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  • How Big Data Is Improving Healthcare

    How Big Data Is Improving Healthcare Related articles Big Data To Become Powerful Driver Of IT Spending – Gartner (misco.co.uk) MIT Partners with hack/reduce to Bring Big Data to Healthcare (bostinno.com) New Report Shows How to Turn Big Data into Big Bucks (domo.com) Big Data Myths Persist (informationweek.com) Is Healthcare Big Data Ready For Prime…

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  • Feds: 20% Of Weight Loss, Immune System Supplements Making False Claims

    Feds: 20% Of Weight Loss, Immune System Supplements Making False Claims Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (nathan­mac87) It’s not just that the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment doesn’t want the mar­keters of dietary sup­ple­ments to just make up what their prod­ucts can do for con­sumers, accord­ing to a new study on the preva­lence of weight loss and immune… http://flpbd.it/OJ7NI…

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  • Check Your Genome

    Check Your Genome Caleb Garling, wired.com berke­ley­lab/Flickr Gene muta­tions can pre­dict how you’ll respond to cer­tain sub­stances. Here’s what genet­ic test­ing out­fit 23andMe can tell you about how you might react to the drugs below. Drugs for which your 23andMe results can… http://flpbd.it/jyQOz Related articles Check Out The Geekiest Black Friday Deal Ever (GOOG) (embargozone.com)…

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  • Eat This Meal

    Eat This Meal Rachel Swaby, wired.com Photo: Todd Tanker­s­ley Fuel­ing your body is easy—if you can pull your­self away from fancy fla­vor com­bi­na­tions and the lat­est culi­nary trends. Just load your plate with foods that are proven to make you stronger and health­i­er, eat, an… http://flpbd.it/R32zo Related articles How to Plan Great Meals with Your…

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  • Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future?

    Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future? BY ANITA HAMILTON, fastcoexist.com As technology allows patients to pool their knowledge, can the collective experience of the sick create better care? There’s some­thing seri­ous­ly wrong with a health care sys­tem that makes patients wait a month or more just to get a doc­tor’s… http://flpbd.it/5v6PX Related…

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  • Researchers use silk and magnesium to create biodegradable circuits

    Researchers use silk and magnesium to create biodegradable circuits By Louis Goddard, theverge.com A team of researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois at Urbana-Champaign and Tufts Uni­ver­si­ty has devel­oped a process for build­ing fully-functional cir­cuit boards that dis­solve in water, open­ing the way for new types of med­ical implant… http://flpbd.it/flvIs Related articles Biodegredable electronics biomats…

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  • Food Makers, Today on Google Hangout

    Food Makers, Today on Google Hangout On Air, 2pm Pacific (5pm Eastern) By Stett Holbrook, makezine.com All things food and bev­er­age is the sub­ject of today’s Google Hang­out at 2pm PDT (5pm EDT), as MAKE debuts a new bimonth­ly Hang­out on Air. Look for these hang­outs to cover the wide world of food and drink…

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  • Biohackers And DIY Cyborgs

    Biohackers And DIY Cyborgs Clone Silicon Valley Innovation By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com A new breed of hobbyists, scientists, and entrepreneurs are working on echolocation implants, brain-controlled software programs, and even cybernetic rats. Their experiments will change the future of tech. In base­ments, garages, start­up spaces… http://flpbd.it/mU8hs Related articles Biohacking: You Can Do It, Too (ecology.com)…

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  • Why the world needs a renaissance of small farming

    Why the world needs a renaissance of small farming Colin Tudge, guardian.co.uk The greed for profit is ruining agriculture – and the world – but the trend for local shops and farmers’ markets offers real hope British farmers can’t produce pigs as cheaply as the Poles, or cattle feed as cheaply as the Brazilians, or…

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  • Best-Paying and Worst-Paying Master’s Degrees

    Best-Paying and Worst-Paying Master’s Degrees | Monster. Related articles Are Master’s Degrees Still Worth It (keptup.typepad.com) Purdue Cal offers new online tech master’s degree (nwitimes.com) Embrace Your Midlife Crisis [Infographic] (thetechscoop.net)

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  • How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know

    How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know Eliza Barclay, npr.org Our impulse to share inti­mate details about our lives with­in our social net­works (and even some­times with com­plete strangers) seems to know few bounds. Now devices loaded with health apps let us mon­i­tor and share our sleep pat­terns, stre… http://flpbd.it/Yqlsu Related articles Childhood Obesity…

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  • Meat, metal, and code

    Meat, metal, and code: Stelarc’s alternate anatomical architectures By Jesse Hicks, theverge.com In 1972 the man born Ste­lios Arca­diou took on a new name. He refash­ioned him­self as the artist Ste­larc, whose work often explores what he calls “alter­nate anatom­i­cal architectures.” He’s probed his body with cam­eras, cre­at­ing films that… http://flpbd.it/pBHf2 Related articles STELARC –…

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