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  • How Many Techies Does It Take to Reelect a President

    How Many Techies Does It Take to Reelect a President? T4O Launches “Innovator Series” Videos for Obama. Kara Swisher, allthingsd.com A large group of tech lumi­nar­ies — includ­ing LinkedIn’s Reid Hoff­man, Path’s Dave Morin, JLab’s Judy Estrin, Drop­box’s Drew Hous­ton, Craigslist’s Craig New­mark and Box’s Aaron Levie — are part of the launch of a…

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  • Natural Keyboard Brings the Outdoors Right to Your Desk

    Natural Keyboard Brings the Outdoors Right to Your Desk Anita Li, mashable.com Hunch­ing over a desk all day at work may make you yearn for the great out­doors. Artist Rob­bie Tilton aims to rem­e­dy that by cre­at­ing a com­put­er key­board made from organ­ic mate­ri­als. Laser cut from an Apple wire­less key­board… http://flpbd.it/EgyTk Related articles Hands-on:…

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  • The Best iPhone Apps

      gizmodo.com There’s an ocean of apps out there. Whether you just got your iPhone and are feel­ing adrift or you’re a salty old dog see­ing what you might’ve missed, here are the absolute­ly essen­tial apps. Social Twit­ter: Twit­ter thank­ful­ly… http://flpbd.it/cdICD The Best iPhone Apps Related articles The Best Alternatives for Almost Every Pre-Loaded iPhone…

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  • Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos

    Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos! Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com I’m at the Health 2.0 Con­fer­ence in San Fran­cis­co – and it reminds me a lot of the Web 2.0 Con­fer­ences of 2006-07. The sec­ond com­ing of the Web, coined “Web 2.0” by Tim O’Reil­ly and his com­pa­ny, was enter­ing its peak around 2006. If I……

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  • Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax

    Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax Machines Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com Today at the DC to VC: Health IT Start­up Show­case, a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Mor­gen­thaler Ven­tures and the Health 2.0 Con­fer­ence, I saw first­hand how health IT star­tups are tack­ling big, real-world prob­lems. Com­ing from a world where… http://flpbd.it/hw3nH Related articles Video: My interview…

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  • An Epidemic of Absence

    Book review: An Epidemic of Absence takes on the worms you’re missing Diana Gitig, arstechnica.com An Epi­dem­ic of Absence: A New Way of Under­stand­ing Aller­gies and Autoim­mune Dis­eases could be co-marketed with the Thomas Rock­well’s chil­dren’s clas­sic How to Eat Fried Worms. It begins with the author, Moi­ses… http://flpbd.it/sV12A Related articles ‘Everything hurts’: inside the…

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  • Epigenetics inspires philosophical experiments

    Monya Baker, nature.com An artist’s con­cep­tion of epi­ge­net­ic cloning Jonathan Keats The man in the bowtie says he can trans­form you into any­one you want. At the Mod­ernism Gallery in San Fran­cis­co, con­cep­tu­al artist Jonathan Keats is apply­ing his… http://flpbd.it/5U85D Epigenetics inspires philosophical experiments Related articles Life experiences put their stamp on the next generation:…

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  • Panasonic Lumix LX7 Review

    Panasonic Lumix LX7 Review: A Lovely Point-and-Shoot For Control Freaks Brent Rose, gizmodo.com Any­one in the mar­ket for a top point-and-shoot cam­era is prob­a­bly decid­ing between Canon’s S100 and Sony’s RX100. But Pana­son­ic is back in the game with the Lumix LX7, a sequel to one of the top shoot­ers of 2010, the wild­ly pop­u­lar…

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  • Igloo Made From 300 Refrigerators

    Igloo Made From 300 Refrigerators Springs Up in Germany | 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 system? William McDonough: From an early…

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  • Ford C-MAX Energi Plug-In Hybrid Rocks The Fuel Efficiency

    Ford C-MAX Energi Plug-In Hybrid Rocks The Fuel Efficiency Nino Marchetti, earthtechling.com Ford, already putting up some very impres­sive offi­cial Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency fuel effi­cien­cy num­bers with both its 2013 Fusion Hybrid and C-Max Hybrid, now has anoth­er feath­er to add to the cap in its effort to knock Toy­ota … http://flpbd.it/xhEMj Related articles 2012…

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  • Dirty White Gold: a Film That Exposes Cotton Farming’s Dark Side

    Fund “Dirty White Gold,” a Film That Exposes Cotton Farming’s Dark Side ecouterre.com Photo by Shut­ter­stock Jour­nal­ist Leah Bor­romeo’s documentary-in-the-making, “The Cot­ton Film: Dirty White Gold,” fol­lows the life of cot­ton from seed to store, trac­ing who it touch­es and how their live are effect­ed. The incred­i­ble… http://flpbd.it/5ti7j

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  • Infographic: Women’s health connections

    Infographic: Womens’ health connections By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Octo­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flpbd.it/b1HK1 Related articles Heart Health Infographics – This Chart Gives…

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