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  • CellScope Smartphone Device Allows Parents to Diagnose Ear Infections at Home

    CellScope Smartphone Device Allows Parents to Diagnose Ear Infections at Home inhabitots.com The U.S. Nation­al Library of Med­i­cine says that ear infec­tions are one of the most com­mon ill­ness­es in babies and young chil­dren. In fact, more than 3 out of 4 kids have had at least one ear infec­tion by 3 years of age…

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  • ZocDoc: Investment in Digital Health Triples

    Investment in Digital Health Triples Over Past Year Richard MacManus, readwrite.com It’s not just mobile health (mHealth) that is grow­ing fast. The over­all dig­i­tal health sec­tor – which includes mHealth, B2B apps and con­sumer ser­vices such as Zoc­Doc – is also rapid­ly expand­ing. That’s if ven­ture cap­i­tal fund­ing is… http://flpbd.it/eKNSC Related articles ZocDoc plans to…

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  • TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out

    TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out Of Big Airports And Shipping Them Off To Smaller Ones Chris Morran, consumerist.com Image from a backscat­ter machine Accord­ing to reports, the TSA is remov­ing backscat­ter full-body scan­ners, which use very small amounts of ion­iz­ing radi­a­tion, from major air­ports and replac­ing them with less-controversial mil­lime­ter… http://flpbd.it/CHJnN Related articles TSA…

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  • The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills

    The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills Eliza Barclay, npr.org Sure­ly you’ve heard of crowd fund­ing sites like Kick­starter that have helped thou­sands of film­mak­ers, musi­cians and painters lever­age Face­book and Twit­ter to raise money for cre­ative projects. But crowd fund­ing isn’t just for hip­ste… http://flpbd.it/qq3h9 Related articles To Fund a Political…

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  • GMO in my foods: there’s an app for that

    An App To Tell You If There Are Genetically Modified Ingredients In Your Food BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com There are no laws that say companies have to tell you if they’re using genetically modified ingredients. If that doesn’t sit right with you, there’s now an app to help you sort out which foods’ genes have…

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  • Marijuana Majority Website

    Marijuana Majority Website Highlights Celebs And Tech Leaders Who Support Pot Legalization Josh Constine, techcrunch.com Suc­cess­ful peo­ple, not just “lazy ston­ers”, want pot laws to change. That’s the mes­sage of new web­site Mar­i­jua­na Major­i­ty, which dis­plays over 600 influ­encers includ­ing Peter Thiel, Sean Park­er, Paul Bucheit, and Dustin Moskovitz… http://flpbd.it/bDBXj Related articles Idaho braces for…

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  • Whole Food’s Dark Rye profiles MAKE editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder

    By Mark Frauenfelder, makezine.com This sum­mer the folks who pro­duce Dark Rye, the online mag­a­zine for Whole Foods Mar­kets, came to my house in Los Ange­les, and shot a video pro­file of my daugh­ters and me work­ing on dif­fer­ent projects. We made a gui­tar out of a metal… http://flpbd.it/MGnTr Whole Food’s Dark Rye profiles MAKE…

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  • Interactive Fractal Tree of Life

    Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com A new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth. From pro­to­zoans to peo­ple, there is a lot of life on this plan­et, and it’s all con­nect­ed to a com­mon ances­tor from which every­thing…

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  • An Epidemic of Absence

    Book review: An Epidemic of Absence takes on the worms you’re missing Diana Gitig, arstechnica.com An Epi­dem­ic of Absence: A New Way of Under­stand­ing Aller­gies and Autoim­mune Dis­eases could be co-marketed with the Thomas Rock­well’s chil­dren’s clas­sic How to Eat Fried Worms. It begins with the author, Moi­ses… http://flpbd.it/sV12A Related articles ‘Everything hurts’: inside the…

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  • Epigenetics inspires philosophical experiments

    Monya Baker, nature.com An artist’s con­cep­tion of epi­ge­net­ic cloning Jonathan Keats The man in the bowtie says he can trans­form you into any­one you want. At the Mod­ernism Gallery in San Fran­cis­co, con­cep­tu­al artist Jonathan Keats is apply­ing his… http://flpbd.it/5U85D Epigenetics inspires philosophical experiments Related articles Life experiences put their stamp on the next generation:…

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  • Late Environmentalist Barry Commoner On How Biology-Based Tech Could Save The Planet

    Late Environmentalist Barry Commoner On How Biology-Based Tech Could Save The Planet By Rose Pastore, popsci.com From the archives: The “Paul Revere of ecology” sounded early warnings about the polluting effects of manmade products in 1972. Barry Com­mon­er, the scientist-activist who found­ed mod­ern ecol­o­gy and helped ban above-ground nuclear test­ing,… http://flpbd.it/rPUAD Related articles Must See…

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  • Daily Infographic: A Mesmerizing Map Of Water Currents On The Great Lakes

    Daily Infographic: A Mesmerizing Map Of Water Currents On The Great Lakes By Emily Elert, popsci.com Researchers at the Great Lakes Envi­ron­men­tal Research Lab­o­ra­to­ry bor­rowed some code from the design­ers who made this incred­i­ble wind map to cre­ate the world’s first beau­ti­ful water cur­rent map. The image above is just a snapshot—ch… http://flpbd.it/RccNm Related articles…

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