Category: Digital Health

  • Fox News tries to ditch conservative propaganda

    Fox News adjusts to new reality as it faces four more years of Obama Paul Harris in New York, guardian.co.uk It’s the go-to network for outraged conservatives – but now Fox News has benched two high-profile pundits, and shown signs of retreat. Is the US’s biggest cable news network going moderate? For America’s liberals, it…

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  • Tiny house living on the road

    My Traveling Tiny House Site by Sophic, tinyhouselistings.com Post­ed by Steven on Novem­ber 26, 2012 // 34 Com­ments By Christy Dean Four months ago I moved out of my 2 bed­room home and into this tiny (mobile) house. I’m trav­el­ing the coun­try in my lit­tle nest and I love it! It gets a lot of……

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  • Designing your life

    How To Design a Lucky Life Trent Hamm, lifehacker.com Is luck a supernatural thing that we have no control over, represented by four leaf clovers and gold pots at the end of the rainbow? For The Simple Dollar’s Trent Hamm, luck is defined as the result of some of the many random events in life……

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  • Creativity and social science critical to reform government gridlock

    Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences core77.com Today’s glob­al finan­cial and social crises demand inno­va­tion not only in pub­lic ser­vices, but with­in the whole bureau­crat­ic, admin­is­tra­tive sys­tem of pub­lic gov­er­nance. In order to respond effec­tive­ly to a chang­ing con­text of… RT @core77: Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences – Paper by @Nesta_UK &…

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  • The reason societies become less productive with industrialization

    Seven Productivity Myths, Debunked by Science (and Common Sense) Alan Henry, lifehacker.com The end goal of “productivity” is to spend less time doing the things you have to do so you have more time for the things you want to do. Of course, if you follow every morsel of productivity advice out there, you probably…

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  • Soda stream disrupts beverage industry waste

    SodaStream’s Banned Ad Helps Home Carbonation Company Hit It Big Rachel Tepper, huffingtonpost.com An ad for SodaS­tream, a home car­bon­a­tion prod­uct, has been mak­ing the rounds world­wide. In it, bot­tles of soda seem to com­bust spon­ta­neous­ly every time some­one uses the SodaS­tream else­where in the world. The take­away: why pay for… http://flip.it/BgTFD Related articles 3…

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  • Does 48 fps cause motion sickness?

    ‘Hobbit’ Motion Sickness, Nausea Critics Shot Down By Warner Bros. And Peter Jackson Cavan Sieczkowski, huffingtonpost.com Warn­er Bros. and Peter Jack­son are respond­ing to claims that “The Hob­bit: An Unex­pect­ed Jour­ney” is caus­ing motion sick­ness and nau­sea among view­ers. Peter Jack­son’s fan­ta­sy flick pre­miered in New Zealand on Nov. 28 and claims of… http://flip.it/WRhuh Related…

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  • Smartest cities in America Fast Company ranking

    Smartest Cities In America: Fast Company Ranks Brainiest Cities Aaron Sankin, huffingtonpost.com How brainy is your ‘hood? That’s the ques­tion posed by Dr. Boyd Cohen in a recent arti­cle pub­lished in Fast Com­pa­ny. Cohen looked at cities across North Amer­i­ca and rated them on a “smart city” scale based on char­ac­ter­is­tics rang­ing… http://flip.it/S4G4J Related articles…

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  • IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?

