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  • Upright sleeper: How to sleep on a plane

    $40 device keeps your head from falling off your shoulders when you sleep on a plane Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net I can’t sleep for more than 30 min­utes or so on a plane. After that, I’m awake for the dura­tion of the flight, no mat­ter how long it is. I won­der if this neck-propper-upper would help?…

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  • Learning a second language

    What’s the secret to learning a second language? By Bonnie Tsui, Pacific Standard, salon.com Studies reveal it’s more than just a matter of memory. A look at what the science of recall can teach us A FEW YEARS AGO, Cap­tain Emmanuel Joseph decid­ed to learn Ara­bic before his deploy­ment to Iraq. “At first it was…

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  • Why seeing death helps you to value life

    America’s next top mortician: “It really improves your life to be around corpses” By J. B. Staniforth, salon.com “Ask a Mortician,” Caitlin Doughty’s popular, droll web series, has an agenda: to get us to embrace our mortality When we think of mor­ti­cians, we cer­tain­ly don’t imag­ine a bub­bly, self-effacing 28-year-old woman like Caitlin Doughty. But……

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  • Scott Bernstein: move to the city and start walking

    Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking By Jeff Speck, salon.com Climate change is helped along by suburban driving culture. We need to embrace cities — and walking In 2001, Scott Bern­stein, at the Cen­ter for Neigh­bor­hood Tech­nol­o­gy in inner-city Chica­go, pro­duced a set of maps that are still chang­… http://flpbd.it/KtKdq Related articles…

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  • How to Install Software from Unsigned Developers on a Macwikihow.com Whether it’s pro­tect­ing users from mali­cious soft­ware or sim­ply try­ing to push pur­chasers to the Mac App Store, the new Gate­keep­er fea­ture in Mac OS X Moun­tain Lion can get in the way when it comes to installing soft­ware. By default, a… http://flpbd.it/04twt

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  • Albert Epinosa learned how to live through cancer

    ‘Fighting cancer taught me how to live’ Homa Khaleeli, guardian.co.uk Albert Espinosa insists that his gruelling, 10-year battle against cancer was a happy time. Now he has written a book to explain why At 14 Albert Espinosa was a typical football obsessed teenager. He lived with his engineer father, housewife… http://flpbd.it/8PO8g Related articles Quotes to…

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  • Ikea concrete base lamp hack

    IKEA Hack: How to Make an Industrial Concrete Base Lamp curbly.com When I came across this light­ing project, I did a dou­ble take because I could hard­ly believe it was a DIY. It is so well done, the fin­ished project looked more like some­thing I could buy than some­thing I could make on my own.…

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  • Open structures parts kit lets you make anything from scratch

    An Open-Source Kit Of Parts, For Making Any Gadget From Scratch By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com At the Istanbul Bienal, designers used the OpenStructures system to build toasters, sleds, and vacuum cleaners from scratch. The move towards DIY dig­i­tal fabrication—from Maker­Bot to Fab@Home—is an undoubt­ed­ly great devel­op­ment for… http://flpbd.it/fOuI4 Related articles Dyson dc24 animal compact upright…

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  • 156 years of election data at your finger tips info graphic

    Infographic: 156 Years Of Election Data At Your Fingertips By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com An interactive chart visualizes party affiliations, congressional and presidential elections, and more, sorted state-by-state, year-by-year, since 1856. Prepare to lose an afternoon. Pol­i­tics are a game of strat­e­gy. And while we often think … http://flpbd.it/d0MWd

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  • Italians now buy more bikes than cars

    The Decline of the Car? Part 1: Italians Now Buying More Bicycles Than Automobiles core77.com Sur­pris­ing news: Italy, home of the mighty Fer­rari and the sprawl­ing Fiat empire, is now a coun­try where peo­ple are buy­ing more bicy­cles than cars. The num­bers are a lit­tle too round (and close) not to take with a grain…

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  • DRC 2012: Interactive Sessions on Understanding Data and Human Behavior

