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It is a Landfill and an Ecopark
June 2009 A typical landfill isn’t the sort of place where residents have peaceful picnics and take nature walks or go to stargaze. But Singapore’s Semakau landfill is far from ordinary. Pulau Semakau – where Singapore’s only landfill is located – is a 20-minute ferry...
Read MoreThe Biology of Kindness
We tend to think about kindness as a quality that helps others, not ourselves. But a new book, The Biology of Kindness: Six daily choices for health, well-being, and longevity, unpicks the impact of being kind on our bodies and lifespan, as well as the...
Read MoreEnd of life Planning
After you are gone, should your Facebook profile be deleted? Do you have a health care proxy who will make medical decisions for you when you can’t? Burial or cremation? And what music should be played at your funeral? An emerging startup called Cake wants...
Read MorePill-tracking App helps you get the best deals on drugs too
Medisafe, the Israeli tech startup that moved to Boston over the winter, launched an app in 2013, which currently helps some 2 million users stay on top of their meds. If you missed a dose, your loved one will get an alert to remind you....
Read MoreGoogle Glass and Poison Treatment
With toxin coursing through their veins, patients, who come in for poison treatment, are often in an altered mental state. They are unable to tell the physician on duty, who typically is not an expert in poisons, what went wrong. So, what happens next? For...
Read MoreRetinal selfie
Taking a selfie is easy: just point your smartphone toward your face and shoot. But taking a selfie of the interior of an eye is impossible, imaging specialists might’ve told you, until now. Researchers at the Camera Culture Group, headed by Ramesh Raskar at the...
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