — the kind often made wit… http://flip.it/rh6l7 Related articles We Try All the Green Juices From Daily Greens (drinks.seriouseats.com)…
Stephanie Desmon-JHU, futurity.org An additive that keeps dog food fresh may prevent a common cancer drug’s painful side effect.The Food and Drug Administration-approved preservative, an antioxidant called ethoxyquin, binds to certain cell proteins in a way that limits their exposu… http://flip.it/v6vUc Dog food chemical could ease chemo pain
bbc.com Why are so many large computing projects destined to be costly failures? History tells us we, not our machines, are the problem – and it’s time we tackled that. http://flip.it/8wIde The biggest problem in IT? Us
bbc.com Future generations will live in a world more connected in almost every way, but how will human interaction suffer, asks author Tad Williams. http://flip.it/M7UYV The price of a connected world
I have brain cancer. What’s your excuse? Ronnie Castro, venturebeat.com You may have caught the article by my friend and co-founder Matt Ehrlichman last month, titled “My 32-year-old co-founder has a brain tumor — seriously?“ To set the record straight, I’m 33 now, not quite old enough to start lying about my ag… http://flip.it/kTGHI Related…
Calico: How Google’s stab at the fountain of youth could transform health care Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Google is back in the health business with a mysterious new initiative to combat death itself. Google’s top executives didn’t say much about the biotech venture, called Calico, when they announced it on Sept. 18, except to say that…
How to use 23andMe without giving up your genetic privacy Sarah A. Downey, venturebeat.com Sarah A. Downey is an attorney, privacy analyst, and writer at Abine, an online privacy startup in Boston. Find her on Twitter @SarahADowney. If you’re like me, the idea of knowing what’s in your genetic profile is both… http://flip.it/GpsmW Related articles…
Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection John Koetsier, venturebeat.com Google Glass competitor Recon Jet, which bills itself as the Google Glass for athletes and professionals, has secured an investment from Intel Capital. In perhaps bigger news, the company announced that is has already shipped 50,000… http://flip.it/x80lA Related…
GoodEggs raises $8.5M to fix our food system one egg at a time Rebecca Grant, venturebeat.com If you are a nut for raw nuts, a grass-fed guru, an organic oracle, a local-food loon, or a farmers market fiend, today is a good day. GoodEggs has raised $8.5 million to expand its local grocery delivery service…
Meet Academia.edu, a startup that wants to publish every science PDF online Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Just a few years ago, an entrepreneur with a goal to publish every scientific research paper on the Internet would have seemed ambitious, maybe even a little crazy. However, with the rise of online education and leading… http://flip.it/t8DU1 Related articles…
How to get your demo right Brad Feld, venturebeat.com I get demos every day. Multiple times a day. I don’t want to see a PowerPoint deck — I want to play with something. I don’t want to hear a description of what you do — I want to see a demo. I don’t want you…
This sleep-sensing device wants to get in bed with you, but it won’t cuddle Rebecca Grant, venturebeat.com When the princess senses something small under her bed in the fairytale “The Princess and the Pea,” it prove that she is, in fact, a princess. Unfortunately putting Beddit under your sheets won’t have the same effect, but…
Dentists May Start Covering Teeth in Growth-Stimulating Diamond Dust Ashley Feinberg, gizmodo.com Looks like there’s a new candidate for most awesome supermaterialin town. Dentists may soon start fighting bone loss by covering our teeth in itty bitty nanodiamonds, making repairing teeth quicker, cheaper, and much less painful.Read more… http://flip.it/fnPlq
Budget Travel by Bike: How You Can Do It for $14 Per Day admin, bootsnall.com You’ve been bitten. The travel bug has taken root in your soul. You long for idyllic temples floating in oceans of jungle, beaches with just one set of foot prints, and the rush of stepping off of a plane and…
Does Your Boss Spy on You? ehow.com by Joanna Sloame(photo: Polka Dot RF/Polka Dot/Getty Images)The Answer’s Almost Always “Yes” — Here’s What You Should KnowEveryone knows that it’s a bad idea to complain about your boss on your company email, but most people have no idea t… http://flip.it/yHgIj
Vikings have the most fun: U.N. says Danes are the happiest people on the planet Greg Hanscom, grist.org ShutterstockThey don’t always look happy, but really they are.Their days of seafaring plunder are over, but Danes are still the happiest people in the world, says the U.N. How do they do it? With sustainable development, a…
Gourmet restaurants are making gourmet chickens by feeding them gourmet leftovers Sarah Laskow, grist.org The gourmet food company D’Artagnan has come up with an ingenious (or creepy, depending on your perspective on these sorts of things) plan for recycling kitchen scraps from high-end restaurants like Per Se and Gramercy Tavern, the New York… http://flip.it/ovB3j Related…
The secret, sordid lives of shared cars Greg Hanscom, grist.org ShutterstockThis Frasier reunion show isn’t going to tape itself — better step on it.So you want to share your car. You’ve got a plan to rent it out during your off-hours. Good on you: You might help a few of your neighbors get by without……
How green is that new car you’re eyeing? This site is the easiest way to find out Sarah Laskow, grist.org Americans may be driving less, but there are still more than 230 million cars cruising around the U.S. And sometimes those cars break down or get old and their owners want to buy a new…
In bid to keep entrepreneurs, Massachusetts moves to ban non-compete contracts Jeff John Roberts, gigaom.com Fed up with watching young tech savants like Mark Zuckerberg leave for the west coast, the Massachusetts government suggested it is ready to take a major step to level the playing field: banning so-called non-compete agreements that… http://flip.it/9JBEc
The future of biometric data tracking isn’t about devices, it’s about experiences Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com Everywhere you look these days, there seems to be yet another sensor-enabled device or mobile app that wants to monitor everything from your heart rate and posture to your brain waves and breathing patterns. Dr. Leslie Saxon is the…
Could a breath-monitoring headset improve your health? Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com Wearable technology and quantified self fans already strap gadgets to all different parts of their bodies to keep tabs on their activity levels, calories burned, heart rates and more. But a Walnut Creek, Calif. company believes… http://flip.it/mszpw Related articles Sensoria Fitness Bra will monitor…
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