Category: Digital health

  • The Best Budget Camera Lenses

    gizmodo.com If you’re shop­ping for a new lens of some sort, you’ve come to just the right place. Here’s The­P­hoblo­g­ra­ph­er’s list of the best lens­es you can get your hands on with­out break­ing the bank. Canon • Canon 50mm F1.8/F1.4: When I first mo… The Best Budget Camera Lenses http://flip.it/NPHNf http://flip.it/cyFZt The Best Budget Camera…

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  • Canon 7D Review

    gizmodo.com For a long time with Canon, if you weren’t drop­ping near­ly three grand on a 5D, you were stuck with a vast­ly less­er DSLR. The $1700 7D is Canon’s first semi-pro DSLR, and actu­al­ly it’s my favorite yet. What’s New and Dandy What makes it … Canon 7D Review http://flip.it/KC7vI http://flip.it/4zQSK Canon 7D Review

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  • Canon EOS 5D Mark III Review: The Best DSLR for Shooting Video

    gizmodo.com It’s been near­ly four years since Canon released the EOS 5D Mark II, the cam­era that turned dig­i­tal still cam­eras into afford­able work­hors­es for video­g­ra­phers and indie film­mak­ers. And this next evo­lu­tion was def­i­nite­ly cre­at­ed… Canon EOS 5D Mark III Review: The Best DSLR for Shooting Video http://flip.it/ciEu6 http://flip.it/IDS9f Canon EOS 5D Mark III…

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  • IPhone and some expensive DSLRs captured year’s best photos

    The Cameras and Settings That Captured This Year’s Best Photos Jamie Condliffe, gizmodo.com Every year, Reuters publishes a list of its best photography, and you’ll recognise plenty of the 95 iconic images that capture this year’s biggest news stories. One keen Redditor, though, wanted to know more—so analyzed the EXIF data of all the… The…

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  • Go pro 4 is best action cam

    The Best Action Camera Brent Rose and Michael Hession, gizmodo.com It wasn’t so long ago that we rounded up the best action cameras and put them to the test. Just half a year later, and the biggies all have new versions out. They’re all better, but there’s only one best. Round Two: Fight!Testing MethodologyAs you……

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  • Herbs And Empires: A Brief, Animated History Of Malaria Drugs

      Adam Cole, npr.org What do Jesuit priests, gin and ton­ics, and ancient Chi­nese scrolls have in com­mon? They all show up in our ani­mat­ed his­to­ry of malar­ia. It’s a story of geopo­lit­i­cal strug­gles, tra­di­tion­al med­i­cine, and above all, a war of… ANIMATION: The History Of Malaria Drugs : Shots – Health News : NPR http://flip.it/IQzck http://flip.it/5sxxY…

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  • How Cultural Cognition Can Inform the Gun Conversation

    discovermagazine.com Like the debate on climate change and other societally important issues caught in the maw of our culture wars, the discourse on guns and violence has had a depressing, unchanging quality. Here’s President Obama two years ago: You see, when a trage… http://flip.it/R8QPz How Cultural Cognition Can Inform the Gun Conversation Related articles Climate…

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  • Google cloud music match is free

    Google’s cloud-based music-matching service has arrived… and it’s free Cyrus Farivar, arstechnica.com This is what Ars editor Cyrus Farivar sent to Google Play this morning.Cyrus FarivarGoogle has announced its own music-matching locker service, but unlike Amazon’s Cloud Player and Apple’s iTunes Match, this new service is free. Google Play, in th… RT @arstechnica: Google’s cloud…

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  • Why sustainability is not appealing and what else to call it

      Green Blog: What’s Your Meme? Changing the Climate Change Conversation By RACHEL NUWER, nytimes.com What’s the counterpoint to “Drill, baby, drill”? In the emerging field of meme science, researchers try to figure out what language and ideas resonate when it comes to the warming of the planet. What’s Your Meme? Changing the Climate Change…

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  • Evolutionary medicine: why human touch remains the best medicine

    Squeeze returns breast cancer cells to normal Sarah Yang-Berkeley, futurity.org UC BERKELEY (US) — Mechanical forces alone can revert and stop the out-of-control growth of cancer cells, research shows for the first time.This change happens even though the genetic mutations responsible for malignancy remain, setting up … Squeeze returns breast cancer cells to normal http://flip.it/QCCwJ…

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  • Eco disaster redistributes tech to those in need

    Rogue Hurricane Sandy volunteers are redistributing wealth By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Politics New York­ers weary of urban inequal­i­ty have taken it upon them­selves to pil­fer equip­ment from lux­u­ry devel­op­ment sites in the after­math of Hur­ri­cane Sandy, and redis­trib­ute it to those in need. The group is oper­at­ing… RT @WiredUK: Rogue Hurricane Sandy volunteers are redistributing…

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  • Bankers realize food speculation is causing global food insecurity

    Banks consider quitting food speculation due to role in global hunger By Brandon Keim, wired.co.uk Business Finan­cial giant Bar­clays is con­sid­er­ing an end to food spec­u­la­tion, a con­tro­ver­sial prac­tice linked to sud­den, dan­ger­ous spikes in glob­al food prices. Rich Ricci, head of Bar­clays’ cor­po­rate and invest­ment bank­ing… http://flip.it/eCcTF Related articles Millions face starvation as world…

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