The Motley Fool takes a look at smart pills. Report contains a shocking estimate that 50% of medication is " prescribed, dispensed, or sold inappropriately" and gives a amazing hint of the amount of data a smart pill could capture.
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Teenagers in Rio De Janeiro are teaming up with the United Nations and a nonprofit to document local health dangers. But it's not your usual mapping project: The teens hacked kites (which are popular toys in Rio's favelas) into aerial cameras. Using the digitally enhanced kits, the teenagers take impromptu aerial surveys of different neighborhoods. The kitecam pictures are then examined for signs of garbage piles, overgrown vegetation, physically dangerous public spaces, and other safety hazards. Using the aerial surveys, the kids then set out on foot to take geotagged camera phone pictures of the hazards.
Fast Company reports on the way kids in Rio de Janeiro have hacked kites into tools for aerial observation of health hazards. They're cooperating with UNICEF.
I don't depend on a wheelchair any more, but I'd be pretty heartless if I didn't share my appreciation and admiration for this.
One is you should never never give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your dreams. And three is it looks like a solitary sport but it takes a team.
Those were the three messages 64-year-old Diana Nyad said to the crowd after finishing the historic swim from Cuba to Key West. They make a nice counterpoint to her message after an unsuccessful attempt last year.
Instead of staying on the couch for a lifetime, and letting this precious time go by, why not be bold? Be fiercely bold and go out and chase your dreams.Please, nobody ask me how old I am
Usually, I find juxtapositions in the same stream. Yesterday, I found these ideas separated by source, too.
First, on Twitter, I saw this—
MT @GilbertLiz: My friend Iva always says: "There are no new wars. Haven't been any new ones for ages. Just the same old ones, over & over."
— Amy Cuddy (@amyjccuddy) August 31, 2013
A couple of hours later, I found these words on Tumblr in a tribute to Seamus Heaney by Dan Chiasson—
Reminds me that I've got to capture a stream of Tweets by Brian Phillips in tribute to Heaney.Heaney’s poems were full of finds, unlikely retrievals from the slime of the ground or the murk of history and memory. His poems about peat bogs and what they preserve are probably the most important English-language poems written in the past fifty years about violence—the ‘intimate, tribal revenge’ that underscores the news.