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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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  • Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Saying Hurricane Sandy Affected Decision

    Awareness of science, environment and climate change is increasingly moving voters towards Obama. Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Saying Hurricane Sandy Affected Decision – NYTimes.com. Related articles Bloomberg’s Obama endorsement is a vote for big government in time of crisis | Ana Marie Cox Bloomberg endorses Obama, citing Sandy and climate change Michael Bloomberg endorses Obama to lead…

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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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