How Secure Is My Password? Artificial pancreas could be holy grail for Type 1 diabetics A trial patient for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Artificial Pancreas Project tests the device. With Type 1 diabetics, the pancreas makes very little or no insulinArtificial pancreas mimics the glucose regulating function of a healthy pancreasDevice has not yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (CNN) -- Kerry Morgan was just 3 years old when she participated in her first clinical trial for type 1 diabetes prevention. "I remember a lot of things changed." School, she says was difficult. At 14 she entered a second trial, this one at the University of Virginia, for a continuous glucose monitoring system called The Navigator. "It was awesome. In type 1 diabetics, the pancreas makes very little or no insulin, a hormone that controls glucose levels, or the amount of sugar in your blood. An artificial pancreas mimics the glucose regulating function of a healthy pancreas. The device has not yet been approved by the U.S. Dr. Dr. Morgan agrees.
- StumbleUpon 13 Cool Plastic Shopping Bags Apparently the U.S. is lagging way behind Europe when it comes to witty shopping bag design. These 13 were spotted on an interesting site called BoredPanda.com, which calls itself “a highly visual oddities magazine dedicated to showcasing the world’s most creative artworks, offbeat products and everything that’s really weird or wonderful.” A perfect fit for the _floss, I’d say! As always, let us know your favorite in the comments below. How to See Yourself As Others See You Edit Article Edited by bbyrd009, IngeborgK, Teresa, Flickety and 18 others It is common, and commendable, to be curious about how others see you in general, or in specific situations. The more insight you have in this area, the less time you are apt to lie awake at night, wondering. It is quite possible to see yourself exactly as other people see you; however, this takes courage, and the development of some insight. "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." Ad Steps 1Understand that other people are your mirror. 6Continue seeing yourself as others see you throughout life. Tips You don't need to assume that you are completely smothered by the negative trait that you dislike in another. Warnings Much unconscious mirroring is happening all the time; it is more pronounced in our close relationships and we are mirroring others just as they mirror us.
Once Upon a Crime Mystery Bookstore: Uptown's cozy little corner of murder, lies, and espionage November 23, 2011 If you’re a fan of thrillers, mysteries, and crime novels and aren’t sure where you can find a group of friendly people with whom to share your love, look no farther than this paragraph, because I’m about to reveal a plot point that is going to chane the story of your life forever. On the second Wednesday of each month (September-May), a crowd of fiction sleuths gathers together at Once Upon a Crime, one of the two independent bookstores in Minneapolis dedicated to crime and mystery fiction (the other being Uncle Edgar's ), to discuss plot-twist novels, exploring the books' dark pathways and red herrings and deciding which member of the group was the first to figure out whodunit. The book club, founded about eight years ago by a band of authors who call themselves “The Minnesota Crime Wave,” has since been inherited by a rotating group of three new moderators: Michael Allan Mallory, Marilyn Victor, and Lois Greiman—all local authors. Photo courtesy Once Upon a Crime
The 5 Greatest Things Ever Accomplished While High | Cracked.com - StumbleUpon Cracked.com's new book is now on sale. What follows is one of the classic articles that appear in the book, along with 18 new articles that you can't read anywhere else. Any dreadlocked white guys finding this article after Googling "Drugs Rule" should know that we've given this list about drugs a rule. To make the cut, an accomplishment has to be considered great by people who could pass a field sobriety test. So no Grateful Dead music. In fact, because we're masochists, we gave ourselves a strict no music policy, leaving us with ... well, not a whole lot actually. Francis Crick Discovers DNA Thanks to LSD The Accomplishment: For the few Cracked readers not versed in the history of human genetics, Francis Crick is the closest that field gets to a rock star, which is pretty fucking close as it turns out. Above: Science? Odile had no idea what they were celebrating. The Drug: LSD. Drugs? Why It Makes Sense: The double helix is essentially the Sgt. "It's so fucking beautiful." Cocaine. Acid.
Design Lessons From India's Poorest Neighborhoods | Fast Company - StumbleUpon "Jugaad" is a Hindi term referring to the ingenuity of citizens living in resource-constrained environments, a concept from which New Yorkers might derive some enlightenment. Enter Jugaad Urbanism: Resourceful Strategies for Indian Cities, an exhibition created with the help of curator Kanu Agrawal that opens at New York's Center for Architecture next week. The exhibition is "design by the people, for the people, of Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Pune," says Agrawal, and showcases everyday innovations of slum-dwelling residents and the designers and architects who work around them. Agrawal, a Delhi native, studied at New Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture and worked with the acclaimed Achyut P. Kanvinde, and later completed his Master's in Environmental Design from the Yale School of Architecture. Slum-dwellers inhabit 1.5-meter-wide slivers of spaces between factories in Mumbai on multiple levels, and still find ways to allow for light and air to reach lower levels.
Study proves plausibility of new pathway to lifes chemical building blocks For decades, chemists considered a chemical pathway known as the formose reaction the only route for producing sugars essential for life to begin, but more recent research has called into question the plausibility of such thinking. Now a group from The Scripps Research Institute has proven an alternative pathway to those sugars called the glyoxylate scenario, which may push the field of pre-life chemistry past the formose reaction hurdle. The team is reporting the results of their highly successful experiments online ahead of print in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. "We were working in uncharted territory," says Ramanarayanan ("Ram") Krishnamurthy, a Scripps Research chemist who led the research, "We didn't know what to expect but the glyoxylate scenario with respect to formation of carbohydrates is not a hypothesis anymore, it's an experimental fact." A New Pathway Eschenmoser and Krishnamurthy began developing the experiments to test the hypothesis. Success
Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really? Posted on Harvard Business Review: January 30, 2012 8:40 AM There are two views on entrepreneurship in America: the first (largely feigned), that it is a pure virtue like freedom of speech or religion, and the second (real) attitude that it is largely a game for the naïve. Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and career counselors thrust graduates into the job market, the default isn’t entrepreneurship, it’s corporate serfdom. Entrepreneurship is a deviation, an occupation for heroes, heroic for the reasons it can’t be recommended: it’s just too unsafe. But the conventional position is nonsense; building new companies is far more sensible than the practical will admit. First, entrepreneurship is not riskier than working at a big bank or law firm, a fact vividly underscored by the de facto nationalization of the banking sector and mass layoffs of the last few years. Not everyone is suited to join a new company.