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Recycling Unused Medicines to Save Money and Livesopinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
A non-profit service makes it easier for health care agencies to send unused medications to the poor. -
How Millennials are reshaping health and wellnessquirks.com
Communispace research examined Millennials and their views on personal health and the health care system and found many of them feel like they’re on the outside looking in. -
The Last Ride of Cowboy Bobtexasmonthly.com
The feds knew him as a prolific bank robber. But the bearded man who eluded them for so long was not who they imagined him to be. And absolutely no one expected the story to end the way it did. -
The economics of the podcast boomcjr.org
I'm about to celebrate my one-year anniversary as a podcaster. I started a show with two of my friends (one is my co-host, the other is our producer) last year because we noticed that more and more people... -
Man in Hole II: Man in Deeper Holetheparisreview.org
Assigning emotional values to words. Last month I wrote about Matthew Jockers’s research on the shapes of stories, which has since met with a welter of reactions within and without academe. His critics ask two questions, essentially: Is it really possi... -
The Rise and Fall of the Living Fossil - Issue 22: Slow - Nautilusprime.nautil.us
In May 1997, the same month that The Lost World: Jurassic Park debuted in the United States, the U.S. Postal Service released 15 gorgeous… -
Toy Story, 20 years later: how Pixar made its first blockbustertheverge.com
Pete Docter took the stage at Pixar's SXSW panel to rapturous applause, the kind of reception you’d expect for a movie star or rock god. But here at SXSW, where movies, technology, and music swirl... - mikeash.com
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What making something people want looks likeblog.monitorbook.com
Meerkat is the new fastest growing iPhone app to come out of San Francisco. In just two weeks they went from launch on ProductHunt.com to being mentioned in the news all over the world. It seems that... -
A decade in, the "Quantified Self" is still more hope than realitypando.com
Ever since Wired editor Kevin Kelley first coined the term “Quantified Self,” organizing a meetup of interested lifehackers and relentless self-improvers in 2007, the world at large – and the techn... -
Replacing Photoshop With NSString - The Guinea Pig in the Cocoa Minecocoamine.net
An app is not just made of code. It also contains static assets like images and sounds. Images are typically created and edited with dedicated tools … -
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Can't even throw code across the wall - on open sourcing existing codesnellman.net
Some thoughts on why we have never released very much of our code as open source, despite always intending to. -
Biogen Reports Its Alzheimer’s Drug Sharply Slowed Cognitive Declinenytimes.com
The drug, developed by Biogen Idec, could achieve sales of billions of dollars a year if the results from the small trial are replicated in larger trials. -
Virus Bulletin : Dylib hijacking on OS Xvirusbtn.com
DLL hijacking is a well known class of attack which, until now, was believed only to affect Windows. However, in this paper, Patrick Wardle shows that OS X is similarly vulnerable to dynamic library hijack attacks. -
Optimizing performance on low end devices - echolockerblogblog.echolocker.com
One of the hardest parts of building for Android is making your app work well on all phones. While device fragmentation often brings forth concerns on design, the bigger struggle will be behind the scenes in managing memory, rendering smooth graphics, ... -
The Coming Ice Age | Harper's Magazineharpers.org
How a rising of the ocean waters may flood most of our port cities within the foreseeable future — and why it will be followed by the growth of a vast glacier which may eventually cover much of Europe and North America. THIS is the story of two scienti...