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  • Robot ethics: Morals and the machine

    (via Robot ethics: Morals and the machine | The Economist) Related articles Three Rules Won’t Get the Job Done | Ethics by the Book (csuitementor.wordpress.com) How the Non-Aggression Principle Works (rathbonezvizionz.wordpress.com)

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  • The Slow Medicine Movement

    (via The Slow Medicine Movement: My Mother, Your Mother « The Healthcare Marketer) Related articles I Kick. I Stretch and I am 50! 50 Years Old… (kinesisliving.wordpress.com) Slow Travel (edintoedin.wordpress.com) Physicians blend ancient wisdom and complementary practices with conventional medicine (blogs.vancouversun.com) Slow medicine (whyy.org) Medicinal Cannabis Activist Creed (kiefair.com) All Medicines are Drugs but not All…

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  • God’s Hotel Book Review

    (via ‘God’s Hotel’ Book Review – An Account of Health Care Past – NYTimes.com) Related articles Watsi, a Crowdfunding Site, Offers Help With Medical Care – NYTimes.com (cannonballcc.org) Stupid Writer Tricks – NYTimes.com (everythingscrivener.wordpress.com) Why does almost every site out there make it so hard to leave? @NYTimes reports (alexisohanian.com) Booklist | ‘The Dispensable Nation,’…

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  • Trap Rock Brewery

    (via Trap Rock Brewery) Related articles Fulton Brewery plans a patio ‘oasis’ (bizjournals.com) Venture Capitalist Brewery (winedeposit.wordpress.com) Brooklyn Brewery Stop-Motion (winedeposit.wordpress.com) Best Craft Beer State: Does Quantity Equal Quality? (beerandwhiskeybros.com)

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  • Magnus Nilsson’s Faviken Cookbook a How-To for the Amateur Forager

    (via Magnus Nilsson’s Faviken Cookbook a How-To for the Amateur Forager – Newsweek and The Daily Beast) Related articles Rhino darting clip | Newsweek/DailyBeast | Margot Kiser (margotkiser.com)

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  • Zoom iQ5 professional stereo microphone

    Zoom iQ5 professional stereo microphone hands-on Kevin Wong, engadget.com Ear­li­er at CES, we got our hands on the Rode iXY 30-pin stereo micro­phone iPhone add-on that left our Light­ning users a bit sad. Cheer up! The folks over at Zoom got us over to their booth to take a peek at the com­pa­ny’s new iQ5…

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  • Facebook tests VoIP, adds voice mail-like service

    Facebook tests VoIP, adds voice mail-like service by Donna Tam, cnet.com The social network updates its Messenger app with the ability to send recorded voice messages globally, but tests actual voice calls in Canada. iPhone users in Cana­da can now use Face­book to make voice calls, the social net­work revealed… http://flip.it/SKLUK Related articles Facebook launched…

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  • Lumoback Posture-Monitoring

    Start-Up Behind Lumoback Posture-Monitoring Gadget Raises $5M Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com Lumo BodyTech, which makes a wear­able waist­band that tracks pos­ture and move­ment and vibrates when the wear­er slouch­es, has raised $5 mil­lion in Series A fund­ing led by Madrona Ven­ture Group. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up dou­ble… http://flip.it/mi6cM Related articles Posture Police (wired.com) LUMOback Posture…

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  • That Freckled Girl in a T-Shirt and Jeans Is Your Typical Mac User

    That Freckled Girl in a T-Shirt and Jeans Is Your Typical Mac User Ina Fried, allthingsd.com The typ­i­cal Mac user is a freck­led woman in a T-shirt and jeans. At least, that’s the most like­ly Mac user accord­ing to research from BlueS­tacks. She has also got a two-in-five chance of wear­ing glass­es and a 15…

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  • Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services

    Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com Apple does hard­ware and soft­ware well, and it’s at the top of its game when it does them togeth­er. But when it comes to Web ser­vices, the com­pa­ny is a lag­gard, with an ever-lengthening conga line of mis­steps. There are hands-down fias­co… http://flip.it/fuyg5 Related…

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  • Why big data is about mining real world behavior

    By STEVE LOHR, nytimes.com Business experts and recent research predict that machine-generated sensor data will become a larger and larger portion of all data produced. That is opening up a huge opportunity for Big Data technology beyond the consumer Internet. RT @nytimesbits: Big Data: Rise of the Machines http://flip.it/X0O7J http://flip.it/82cR0 Bits Blog: Big Data: Rise…

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  • Professions that encourage a lack of empathy?

    Which professions have the most psychopaths? The fewest? Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net The Wis­dom of Psy­chopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Ser­i­al Killers Can Teach Us About Suc­cess, by Kevin Dut­ton, has this side-by-side list of pro­fes­sions with the high­est per­cent­age of psy­chopaths (CEO tops the list) and low­est… RT @BoingBoing: Which professions have the most psychopaths?…

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