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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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  • What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy

    What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy Richard Florida is Co-Founder and Editor at Large at The Atlantic Cities. He’s also a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and Global Research Professor at New York University. He is…

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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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  • The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

    Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives [Hardcover] Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, amazon.com Har­vard pro­fes­sor and health care pol­i­cy spe­cial­ist Chris­takis (Death Fore­told: Prophe­cy and Prog­no­sis in Med­ical Care) became inter­est­ed in social con­nec­tiv­i­ty when observ­ing that the mor­tal­i­ty rate of spous­es spike after … http://flpbd.it/0isRt Related articles Gastrophysics: Some…

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  • Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign

    Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign buzzfeed.com Leaked fundrais­ing doc­u­ments show Sil­i­con Val­ley emerg­ing as a key source of Demo­c­ra­t­ic money and power. Val­ley money bests Hol­ly­wood. Pres­i­dent Obama with Google chair­man (and occa­sion­al advi­sor) Eric Schmidt SAN FRAN­CIS­… http://flpbd.it/mrFd3 Related articles Razor Burned: The Beard-less Women of Obama’s Tech Team…

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  • How Lobster-Inspired Winglets Reduce Drag

    How Lobster-Inspired Winglets Reduce Drag, Increase Fuel Efficiency Alexander George, wired.com Photo: GasPods Indus­tri­al design­er and under­wa­ter pho­tog­ra­ph­er Bob Evans got the inspi­ra­tion for GasPods from the bumps he observed on lob­sters’ backs. It seems coun­ter­in­tu­itive, but pro­tru­sions on an already-streamlined… http://flpbd.it/BuaDx Related articles Food Glorious Food: Burger & Lobster (onefinestay.com) Apparently This Matters: Lobster…

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  • re:char | shop-in-a-box

    re:char | shop-in-a-box re-char.com shop-in-a-box- an off-grid, open-source fac­to­ry built from a 20’ ship­ping con­tain­er. Rapid­ly deploy­able to any­where in the world, shop-in-a-box enables rapid pro­to­typ­ing and small-run man­u­fac­tur­ing in a tiny but effec­tive… http://flpbd.it/6mOdw Related articles Power4Patriots Responds to Super Bowl XLVII Power Outage by Reminding Homeowners of Importance of Solar and Wind Energy…

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  • More Blueprints Emerge Of Apple Campus 2

    More Blueprints Emerge Of Apple Campus 2, Show Futuristic, Spaceship Like Design Henry Taylor-Gill, mactrast.com Some pret­ty awe­some images have recent­ly leaked (via 9to5Mac) of what Apple’s Cam­pus 2 will look like, and let’s just say that it will be unlike any other HQ in the world. The blue­prints show what looks like a giant…

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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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  • Why Cancer Treatment Is Fatally Flawed

    Margaret I. Cuomo, M.D., huffingtonpost.com Good Morn­ing Amer­i­ca co-anchor Robin Roberts’ recent announce­ment that she had been diag­nosed with myelodys­plas­tic syn­drome (MDS) — a group of con­di­tions in which the cells in the bone mar­row are dam­aged — cer­tain­ly came as … Why Cancer Treatment Is Fatally Flawed Related articles New cancer treatment used for…

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  • Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health

    Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health David Schultz, npr.org Liv­ing next to a noisy high­way can be annoy­ing. The rack­et can also dis­rupt your sleep. Too many bad nights’ sleep can raise the risk of heart attack, high blood pres­sure and other ail­ments. Curi­ous researchers with the Cen­ters for… http://flpbd.it/tUoKj Related articles Prevent…

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  • How Are You Preparing For the Apocalypse?

    How Are You Preparing For the Apocalypse? thedailybeast.com http://flpbd.it/Jqapq Related articles Canadian Parliament Legitimately Discuss Zombie Apocalypse (foxcharlotte.com) How to Survive a Social Media Apocalypse (blogs.constantcontact.com) Canadian Parliament Legitimately Discusses Zombie Apocalypse (mashable.com) Zombie apocalypse debated in Canada (bigpondnews.com) Canadian MP’s Discuss The Ongoing Preparations For A Zombie Apocalypse (techfleece.com) Canadian parliament debates zombie apocalypse…

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