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  • Albert Epinosa learned how to live through cancer

    ‘Fighting cancer taught me how to live’ Homa Khaleeli, guardian.co.uk Albert Espinosa insists that his gruelling, 10-year battle against cancer was a happy time. Now he has written a book to explain why At 14 Albert Espinosa was a typical football obsessed teenager. He lived with his engineer father, housewife… http://flpbd.it/8PO8g Related articles Quotes to…

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  • Ikea concrete base lamp hack

    IKEA Hack: How to Make an Industrial Concrete Base Lamp curbly.com When I came across this light­ing project, I did a dou­ble take because I could hard­ly believe it was a DIY. It is so well done, the fin­ished project looked more like some­thing I could buy than some­thing I could make on my own.…

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  • Open structures parts kit lets you make anything from scratch

    An Open-Source Kit Of Parts, For Making Any Gadget From Scratch By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com At the Istanbul Bienal, designers used the OpenStructures system to build toasters, sleds, and vacuum cleaners from scratch. The move towards DIY dig­i­tal fabrication—from Maker­Bot to Fab@Home—is an undoubt­ed­ly great devel­op­ment for… http://flpbd.it/fOuI4 Related articles Dyson dc24 animal compact upright…

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  • 156 years of election data at your finger tips info graphic

    Infographic: 156 Years Of Election Data At Your Fingertips By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com An interactive chart visualizes party affiliations, congressional and presidential elections, and more, sorted state-by-state, year-by-year, since 1856. Prepare to lose an afternoon. Pol­i­tics are a game of strat­e­gy. And while we often think … http://flpbd.it/d0MWd

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  • Italians now buy more bikes than cars

    The Decline of the Car? Part 1: Italians Now Buying More Bicycles Than Automobiles core77.com Sur­pris­ing news: Italy, home of the mighty Fer­rari and the sprawl­ing Fiat empire, is now a coun­try where peo­ple are buy­ing more bicy­cles than cars. The num­bers are a lit­tle too round (and close) not to take with a grain…

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  • DRC 2012: Interactive Sessions on Understanding Data and Human Behavior

    DRC 2012: Interactive Sessions on Understanding Data and Human Behavior core77.com Pho­tos Cour­tesy of Paul Sheetz for DRC. After being greet­ed by the wel­com­ing com­mit­tee, check­ing in, exchang­ing my Polaroid photo for my nametag and tak­ing in the intro­duc­to­ry con­fer­ence expe­ri­ence I chugged my morn­ing c… http://flpbd.it/ewTdo Related articles VIDEO: Angelina Jolie visits the DRC…

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  • Get Back Inc.: Saving, and Creating, the Best American-Made Industrial Furniture

    Get Back Inc.: Saving, and Creating, the Best American-Made Industrial Furniture core77.com Connecticut-based design­er Tim Byrne has my dream job: He found­ed and runs Get Back Inc., a com­pa­ny that scours the Amer­i­can coun­try­side gath­er­ing up U.S.-built fur­ni­ture from the Indus­tri­al Rev­o­lu­tion era and onwards. Gems like t… http://flpbd.it/d8EfS

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  • Design and cleantech: a winning combination

    Design and cleantech: a winning combination Posted by Chris Sherwin, guardian.co.uk In his third article on sustainability and design, Chris Sherwin makes the case for using design to help clean and green technologies succeed A few years ago, green start-up Intelligent Energy (IE), the proud owners and developers of a world-cla… http://flpbd.it/ex0Vi Related articles Denmark…

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  • Flotspotting: Biomimetic Personal Equipment

    Flotspotting: Biomimetic Personal Equipment by Jean-Marc Sheitoyan core77.com Indus­tri­al design­er Jean-Marc Sheitoy­an is cur­rent­ly a Project Man­ag­er at Que­bec’s Mawashi Pro­tec­tive Cloth­ing, Inc., where he’s designed sev­er­al ‘per­son­al equip­ment’ prod­ucts since he start­ed work­ing there over five years ago.… http://flpbd.it/SLdiU Related articles Flotspotting: Joe Warren’s Quad Micro Bar (core77.com) Flotspotting: Lawrence Chu’s Tuck Storage Box…

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  • Hipster redemption? How local, made-in-USA, artisan-focused entrepreneurs are reviving American manufacturing

    Hipster redemption? How local, made-in-USA, artisan-focused entrepreneurs are reviving American manufacturing | MNN – Mother Nature Network mnn.com Photo: ett­labenn/flickr Hip­sters have been mocked every which way; from their pen­chant for skin­ny jeans to their high­brow cof­fee tastes (and low-brow incomes), from their love of vin­tage records to their dis­dain for cor­po­rate chains an… Related…

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  • How to Mind Map in Three Small Steps

    How to Mind Map in Three Small Steps Matt Tanguay, lifehack.org Is your head full of ideas or thoughts? Do you have any con­fu­sion around an idea, project or prob­lem? Do you sim­ply wish to get them out of your head quick­ly and in an orga­nized man­ner? Tra­di­tion­al­ly, you would open a Word or Text……

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  • 10 Hacks to Help You Stop Worrying Now

    10 Hacks to Help You Stop Worrying Now Bobbi Emel, lifehack.org Does worry dom­i­nate your life? Try these ten short­cuts to stop wor­ry­ing for good. 1. Stop being super­sti­tious that your worry is pre­vent­ing bad things from hap­pen­ing. Even if it’s some­what uncon­scious, wor­ri­ers some­tim… http://flpbd.it/Wuvow Related articles Hacker Challenge: Hack Your Home Theater (lifehacker.com)…

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