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Check Your Genome Caleb Garling, wired.com berkeleylab/Flickr Gene mutations can predict how you’ll respond to certain substances. Here’s what genetic testing outfit 23andMe can tell you about how you might react to the drugs below. Drugs for which your 23andMe results can… http://flpbd.it/jyQOz Related articles Check Out The Geekiest Black Friday Deal Ever (GOOG) (embargozone.com)…
Need A Career Role Model? Indiana Jones Is Your Guy By Tom Teodorczuk, fastcompany.com What does an archaeologist-slash-action hero out to save the world from maniacal Nazis have to do with battling boring corporate bureaucracy? Everything. Wall Street. Glengarry Glen Ross. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.… http://flpbd.it/9rGZB Related articles Charlie Ergen on Dish’s…
Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future? BY ANITA HAMILTON, fastcoexist.com As technology allows patients to pool their knowledge, can the collective experience of the sick create better care? There’s something seriously wrong with a health care system that makes patients wait a month or more just to get a doctor’s… http://flpbd.it/5v6PX Related…
Measuring An Employee’s Worth? Consider Influence By E.B. Boyd, fastcompany.com The performance review of the future will include services like Salesforce.com’s Chatter and its Influencers feature, which measures how much weight you carry among your peers. Today, your performance review is based on things like sales numb… http://flpbd.it/xZePm Related articles Salesforce.com Announces Timing of its…
Would You Recognize Yourself With A Completely Symmetrical Face? By Jordan Kushins, fastcodesign.com Julian Wolkenstein explores a scientific concept of beauty with a unique portrait series. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Right? Even though everyone’s charmed by wildly different kinds of physical characteristics (thank… http://flpbd.it/v6WiS Related articles Non Turing-Recognizable from symmetric difference…
It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit BY MICHAEL J. COREN, fastcoexist.com An ambitious company is attempting to use thermal cameras attached to cars to capture images of how every building in America is wasting energy. It’s the Google Maps for home efficiency. At the rate of two to three million buildings per mont… http://flpbd.it/LDbMq…
Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com 3.5 billion years of evolution, in one beautiful infographic. Life started with bacteria. By some cosmic chance, amino acids became DNA and proteins, which together became life. It took roughly 2 billion more years for things to get more… http://flpbd.it/Xrm83…
Brian Eno on music that thinks for itself (Wired UK) By Ian Steadman, wired.co.uk Culture When you think about it, recorded music is something of a historical oddity. Imagine telling a visitor from 1650 that we like to listen to the exact same performances, over and over again, without any variation — they mi… http://flpbd.it/QzmsI…
Don’t Buy A DSLR By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com Just getting into photography? Great! When you’re looking for a camera, keep on walking past those DSLRs—as of now, their moment is over. You want to get more into photography. You’ve got somewhere between a few and several hundred doll… http://flpbd.it/lDNTs Related articles A question about DSLRs…
Google and Landsat Create Time-Lapse Videos Showing 40 Years of Environmental Destruction in the Amazon | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle…
Sony Action Cam – Digital Camcorders cnet.com Its existence wasn’t a secret, but Sony’s Action Cam is now no longer a prototype. The supercompact camcorder measures 2 inches high by 2.6 inches deep by 0.9 inch wide and looks more like Contour’s and JVC’s models than the blocky Go… http://flpbd.it/pInKj Related articles Sony Action Cam…
Just how hot is it in the US right now? – Boing Boing. Related articles As Climate Changes, Urban Planners Help Cities Adapt (wbur.org) BBC Burnt Over Climate Change Claim UK Will Be As Hot As Madeira (chimalaya.org) Plan Panel Seeks to Rewrite India’s Climate Change Stance (chimalaya.org) Climate change is real, Canadians say, but…
MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls – NYTimes.com. New Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs and startup companies such as Udacity and Udemy are turning conventional education on its head. Udacity, a startup which is supported by Charles River Ventures, was created by former professors at Stanford who taught one AI course online…
New startups such as HopeLab are using gaming to enable patients to visualize and achieve improved health outcomes. Is Gamification a Healthcare Game-Changer? – CareCloud.
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See your portfolio in a whole new light – Wikinvest. Related articles Zemanta now with SlideShare, 5min, Wikinvest, bigger images and 17.9% less fat (zemanta.com) Online Investment Portfolio Manager Comparison: My Wish List (mymoneyblog.com) SigFig Is a Powerful Investment Tracker and Portfolio Advisor (and We’ve Got Invites) [Investing] (lifehacker.com) Bringing more transparency to 401(k) fees…
SES Conference & Expo | Education for Today’s Experienced Marketing & Advertising Professionals. Related articles Demand for SEO Professionals Has Never Been Greater [Study] (conductor.com) Organizational Structure for Paid and Natural Search Teams | Conductor Blog (conductor.com) Learning SEO – Where to Start (distilled.net) Interview with Kevin Gibbons, MD of Quaturo (arhg.net) SES Conference and…
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