Posted on October 27, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
It was a wonderful little bubble while it lasted. Getting up before dawn. Dressing in easy-to-peel layers for whatever the day might bring. Walking over to Boynton-McKay, a diner of rare perfection, where the wi-fi was as reliably good as the pancakes (a boon in connectivity-challenged Camden…) Ascending the stairs and more stairs of the [...]
Filed under: agriculture, climate change, disease surveillance, energy, food, forests, innovation, lighting, maps, oil, rain forests, rapid diagnostics, recycling, reforestation, solar, transportation, visualization, water | Tagged: Pop!Tech, Willie Smits, Will Allen, urban agriculture, LEDs, Tapergy, Camden Opera House, Logan Richardson, Zoe Keating, Mark O'Connor, Michelle Riggen-Ransom, Rachel Barenblat, Ethan Zuckerman, Kristen Taylor, Derek Lomas, Playpower Foundation, $12 computer, $10 computer, Dean Ornish, Neri Oxman, Naif Al-Mutawa, The 99, Islam, stereotypes, FLAP bag, Sheila Kenneday, Timbuk2, agroforestry, Daniel Nocera, fuel cells, photosynthesis | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 27, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
“Disease is an outcome.” Wildlife biologist Milt Friend said that to me years ago when I was working on a story about the emergence of a frightening new virus just beginning to sweep across the country: West Nile. Friend had helped found the National Wildlife Health Center (a sort of CDC for critters), which was [...]
Filed under: TrackerNews, agriculture, maps, rapid diagnostics, visualization | Tagged: avian influenza, bird flu, CAFO, Confined Area Feeding Operations, disease mapping, Granjas Caroll, Jeff Tietz, maps, Mexico, outbreaks, pandemic, Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, public health, Rolling Stone, Smithfield Farms, swine flu, TrackerNews, vaccines, Vera Cruz | 5 Comments »
Posted on December 23, 2008 by J.A. Ginsburg
Bio photonics. Until yesterday, when a story on Wired magazine’s website about a “MacGyveresque” cell phone lit up Twitter universe, I hadn’t a clue. This particular cell phone, developed by Aydogan Ozcan’s lab at UCLA, doubles as a cytometer that can analyze blood cells for disease based on the cells’ light diffraction signatures. In short, [...]
Filed under: rapid diagnostics | Tagged: Aydogan Ozcan, disease detection, Ed Jezierski, George Whitesides, GreeneChip, Ian Lipkin, InSTEDD, rapid diagnostics | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 2, 2008 by J.A. Ginsburg
I knew I’d seen that face before. Those cheeks. Those whiskers. That long, long tail. The giant African pouched rat – a.k.a., the giant Gambian pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus) – was all over the headlines five years ago, fingered as the likely culprit in a first-ever outbreak in the U.S. of monkeypox (a smallpox relative). [...]
Filed under: HeroRATS, InSTEDD, TB, TrackerNews, landmines, rapid diagnostics, tuberculosis, vapor detection technology | Tagged: Apopo, Bart Weetjens, HeroRATS, InSTEDD, Jane Goodall, landmines, monkeypox, rapid diagnostics, Skoll Foundation, TrackerNews, tuberculosis, zoonosis | 1 Comment »
