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  • Standing Desks on the Cheap: The IKEA Guide

    Standing Desks on the Cheap: The IKEA Guide lifehacker.com The stand­ing desk rev­o­lu­tion has been rapid­ly spread­ing over the past few years, and it’s no sur­prise why. Switch­ing to a stand­ing desk can improve cir­cu­la­tion, alle­vi­ate back pain, reduce stress, and strength­en mus­cles. But the… http://flpbd.it/CdaGB Related articles IKEA Wants You To Straighten Up Your…

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  • I’m Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work

    I’m Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work Tessa Miller, lifehacker.com The inter­net wouldn’t be the same with­out Cate­ri­na Fake. In 2004, she launched Flickr, one of the largest photo host­ing and shar­ing sites. Later, she co-founded Hunch, which aims to per­son­al­ize the web through rec­om­men­da­tions and a… http://flpbd.it/Ixrmx Related articles The meaning of…

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  • Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic

                              Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic Related articles There are 6 types of healthcare consumers; Which ones would you like to target? (medcitynews.com) When Allergies Attack – Asthma & Allergies in America [INFOGRAPHIC] (epicahealth.com) Do You Have 20/20 Vision or…

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  • How the U.S. Health-Care System Wastes $750 Billion Annually

        How the U.S. Health-Care System Wastes $750 Billion Annually Brian Fung, theatlantic.com   As we approach health-care system reform, a breakdown of our biggest losses   Every year, the Unit­ed States spends eight times as much money on unnec­es­sary health-care costs as the Pen­ta­gon spent for each year of its oper­a­tions in Iraq.…

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  • Food Waste Is Overwhelming

    Food Waste Is Overwhelming. Here Are Five Things People Are Doing About It April Fulton, npr.org The food world is buzzing today about the lat­est news on just how often we waste per­fect­ly good food. And we admit, the sta­tis­tics are pret­ty depress­ing. About 40 per­cent of food in the Unit­ed States today goes uneat­en.…

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  • #The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

      By FAST COMPANY STAFF, fastcompany.com   When it comes to social media success, the long game is more valuable than the short game, according to Hill Holliday’s SVP of digital strategy, Mike Proulx.   “Many brands and indi­vid­u­als mis­tak­en­ly obsess about short­cut tac­tics to gain f…   http://flpbd.it/NcEEF   #The Rules Of Social Media:…

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  • PICNIC Festival To Explore The Shift From Top-Down To Bottom

    PICNIC Festival To Explore The Shift From Top-Down To Bottom-Up fastcocreate.com Amsterdam festival addresses the cultural and business impact of a networked world. We are offi­cial­ly in the age of democ­ra­tized every­thing. Entrenched sys­tems have been buck­ling under the dis­rup­tive pres­sure of par­tic­i­pa­tion and… http://flpbd.it/1C6IQ Related articles The best electro festivals in The Netherlands? (londonoa.com)…

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  • Washington, District Of Cycling

    Washington, District Of Cycling Emily Badger, fastcompany.com Few modes of trans­porta­tion are more basic than the hum­ble bike. Heck, peo­ple have been strad­dling them for some 200 years, far longer than we’ve been mov­ing about town in street­cars, sub­ways, or our own cars. And so this seems a bit… http://flpbd.it/Nytg8 Related articles Top reasons to…

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  • The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing

        The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing fastcocreate.com Rob van Kranenburg outlines a brief history of the next big thing—the internet of things—and argues that U.S. industry and government should be taking a more active role in its evolution. About a decade ago, I would stand…

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  • How to price your services as a freelancer

    How to price your services as a freelancer Amber Leigh Turner, thenextweb.com Hands down, pric­ing your ser­vices as a free­lancer is tough. So tough that no one has real­ly mas­tered it. There isn’t real­ly a secret for­mu­la to pric­ing your ser­vices just right, no mag­i­cal tricks that will help you land awe­some client… http://flpbd.it/zWdEH Related…

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  • Tiny House Arc Prefab Home is Now Available for Order

    Bellomo Architects’ Tiny House Arc Prefab Home is Now Available for Order | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough:…

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  • The Limits of Science—and Scientists

    The Limits of Science—and Scientists | The Crux discovermagazine.com By Ananyo Bhat­tacharya, chief online edi­tor of Nature mag­a­zine. “About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.” The last line of Lud­wig Wittgen­stein’s Trac­ta­tus tends to res­onate with sci­en­tists, scep­tics,… http://flpbd.it/YNwwJ Related articles Final Trac Integrates with AccuTitle Software in Seamless Release Tracking Ordering…

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