Category: Digital health

  • Best digicams for video

    (via The best cameras for shooting video (roundup) | Reviews – Cameras – CNET Reviews) Related articles Photography for Dummies: Part 4. (1hundredworks.wordpress.com)

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  • Recession has slowed birth rate

    Recession Left Baby Bust as U.S. Births Lowest Since 1920 By Frank Bass -, bloomberg.com Getty Images The U.S. birth rate fell to a record low last year, dri­ven by a decline in the num­ber of babies born to immi­grant women, who have led the growth in the nation’s pop­u­la­tion for at least two decades.…

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  • Sunbed tanning deaths strike teens

    Teens Dying From Sunbed Tanning Curb $5 Billion Industry By Jason Gale -, bloomberg.com Teenage girls trad­ing the risk of dead­ly melanoma for a year-round tan have helped spur a glob­al back­lash against the sunbed indus­try. Health offi­cials from Brasil­ia to Syd­ney are ban­ning tan­ning salons amid evi­dence that they cause… RT @BloombergNews: Teens dying…

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  • Japan explores remote, virtual workforce after disasters

    After a Disaster, Japan Looks for Alternatives to the Office bloomberg.com Cour­tesy Soco­co Think your boss is stub­born about let­ting you work from home? Try going to Japan. Telecom­mut­ing is sim­ply not built into the busi­ness cul­ture there. Just 12 per­cent of Internet-connected Japan­ese office work­ers woul… RT @BloombergTech: After a disaster, Japan looks for…

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  • Understanding culture: why Walmart has struggled in China

    Sea Bass With Barbie Dolls Challenge Wal-Mart in China By Bloomberg News -, bloomberg.com Play Shelves stacked to the ceil­ing with low-price hot sauce, Bar­bie dolls, and noo­dles stand near tanks where shop­pers can fish out live sea bass for din­ner. Wel­come to RT-Mart, China’s ver­sion of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) From Shang­… RT @BloombergNews:…

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  • Struggling Big Pharma returns to Chinese ethno medicine for ideas

    Ancient Chinese Cures Seen Helping Drugmaker Pipelines By Bloomberg News -, bloomberg.com The world’s biggest drug­mak­ers are turn­ing to ancient Chi­nese reme­dies to boost prod­uct pipelines. Glax­o­SmithK­line Plc is test­ing botan­i­cals — com­pounds extract­ed from plants — for immune dis­or­ders, Sanofi plans to turn… RT @BloombergNews: The world’s biggest drugmakers are turning to ancient Chinese…

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  • Why LinkedIn is replacing Monster as job search tool

    Job Recruiters Eschew Monster to Find Hidden Talent on LinkedIn By Olga Kharif -, bloomberg.com In his more than 15 years as a head­hunter, Jeff Vijung­co has tried Mon­ster, Craigslist, Career­Builder, and other online job boards. Late­ly the head of recruit­ment at Adobe Sys­tems Inc. (ADBE) has scrapped most of them. “I think job post­i……

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  • Visualizing cities at night with no lights

    This Is How Cities Would Look at Night Without Lights Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com These Darkened Cities image series by Thierry Cohen is truly awe inspiring. Not only because he accurately portraits the skylines of major cities with no lighting whatsoever, but because the images remind us of the incredible show we city… RT @core77: Awesome…

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  • Mitt’s son says he was not up for the job

    Mitt’s Son Says He Never Wanted to be President Anyway Connor Simpson, theatlanticwire.com If you thought the tale of how Mitt Rom­ney lost the gen­er­al elec­tion was already told, you would be wrong. Because there is so much left to tell, like how Mitt never want­ed to be Pres­i­dent any­way. At least, that’s what Tagg…

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  • Why Everyone at My Company Has One Job Title

    Issie Lapowsky, inc.com Inc. magazine The Nerdery, No. 99 on Inc.’s Hire Power list, rose above tragedy to give every employee a personal stake in success COM­PA­NY PRO­FILE Com­pa­ny: The Nerdery Head­quar­ters: Bloom­ing­ton, MN Founder: Mike… RT @whatifglobal: Why one company named all its employees “co-presidents”: Another moving read from @Inc’s Hire Power Awards http://flip.it/BH3bP…

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  • Top towns to raise kids

    (via America’s Best Places to Raise Kids 2013 – Businessweek) Related articles Oro Valley named best Arizona place to raise kids () Only the Apocalypse Will Stop Simpson and Bowles (businessweek.com) Best Towns for Raising Families in New England (boston.com) Show Them the Money: Top Valley Coders Now Have Agents, Too (businessweek.com) Multiplayer Game ‘EVE…

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  • Why military weapons don’t belong in our communities

    Obama: `Weapon of War’ Has No Place in American Communities Bloomberg By The Numbers » 15.5 How many points the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort index rose in the past 17 weeks., bloomberg.com Pho­to­graph by Scott Olson/Getty Images A “weapon of war” — Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s term today for the semi-automatic assault rifle used in the slay­ing of…

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