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…

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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…

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Why health IT is the core of reform

Why IT is the core of the healthcare renaissance
kevinmd.com

Warning! I am a practicing doctor who sees real patients using an electronic medical record (EMR). My sole agenda is to provide the best patient care. I have no financial stake in information technology (IT). However, unlike the editorial board at…

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Popcorn: turn video into a computable medium

Popcorn: Content Creation that Tastes Good
iqagency.com

A new type of video content creation.

This post is about a brand new dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy for video called Pop­corn. It’s one of a num­ber of tech­nol­o­gy led efforts to broad­en what video is capa­ble of, and in a world where soon 90% of da…

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Time remapping video

Stunningly surreal time remapping video
David Pescovitz, boingboing.net

“timeRemap­Ex­portHD” by Adrien M / Claire B. My friend Dustin Hostetler put it well: “I feel like in 50 to 100 years, when mankind looks back on this era of tech­nol­o­gy advance­ment, this is the sort of piece they’ll ref­er­ence as the moment t…

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The relationship between coffee shop density and political party

Coffee shops vs. 2012 election results
ilovecoffee.jp

Coffee shops vs. 2012 election results – I Love Coffee http://flip.it/UB02D http://flip.it/FQbvX

The circadian rhythms of death

English: Diagram illustrating the influence of...
English: Diagram illustrating the influence of dark-light rythms on circadian rythms and related physiology and behavior. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net

This is pos­si­bly one of the weird­est things I have read this year.

You (yes, you) are more like­ly to die around 11:00 am than any other time. That is, pro­vid­ed your death is the sort that hap­pens in old age, as opposed to, say, being hit …

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The circadian rhythms of death

uBiome: donate some gut flora for a good cause

English: Pea Scientific Montage
English: Pea Scientific Montage (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

scientificamerican.com

Help researchers map the human microbiome, the microorganisms that inhabit every inch of our skin as well as our ears, mouth, sinuses, genitals and gut [More]

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uBiome

What jellyfish can teach us about immortality

Do jellyfish hold the secret to immortality, and a cure for cancer?
Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net

Nathaniel Rich on the so-called “immor­tal jel­ly­fish,” Tur­ri­top­sis dohrnii: “[It] seems able to sur­vive, and pro­lif­er­ate, in every ocean in the world. It is pos­si­ble to imag­ine a dis­tant future in which most other species of li…

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