We have even more reason to understand breast cancer as multiple diseases.
Every year we go though a full month of pink, pink and more pink, all in the name of “breast cancer awareness.” What once was a health-related cause has become the feel-virtuous-and-buy-stuff season wedged between back-to-school and holiday gift giving.
Continue reading… “Cancer comes in more shades than just pink: Studies”
Sustainable farming, which often ties into organic growing, has been reaping profits.
Last week, in an auditorium at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, startup companies sought out investors to help take their ideas to the next level. This wasn’t a tech conference. Venture capitalists were here to check out sustainable farming.
Continue reading… “If you are looking for a new startup idea, try farming”
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The Apple Store sells more smart devices for the home other that the Nest learning thermostats. The retail chain will soon begin selling Philips’ ‘Hue’ LED light bulb kits, which let you control the color of light in your rooms from your smart device.
Continue reading… “Apple stores start selling $199 Philips Hue custom LED light kits”
“The data comes from 200,000 students at 2000 college campuses.”
What companies top the list of the top 10 places students want to work after college? Would it surprise you to learn that the NSA and AT&T top that list?
Continue reading… “Top 10 companies students want to work for after college”
Moving paper death certificates to an online process should be easy.
The EDRS, or the Washington State Electronic Death Registry System is an online system that is moving paper death certificates to an online process. This system should make the process of completing death certificates faster and easier. But, the government designed the system.
Continue reading… “The unintended consequences of moving death certificates to the digital age”
The latest bombing in Nigeria shows how Christians are increasingly suffering for their faith.
Can you imagine the unspeakable fury that would erupt across the Islamic world if a Christian-led government in Khartoum had been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese Muslims over the past 30 years. Or if Christian gunmen were firebombing mosques in Iraq during Friday prayers. Or if Muslim girls in Indonesia had been abducted and beheaded on their way to school, because of their faith.
Fewer flights and smaller aircraft leading to many more passengers per flight.
Airline travel today mostly stinks. It is thanks to higher costs, worse service, and truly uncomfortable in-flight conditions. But understanding why life in the air isn’t particularly good takes a little work. Actually, it takes a lot of work because the Department of Transportation’s new assessment of the airline industry runs a lugubrious 78 pages and is laden with enough charts, statistics, and graphs to make Battlefield Earth seem entertaining.
Ikaria
Stamatis Moraitis, a Greek war veteran, came to the United States in 1943 for treatment of a combat-mangled arm. He’d survived a gunshot wound, escaped to Turkey and eventually talked his way onto the Queen Elizabeth, then serving as a troopship, to cross the Atlantic. Moraitis settled in Port Jefferson, N.Y., an enclave of countrymen from his native island, Ikaria. He quickly landed a job doing manual labor. Later, he moved to Boynton Beach, Fla. Along the way, Moraitis married a Greek-American woman, had three children and bought a three-bedroom house and a 1951 Chevrolet.
Continue reading… “Ikaria, the island where people forget to die”
There have always been part-time workers, especially at restaurants and retailers but employers today rely on them far more than before.
The Fresh & Easy grocery store chain has opened up 150 stores in California since it was founded five years ago. It has positioned itself as a hip and socially responsible company.
Continue reading… “More Americans working part-time as hours shrink and shift”
A large majority of patients who receive this news don’t fully comprehend it, or perhaps willfully choose to ignore it.
Often times doctors are called on to deliver bad news to patients. And when they deliver that news it doesn’t get much worse than hearing a diagnosis of an advanced-stage cancer for which there is no cure.
Continue reading… “Three out of four terminal cancer patients believe a cure is possible”
Everyone knows that software experts make big bucks.
Glassdoor published its most recent software engineering salary report last week. It found that it pays to code. Google and Facebook employees earn a base salary of ~$125K, not counting benefits, 401k matching, stock options/grants, etc., and even Yahoo! developers pull in six figures. Everyone knows that good engineers are awfully hard to find. Demand has skyrocketed, supply has stagnated, prices have risen. Basic economics.
Continue reading… “It pays to code, but how long will that last?”
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An investigation a few years ago bu USA Today found that, of the 250,000 fatal cardiac arrests that occur outside of U.S. hospitals every year, up to 76,000 cases were treatable. That is, the patients would have survived if the ambulance had got there in time. A quick zap with a defibrillator was all that was needed, but many cities could not promise a response within six minutes–the standard survival window.
Continue reading… “Could the future of first responders be a network of drones?”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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