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Zen And The Art Of Dying Well

What is the ??ight??way to die? We??e experiencing a zeitgeist moment about that. ??eing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,??by Atul Gawande, is a best-selling b...

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Health

How Real-Time Data Can Help Fight Cancer

In the battle against cancer, which kills nearly 8 million people worldwide each year, doctors have in their arsenal many powerful weapons, including various forms of chemo...

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Health

How To Cure Blindness Around The World..

As part of a blog series on Social Entrepreneurs, Thulsi Ravilla, Executive Director of Aravind Eye Care System, talks about democratizing healthcare and eliminating blindn...

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Sustainable Development

Paging Dr. Watson: IBM Supercomputer Gains Access To 30 Billion Medical Images

IBM’s Watson supercomputer (and “Jeopardy!” winner) will be processing a lot of broken limbs and tumors in its ultimate quest for sentience. The company a...

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Environment

Environment Panel Refuses Expansion Of Coal Mine In Chhattisgarh

An environment ministry committee has declined the expansion of a major mine run by a Coal India subsidiary in Chhattisgarh citing ?serious? violation of environmental laws...

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Gender

‘Ant Man’ Star Evangeline Lilly On How The Latest Marvel Film ‘Does Right’ By Women

Perhaps the best part of Ant-Man came after the film’s final scenes. In a post-credits scene (spoilers ahead!) we see Evangline Lilly’s Hope Van Dyneeyeing a su...

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#Digitaldiary: Q2 Report Card For Social Media

More than half the year is gone. As July came to an end, the social media platforms came out with their Q2 results. How did Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn do this quarter?<...

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Sustainable Development

Soylent's Real Plan: Replace Food With Algae

Rob Rhinehart has long dreamed of creating the ingredients of his grey-goo food replacement, Soylent, from scratch. The company’s—and Rob’s—mantra i...

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Environment

There Are Still Tons Of People Around The World Who Haven't Heard About Climate Change

  Whether a person is aware of climate change or not ? and how much they worry about it ? depends on a range of factors, including what country someone lives in and ho...

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Environment

White House Set To Adopt Sweeping Curbs On Carbon Pollution

The Obama administration will formally adopt an ambitious regulation for cutting greenhouse-gas pollution on Monday, requiring every state to reduce emissions from coal-bur...

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