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  • Climate change caught in action in iceberg destruction

    Behold: The Largest Iceberg Breakup Ever Caught on Film Eric Liu, theatlantic.com The effects of climate change, in one gorgeous, terrifying video So, wow. Wow­wow­wow. A group of film­mak­ers, mak­ing a movie called, aptly, Chas­ing Ice, have cap­tured what they claim to be the largest ice­berg calv­ing ever filmed.… RT @megangarber: This is *literally* awesome:…

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  • NASA shows that earth looks like one big disco ball at night

    Satellite images of Earth, city lights at night Posted By: Bryan Chan, latimes.com Photography NASA has released images of Earth at night from the Suomi Nation­al Polar-Orbiting Part­ner­ship satel­lite that is orbit­ing 512 miles above the Earth’s sur­face. The agency stitched some of these images togeth­er to cre­ate a… http://flip.it/qaOMz Related articles This gorgeous video…

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  • Ravi Shankar, champion of ethnomusicology

    Remembering Ravi Shankar, the ‘Godfather of World Music’ Arun Rath, theworld.org Remembering Ravi Shankar, the ‘Godfather of World Music’The World You’ve been hear­ing uni­ver­sal praise Wednes­day for Ravi Shankar, and it is deeply deserved: His music was so good, he man­aged to open a door and raise the bar at the same… RT @pritheworld: For…

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  • Why cable tv is no longer necessary

    Cut the cord and say goodbye to cable Deborah Méndez-Wilson, special to USA TODAY, usatoday.com On-demand and online services offer more choices than cable—sometimes for free. Like every­one else, Audra Shar­i­fi Isfa­hani and her hus­band James McCol­lough want­ed to trim their costs in this down econ­o­my. They fig­ured if they cut their… http://flip.it/lTsTR Related articles…

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  • Strum makes your clips into appealing videos

    This App Turns Your Video Clips Into Instant Music Videos Emily Price, mashable.com Videos you shoot on your iPhone are about to get a lot cooler, with Strum, a new video app that instantly turns 15-second video clips into rock masterpieces.Similar to how you might put a filter on a photo with Instagram, Strum offers…

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  • Discovering the next cures from indigenous medicine

    Horseradish Tea And Other Global Cold Cures All Things Considered, npr.org Horseradish Tea And Other Global Cold Cures NPR All Things Considered From chick­en noo­dle soup to alcohol-spiked drinks, every­one has a pre­ferred rem­e­dy for cold symp­toms. Since she was feel­ing a lit­tle under the weath­er, Melis­sa Bloc… http://flip.it/e61h1 Related articles Patent Medicines Get A…

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  • Windows 8 is another UX fiasco

    Nielsen Norman Group: UX Research, Training, and Consulting nngroup.com Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users Sum­ma­ry: Hid­den fea­tures, reduced dis­cov­er­abil­i­ty, cog­ni­tive over­head from dual envi­ron­ments, and reduced power from a single-window UI and low infor­ma­tio… http://flip.it/XhVs9 Related articles Are you a Designer? – Windows 8 UX Design Camp in Finland…

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  • UX makeover from ISite design

    UX Makeover ISITE Design, isitedesign.com Sub­mit­ted by Jes­si­ca Cheng S… on Novem­ber 12th, 2012 in UX Makeover: Laying the Foundation to Support Your Website Content Of the many ben­e­fits we enjoy being part of the ISITE Design team is a true com­mit­ment to pro­fes­sion­al… http://flip.it/5zdH7 Related articles ISITE Design’s Kam Figy Recognized as Sitecore Most…

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  • Rebooting medicine info graphic

    Digital Health Infographic wirelesshealthstrategies.com 6 Char­ac­ters (0,1,A,C,G,T) Reboot­ing Med­i­cine & Health I cre­at­ed this con­cep­tu­al info­graph­ic with the great team at Mis­fit Wear­ables. It’s based on the work of Dr. Eric Topol, author of “The Cre­ative Destruc­tion of… http://flip.it/ZfjsN Related articles What Digital Health Is (and Isn’t) (rockhealth.com) The Creative Destruction of Medicine (canadacloud.net)

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  • Ginger.io behavioral health IT startup

    Smartphone app that assesses behavioral health raises $6.5M Stephanie Baum, medcitynews.com A health IT startup that got its start evaluating college students behavior based on their smartphone use has raised $6.5 million, according to a company statement.The San Francisco behavior analytics firm Ginger.io co-founder and CEO Anmol Madan… http://flip.it/vRhhX Related articles Guest Post: The Ginger.io…

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  • Google knowledge graph on drugs

    Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs by Casey Newton, cnet.com Google’s evolv­ing data­base of the rela­tion­ships between peo­ple, places and things gets a new dose of med­i­cine. Search­ing for infor­ma­tion about med­i­cine on Google? You’ll soon find drugs inject­ed into your search… http://flip.it/tRy2u Related articles Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com)…

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  • Vinod Khosla says tech will replace 80% of what docs do

    Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do – Fortune Tech cnn.com Data-driven healthcare won’t replace physicians entirely, but it will help those receptive to technology perform their jobs better. By Vinod Khosla FOR­TUNE — Health­care today is often real­ly the “prac­tice of med­i­cine” rather than the… http://flip.it/t2nZy Related articles Vinod Khosla To Entrepreneurs: Venture…

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