Category: Digital health

  • Gatorade contains flame retardant according to petition

    Petition Claims Ingredient In Gatorade Is A Flame Retardant, Unsafe For Consumption Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Clean Wal-Mart)Gatorade is under fire from a new consumer petition claiming that the company’s beverage contains an unhealthy ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (or BVO), that was developed as a flame retardant. Opponents of the emulsifier, whi… Related articles Top…

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  • Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change

    By Eric Roston, bloomberg.com In the halt­ing, mea­sured lan­guage we’ve come to expect from his impromp­tu pub­lic remarks, Pres­i­dent Obama posed a core dilem­ma of cli­mate change yes­ter­day at his first post-election press con­fer­ence. Explain­ing the pos­si­ble… Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change Related articles Keystone XL will “lock in” more climate…

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  • Drug company employees vote for Obama while PACs vote Republican

    Drugmakers Gave Republican While Employees Backed Obama Bloomberg By The Numbers » 76 The percent share of global investors who say President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders will reach a short-term agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff., bloomberg.com Pho­to­graph by JB Reed/Bloomberg Polit­i­cal com­mit­tees con­trolled by U.S. drug­mak­ers includ­ing John­son & John­son and Eli…

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  • HomeAway Co-Founder: Why I Hire Failures

    Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP An epic fail early in his career taught HomeAway co-founder Brian Sharples that it’s a good idea to hire folks who have a healthy familiarity with failure. You think you’ve had bad days? Home­Away co-founder Brian Sharples once l… http://flpbd.it/vdiDV HomeAway Co-Founder: Why I Hire Failures Related articles HomeAway…

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  • Big data will rewire your brain

    Big Data: You Have No Idea How Much It Will Change Your Life Juan Enriquez, inc.com Futurist Juan Enriquez on the mind-blowing changes that Big Data is about to unleash on your business, your health, and life in general. Most mod­ern humans are now attempt­ing to cram more data into their heads in a sin­gle…

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  • Fuck Cancer CEO Yael Cohen On You Can’t Please Everybody

    By Neil Janowitz, fastcompany.com Lessons: “Some­times peo­ple are offend­ed by the name, which is obvi­ous­ly never our inten­tion. But I’ve learned that we’re not here to please every­one, and I’m ok with that. Not every­body loves what we do—and that’s prob­a­bly for … Fuck Cancer CEO Yael Cohen On You Can’t Please Everybody Related articles…

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  • Harvard design iPad book will never go out of date

    An iPad Guide To Building The Perfect Sustainable City By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com “Ecological Urbanism,” a book of essays published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010, was destined to fall out of date. The iPad version won’t have that problem. In 2010, Har­vard’s Grad­u­ate School of Design pub­lished… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign,…

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  • Why I Never Post Job Openings

    Eric V. Holtzclaw, inc.com LEAN FORWARD Instead, I give candidates permission to stalk me. They should find out what I’m up to, track me down, introduce themselves, let me get to know them. It works. Peo­ple often ask me how to get a job at my com­pa­ny, User Insight. T… http://flpbd.it/JhhGm Why I Never Post…

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  • Freakonomics radio: The real life of consultants

    (via Freakonomics » I Consult, Therefore I Am: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast) Related articles A Freakonomics Radio Bleg: What’s Your Name? (freakonomics.com) Freakonomics Radio: Parking Is Hell (transportationnation.org) Superfreakonomics (kirkomi.wordpress.com)

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