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How Stay-At-Home Moms, A Doctor, And A Pro Wrestler Make Social Media More Human

Austin Evarts of GoChime believes that the future of social media advertising is the person-to-person pitch--and that the human element can never be automated. In other words: Social media is people! Austin Evarts is the CEO of GoChime , a platform that mines social media for phrases like “I want” and “I need,” and then uses an army of brand advocates to respond with special offers. Live on Twitter , GoChime is working on expanding to Facebook , Pinterest , and Instagram .

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Israel’s Science Minister on Space Technology-for Peaceful and Militaristic Aims

Launch of an Israeli Shavit rocket via Wikimedia Commons Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Hershkowitz , Israel s minister of science and technology, to talk about his country s capabilities and ambitions in space. We spoke about Israel s homegrown platforms for launching satellites into space; the commercial, military and scientific applications of those satellites; and whether the country has plans to return to the human spaceflight arena, almost 10 years after its first foray ended in tragedy.

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Mouse ‘Avatars’ Could Aid in Pancreatic Cancer Therapy

By Carina Dennis of Nature magazine Mouse 'avatars' could in future allow physicians to find the most effective cocktail of cancer drugs to combat a particular tumor before giving them to a patient, according to researchers at the annual meeting of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) in Australia last week. "Using a personalized cancer avatar makes it possible to try out different combinations and make some mistakes before going into the clinic," says Edison Liu, president of HUGO and head of the Jackson Laboratory at Bar Harbor in Maine

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Professor proposes challenge to prove whether people can see entangled images

(PhysOrg.com) -- Geraldo Barbosa, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University has posed an interesting challenge. He wonders if the human eye and brain together are capable of actually seeing entangled images. This is not a philosophical question, as he has phrased the query as part of a practical experiment that someone with the proper lab could actually carry out.

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Brain capacity limits exponential online data growth

Scientists have found that the capacity of the human brain to process and record information - and not economic constraints - may constitute the dominant limiting factor for the overall growth of globally stored information.

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Did Leonardo da Vinci Copy His Famous "Vitruvian Man"?

Leonardo da Vinci 's drawing of a male figure perfectly inscribed in a circle and square, known as the "Vitruvian Man," illustrates what he believed to be a divine connection between the human form and the universe. Beloved for its beauty and symbolic power, it is one of the most famous images in the world

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Video: Plan B morning after pill sales restricted

CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports on the decision of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius to restrict the sale of the morning after pill, Plan B - against the recommendation of the FDA that the drug be sold over-the-counter.

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Bats, dolphins, and mole rats inspire advances in ultrasound technology

Sonar and ultrasound, which use sound as a navigational device and to paint accurate pictures of an environment, are the basis of countless technologies, including medical ultrasound machines and submarine navigation systems. But when it comes to more accurate sonar and ultrasound, animals' "biosonar" capabilities still have the human race beat.

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