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  • If Everyone Lived Like An American

    Daily Infographic: If Everyone Lived Like An American, How Many Earths Would We Need? By Emily Elert, popsci.com Hint: It’s a good thing not everyone lives like an American. You’re prob­a­bly already aware that Amer­i­cans con­sume a dis­pro­por­tion­al amount of the world’s stuff. You may even have bumped into some of the sta­tis­tics: We 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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  • Hackert0wn: The World’s First Eco/Hacker Village

    Hackert0wn: The World’s First Eco/Hacker Village? By Stett Holbrook, makezine.com Alpha One Labs co-founder Sean Auri­ti and a group of like-minded hack­ers have launched a cam­paign to build Hack­ert0wn, a Brook­lyn hack­er­space the likes of which the world has never seen. As planned, Hack­ert0wn will be an entire hack­er… http://flpbd.it/8muih Related articles Twitter Account of…

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  • 3rd Ward: Our Creative Community

    (via About Us – Our Creative Community – Brooklyn, NY – 3rd Ward) Related articles ♥ / 3rd Ward (swiss-miss.com) Q&A: Jason Goodman, CEO, 3rd Ward (smartplanet.com) 3rd Ward – Brooklyn, NY, Full time, remote, H1B (news.ycombinator.com) For the Love of Art: A Valentine’s Day Networking Event in NYC (fracturedatlas.org) “Creating Hipsturbia”: Is Gentrification Pushing…

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  • How Many Techies Does It Take to Reelect a President

    How Many Techies Does It Take to Reelect a President? T4O Launches “Innovator Series” Videos for Obama. Kara Swisher, allthingsd.com A large group of tech lumi­nar­ies — includ­ing LinkedIn’s Reid Hoff­man, Path’s Dave Morin, JLab’s Judy Estrin, Drop­box’s Drew Hous­ton, Craigslist’s Craig New­mark and Box’s Aaron Levie — are part of the launch of a…

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  • Natural Keyboard Brings the Outdoors Right to Your Desk

    Natural Keyboard Brings the Outdoors Right to Your Desk Anita Li, mashable.com Hunch­ing over a desk all day at work may make you yearn for the great out­doors. Artist Rob­bie Tilton aims to rem­e­dy that by cre­at­ing a com­put­er key­board made from organ­ic mate­ri­als. Laser cut from an Apple wire­less key­board… http://flpbd.it/EgyTk Related articles Hands-on:…

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  • The Best iPhone Apps

      gizmodo.com There’s an ocean of apps out there. Whether you just got your iPhone and are feel­ing adrift or you’re a salty old dog see­ing what you might’ve missed, here are the absolute­ly essen­tial apps. Social Twit­ter: Twit­ter thank­ful­ly… http://flpbd.it/cdICD The Best iPhone Apps Related articles The Best Alternatives for Almost Every Pre-Loaded iPhone…

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  • Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos

    Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos! Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com I’m at the Health 2.0 Con­fer­ence in San Fran­cis­co – and it reminds me a lot of the Web 2.0 Con­fer­ences of 2006-07. The sec­ond com­ing of the Web, coined “Web 2.0” by Tim O’Reil­ly and his com­pa­ny, was enter­ing its peak around 2006. If I……

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  • Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax

    Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax Machines Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com Today at the DC to VC: Health IT Start­up Show­case, a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Mor­gen­thaler Ven­tures and the Health 2.0 Con­fer­ence, I saw first­hand how health IT star­tups are tack­ling big, real-world prob­lems. Com­ing from a world where… http://flpbd.it/hw3nH Related articles Video: My interview…

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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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  • Panasonic Lumix LX7 Review

    Panasonic Lumix LX7 Review: A Lovely Point-and-Shoot For Control Freaks Brent Rose, gizmodo.com Any­one in the mar­ket for a top point-and-shoot cam­era is prob­a­bly decid­ing between Canon’s S100 and Sony’s RX100. But Pana­son­ic is back in the game with the Lumix LX7, a sequel to one of the top shoot­ers of 2010, the wild­ly pop­u­lar…

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