Seafood Watch: Information about fish from all over the world, letting you see at a glance where the fish you’re eating probably came from and not only how nutritious it is for you, but how good for the environment as well.  Continue reading

langer: Isabelle Caro, the French model who became the public face of the fight against eating disorders in the fashion industry after posing nude for Oliviero Toscani’s 2007 “No Anorexia” campaign, has died at age 28. Continue reading

80% of all fire fatalities occur in single family homes. There has never been a fire in the history of the US that has claimed more than one life in single family homes with working sprinkler systems combined with working smoke detectors. 2,895 people died in fires in 2007. Workplaces are required by law to have sprinkler systems. But not homes. And that’s where the majority … Continue reading

From my post over at The Future Well: Public Health 2.0: It won’t come from Public Health 1.0: Google is working on a much, much more important initiative that, if successful, could be one of the greatest contributions to public health the world has ever seen– data-driven, crash-proof “brains on wheels“– self-driving cars that aware of the road, of other cars, and of passengers. Imagine … Continue reading

A WOMAN who hopes to become the fattest woman in the world is now 30,000 calories closer to her 453.5kg (1000lb) goal with a festive feast that could have fed dozens of people. Donna Simpson, who weights 292kg, sat in a reinforced metal chair, chowed down on the world’s biggest Christmas dinner as she ate for two straight hours. The single mother-of-two, from New Jersey … Continue reading

I’m not the world’s best gift giver when it comes to purchasing things for others. So I try to give gifts that aren’t physical things, but experiences. So this year I decided to create a website for my family (powered by tumblr) and invited my extended family to be authors. If you’re interested, it’s here.  The social internet creates a bit of a problem. Your … Continue reading

Snowmageddon Clean-Up: New York This is the future of the internet, especially as it relates to public health crises and disasters…the internet, in real time, will match up supply with demand. The people at Ushahidi are truly genius: We are a non-profit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. Continue reading

Raj Kaliya Dhanuk lies still on a bed with weights on her eye after receiving local anesthesia at Hetauda community eye hospital in Hetauda, about 40 kilometers (18 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal on Feb.13, 2010. Dhanuk and more than 500 others, most of whom have never seen a doctor before, traveled for days by bicycle, motorbike, bus and even on their relatives’ backs to … Continue reading