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  • Kids learn brands, not world

    How consumer brainwashed are you? – Salon.com By Andrew Leonard, salon.com The perfect marketing campaign: A free game app that tests our recognition of corporate branding For his 15th birth­day, I gave my son an iPod Touch, a piece of tech­nol­o­gy that would have seemed like the purest magic to me when I was his…

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  • Doomsday preppers: Americans stockpiling beans and bullets

    “Doomsday Preppers”: Living like you’re gonna die tomorrow – Salon.com By Roger Catlin, salon.com Forget “The Walking Dead” and “Revolution.” These National Geographic characters are truly ready for doomsday The envy was fair­ly pal­pa­ble among the gath­ered “Dooms­day Prep­pers” as the 25-ton, 10-foot-tall, 18-inch-thick doors swung open,… RT @NYTjamescobb: Doomsday preppers “imagine they’ll have the…

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  • Sushi now makes you dim

    Sushi really does kill your brain – Salon.com By Paul Ames, GlobalPost, salon.com A new report warns that mercury contamination can cause restricted cerebral development and other health problems BRUS­SELS, Bel­gium — Can eat­ing too much sushi reduce your brain power? Mer­cury con­t­a­m­i­na­tion in big fish such as sharks… RT @Salon: Put down that tuna…

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  • Tiny house living on the road

    My Traveling Tiny House Site by Sophic, tinyhouselistings.com Post­ed by Steven on Novem­ber 26, 2012 // 34 Com­ments By Christy Dean Four months ago I moved out of my 2 bed­room home and into this tiny (mobile) house. I’m trav­el­ing the coun­try in my lit­tle nest and I love it! It gets a lot of……

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  • Twine: finally a device to begin the Internet of things

    On Sale At Last: Twine, Your Gateway To The Internet Of Things By John Pavlus, fastcodesign.com The hit Kickstarter product hopes to popularize “the Internet of things” with thoughtful product design. A year ago, two MIT Media Lab grad­u­ates raised half a mil­lion dol­lars on Kick­starter to cre­ate Twine, a cigarette-pack-sized chunk of… RT @core77:…

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  • The reason societies become less productive with industrialization

    Seven Productivity Myths, Debunked by Science (and Common Sense) Alan Henry, lifehacker.com The end goal of “productivity” is to spend less time doing the things you have to do so you have more time for the things you want to do. Of course, if you follow every morsel of productivity advice out there, you probably…

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  • How not to destroy for gadgets: temperature and humidity

    Can I Leave My Gadgets In a Cold or Hot Car? Whitson Gordon, lifehacker.com Dear Lifehacker, I almost always have my laptop, iPod, and smartphone with me, but don’t always want to lug them around. Is it okay to leave them in my car if it’s particularly cold outside? What about in the summer heat?…

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  • Patagonia dives into plant based performance wear

    Patagonia’s New Wet Suit is Made from Plants ecouterre.com Did you ever think you’d be wear­ing plants while hang­ing ten? Out­door adven­tur­ist brand Patag­o­nia has been mak­ing strides with their exper­i­men­ta­tion with eco-friendly wet­suits. They’re lat­est line bor­rows from the plant world-… http://flip.it/hmSeJ Related articles A Study: Patagonia Outerwear (northofsoutheast.wordpress.com) Earthwatericeglacier4panoramaPeritoMorenoPatagoniaArgentina (fractalsteve.wordpress.com) Make Your Own…

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  • Green tech tips for saving on your heating bill

    7 Winter Home Improvement Tips to Save You Money and Energy In the Cold Season | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Mark Boyer says:, inhabitat.com This year’s record break­ing sum­mer high tem­per­a­tures and gen­er­al wor­ri­some warm­ing trend don’t nec­es­sar­i­ly mean that the com­ing win­ter will be a walk in the park.…

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  • Pier 57 “Incubox” Shipping Container Mall Set to Open Next April in NYC Youngwoo Pier57

    inhabitat.com Start­ing in April, sixty ship­ping con­tain­er shops will open their doors on the for­mer ship­ping indus­try pier under the uni­fied name “Incubox”. For the first two years of oper­a­tion (basi­cal­ly until the entire pier makeover is com­plete)… http://flip.it/hF0GX Pier 57 “Incubox” Shipping Container Mall Set to Open Next April in NYC Youngwoo Pier57

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  • Coco mat Eco mattress: get a sustainable night’s sleep

    Get a Sustainable Night’s Sleep On an Ultra-Comfy, Uber-Cozy Coco-Mat Mattress | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Yuka Yoneda says:, inhabitat.com The aver­age per­son sleeps around eight hours a night — which amounts to a third of your life spent in bed. But despite the amount of time that we find…

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  • Green holiday gift guide

    Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide inhabitat.com http://flip.it/M3Ixh Related articles Inhabitat’s Week in Green: stair-climbing vacuum cleaner, carbon dioxide diapers and a real 3D-printed face (engadget.com)

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