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  • Basis Band goes on sale, taking wearable fitness tech to the next level

    (via Basis Band goes on sale, taking wearable fitness tech to the next level | Digital Trends) Related articles From The Pebble Smartwatch To Google Glass: Gauging The New Mobile Market For Wearable Devices (businessinsider.com) Gibson meets Glass: Cyberpunk creator dons Google’s wearable (slashgear.com) 3 Ways To Make Wearable Tech Actually Wearable (fastcodesign.com) OK, cupid:…

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  • Stealthy Gen9 Rolls Out BioFab for Large-Scale Gene Manufacturing

    (via Stealthy Gen9 Rolls Out BioFab for Large-Scale Gene Manufacturing | Xconomy) Related articles Gen9, Synthetic Biology Startup, Snags $21M from Agilent (xconomy.com) Gen9 lands $21M investment from Agilent Technologies (bostonherald.com) Pharma not prepared for big data (worldofdtcmarketing.com) The Devil is in the Details: What BioPharma Press Releases Don’t Say (xconomy.com)

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  • Magnus Nilsson’s Faviken Cookbook a How-To for the Amateur Forager

    (via Magnus Nilsson’s Faviken Cookbook a How-To for the Amateur Forager – Newsweek and The Daily Beast) Related articles Rhino darting clip | Newsweek/DailyBeast | Margot Kiser (margotkiser.com)

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  • Lumoback Posture-Monitoring

    Start-Up Behind Lumoback Posture-Monitoring Gadget Raises $5M Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com Lumo BodyTech, which makes a wear­able waist­band that tracks pos­ture and move­ment and vibrates when the wear­er slouch­es, has raised $5 mil­lion in Series A fund­ing led by Madrona Ven­ture Group. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up dou­ble… http://flip.it/mi6cM Related articles Posture Police (wired.com) LUMOback Posture…

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  • Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data

    Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com A small start-up called Sick­weath­er says pub­lic tweets and Face­book mes­sages helped it declare an early start to this year’s U.S. flu sea­son, six weeks before the CDC. Baltimore-based Sick­weath­er tweet­ed about the early flu sea­son on O… http://flip.it/j4OW2 Related articles The new bird…

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  • New registry to tally, track burn pit illnesses among vets

    ‘This generation’s Agent Orange:’ New registry to tally, track burn pit illnesses among vets By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor, nbcnews.com An Amer­i­can flag dan­gles from the Tor­res home, the sign of a long bat­tle won: a new law — signed Thurs­day by Pres­i­dent Barack Obama — cre­at­ing a reg­istry of U.S. ser­vice mem­bers per­haps…

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  • Sarah Palin, fruit flies and science funding

    The Fiscal Cliff Is Forcing a Biomedical Day of Reckoning Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke TimmermanSarah Palin, the onetime candidate for the second-highest elected office in the U.S., once delivered a rant on the campaign trail about waste she perceived in federal support of fruit fly research.Scientists everywhere were… http://flip.it/DNFcj Related articles Watch the Palin Turkey…

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  • Why and what you need to keep learning to stay competitive

    Learning Should Be Your Top 2013 New Year’s Resolution Eze Vidra, thenextweb.com As we get clos­er to the New Year, the rit­u­al of mak­ing res­o­lu­tions begins and we all flock to the usual pat­terns: we want to to eat health­i­er, work out more, get pro­mot­ed, or spend more time with our kids and fam­i­ly. These…

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  • NYC emerging as a social tech startup powerhouse

    Why 2013 Will Be a Big Year for NYC’s Tech Start-Ups! Alan McGlade, forbes.com New York City has a thriv­ing start-up scene and now is firm­ly estab­lished as the num­ber two inno­va­tion cen­ter behind Sil­i­con Val­ley. The ramp in momen­tum can be felt across the city land­scape from the mayor’s office where Michael… RT @flipboardtech:…

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  • FDA finally tries to regulate pharma social media, God Help Them

    FDA Guidance on Responding to Unsolicited Requests for Off-Label Information pharma-mkting.com Two days after Christ­mas, on Decem­ber 27, 2011, while most of us were still on vaca­tion, the FDA qui­et­ly issued “Guid­ance for Indus­try Respond­ing to Unso­licit­ed Requests for Off-Label Infor­ma­tion About Pre­scrip­tion Drugs and Med­ical… RT @pharmaguy: FDA Guidance on Responding to Unsolicited Requests…

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  • Anthropological indicators of air pollution emerging: nose hair length

    This Weird Map Visualizes Air Pollution as Nose Hair Length smithsonianmag.com If there’s one thing nobody wants, it’s real­ly long nose hairs. Which is per­haps why Clean Air Asia has decid­ed to start visu­al­iz­ing each per­son’s air pol­lu­tion expo­sure as super-long, dis­gust­ing nose hairs. The group says: The more… This Weird Map Visualizes Air Pollution…

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  • Things banned by the Bible punishable by death

    76 things banned in the Bible, most of which are punishable by death Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net An oldie but good­ie single-purpose Tum­blr list­ing things banned in Leviti­cus, the banny-est of all scrip­tures. The sex stuff you can imag­ine (no bonk­ing ani­mals, dudes if you are a dude, divorcées, your grand­moth­er, or your own chil­dren… RT…

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