    The Huffington Post, huffingtonpost.com Pity the poor text message — a mere 20 years young this week and already they are talking about its retirement party. Actually, nobody holds retirement parties anymore, do they? We don’t retire from our jobs, we get pink-slipped. Which is apparen… http://flpbd.it/Y10fU IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?…

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  • Economist ranks best countries to be born in

    The lottery of life economist.com International Where to be born in 2013 War­ren Buf­fett, prob­a­bly the world’s most suc­cess­ful investor, has said that any­thing good that hap­pened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right coun­try, the Unit­ed… RT @TheEconomist: Trending: Which country will provide the best…

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  • Language generation on the Internet:Reddit is the meme hatchery

    S.A.P. | LOS ANGELES, economist.com The Erkernermerst JOHN­SON reads Red­dit from time to time. Red­dit, as the web’s most promi­nent meme hatch­ery, is an incu­ba­tor of new trends in writ­ten lan­guage. The Inter­net has changed so much of our lives, but few things have changed … RT @TheEconomist: Reddit, as the web’s most prominent meme…

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  • Gatorade contains flame retardant according to petition

    Petition Claims Ingredient In Gatorade Is A Flame Retardant, Unsafe For Consumption Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Clean Wal-Mart)Gatorade is under fire from a new consumer petition claiming that the company’s beverage contains an unhealthy ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (or BVO), that was developed as a flame retardant. Opponents of the emulsifier, whi… Related articles Top…

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  • Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change

    By Eric Roston, bloomberg.com In the halt­ing, mea­sured lan­guage we’ve come to expect from his impromp­tu pub­lic remarks, Pres­i­dent Obama posed a core dilem­ma of cli­mate change yes­ter­day at his first post-election press con­fer­ence. Explain­ing the pos­si­ble… Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change Related articles Keystone XL will “lock in” more climate…

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  • Drug company employees vote for Obama while PACs vote Republican

    Drugmakers Gave Republican While Employees Backed Obama Bloomberg By The Numbers » 76 The percent share of global investors who say President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders will reach a short-term agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff., bloomberg.com Pho­to­graph by JB Reed/Bloomberg Polit­i­cal com­mit­tees con­trolled by U.S. drug­mak­ers includ­ing John­son & John­son and Eli…

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  • HomeAway Co-Founder: Why I Hire Failures

    Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP An epic fail early in his career taught HomeAway co-founder Brian Sharples that it’s a good idea to hire folks who have a healthy familiarity with failure. You think you’ve had bad days? Home­Away co-founder Brian Sharples once l… http://flpbd.it/vdiDV HomeAway Co-Founder: Why I Hire Failures Related articles HomeAway…

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  • Big data will rewire your brain

    Big Data: You Have No Idea How Much It Will Change Your Life Juan Enriquez, inc.com Futurist Juan Enriquez on the mind-blowing changes that Big Data is about to unleash on your business, your health, and life in general. Most mod­ern humans are now attempt­ing to cram more data into their heads in a sin­gle…

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  • Fuck Cancer CEO Yael Cohen On You Can’t Please Everybody

    By Neil Janowitz, fastcompany.com Lessons: “Some­times peo­ple are offend­ed by the name, which is obvi­ous­ly never our inten­tion. But I’ve learned that we’re not here to please every­one, and I’m ok with that. Not every­body loves what we do—and that’s prob­a­bly for … Fuck Cancer CEO Yael Cohen On You Can’t Please Everybody Related articles…

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  • Harvard design iPad book will never go out of date

    An iPad Guide To Building The Perfect Sustainable City By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com “Ecological Urbanism,” a book of essays published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010, was destined to fall out of date. The iPad version won’t have that problem. In 2010, Har­vard’s Grad­u­ate School of Design pub­lished… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign,…

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  • Why I Never Post Job Openings

    Eric V. Holtzclaw, inc.com LEAN FORWARD Instead, I give candidates permission to stalk me. They should find out what I’m up to, track me down, introduce themselves, let me get to know them. It works. Peo­ple often ask me how to get a job at my com­pa­ny, User Insight. T… http://flpbd.it/JhhGm Why I Never Post…

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  • Freakonomics radio: The real life of consultants

    (via Freakonomics » I Consult, Therefore I Am: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast) Related articles A Freakonomics Radio Bleg: What’s Your Name? (freakonomics.com) Freakonomics Radio: Parking Is Hell (transportationnation.org) Superfreakonomics (kirkomi.wordpress.com)

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