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No one else at Quail Hollow has won more majors, and no is close to his PGA Tour victories. Not surprisingly, no one had more fans following his every move Wednesday at the Wells Fargo Championship.
Read More »Kids With Cystic Fibrosis Breathe Easier Thanks To Video Games
A series of new video games for kids with cystic fibrosis not only helps them stick to treatment regimens, but also significantly improves breathing performance. Gamification to the rescue! One of the hardest parts of treating cystic fibrosis in children is convincing them to perform tedious breathing exercises required to keep airways clear. However, a new study that applies gamification techniques to cystic-fibrosis treatment indicates that specially made video games not only get children to perform breathing exercises--they also improves breathing performance when not playing games
Read More »Apple’s New iMacs House A Few Secrets After All
Though Apple's taken a pretty conservative line with the hardware refresh for its iMac desktop PCs, it turns out that the guts of the machines harbor some juicy secrets. Apple's brand new iMacs, while having the expected spec bump in terms of raw processor power and graphics capabilities, were about as conservative as you can get in terms of adjusting the actual look and feel.
Read More »Play FarmVille With A Real Farm–If You Dare
Think you've honed your 4H chops with hours of online agriculture? You can now control a real British farm to see how you do. God save the cows
Read More »DonorsChoose.org Founder On Harnessing The Power Of Tater Tots For Teachers
DonorsChoose.org didn't attract 250,000 donors and $30 million dollars to fund 60,000 classroom projects by relying solely on their good will alone. At Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored 2011, founder Charles Best shared how he's partnered with a wide variety of corporations to make Donors Choose as tempting as fatty snacks. Go to Starbucks and log in to the Wi-Fi.
Read More »PGT: Sabbatini in trouble for profanity-laced tirade
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Read More »World’s Smallest Medical Camera Is Disposable, Too
An Israeli firm has unveiled a tiny medical camera that is less than a millimeter wide. More importantly, the camera is disposable--which could help lower the cost of surgeries and diagnostic procedures.
Read More »National Day of Prayer observers pray for health, but does God listen?
What does research say about the healing power of prayer?
Read More »E-Ink On Cloth Raises The Terrible Prospect Of T-Shirt Ads
E-Ink Holdings, which makes the display tech behind Amazon's Kindle e-reader, can now print updatable digital displays onto cloth . Yep...you're already imagining what Google or Facebook could do with the ad space on your T-shirt , aren't you?
Read More »Will electronic health records save the planet?
Electronic health records are often touted as way to cut medical costs, new Kaiser Permanente study shows they have big environmental payoff
Read More »How to Change Your Management Style
When five local entrepreneurs purchased the Kansas City, Missouri-based Major League Soccer franchise for $15 million back in 2006 (then known as the Wizards), they came into a business that had been owned by the late Lamar Hunt as a secondary property behind his NFL team (the Kansas City Chiefs) and that didn't have much brand identity. The new owners, though, came in with little soccer knowledge but focused on building an innovative business and becoming a community staple.
Read More »Inside The Egyptian Rebellion Launched On Facebook
In a new story for tablet app The Atavist, writer David Wolman explores just how important social media really was to the Egyptian uprising. Here's an early look. In March 2008, a young would-be civil engineer named Ahmed Maher created a Facebook page called April 6 Youth with a woman named Issra Abdel-Fattah
Read More »Laughs 3.0: Comedy Comes Of Age Online
Even Jerry Seinfeld, stubbornly analog anti-Twitterer, has joined the Internet Age. Did you hear the one about the Internet? Comedy is dominating Net buzz in big ways this week, with several announcements that will make denizens of the web smile--and laugh
Read More »PGT: Tiger ‘is going the wrong way,’ Watson says
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