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  • Dhama Innovations climaware temp regulating clothing

    Dhama Innovations. Related articles The best startups from CES 2013: Touchscreen routers, electric skateboards, and lots of therapy (venturebeat.com)

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  • Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com

    Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com. Related articles Silicon Valley’s answer to SXSW: Iggy Pop, Big Data, self-driving cars (bizjournals.com) 10 Silicon Valley businesses hit the Inc. 500 (bizjournals.com) Brazilian government launches Silicon Valley office (zdnet.com) Hey everyone, Jeff Bezos lives in Seattle and Amazon is not a ‘Silicon Valley’ company (geekwire.com) Leading…

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  • The Health Of Every County In America, Mapped And Ranked | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

    The Health Of Every County In America, Mapped And Ranked | Co.Exist | ideas + impact. Related articles The Health Of Every County In America, Mapped And Ranked (fastcoexist.com) Online Map Guides Great Lakes Climate Change Adaptation Planning (cleantechnica.com)

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  • Forever 21 slashes worker hours and health benefits

    (via Forever 21 Slashes Worker Hours And Health Benefits, Denies Obamacare Is To Blame)

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  • The fall and rise of gene therapy

    Carl Zimmer, wired.com A genetically modified virus laid waste to James Wilson’s career. Now a second one could bring him to redemption. http://flip.it/qyPkg Related articles Carl Zimmer: How did feathers evolve? (ritholtz.com)

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  • Why healthcare needs Apple

    Why health care needs Apple Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Apple has a huge oppor­tu­ni­ty to inno­vate in dig­i­tal health. The Sil­i­con Val­ley tech­nol­o­gy giant has yet to con­firm any new health and fit­ness gad­gets — includ­ing its hotly antic­i­pat­ed “iWatch.” If you were hop­ing yes­ter­day’… http://flip.it/mxJnO Related articles Is Apple Moving Into Digital Health? (inc.com) Samsung…

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  • ZappRx mobile pharmacy

    Tired of long lines at the pharmacy? ZappRx tests ‘mobile boarding pass’ for prescriptions Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com Pick­ing up pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tion often requires a good deal of patience. First, there’s the fre­quent­ly long line you have to brace for; then, there’s the chance that the phar­ma­cy never got the script from the doc­tor or…

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  • 3d printing is as bad for your lungs as using a stove

    3D printing is as bad for your lungs as using a stove Signe Brewster, gigaom.com Most con­sumer 3D print­ers are designed to be portable and open, mean­ing the user can plunk one down on their desk and reach right in to the print­ing plat­form. While this encour­ages max­i­mum acces­si­bil­i­ty, it also has a dark side:…

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  • Common pesticides linked to low birthweight

    Common Pesticides Linked to Low Birth Weight and Premature Births inhabitots.com A new study rein­forces news we’ve heard before. First of all pes­ti­cides cause prob­lems for preg­nant women and their babies. Sec­ond­ly, preg­nant women are car­ry­ing pes­ti­cides in abun­dance i … http://flip.it/AlZl4

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  • A food market without bees

    A Food Market Without Bees (Whole Foods Photo) Tafline Laylin, greenprophet.com A corporate natural foods store in the United States has captured a photograph of what their shelves would look like if bee populations completely collapse. Whole Foods teamed up with the Xerces Society, a wildlife conservation group, to illustrat… http://flip.it/4ozxA

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  • How to make the best kale salad

    RECIPE: How To Make the “Best Kale Salad” with Chef Joya Carlton of The Butcher’s Daughter inhabitat.com Don’t be fooled by its quirky name – The Butch­er’s Daugh­ter is actu­al­ly an all vegan/vegetarian juicery and restaurant-café in Man­hat­tan’s trendy Noli­ta ‘hood. Since its open­ing last Novem­ber … http://flip.it/RpZF9

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  • Columbia omni freeze

    (via Columbia announces Omni-Freeze ZERO, sports gear that cools you down the hotter you get (video))

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