Category: Digital health

  • Gun deaths set to surpass traffic deaths soon

    American Gun Deaths to Exceed Traffic Fatalities by 2015 By Chris Christoff & Ilan Kolet -, bloomberg.com Guns and cars have long been among the lead­ing caus­es of non-medical deaths in the U.S. By 2015, firearm fatal­i­ties will prob­a­bly exceed traf­fic fatal­i­ties for the first time, based on data com­piled by Bloomberg. While motor-vehicle… RT…

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  • Ethnographic tools examine human behavior

    You, Under the Retail Microscope By Ben Steverman -, bloomberg.com Fred­er­ic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images It’s the clas­sic hol­i­day face-off. On one side, you have the wary shop­per, who is often “just brows­ing” and more and more like­ly to pur­chase only online. On the other, there’s the sales­per­son, wh… RT @BloombergNews: How stores use…

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  • Why Apple will grow faster with Tim Cook

    Tim Cook’s Attention to Culture Will Grow Apple Even More Paul Spiegelman, inc.com THE CULTURE GAP How Tim Cook treats employees may leave him a legacy bigger than Steve Jobs’. Much has been writ­ten about the bril­liance of Steve Jobs and the icon­ic com­pa­ny that he built. Many say that it was Steve Job’s laser…

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  • Figure your real career aptitude with data and online tools

    How To Find The Best Job For You By David Zax, fastcompany.com Should I really become an explosives worker? Spencer Thompson’s Sokanu wants to be like a Match.com for careers. There aren’t many 21-year-olds you should talk with for career advice. But when that 21-year-old, like Spencer Thomp­son, has built … RT @FastCoLead: Find the…

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  • Talented workers bring their own devices

    Worried Workers: BYOD Or You’re SOL [Infographic] Brian Proffitt, readwrite.com It is a common perception around the world that Americans, by and large, have problems relaxing. We don’t take what little vacations we do get and increasingly use technology to blur the line between work and home life. But a new study shows that… RT…

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  • Why the iPad can replace your cable subscription

    Who Needs Cable? 3 iPad Apps That Glue Me To My TV John Paul Titlow, readwrite.com The Internet may be changing TV, but it is nowhere close to completely disrupting it.Why’s that? In a word, content.Web videos can rack up millions of views (and millions of dollars), but the Web isn’t yet giving us content…

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  • Obama knew you’d vote: social science

    How Obama Knew How You’d Vote, Even Before You Did Dan Rowinski, readwrite.com Imaging you were a political analyst who time traveled from 1990s to November 5, 2012. A quick look at the national polls for the presidential election, you would probably have thought that Republican nominee Mitt Romney had a pretty good shot at……

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  • The Ultimate Urban Winter Jacket

    gizmodo.com Usu­al­ly, when win­ter is not being a cow­ard­ly lit­tle bitch, you need a warm jack­et to keep from freez­ing to death. But if you live in a city, like more than half the world’s pop­u­la­tion, you need some­thing some­thing more ver­sa­tile—and… The Ultimate Urban Winter Jacket http://flip.it/w2rSm http://flip.it/sxYjc The Ultimate Urban Winter Jacket Related…

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