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  • uBiome: donate some gut flora for a good cause

    scientificamerican.com Help researchers map the human microbiome, the microorganisms that inhabit every inch of our skin as well as our ears, mouth, sinuses, genitals and gut [More] uBiome, Citizen Science | Scientific American http://flip.it/6OVC4 http://flip.it/FKzXC uBiome Related articles The uBiome Citizen Science Project Interview (makezine.com) What Really Happens When You Take Antibiotics? (wakingtimes.com) On Ethics…

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  • What jellyfish can teach us about immortality

    Do jellyfish hold the secret to immortality, and a cure for cancer? Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net Nathaniel Rich on the so-called “immor­tal jel­ly­fish,” Tur­ri­top­sis dohrnii: “[It] seems able to sur­vive, and pro­lif­er­ate, in every ocean in the world. It is pos­si­ble to imag­ine a dis­tant future in which most other species of li… RT @BoingBoing: Do…

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  • SticknFinds: find the things you lose

    Bluetooth stickers help you find things when you lose them Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net Stick­N­Finds are Blue­tooth loca­tion stick­ers the diam­e­ter of a quar­ter (but thick­er than a quar­ter). You attach them to tele­vi­sion remote con­trols, pets, chil­dren, or other things that you need to locate. The bat­ter­ies last about a… RT @BoingBoing: Bluetooth stickers help…

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  • Rudy Rucker by Cory Doctorow

    #cc10 Featured Content: Cory Doctorow on Rudy Rucker Elliot Harmon, creativecommons.org Cory Doctorow / NK Guy / CC BY-SAIn celebration of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we asked various friends of CC to write about their favorite CC-licensed content. Today, blogger and science fiction author Cory Doctorow writes about the… #cc10 Featured Content: Cory Doctorow on…

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  • What radishes can teach us about personal privacy

    Radishes moan when groped Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net World’s Best Ever says: “The Sekuhara (trans­lat­ed: Sex­u­al Harass­ment) Inter­face is a group of daikon radish­es that have been hooked up to elec­tron­ic sen­sors to emit moans and groans when groped.” It would be easy to con­struct a Sekuha… http://flip.it/6AAPQ Related articles Radishes: Love ‘Em and Leaf ‘Em…

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  • GE decides to build appliances in USA again

    The Insourcing Boom Alexis C. Madrigal, Megan Garber, and Rebecca J. Rosen, theatlantic.com For much of the past decade, Gen­er­al Elec­tric’s sto­ried Appli­ance Park, in Louisville, Ken­tucky, appeared less like a mon­u­ment to Amer­i­can man­u­fac­tur­ing prowess than a memo­r­i­al to it. The very scale of the place seemed to… The Insourcing Boom – Charles Fishman…

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  • Coursera helps to mitigate the pain of calculus with elearning

    Free Coursera Calculus course with hand-drawn animated materials Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Robert Ghrist from Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia wrote in to tell us about his new, free Cours­era course in single-variable Cal­cu­lus, which starts on Jan 7. Cal­cu­lus is one of those amaz­ing, chewy, chal­leng­ing branch­es of math, and… RT @BoingBoing: Free Coursera Calculus course with…

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  • Open science event in London this weekend

      Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net If you’re in Lon­don this week­end, you should know that the Well­come Trust is spon­sor­ing a two-day bio­science hackathon with prizes award­ed for the best ideas in four cat­e­gories: Open Me — col­lect­ing data on your­self and mak­ing it use­… RT @BoingBoing: Open science event in London this weekend http://flip.it/kqy0Y Open…

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  • For Medical Marijuana in New Jersey, a First Few Ounces – NYTimes.com http://flip.it/BBFEY& http://flip.it/LqvgH

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  • Cellphones Are Eating the Family Budget

      By ANTON TROIANOVSKI, wsj.com “Every week­end, we’d do something,” said Ms. Stef­fen, a reg­is­tered nurse whose hus­band works at a tire shop. “Now maybe once every month or two, we get out.” More than half of all U.S. cell­phone own­ers carry a device like the iPhone, a sh… Cellphones Are Eating the Family Budget…

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  • Was Jack Kerouac really a hack? – Salon.com By Joseph Lapin, salon.com As “On the Road” prepares to hit the big screen, a writer reassesses the novel with the Beat’s friends and critics In Decem­ber, a film adap­tion of Jack Ker­ouac’s “On the Road” will hit the­aters — fea­tur­ing Viggo Mortensen, Kris­ten Stew­ar… RT @Salon_Arts:…

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  • Was Jack Kerouac really a hack? – Salon.com By Joseph Lapin, salon.com As “On the Road” prepares to hit the big screen, a writer reassesses the novel with the Beat’s friends and critics In Decem­ber, a film adap­tion of Jack Ker­ouac’s “On the Road” will hit the­aters — fea­tur­ing Viggo Mortensen, Kris­ten Stew­ar… RT @Salon_Arts:…

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