China – Insight Sciences

Places with the most lethal air quality

October 11, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Here’s where you’re most likely to die from air pollution
John Metcalfe, grist.org

Click to embiggen.Where on Earth are you most likely to die early from air pollution? NASA provides the answer with this mortally serious view of the planet, and it is: lots of places.Like tar stains on a healthy lung, the sickly yellow and…

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China’s Pollution Is So Bad It Can Now Be Seen from Outer Space! (inhabitat.com)
How Does Exposure to Air Pollution Affect Deaths from Pneumonia? (pollutionfree.wordpress.com)

Glaxo intrapreneurs convince big pharma to help developing world

May 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Turning Big Pharma Toward The Developing World, From The Inside
BY MARZENA ZUKOWSKA, fastcoexist.com

How three intrapreneurs at GlaxoSmithKline created a program to help diagnose disease in places without access to medicine, and how they convinced the company to support it.

How many high-end research scientists does it take to make a dent in …

Turning Big Pharma Toward The Developing World, From The Inside http://flip.it/zpnE9 http://flip.it/s0TkJ

Report: China rounds up GlaxoSmithKline staffers in corruption probe (fiercebiotech.com)
China Probes U.K. Pharmaceutical Firm GlaxoSmithKline After Corruption Claims Aired (forbes.com)
GlaxoSmithKline Probe in China Follows Drug Safety Agency Revamp – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
3 Things You Need to Know About GlaxoSmithKline (fool.com)
Hyderabad-Based Pharma Firm to Supply Pentavalent Vaccines to Egypt (medindia.net)

iBeetle: Apple meets Volkswagen

April 29, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management

Volkswagen and Apple come together in the iBeetle
David Szondy, gizmag.com

With the burgeoning Chinese car market seeing a large percentage of cars being snapped up by younger people, it’s no surprise Volkswagen chose the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show as the location for the world première of its iBeetle – a marriage of…

Volkswagen and Apple come together in the iBeetle http://flip.it/JjdoZ http://flip.it/MeQa5

Volkswagen and Apple Presented The iBeetle (extravaganzi.com)
Volkswagen Beetle Pickup Rendering Is Deeply Troubling (autoevolution.com)
Volkswagen Beetle (globetrotterscribbles.wordpress.com)

CrowdMed: how crowds will diagnose rare diseases

April 29, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

How crowds, not doctors or supercomputers, could diagnose rare diseases
Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com

When it comes to serious medical conditions, you probably want a doctor – or at least a medically trained supercomputer – delivering your diagnosis. But CrowdMed, a startup launched in public beta at TEDMED on Tuesday, is showi…

How crowds, not doctors or supercomputers, could diagnose rare diseases http://flip.it/DrcWw http://flip.it/3fhQv

The Promise In Unraveling The Mysteries Of Rare Diseases (npr.org)
Uplifting Athletes takes aim at rare diseases (cumberlink.com)
Rare Disease White Paper Open for Public Comment (biomedreports.com)
Living With Rare Diseases: Why Awareness Matters (psychologytoday.com)

How airplane toilets flush

April 15, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

How Airplane Toilets Flush
core77.com

While I’ve always suspected that this is what happens when you flush the toilet on a plane……but apparently it’s a little more complicated than that. Zodiac Aerospace (remember their “recline forward” airplane seats?) has their own Water and Wa…

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Industries that lose the most data

March 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management

The Companies and Countries Losing Their Data
Our Editors, hbr.org

With China hacking the US, the US hacking China, and LinkedIn and Facebook and credit card companies and Google and who knows who else all vomiting our data all over the web, I was intrigued when a new report on data loss ran across my desk from…

RT @HarvardBiz: The Companies and Countries Losing Their Data http://flip.it/PrQL8 @skgreen http://flip.it/xpVcX

Dominican Republic hacked credit cards (freshvisa.wordpress.com)
Most data breaches caused by human error, system glitches (computerworld.co.nz)
List of Damage(Hack) under #OpPetrol; Updating from 12-May-2013 (hackersnewsbulletin.com)
Sign of the times: Generation C #youth (jasonwesterman.wordpress.com)
The Corporation is at Odds with the Future – Grant McCracken – Harvard Business Review (blogs.hbr.org)

Secret lives of animals captured by motion sensitive digicams

February 26, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Secret Lives of Wild Animals Captured by 1 Million Camera-Trap Images
Brandon Keim, wired.com

Thanks to motion-triggered digital camera traps, scientists have a powerful tool for studying reclusive animals in remote, inaccessible areas — and also for generating animated .gifs of gorillas scratching their stomachs.

