Why America's Healthcare Sucks You know it is true. According to the CDC, over 40 million Americans did not have health insurance during 2009. Obviously something has to change, but socialized medicine is not the answer. It is just one possible solution. Although smoking, drinking and the elderly are lower per capita in America than most European countries, it doesn’t mean we don’t have problems. I’m lucky to have some very affordable healthcare offered by my university. Prevention and price transparency could both be improved in the US. Share This Infographic Get Free Infographics Delivered to your Inbox
10 Commonly Misunderstood Words My friends and I are self-professed grammar geeks. Upon hearing Alanis Morissette’s 90s hit “Ironic” on the radio, a worn out discussion usually breaks out: is she using the word “ironic” correctly? Yes, you can roll your eyes now. Today’s infographic supports my argument, but it also schools me against using “literally” as an emphatic “really,” and reminds me that politely chuckling does not a bemused person make. Share This Infographic Get Free Infographics Delivered to your Inbox Healing with Malachite Healing with Malachite Feeling guilty? Even if you don't know why, try wearing some malachite. In ancient times, Malachite was used in amulets to protect against the evil eye, while in the Middle Ages it was used to protect children from witches and other dangers and was kept in the bedroom to protect from nightmares. Malachite is also said to protect the wearer from accidents and so can be useful for travelers to wear. Malachite can also aid in concentration and is known as a protective stone in the field of aviation, where it is believed to stimulate awareness and prevent vertigo - always useful for pilots! Malachite promotes harmony and so helps the various parts of the body to work together. However, when malachite is framed or mounted in metal, the metal is said to inhibit malachite's healing effects, although some say that combining it with copper can in fact increase the beneficial effects of malachite. Not all malachite is believed to have a healing quality.
Facebook, Privacy and Health (Client Infographic) Monday, July 11, 2011 at 6:00AM Randy in Facebook, InfoNewt, Privacy, client, health, personal, research, social, social media, web For the Path of the Blue Eye Project, InfoNewt (my company) recently designed the infographic: What You Need To Know: Facebook, Privacy and Health. The group at the Path of the Blue Eye Project has done some fantastic, primary research about online users’ willingness and attitudes about sharing health information online, and specifically Facebook. The answer is overwhelmingly “NO”. If Facebook is so popular (Pew reports that 62% of Web users frequent sites like Facebook and MySpace), why are people shying away from sharing health content with others on the site? Cool Infographics - Blog
Common Interview Questions Remember, you don't have to reveal anything you're not comfortable with to the hiring manager. You can answer this question indirectly by giving the interviewer a range you're expecting. Liz Ryan, CEO of consulting firm The Human Workplace, writes in a LinkedIn post, "When we call the plumber because our tub drain is clogged, we don't ask, 'What did you charge the guy down the block to unclog his drain last week?' If we do, the plumber is going to say, 'My rate is $95 an hour. Do you want me to come over or not?'" She suggests responding to this salary question with "In this job search, I'm looking for jobs in the $95,000 to $100,000 range. The best way to prepare for this question is to figure out how much salary you want to be paid.
How Bad Are Hospital Acquired Infections in America? - Megan McArdle - Life... Yesterday, I saw this graphic linked by Kevin Drum, purporting to show that the US hospitals are killing their patients in horrifying numbers: The thing set off huge alarm bells. Not because I think that it's impossible that US hospitals are dropping the ball on hospital acquired infections--indeed, my column next month, which is already at the printers, will be on antibiotic resistance. And hospital procedures like hand-washing play a huge role in the spread of resistant infection. But these numbers were wildly out-of-sync with the ones I'd seen. So I started looking at the links, which (at least the ones I looked at) didn't say what they were purported to say; for example, the graphic says that the US ranks last out of 19 countries in preventable deaths at hospitals, but the source seems to be a Commonwealth Fund report that ranks the US last in "amenable death", which basically includes any death that could have been prevented by more "timely and effective healthcare".
Cisco Reminds Us Once Again How Big The Internet Is Getting - Arik Hesseldahl - Enterprise One of the well-worn buzz phrases in tech that re-surfaces from time to time is “The Internet of Things.” When I first encountered it, it was in 2002, and it was used in the title of this story in Forbes about the use of RFID chips by retailers like Wal-Mart to track inventory. Nine years later it draws a big yawn. Now it seems the networking giant Cisco Systems has appropriated it to mean something else entirely, something a lot more meaningful in the larger context of the Internet. The way Cisco sees it, the number of devices connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people populating the entire planet. And that’s not just smartphones and tablets. Of course, Cisco would like you to associate its brand with these kinds of big thoughts rather than its more workaday corporate troubles. Getting to that utopia will also require completing the transition from IPv4 to IPv6.
Massive Health Analyzes How Healthy We Think We Eat [Infographic] [Editors Note: This post includes 1 of 5 infographics looking at how, where , what, when and with who people eat. The remaining infographics can be found Massive Health raised $2.5 million in seed funding to help people improve their health through better data, design, social and game mechanics. Their goal has been to bridge the world’s of healthcare and consumer products, using mobile phones as sensors that collect real-time data about a user’s behavior. Their first experiment with this is The Eatery, an iPhone app that helps users track and analyze their eating patterns to better understand their strengths, weaknesses and the best places to make changes in their diet. Collecting large-scale, real-time data about people’s diets, not just self-reported details about their eating habits, is nearly impossible. But can crowdsourced data be trusted? Massive Health has broken the infographics into five parts. [Sign up for