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What Happens When Republicans Realize Obamacare Was Written for Them? – Bloomberg Politics.
Alaskan farmers are growing a plant used for top-secret Soviet military experiments – ScienceAlert.
New York Attorney General Targets Supplements at Major Retailers – NYTimes.com.
Forget the tech bubble. It’s the biotech bubble you should worry about – Quartz.
4 Ways Using Big Data to Hire People Could Totally Backfire | Co.Exist | ideas + impact.
Presidential Speeches Were Once College-Level Rhetoric—Now Theyre for Sixth-Graders – The Atlantic.
The End of Ownership: The Zero-Marginal-Cost Economy.
Massachusetts Has the Worst Drivers. Duh. – Popular Mechanics.
Interesting that Boston has most patents for radiation imaging.. The Most Innovative Cities in America | Inc.com.
NY State to launch a patient portal that gives residents access to health records.
New MIT Media Lab Tool Lets Anyone Visualize Unwieldy Government Data fastcodesign.com Innovation By Design DataViva, a project developed in part by Media Lab professor César Hidalgo, aims to make a wide swath of government economic data usable with a series of visualization apps. In the four years since the U.S. government… http://flip.it/E0nsK Related articles…
What Really Drove 23andMe And The FDA Apart BY ROBERT SAFIAN, fastcompany.com Is getting a $99 DNA test really hazardous to your health? Our editor-in-chief decodes an innovation dustup. When we put 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki on the cover of Fast Company’s November issue, we didn’t expect the FDA to yank the compan… http://flip.it/UoyAS Related…
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…
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…
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:…
Tech companies produce fascinating data on the government shutdown Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Tech startups have taken advantage of the data scientists and engineers on their staff to produce some interesting studies on the impact of the government shutdown. On its blog, fancy car-sharing service Uber… http://flip.it/16kq1 Related articles Zipcar, Getaround, Uber:…
FBI seizes black market website Silk Road, arrests its founder Jon Fingas, engadget.com Light just reached one of the darker corners of the web: the FBI has seized Silk Road, a site infamous for hosting anonymized, Bitcoin-based drug and gun sales. The move follows a sting operation that also led to the arrest of site…
FDA to start reining in the Wild West of medical apps by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, cnet.com The FDA says it is only regulating products that turn smartphones into medical devices it already oversees, such as apps that let your phone act as an electronic stethoscope or give feedback on CPR. The Wild West of mobile…
What Countries Are Most Anxious About Around The World fastcoexist.com The Japanese fret about natural disasters. The cost of living is most worrisome for Spaniards. For those in the Middle East, conflict is top of mind. Here’s a breakdown of what keeps the world up at night. If you’re an anxiety-prone person, the… http://flip.it/FwMYv
What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers? fastcoexist.com We give hurricanes such friendly, blameless names. What did Sandy ever do to anyone? An advocacy group wants to name disastrous storms after the politicians who are blocking effective climate policy. Spare a thought for people named Ivan,… http://flip.it/SKXvC Related articles What If We…
Are You Really A Ninja? How To Rock Your Twitter Bio As Hard As Hillary Clinton | Fast Company | Business + Innovation.
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Did Glaxo Violate Its Corporate Integrity Agreement? Ed Silverman, forbes.com The ongoing bribery scandal that GlaxoSmithKline faces in China may have generated sensational headlines, but its shares have mostly traded in the same narrow range since these episode erupted (back stories here and here). Althoug… http://flip.it/NyQgb
Will health reform help part-time workers get insurance? Consumer Reports News, consumerreports.org Q: I’m a part-time worker from home and my hours are variable, at times more than 40 hours a week but usually more like 25 hours a week. How does Obamacare apply in my situation? I’m a diabetic and support a family of…
5 Places to Look for Your Digital Footprint TechNewsDaily, mashable.com Recently, many iPhone and iPad users were incensed to learn that Siri — the personal digital assistant for iOS devices — has an eerily long memory. Unbeknownst to Apple customers, Siri sends all your queries directly to Apple’s company’s servers,… http://flip.it/hKkfD Related articles 5 Places…
Act Now Or, When You Die, Your Secret Love Letters Will Belong To Google BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com Gmail’s recent policy changes that let you designate someone to control your account after you’re gone is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the confusing issues around who can access your online life once…
How You Get Hacked at Starbucks Samantha Murphy, mashable.com For those who frequently use the free public Wi-Fi in coffee shops such as Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts, you’re likely already aware of how easy it is for hackers to steal your personal and financial information over the shared networkBut what you… http://flip.it/d1AjC Related articles Dunkin’…
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