Brandon Keim

Secret Lives of Wild Animals Captured by 1 Million Camera-Trap Images http://flip.it/j7IZV http://flip.it/ti7PO

PHOTOS: Camera Trap Captures Giant Pandas In The Wild (huffingtonpost.com)
Rare Javan leopards captured in stunning camera trap photos (grindtv.com)
Wildcat camera trap snaps rare bird (bbc.co.uk)
Biodiversity in Central Romania: pictures from the camera traps (ideas4sustainability.wordpress.com)

China’s growth at all cost policies and cancer villages

February 25, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

China now has up to 400 “cancer villages,” and the government only just admitted it
Gwynn Guilford, qz.com

China’s “growth at all costs” approach to development has meant industries can spew waste pretty much wherever they want. Drinking water sources? Sure. Farmland? Fine. That approach has poisoned entire towns, sending cancer rates…

China now has up to 400 “cancer villages,” and the government only just admitted it – Quartz http://flip.it/rUe4B http://flip.it/S9Y10

China’s cities: push for ‘green’ centres creates suburban ‘cancer villages’ (guardian.co.uk)
Four types of treatments for cancer can be prevented (bestpeoplehealth.wordpress.com)
Chi Gong and Cancer (alchemicalbody.wordpress.com)

World’s most industrious lazy man outsources all of his work to China

January 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

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Andrew Cunningham, arstechnica.com

We all know how much of a grind the old 9-to-5 can be. You wake up early, spend the first hour of your morning stuck in traffic, and then you’re stuck doing the same boring old thing until it’s time to go home in the same traffic, go to bed, and w…

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World’s most industrious lazy man outsources all of his work to China

World’s most industrious lazy man outsources all of his work to China (arstechnica.com)
Ars readers confirm: We want dual-persona smartphones (forums.crackberry.com)
Critical security hole in Java “massively exploited” (somefossnews.wordpress.com)
Google Hangouts on the rise. (trendsen.wordpress.com)
Nextbigfuture made the front page of Reddit for two days in a row (nextbigfuture.com)
“Six strikes” Internet warning system will come to US this year http://ht.ly/dLF0A #liquidnews (nextlevelofnews.com)

Japan’s quiet, clean demolition technique generates clean energy

January 16, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Japan’s quiet, clean demolition technique generates clean energy
By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk

Technology

A Japanese construction company is using giant jacks and electricity-generating cranes to dismantle a high-rise tower in Tokyo, floor by floor.

Taisei Corporation is using its Ecological Reproduction System (Tecorep…

RT @WiredUK: Japan’s quiet, clean demolition technique generates clean energy http://flip.it/Q7td8 by @LiatClark http://flip.it/ZHOKZ

Nicole Lederer: Rural America Tells Washington: Clean Energy Works for Us (huffingtonpost.com)
[News] PV dominant renewable energy source in Japan (pv-tech.org)
Which Country Saw a 20,000% Increase in Clean Energy Investing? (greentechmedia.com)
China Took the Clean Energy Lead in 2012, and Will Likely Stay There (motherboard.vice.com)

For China’s driving test, be ready for almost anything

January 12, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management

(via For China’s driving test, be ready for almost anything – Washington Post)

The Washington Post Readies “Post Everywhere” Video Distribution Play, Chief Digital Officer Vijay Ravindran; Social Reader “Reboot” Coming Soon (beet.tv)

Google designers tasked to revamp search experience

December 28, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

How Google’s Designers Are Quietly Overhauling Search
By Sarah Kessler, fastcodesign.com

Google Search’s designers are treating what was once just an ugly list of links like a software application.

On the same day that Larry Page became Google’s CEO for the second time, he ordered a redesign of all its products. Which came as a…

RT @core77: “How Google’s Designers Are Quietly Overhauling Search” – http://flip.it/uvZlH http://flip.it/fydSg

How Google’s Designers Are Quietly Overhauling Search (fastcodesign.com)
You: How Google’s Designers Are Quietly Overhauling Search – Co.Design (designingdesignthinkingdrivenoperations.wordpress.com)

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