Category: Health Informatics

  • Swarm social science eliminates time wasting office meetings

    Ditch Time-Wasting Meetings By Turning Your Office Into An Ant Colony BY MICHAEL J. COREN, fastcoexist.com Scientists have started applying lessons from how ants operate to the corporate world. The result: fewer meetings, more time working, and tasks completed much more quickly. Ants may free us from that scourge of mod­ern soci­ety: the meet­ing (an……

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  • Secret lives of animals captured by motion sensitive digicams

    Secret Lives of Wild Animals Captured by 1 Million Camera-Trap Images Brandon Keim, wired.com Thanks to motion-triggered digital camera traps, scientists have a powerful tool for studying reclusive animals in remote, inaccessible areas — and also for generating animated .gifs of gorillas scratching their stomachs. Brandon Keim Secret Lives of Wild Animals Captured by 1…

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  • Basis band is the best fitness tracker

    Basis Band Review: The Only Fitness Tracker Worth Buying By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com The first fitness tracker that could actually help you get in shape, thanks to a goals system that works with your life and sensors that actually track your fitness. The Basis Band is the best fit­ness track­er on the mar­ket. It’s the…

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  • China’s growth at all cost policies and cancer villages

    China now has up to 400 “cancer villages,” and the government only just admitted it Gwynn Guilford, qz.com China’s “growth at all costs” approach to devel­op­ment has meant indus­tries can spew waste pret­ty much wher­ev­er they want. Drink­ing water sources? Sure. Farm­land? Fine. That approach has poi­soned entire towns, send­ing can­cer rates… China now has…

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  • Tensile canopy tent

    Tentsile’s New Stingray Hanging Tent Lets You Sleep Comfortably Suspended in the Trees! Morgana Matus, inhabitat.com Forget about soggy sleeping bags and competing with rocks and debris on the cold, hard ground on your next camping trip – Inhabitat favorite Tentsile just launched a brand new suspended tent called the Stingray that lets you rest…

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  • Concentrations of toxins in outerwear

    Greenpeace Detects High Concentrations of Toxic Chemicals in Popular Outerwear Brands ecouterre.com Photo by Shut­ter­stock Wide-open vis­tas are fre­quent­ly used to adver­tise out­door cloth­ing, yet the tox­ins many weather-resistant fab­rics con­tain may actu­al­ly be detri­men­tal to nature and … http://flip.it/ZPpMG

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  • Baby’s cells found in mother’s brain

    Scientists Find Children’s Cells Living In Mothers’ Brains Jennifer Chait, inhabitots.com Image Courtesy of ShutterstockMany would argue that the mother-baby bond during pregnancy is the strongest human connection possible. During pregnancy, a mother is connected physically and psychologically to her child, and her baby… http://flip.it/PaGHz Related articles Dads-to-be Sob As They Feel Babies Kick With…

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  • Food: The Next Frontier For The Sharing Economy?

    Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com Are you gonna eat that? Here are four social networks that want to take food sharing way beyond photos.Globally, 30 to 50 percent of all food produced is lost or wasted between crop and plate—that’s between 1.2 and 2 billion tons. Personally, eac… RT @FastCompany: Food: The Next Frontier For The Sharing…

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  • Visualizing top cities for bicycling

    Biking and Walking to Work idvsolutions.com Bicycling.com came out with a rank­ing of the top US cities for bicy­cling. I took their top ten cities and dot mapped every com­muter in and around them, col­ored by their method of com­mute, to get … UXBlog | IDV Solutions’ User Experience: Biking and Walking to Work http://flip.it/VHCFZ…

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  • Clean tech approaches to ship biofilms

    “Twitching” Material Dislodges Bacteria From Ship Hulls By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Surface changes in the paint-like material can reduce biofilm buildup. When a horse is dis­lodg­ing a pesky fly, it twitch­es a small por­tion of its skin to shake off the unwel­come vis­i­tor. Researchers from Duke Uni­ver­si­ty have devel­oped… http://flip.it/weh3S Related articles Cutting-edge bacteria research…

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  • Stiff upper lip ‘harms cancer fight’

    bbc.co.uk The UK’s “stiff upper lip” culture may explain why it lags behind other countries when it comes to beating cancer, say experts. RT @BBCNews: Stiff upper lip “harms #cancer fight” http://flip.it/pihhK http://flip.it/oGkeo Stiff upper lip ‘harms cancer fight’ Related articles Stiff upper lip ‘harms cancer fight’ (bbc.co.uk) ‘Stiff upper lip’ culture blamed for cancer…

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