    DRC 2012: Interactive Sessions on Understanding Data and Human Behavior core77.com Pho­tos Cour­tesy of Paul Sheetz for DRC. After being greet­ed by the wel­com­ing com­mit­tee, check­ing in, exchang­ing my Polaroid photo for my nametag and tak­ing in the intro­duc­to­ry con­fer­ence expe­ri­ence I chugged my morn­ing c… http://flpbd.it/ewTdo Related articles VIDEO: Angelina Jolie visits the DRC…

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  • Get Back Inc.: Saving, and Creating, the Best American-Made Industrial Furniture

    Get Back Inc.: Saving, and Creating, the Best American-Made Industrial Furniture core77.com Connecticut-based design­er Tim Byrne has my dream job: He found­ed and runs Get Back Inc., a com­pa­ny that scours the Amer­i­can coun­try­side gath­er­ing up U.S.-built fur­ni­ture from the Indus­tri­al Rev­o­lu­tion era and onwards. Gems like t… http://flpbd.it/d8EfS

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  • Design and cleantech: a winning combination

    Design and cleantech: a winning combination Posted by Chris Sherwin, guardian.co.uk In his third article on sustainability and design, Chris Sherwin makes the case for using design to help clean and green technologies succeed A few years ago, green start-up Intelligent Energy (IE), the proud owners and developers of a world-cla… http://flpbd.it/ex0Vi Related articles Denmark…

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  • Flotspotting: Biomimetic Personal Equipment

    Flotspotting: Biomimetic Personal Equipment by Jean-Marc Sheitoyan core77.com Indus­tri­al design­er Jean-Marc Sheitoy­an is cur­rent­ly a Project Man­ag­er at Que­bec’s Mawashi Pro­tec­tive Cloth­ing, Inc., where he’s designed sev­er­al ‘per­son­al equip­ment’ prod­ucts since he start­ed work­ing there over five years ago.… http://flpbd.it/SLdiU Related articles Flotspotting: Joe Warren’s Quad Micro Bar (core77.com) Flotspotting: Lawrence Chu’s Tuck Storage Box…

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  • Hipster redemption? How local, made-in-USA, artisan-focused entrepreneurs are reviving American manufacturing

    Hipster redemption? How local, made-in-USA, artisan-focused entrepreneurs are reviving American manufacturing | MNN – Mother Nature Network mnn.com Photo: ett­labenn/flickr Hip­sters have been mocked every which way; from their pen­chant for skin­ny jeans to their high­brow cof­fee tastes (and low-brow incomes), from their love of vin­tage records to their dis­dain for cor­po­rate chains an… Related…

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  • How to Mind Map in Three Small Steps

    How to Mind Map in Three Small Steps Matt Tanguay, lifehack.org Is your head full of ideas or thoughts? Do you have any con­fu­sion around an idea, project or prob­lem? Do you sim­ply wish to get them out of your head quick­ly and in an orga­nized man­ner? Tra­di­tion­al­ly, you would open a Word or Text……

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  • 10 Hacks to Help You Stop Worrying Now

    10 Hacks to Help You Stop Worrying Now Bobbi Emel, lifehack.org Does worry dom­i­nate your life? Try these ten short­cuts to stop wor­ry­ing for good. 1. Stop being super­sti­tious that your worry is pre­vent­ing bad things from hap­pen­ing. Even if it’s some­what uncon­scious, wor­ri­ers some­tim… http://flpbd.it/Wuvow Related articles Hacker Challenge: Hack Your Home Theater (lifehacker.com)…

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  • DNA Pioneer Craig Venter Developing a 3D Printer for Vaccines

    DNA Pioneer Craig Venter Developing a 3D Printer for Vaccines | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Alyssa Alimurung says:, inhabitat.com Geneti­cist J. Craig Ven­ter told atten­dees at the recent Wired Health Con­fer­ence in New York City that his sci­en­tif­ic team is work­ing on what he calls “a 3D print­er for DNA,…

