Daily Archives: October 23, 2012

Lunar Design gets creative to help consumers prepare for a quake

October 23, 2012 – 11:37 am

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING Natural disasters are serious matters. But must preparedness efforts take a dire tone? San Francisco-based design firm Lunar’s SF Prep concept is geared to help unready 20- and 30somethings overcome their emotional and logistical inertia with an approachable and creative system. Turning the traditional earthquake kit into an interactive and […]

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Is Alzheimer’s actually a form of diabetes?

October 23, 2012 – 11:33 am

by Tory Davis WHAT’S HAPPENING While the theory that Alzheimer’s is actually a diet-based form of diabetes has been floating around the medical community since 2005, a story published in the September 2012 issue of New Scientist, “Food for Thought: What You Eat May Be Killing Your Brain,” makes the idea hard to refute (Opinionator.blogs.NYTimes.com, […]

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QR codes make digital memorial to British dead

October 23, 2012 – 11:29 am

by Rebecca de Vaux WHAT’S HAPPENING A funeral company in Poole, Dorset has developed a digital way of bringing back the life stories of deceased people, with a swipe of a smartphone (Guardian.co.uk, 5 September 2012). Customers of Chester Pearce Associates can upload text, videos and photos to a tribute page in memory of their […]

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FASHIONABLE JAPAN

October 23, 2012 – 11:24 am

by Becky Sun Beauty writers know to watch Japan, the home of sometimes wacky and sometimes wonderful trends. On October 18, 2012, in the US, the National Geographic Channel aired an episode of Taboo on Japanese “bagel heads” — just what it sounds like, thanks to saline injections in the forehead. Three weeks earlier, when […]

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