May 2013
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May 20th
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May 17th
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May 16th
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For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change →
By EDUARDO PORTER, nytimes.com If there were one Amer­i­can indus­try that would be par­tic­u­lar­ly wor­ried about cli­mate change it would have to be insur­ance, right? From Hur­ri­cane Sandy’s dev­as­tat­ing blow to the North­east to the pro­tract­ed drought that hit the…
May 15th
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May 15th
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May 11th
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Can Science Fiction Writers Inspire the World to... →
scientificamerican.com By Ariel SchwartzThe Hieroglyph project asks sci-fi writers to stop creating dark dystopias, and instead showed us visions of a better future, so that we work harder to get there.Science fiction has often predicted scientific advances, but what…
May 7th
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May 6th
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Zipcar’s Co-Founder: Carsharing Is An Exponential... →
Ariel Schwartz, fastcoexist.com Robin Chase thinks that the sharing economy can put an end to all our problems. But how do you get the sharing economy to the developing world?The latest climate change statistics are beyond depressing—so upsetting that you might want to take a…
May 5th
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May 4th
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May 4th
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“So-called anticipatory systems such as Google Now represent one example of what...”
– Google Now, Anticipatory Systems, and the Future of Big Data | MIT Technology Review
May 4th
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May 4th
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May 3rd
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May 3rd
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May 1st
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April 2013
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Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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“Ownership might be getting replaced with membership, or revised to mean...”
– Things Aren’t What They Used to Be: Is Ownership Passé? | Harpy’s Review | Big Think (via futuristgerd)
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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Apr 25th
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How Terror Hijacks the Brain →
Maia Szalavitz, time.com Fear short circuits the brain, especially when it hits close to home, experts say— making coping with events like the bombings at the Boston Marathon especially tricky. “When people are terrorized, the smartest parts of our brain tend to shut down… This is a case for building mental infrastructures at an individual level rather than trying to stop terrorism at a...
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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March 2013
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Mar 31st
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Mar 28th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 23rd
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Mar 22nd
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Mar 21st
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Mar 19th
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Mar 18th
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Mar 18th
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“The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not,...”
– Opinion: The Internet is a surveillance state - CNN.com
Mar 17th
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Bizarre extinct frog brought back to life →
emergentfutures: The gastric brooding frog existed 30 years ago, but the extraordinary amphibian is now extinct. In a world first, a team of Australian scientists has taken the first major step in bringing it back to life. They have successfully reactivated its DNA and produced an embryo. Full Story: ABC
Mar 16th
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The e-Medicine Explosion | MIT Technology Review →
A list of TR articles related to the emergence of e-medicine.
Mar 15th
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Mar 13th
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Mar 13th
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Mar 13th
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3D printing gunmaker forms company to flout... →
futuristgerd: “It maintains all the present features but we step it up a notch,” Wilson told Ars. “The Pirate Bay has the right idea with physibles, but increasingly the fight is going to be about physical copyright—we want to build one of the tools early.” And like the Pirate Bay, which has thumbed its nose at corporations, copyright, and the legal system for digital goods, Wilson suggests...
Mar 13th
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Mar 11th
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New wave of 'superbugs' poses dire threat, says... →
“Antimicrobial resistance poses a catastrophic threat,” said Davies. “If we don’t act now, any one of us could go into hospital in 20 years for minor surgery and die because of an ordinary infection that can’t be treated by antibiotics. And routine operations like hip replacements or organ transplants could be deadly because of the risk of infection.
Mar 11th
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Mar 10th
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Mar 10th
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BBC News - TED 2013: Uchek app tests urine for... →
A smartphone app that uses a phone’s camera to analyse urine and check for a range of medical conditions has been shown off at the TED (Technology, Education and Design) conference in Los Angeles. With a blazing speed cheap new individually based tools for self diagnosis are appearing everywhere. Many of them are using the capability of smart phones like the iPhone and is distributed...
Mar 10th
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iPhone App Offers Anonymous Diagnosis of Sexual... →
Is it a run-of-the-mill ingrown hair or a symptom of a sexually transmitted disease? The two are often confused. A new iPhone app, STD Triage, released today (March 6) by the makers of iDoc24, an app to assess skin problems, offers assessments of possible STDs by licensed dermatologists. When diagnosis apps hits this personal aspect they have great chances of succeeding.
Mar 10th
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