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Category: Health Informatics

Biomimetic design kick starts

Kickstart a Voronoi Design App for Biomimetic Bookshelves and More core77.com Last weekend, New York saw the opening of its first ever Museum of Math (MoMATH)—the first one in the States—which, for all its kid-friendly attractions, probably doesn’t delve into higher-order phenomena such as, say, Voronoi diagrams, in which a… RT @core77: Kickstart a Voronoi…
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Pesticides in tap water and allergies

Pesticides In Tap Water Linked To Rise In Food Allergies Morgana Matus, inhabitots.com Image courtesy of ShutterstockWhen planning a meal for a playdate or birthday party, it seems you always have to be aware of a food allergy for at least someone in you child’s friend group. According to the Centers for Disease Control and……
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Improving education on environmental risks and fetus

Most Doctors Fail To Warn Pregnant Patients About Environmental Risks That Could Endanger Their Fetuses Jennifer Chait, inhabitots.com Image courtesy of ShutterstockA new nationwide survey, conducted by University of California, San Francisco researchers, shows that most doctors are not informing their pregnant patients about environmental risks they may encounter while… RT @inhabitat: A troubling survey…
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Drop Eco hotel for modern nomad

The DROP Eco-Hotel is a Portable Prefab Pod Home for the Modern Nomad Mike Chino, inhabitat.com In-Tenta designed the DROP Eco-Hotel to provide a mobile dwelling for modern nomads. The prefabricated structure consists of a central tube capped on either end by big fully operable bubble windows that provide natural ventilation. The pod hotel i……
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Make your own hard cider

HOW TO: Make Your Own Delicious Hard Apple Cider In 6 Easy Steps | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Swistak says:, inhabitat.com Fall is here and we’ve got all kinds of autumnal activities on our minds – like baking, pumpkin carving, and hard apple cider drinking. I’ve always wanted to…
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Top chemicals causing autism

Top 10 Chemicals Most Likely to Cause Autism and Other Learning Disorders Jennifer Chait, inhabitots.com This year, the CDC reported that autism now affects 1 of every 88 American children, which is an unusually high increase from previous years. Now, we may have some more clues as to what is causing the dramatic increases. The…
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Scrubba pocket size wash bag

Scrubba’s Pocket-Size Wash Bag is the World’s Most Portable Washing Machine ecouterre.com RECOMMENDED FOR YOU: What’s the Easiest Way to Reduce the Environmental Impact of My Clothes? Scrubba’s Pocket-Size Laundry Bag is World’s Smallest Washing Machine by Morgana Matus, 12/21/12 Whether you are traveling with dirty… RT @inhabitat: Do your laundry on the go, wherever…
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Natural products can replace synthetics with new extraction methods

Could a Nobel-Winning Technology Spell the End of Synthetic Cosmetic Ingredients? ecouterre.com Photo by Shutterstock Bringing natural beauty products to the next level, a team of scientists are using the process of metathesis to transform essential oils into ingredients for sunscreens, lotions and perfumes. In a study… RT @inhabitat: Could a Nobel-winning technology mark the…
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Scrubba pocket size wash bag

Scrubba: A Lightweight, Virtually-Waterless Washing Machine In A Sack! | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Jill Fehrenbacher 5 Tips to Make Your Home Safe, Green & Healthy from Zem Joaquin TweetShare on TumblrEmail You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling at home in order to save…
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Citiesense iPhone air quality monitoring

CitiSense is a Portable Air Pollution Monitoring Device that Sends Data to Your Smart Phone | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Jill Fehrenbacher 5 Tips to Make Your Home Safe, Green & Healthy from Zem Joaquin TweetShare on TumblrEmail You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling…
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UC Berkeley LEED bioscience building

UC Berkeley’s LEED Gold-Designed Energy Bioscience Building Leads by Example Andrew Goodwin, inhabitat.com UC Berkeley’s new Energy Bioscience Building is home to the Energy Biosciences Institute, a public-private partnership that develops solutions to global energy challenges. The five-story, $133 million biofuels research facility was designed by… RT @inhabitat: UC Berkeley’s LEED Gold-Designed Energy Bioscience Building…
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Facts about guns and mass shootings

Nine facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States Ezra Klein, washingtonpost.com When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid “politicizing” the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for “don’t talk about reforming our gun control laws.”Let’s be……
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