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  • CellScope Smartphone Device Allows Parents to Diagnose Ear Infections at Home

    CellScope Smartphone Device Allows Parents to Diagnose Ear Infections at Home inhabitots.com The U.S. Nation­al Library of Med­i­cine says that ear infec­tions are one of the most com­mon ill­ness­es in babies and young chil­dren. In fact, more than 3 out of 4 kids have had at least one ear infec­tion by 3 years of age…

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  • The Biggest Sites In Social Publishing

    The Biggest Sites In Social Publishing info@buzzfeed.com (http://www.buzzfeed.com/about), buzzfeed.com The goal for web­sites, more than ever, is to get con­tent to go social. These are the ones who are suc­ceed­ing. Update: More data added below. Image by Beck Diefen­bach / Reuters One way to mea­sure how well a web­site is doing is by the… http://flpbd.it/TZ1H5…

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  • Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing

    Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing: This… tumblr.com Tom Wolfe on his soci­o­log­i­cal approach to writ­ing: This atten­tion to sta­tus … start­ed when I was in grad­u­ate school and I was in a pro­gram called Amer­i­can Stud­ies, which was a mix­ture of dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines but one [in which… http://flpbd.it/CjoBc Related articles Tom Wolfe’s…

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  • 50 Amazing Job Perks

    MoneyTalksNews, huffingtonpost.com Mon­eyTalk­sNews: Tech com­pa­nies will go to amaz­ing lengths to recruit tal­ent­ed employ­ees – and keep them from jump­ing to com­peti­tors. An increas­ing­ly impor­tant part of the equa­tion is ben­e­fits. A recent New York Times… http://flpbd.it/fG8hC 50 Amazing Job Perks Related articles Get Creative with Job Perks (business.time.com) Looking for a Lesson in Google’s…

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  • President Obama tears into Mitt Romney at last debate Alexander Burns, politico.com Pres­i­dent Barack Obama tore into Mitt Rom­ney as a vac­il­lat­ing for­eign pol­i­cy novice dur­ing the final pres­i­den­tial debate Mon­day, as the for­mer Mass­a­chu­setts gov­er­nor sought to close Obama’s long-standing advan­tage on…

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  • Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout

    Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout Byron Tau, politico.com The Obama cam­paign emails sup­port­ers in Penn­syl­va­nia this handy graph­ic remind­ing them to find out some sim­ple infor­ma­tion about elec­tion day. The email seems straight­for­ward enough, but it’s actu­al­ly an exact clone of a social… http://flpbd.it/QUp0x Related articles Get wired or wither: GOP…

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  • How Fly Farming May Help More Fish Stay In The Sea

    How Fly Farming May Help More Fish Stay In The Sea Eliza Barclay, npr.org What’s the lowly house fly got to do with the $60 bil­lion fish farm­ing indus­try? Quite a lot, says Jason Drew, a jet-setting British entre­pre­neur who is so enthu­si­as­tic about the poten­tial of flies, he’s just writ­ten a book called T……

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  • ZocDoc: Investment in Digital Health Triples

    Investment in Digital Health Triples Over Past Year Richard MacManus, readwrite.com It’s not just mobile health (mHealth) that is grow­ing fast. The over­all dig­i­tal health sec­tor – which includes mHealth, B2B apps and con­sumer ser­vices such as Zoc­Doc – is also rapid­ly expand­ing. That’s if ven­ture cap­i­tal fund­ing is… http://flpbd.it/eKNSC Related articles ZocDoc plans to…

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  • TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out

    TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out Of Big Airports And Shipping Them Off To Smaller Ones Chris Morran, consumerist.com Image from a backscat­ter machine Accord­ing to reports, the TSA is remov­ing backscat­ter full-body scan­ners, which use very small amounts of ion­iz­ing radi­a­tion, from major air­ports and replac­ing them with less-controversial mil­lime­ter… http://flpbd.it/CHJnN Related articles TSA…

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