Category: Health Informatics

Breathe monitoring headset improves health

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

Could a breath-monitoring headset improve your health?
Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com

Wear­able tech­nol­o­gy and quan­ti­fied self fans already strap gad­gets to all dif­fer­ent parts of their bod­ies to keep tabs on their activ­i­ty lev­els, calo­ries burned, heart rates and more. But a Wal­nut Creek, Calif. com­pa­ny believes…

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Odegon underarm nanotechnology patch

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Underarm Clothing Patch Eliminates Body Odor Through Nanotechnology
ecouterre.com

If genius is 99 per­cent per­spi­ra­tion, then sum­mer’s arrival must make Mensa can­di­dates of us all. A new nanotechnology-enhanced fab­ric tag by Ode­gon Tech­nolo­gies, how­ev­er, could help us d …

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Oorja biomass stove

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Oorja Biomass Pellet Stove at werd.com
werd.com

Oorja Bio­mass Pel­let Stove

Green
Prod­uct

In the past few years pel­let stoves for home heat­ing have rev­o­lu­tion­ized the way peo­ple keep warm by burn­ing renew­ables. They’re more effi­cient and t …

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Chris MCandless’s death due to lack of ethnobotanical knowledge

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Mystery of Chris McCandless’s Death Solved | News from the Field
outsideonline.com

In a blog post for The New York­er, Jon Krakauer has ver­i­fied the cause of death of one of the most vivid char­ac­ters in Out­side lore.

In 1993, Krakauer pub­lished an arti­cle on the death of Chris McCan­d­less, a strong-willed…

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Tear out your lawn and get rich

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Get Rich Quick by Tearing Up Your Lawn
by Tim Layton, popularmechanics.com

DIY Central

moonlightbulb/Flickr

If you live in Los Ange­les, you might be able to earn a few extra bucks and leave behind the dread­ed job of mow­ing the lawn in one fell swoop. The Los Ange­les Depart­ment of Water and Power (LADWP) h…

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Breaking Bad’s secret formula

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Breaking Bad Fact vs Fiction: Walter White’s Secret Formula
By William Herkewitz, popularmechanics.com

Technology

Does the chemistry behind Breaking Bad’s incredibly pure blue crystal methamphetamine measure up?

We are watch­ing the final weeks of TV’s most pop­u­lar meth cook. The AMC series Break­ing Bad has chron­i­cled the…

Microbe transplants treat diseases that drugs cannot

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Microbe Transplants Treat Some Diseases That Drugs Can’t Fix
by Rob Stein, npr.org

Microbe Transplants Treat Some Diseases That Drugs Can’t Fix NPR Health

Bil­lie Iver­son may be get­ting up there, but for an 86-year-old, she’s still plen­ty active.

“I take trips, and I go do my own shop­ping, and I take myself to the doctor…

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Camping can regulate sleep patterns

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Camping can help regulate sleep patterns, study finds
cbc.ca

A week of camping in the great outdoors might be just what’s needed for people who want to regulate their sleep cycles, according to a new study.

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The design led biomaterials revolution

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Growing shoes and furniture: A design-led biomaterial revolution
by Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Aug 18, 2013 5:00 pm UTC, arstechnica.com

The nat­ur­al world has, over mil­lions of years, evolved count­less ways to ensure its sur­vival. The indus­tri­al rev­o­lu­tion, in con­trast, has given us just a cou­ple hun­dred years to play catc …

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Testing Soylent

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Nothing but the Soylent: We’re trying 1 full week of the meal substitute
Lee Hutchinson, arstechnica.com

Five days worth of Soylent. God help me.Lee HutchinsonAn unassuming USPS box arrived in my mailbox this afternoon, but the label had a word in it that I’d been hoping to see: “SOYLENT.” Unpacking, I laid the contents on the counter in front of me.…

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Fecal transplants may aid obesity

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

The Secret to Weight Loss Might Be Poop Transplants From Skinny People
Ashley Feinberg, gizmodo.com

As unlikely as it might seem, fecal transplantsare actually turning out to be the stuff dreams are made of. And apparently, this magical poop procedure still has plenty to give. After some successful rounds of experimenting, scientists now believe…

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Testing the claims for cooling towels

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Are the claims for cooling towels all wet?
Mary Farrell, consumerreports.org

Are the claims for cooling towels all wet? Towel-snapping has been taken to a whole new level with a variety of new cooling towels that promise to beat the heat when dampened and draped around your neck. You may have seen the colorful towel…

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