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  • Hardened Structures: clean tech meets doomsday preppers

    I am increasingly interested in the odd synergy between survivalists and clean technology/sustainability. Here is another company that builds hardened structures/bomb shelters which include biohazard, air, water filtration and electromagnetic protection. Hardened Structures. Related articles The Free Burma Rangers Service Group and National Geographic’s “Doomsday Preppers” are the Hot Topics on this Week’s Off The…

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  • Radius Engineering: underground domes for disaster protection

    Besides the health benefits of living in geodesic domes, earth shelters or underground houses, it is becoming apparent that most disaster proof shelters designed to resist a nuclear or biological attack are designed in a similar manner due to their resistance to mechanical and electromagnetic forces. Radius Engineering International Inc. | Shelter Systems | Terrell,…

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  • Biological Anthropologists search for Stress Vaccine

    Robert Sapolsky a bio anthropologist is leading the search for a stress vaccine using evolutionary science. Under Pressure: The Search for a Stress Vaccine | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related articles Researchers create needle-free vaccine out of sugar (itv.com) Vaccine effectiveness tied to sleep habits (time4sleep.com) NaturalNews – FDA Approves First GMO Flu Vaccine Containing Reprogrammed…

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  • Hunch: Crowdsourcing our Tastes and Preferences

    The founder of Flickr has now moved on to create a new web service that will map tastes and recommendations. What You Want: Flickr Creator Spins Addictive New Web Service | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related articles Women In Tech: Up & Coming Female Entrepreneurs (grasshopper.com) CrowdSource CEO, Stephanie Leffler, Earns ’40 Under 40′ Nod…

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  • The doctor will tweet you now

    via www.computerworld.com Good overview of SAAS, social computing and e-health Related articles easyJet: IT shouldn’t block business users from buying SaaS apps (computerworld.co.nz) Fujitsu Introduces Cloud Service for Senior Care (sys-con.com) Newest release of SaaS Maker™ ‘Cloud Toolkit’ Helps Entrepreneurs Build Big Software Without Venture Capital Dollars (prweb.com) How Doctors Use Social Media (medmeme.com) Online Dos…

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  • LinkedIn maps career success paths

    A fundamental discovery of social sciences is that in organizations it is often individuals who communicate across organizational boundaries that hold true organizational power rather than individuals who may hold power institutionally. Well, Linkedin has just developed an app for that. There are now some neat ways to see how the power of one’s network…

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  • Pixel Qi’s Transflective LCD: Best of both worlds?

    I’ve been a big fan of e-Ink because it allows a very low energy cost, low EMF design for reading. However this comes with drawback for people who need monitors with higher resolutions or brightness. Now there appears to be a type of display that does both… E-Ink Is Dead, Pixel Qi’s Amazing Transflective LCD…

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  • Tempohousing: container housing products

    Cool company. Based in Netherlands this place designs houses from shipping containers (something which is increasingly being done in a DIY manner). This means the house is ISO standards compliant, modular and practically bomb proof. Plus for the growing numbers of the world’s poor and resource limited populations, these are recyclable and low cost housing.…

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  • Globe Trekker on breakfasts of the world

    I rather like this show. In particular the breakfasts consumed around the world consist of foods that Starbucks sugar addled American brains would shudder to think. Most are well rounded meals high in protein, fiber, beneficial fats, probiotics, and micro nutrients such as pickled veggies and fish washed down with a beer (Thailand). The official…

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  • Restoring Information’s Body: ASIS 2010 Annual Meeting with Luch Suchman

    Clearly one of the better thinkers out there on the human-machine interface. ASIS&T 2010 Annual Meeting | Keynote Speaker. Related articles Identify Your Military Skills: ASI List (military.answers.com) Keynote Speaker, Dr. Alan Hirsch, M.D., F.A.C.P., to Present at ScentWorld 2013 (prweb.com) VideoPropulsion Ships Cost-Effective Intelligent DVB ASI to IP Gateway for Cable Headends (prweb.com) Latest…

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  • Lucy Suchman: the relations of ethnographies of everyday practice to new technology design

    A clever anthropologist who is studying the machine-human interface to help design better products and experiences, and prevent disastrous mistakes. Lucy Suchman, Sociology, Lancaster University. Related articles 5 Easy Ways to Bring Ethnography into Your Market Research (questionpro.com) Crowdsourced Ethnography. (makemarketinghistory.blogspot.com) CREATe: Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise and Technology (bluesyemre.com) Have A Problem? Sleep On It. (time4sleep.com)

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  • Crowd-sourcing science: Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure

    This guy has the money and the brains to turn the  hypothesis testing scientific method on its head and speed up our currently extremely expensive and slow drug discovery process using the power of the Internet to analyze massive data sets and look for patterns. Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure | Wired Magazine…

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