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  • Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign

    Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign buzzfeed.com Leaked fundrais­ing doc­u­ments show Sil­i­con Val­ley emerg­ing as a key source of Demo­c­ra­t­ic money and power. Val­ley money bests Hol­ly­wood. Pres­i­dent Obama with Google chair­man (and occa­sion­al advi­sor) Eric Schmidt SAN FRAN­CIS­… http://flpbd.it/mrFd3 Related articles Razor Burned: The Beard-less Women of Obama’s Tech Team…

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  • How Lobster-Inspired Winglets Reduce Drag

    How Lobster-Inspired Winglets Reduce Drag, Increase Fuel Efficiency Alexander George, wired.com Photo: GasPods Indus­tri­al design­er and under­wa­ter pho­tog­ra­ph­er Bob Evans got the inspi­ra­tion for GasPods from the bumps he observed on lob­sters’ backs. It seems coun­ter­in­tu­itive, but pro­tru­sions on an already-streamlined… http://flpbd.it/BuaDx Related articles Food Glorious Food: Burger & Lobster (onefinestay.com) Apparently This Matters: Lobster…

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  • re:char | shop-in-a-box

    re:char | shop-in-a-box re-char.com shop-in-a-box- an off-grid, open-source fac­to­ry built from a 20’ ship­ping con­tain­er. Rapid­ly deploy­able to any­where in the world, shop-in-a-box enables rapid pro­to­typ­ing and small-run man­u­fac­tur­ing in a tiny but effec­tive… http://flpbd.it/6mOdw Related articles Power4Patriots Responds to Super Bowl XLVII Power Outage by Reminding Homeowners of Importance of Solar and Wind Energy…

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  • More Blueprints Emerge Of Apple Campus 2

    More Blueprints Emerge Of Apple Campus 2, Show Futuristic, Spaceship Like Design Henry Taylor-Gill, mactrast.com Some pret­ty awe­some images have recent­ly leaked (via 9to5Mac) of what Apple’s Cam­pus 2 will look like, and let’s just say that it will be unlike any other HQ in the world. The blue­prints show what looks like a giant…

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  • Meat, metal, and code

    Meat, metal, and code: Stelarc’s alternate anatomical architectures By Jesse Hicks, theverge.com In 1972 the man born Ste­lios Arca­diou took on a new name. He refash­ioned him­self as the artist Ste­larc, whose work often explores what he calls “alter­nate anatom­i­cal architectures.” He’s probed his body with cam­eras, cre­at­ing films that… http://flpbd.it/pBHf2 Related articles STELARC –…

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  • Why Cancer Treatment Is Fatally Flawed

    Margaret I. Cuomo, M.D., huffingtonpost.com Good Morn­ing Amer­i­ca co-anchor Robin Roberts’ recent announce­ment that she had been diag­nosed with myelodys­plas­tic syn­drome (MDS) — a group of con­di­tions in which the cells in the bone mar­row are dam­aged — cer­tain­ly came as … Why Cancer Treatment Is Fatally Flawed Related articles New cancer treatment used for…

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  • Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health

    Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health David Schultz, npr.org Liv­ing next to a noisy high­way can be annoy­ing. The rack­et can also dis­rupt your sleep. Too many bad nights’ sleep can raise the risk of heart attack, high blood pres­sure and other ail­ments. Curi­ous researchers with the Cen­ters for… http://flpbd.it/tUoKj Related articles Prevent…

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  • How Are You Preparing For the Apocalypse?

    How Are You Preparing For the Apocalypse? thedailybeast.com http://flpbd.it/Jqapq Related articles Canadian Parliament Legitimately Discuss Zombie Apocalypse (foxcharlotte.com) How to Survive a Social Media Apocalypse (blogs.constantcontact.com) Canadian Parliament Legitimately Discusses Zombie Apocalypse (mashable.com) Zombie apocalypse debated in Canada (bigpondnews.com) Canadian MP’s Discuss The Ongoing Preparations For A Zombie Apocalypse (techfleece.com) Canadian parliament debates zombie apocalypse…

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  • The Social Network Is All Around You

    The Social Network Is All Around You: A Lesson From Burning Man Jon Mitchell, readwriteweb.com Every year at Burn­ing Man, I have the same argu­ment. Some­one plays the role of the starry-eyed futur­ist, some­one else is the griz­zly sur­vival­ist. The futur­ist says, “If only we had map and chat apps out here, we could meet…

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  • Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore

    Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore John Timmer, arstechnica.com Some of the most suc­cess­ful drugs we know about have come from plants, includ­ing the can­cer drug Taxol, the malar­i­al treat­ment artemisinin, and even aspirin. The lat­ter two were iden­ti­fied because of their use in herbal reme­dies that… http://flpbd.it/IKidw Related articles Drug…

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  • Boosted Board electric longboard

    Boosted Board electric longboard is lightweight enough to carry, powerful enough to haul riders uphill Michael Gorman, engadget.com Boost­ed Board isn’t the first pow­ered skate­board to grace these pages, but it is the light­est. In its cur­rent pro­to­type form, it weighs just 12 pounds, thanks to a high-end Loaded Van­guard long­board, 2,000W brush­less elec­tric motor,…

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  • The Science Of Sleep

    ‘Dreamland’: Open Your Eyes To The Science Of Sleep Maureen Corrigan, npr.org ‘Dreamland’: Open Your Eyes To The Science Of Sleep Fresh Air from WHYY Step, if you will, into my bed­room at night. (Don’t worry, this is a PG-rated invitation.) At first, all is tran­quil: My hus­band and I, exhaust­ed by our day’s labors,……

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