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  • Eat This Meal

    Eat This Meal Rachel Swaby, wired.com Photo: Todd Tanker­s­ley Fuel­ing your body is easy—if you can pull your­self away from fancy fla­vor com­bi­na­tions and the lat­est culi­nary trends. Just load your plate with foods that are proven to make you stronger and health­i­er, eat, an… http://flpbd.it/R32zo Related articles How to Plan Great Meals with Your…

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  • Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future?

    Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future? BY ANITA HAMILTON, fastcoexist.com As technology allows patients to pool their knowledge, can the collective experience of the sick create better care? There’s some­thing seri­ous­ly wrong with a health care sys­tem that makes patients wait a month or more just to get a doc­tor’s… http://flpbd.it/5v6PX Related…

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  • Would You Recognize Yourself With A Completely Symmetrical Face?

    Would You Recognize Yourself With A Completely Symmetrical Face? By Jordan Kushins, fastcodesign.com Julian Wolkenstein explores a scientific concept of beauty with a unique portrait series. Beau­ty is in the eye of the behold­er. Right? Even though every­one’s charmed by wild­ly dif­fer­ent kinds of phys­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics (thank… http://flpbd.it/v6WiS Related articles Non Turing-Recognizable from symmetric difference…

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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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  • 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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  • Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore

    Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore John Timmer, arstechnica.com Some of the most suc­cess­ful drugs we know about have come from plants, includ­ing the can­cer drug Taxol, the malar­i­al treat­ment artemisinin, and even aspirin. The lat­ter two were iden­ti­fied because of their use in herbal reme­dies that… http://flpbd.it/IKidw Related articles Drug…

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  • The Science Of Sleep

    ‘Dreamland’: Open Your Eyes To The Science Of Sleep Maureen Corrigan, npr.org ‘Dreamland’: Open Your Eyes To The Science Of Sleep Fresh Air from WHYY Step, if you will, into my bed­room at night. (Don’t worry, this is a PG-rated invitation.) At first, all is tran­quil: My hus­band and I, exhaust­ed by our day’s labors,……

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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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  • Sleep (or how to hack your brain) + Dustin Curtis

    Sleep (or how to hack your brain) + Dustin Curtis. Related articles What if.. You Sleep 2 Hours a Day (jaggedgracecreations.wordpress.com) New study shows sleep is a hotbed of information (storagebedsdirect.co.uk) How Certain Sounds Help Us Sleep (news.health.com) Ask Dr. K: Sleep vital for reasons unclear (goerie.com) What Happens While You Sleep and How It…

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