Joe quit his job in order to build a 100% solar van conversion. His new home is off-grid and sustainable. With solar power alone, he has all the luxuries of a normal home, and the freedom to… Source: Man quits his job to transform his van into an off-grid mobile home | Inhabitat - Green … Continue reading Man quits his job to transform his van into an off-grid mobile home | Inhabitat – Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building
Category: Digital health
Scientists Put Shamanic Medicine Under The Microscope
In an unlikely collaboration with Amazonian shamans, medical researchers seek a cure for autoimmune disease. Source: Scientists Put Shamanic Medicine Under The Microscope
New field of linguistic analytics enables IBM Watson to build personality profiles from your text
Source: IBM Watson’s personality reader is creepily accurate | The Memo
4,000 Bottles of Fresh Air Shipped to China, Company Struggling to Keep Up With Demand
Canadian startup Vitality Air is selling bottled air from the Rocky Mountains and it can't keep up with demand from Chinese customers in smog-choked cities. Source: 4,000 Bottles of Fresh Air Shipped to China, Company Struggling to Keep Up With Demand
The “bouncy” linguistics of the YouTube user experience
Audience engagement doesn't require tricks, just a few simple speaking strategies. Source: 'YouTube Voice:' The linguistics behind the phenomenon | Marketplace.org
Neural storytelling and linguistic generation from images
Recurrent neural network for generating stories about images Source: Generating Stories about Images — Medium
Want to Find Sustainable Poultry? There’s an App for That
Farm Forward's new Buying Poultry app aims to steer consumers toward turkeys (and other poultry) that fits their values. Source: Want to Find Sustainable Poultry? There's an App for That | Civil Eats
Linguistic response latency and information security
While you may think that body language is the biggest giveaway, new research has discovered you can tell more by relying on a single cue. Source: Everything You Think You Know About Detecting Lies Is Wrong
Plume Labs crowdsources air pollution data
As the U.N. climate summit in Paris gets underway this week, a French startup has launched a live map of air pollution to show which cities are suffering the worst. (Hint: Check out China!) Source: At COP 21, Plume Labs launches live map of air pollution around the world | VentureBeat | Big Data | by … Continue reading Plume Labs crowdsources air pollution data
FDA Unveils New Site To Tailor Medical Treatment To An Individual’s DNA
Scientists will be able to use the site to access previously sequenced genomes. Source: FDA Unveils New Site To Tailor Medical Treatment To An Individual's DNA
Climate scientists find culture, behavior triggers change where scientific data fails
Climate scientists used to think their work was key to stopping climate change. But increasingly, they’ve realized that climate science barely matters at all in the fight. Source: Climate Scientists Used to Just Get Angry. Now They're Taking Action | WIRED
New NASA satellite maps show human fingerprint on global air quality
Source: New NASA satellite maps show human fingerprint on global air quality

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