March 2010
55 posts
“What is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent...”
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON (via abeshafi)
“Sen. Michael Bennett, a Democrat from Colorado, is an expert at assessing and...”
– Ezra Klein, in a really nice piece on our failing political institutions (via newsweek) (via mikehudack)
“The overhaul creates an institute, funded with $500 million or more annually, to...”
– Health Law Surprise Is Page 1,617 Demanding Which Drugs Work - Bloomberg.com (via tedr)
“A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are...”
– Princeton University - A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain
/via Travis Kalanik
Rafer sez: The liver processes the two very differently.
(via tedr)
(via rafer)
“Call it relationship inflation. Nominally, you have a lot more relationships —...”
– Umair Haque on ‘The Social Media Bubble’. Sure, maybe some of this is tied to his own personal Twitter backlash; but he does raise a few worthy points about the evolution of relationships in the digital age. (via bunch)
“Todd Sawicki found the news that Gilt Groupe has been so successful at selling...”
– The Achilles’ Heel of Gilt & Groupon: Long-Term Volume » Dogster Inc. Company Blog
Buyer beware.
(via tedr)
“The U.S. Congress seems to have taken the first steps toward offering government...”
– Evan Handler: The Best Bad Thing to Happen in a Very Long Time (via bijan) (via rafer)
My Take: The more I read and reflect on the passage of the bill, the more optimistic I become that we did *something.* We can only start where we are; we should celebrate starting.
The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource — the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. These companies produced over $52 billion dollars in sales in...
“The quality of the breath reflects the quality of the mind. There is a...”
– How Do I stay in the Now? - A question answered on Aardvark
Should We Be Celebrating?
NYT’s Op-Ed is downright giddy, calling the bill “a triumph for countless Americans who have been victimized or neglected by their dysfunctional health care system.” And I think most of us are glad we’ll no longer be the only advanced industrial nation that does not provide or guarantee health care coverage for its citizens.
The question of reigning in Healthcare cosst is...
“Why do we have an abortion rate 20% higher than France’s (and more than twice as...”
– Michael Moore (via azspot) (via mattlehrer) (via rafer)
Color Changing Contact Lenses Help Monitor... →
jayparkinsonmd:
Genius:
Professor Jin Zhang of the University of Western Ontario has developed contact lenses which could help monitor diabetes by changing color with the user’s glucose level variations. The users will be alerted to dangerous sugar levels with a change in lens color, without needing to undergo regular blood tests. The hydrogel lenses are embedded with nanoparticles which change...
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via dhrumil)
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– Four Tet - Angel Echos - Pitchfork: TV
Set aside 30 minutes to enjoy the full set. Beautiful.
Are our lives really that complex? →
jayparkinsonmd:
I spent the past four days at South by Southwest in Austin. I spoke on the Sick Clicks panel with Ted Eytan from Kaiser and Jay Bernhardt from the CDC. The panel went very well…here’s the Twitter stream. But what struck me was the paucity of all fascinating, new technologies created since last year’s SXSW. SXSW 2010 was the year of geolocation— Gowalla and Foursquare duked it...
“people want to engage [on] a more substantive level, if you just open up the...”
– Facebook Co-Founder Hughes Launches Philanthropic Venture Jumo - Digits - WSJ
“The goal with Jumo, said Hughes, is to create longer-term relationships between...”
– Facebook Co-Founder Hughes Launches Philanthropic Venture Jumo - Digits - WSJ
This is a great approach. Many of us are inspired by issues but unsure how to effectively contribute to them; let’s capture that inspiration and convert it to engagement with the issue over time through many small...
Steps to Stop Heart Attacks in Diabetics Fail,... →
jayparkinsonmd:
Three aggressive treatment strategies doctors had expected would prevent heart attacks among people with Type 2 diabetes and some who are the verge of developing it have proved to be ineffective or even harmful, new studies show.
Is modern medicine failing us? I’d say managing chronic disease via medications is making very little difference in our population’s health and...
“Your job isn’t to make someone love you, but love yourself and allow someone too...”
– TheDailyLove
This is why I hate those “What men think” / “What women think” how-to books. The problem isn’t figuring someone else out; it’s knowing yourself better and allowing someone else to get close. Getting inside someone else’s head is impossible, and trying to do so is frustrating and...
“A user interface is the product of a design. A design is a set of decisions...”
– Early Quora Design Notes - The Artypapers Weblog - Artypapers
“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though...”
– Henry Ford (via hiten) (via abeshafi)
“Finally, monoculture is based on the principles of trade and comparative...”
– How Locavores Could Save the World | Foreign Policy
‘Free Trade’ and agriculture-by-monoculture has converted the farming class of 3rd world countries into cheap labor for Agribusiness Multinationals at the expense of the health and economic security of the people.
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
– ~Japanese Proverb via: Twitter / Tiny Buddha
“*There are more African Americans under correctional control today—in prison or...”
– The New Jim Crow | Mother Jones (via ziatroyano:robot-heart-politics: ericmortensen) (via vruz)
“We must stop looking at education as a product – in which we turn out every...”
– TEDxNYed: This is bullshit « BuzzMachine (via kareem)
“But the problem is that we start at the end, at what we think students should...”
– TEDxNYed: This is bullshit « BuzzMachine
“Does it still make sense for countless teachers to rewrite the same essential...”
– TEDxNYed: This is bullshit « BuzzMachine
“I’ll give the same advice to the academy that I give to news media: Do what you...”
– TEDxNYed: This is bullshit « BuzzMachine
“I’m doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in...”
– Edward Tufte, who has been appointed by President Obama to “help track and explain $787 billion in recovery stimulus funds” as part of the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel.
Tufe is being nonchalant, but this is great news. Not only for design-nerds but the general public too.
(via iA)
(via...
Business Lessons from the Land of Hard Knocks
Kevin Mireles’ post-mortem on his failed startup contains a number of nuggets that echo my experience with Involver 1.0. I’ve summed them up below, synthesized and rehashed in conversation with @theyoungkid.
* Be kind, but ruthless:
Whether it’s people, strategy or products, there’s no room for rose-colored glasses in a start up if you want to succeed.
* Do not overlook the human...
“Routine use of antibiotics to raise livestock is widely seen as a major reason...”
– Nicholas Kristof - The Spread of Superbugs - NYTimes.com
WatchIn the Internet age, dance evolves … (via The LXD: In the Internet age, dance evolves … | Video on TED.com)
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“Scenius is what I think is happening in New York’s tech scene. There is a...”
– Scenius - Stowe Boyd - Hotbed - True/Slant
Not trying to stir up the SF vs. NY fire, but much respect for the people and projects in NYC/Brooklyn. I’m SF-based for at least a bit longer…
“dynamism in the U.S. has actually been in decline for a decade; with the housing...”
– TheAtlantic.com :: Magazine :: How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America (via fred-wilson) (via abeshafi)
“I always thought the goal was to be so smart and savvy in the presentation that...”
– What I Learned Raising A Million Dollars For a Startup With No Business Plan and No Financial Projections (While Drinking a Beer) : Coconut Headsets
SeriesSeed.com →
Open Source Financing Documents
“The alternative, of course, is that depression has a secret purpose and our...”
– Depression’s [Evolutionary Benefit] - NYTimes.com
