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Data visualisation aims to change view of global health

Imagine you are a foreign aid worker trying to persuade a senior politician in a developing world country to introduce a pneumococcus vaccination programme. It’s not just a case of stressing how the…
PUBLISHED: June 17, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (597 words)

The Money Shot

The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer. But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom, it…
PUBLISHED: June 1, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4467 words)

The story of how the tin can nearly wasn't

Continue reading the main storyTin cans have, in 200 years, changed the way the world eats. But Victorian disgust over a cheap meat scandal almost consigned the invention to rejection and failure.…
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5618 words)

“We Gained Hope.” The Story of Lilly Grossman’s Genome

One – The Twitch It started with a slight twitch. Steve and Gay Grossman both noticed it in their daughter Lilly in 1998, when she was just one-and-a-half years old. By the time she was four,…
AUTHOR:Ed Yong
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3130 words)

SIRI RISING: The Inside Story Of Siri's Origins -- And Why She Could Overshadow The iPhone

The world got its first inkling of the quick wit that would make Apple’s Siri an icon during a packed press conference held before an auditorium of tech elite. "Who are you?" an Apple executive asked…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 22, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5555 words)

How we became biohackers: Part one

When you have lunch courtesy of the FBI, you are offered chicken Caesar salad, hamburger or fish. Soft drinks are extra. Throughout our two-day visit we were happy to dine on FBI hamburgers and…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 22, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (617 words)

Suds for Drugs

(Photo: Victor Prado/New York Magazine. Typography by Kevin Dresser.) The call that came in from a local Safeway one day in March 2011 was unlike any the Organized Retail Crime Unit of the Prince…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 6, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (799 words)

Gamification: Is it game over?

Brushed your teeth this morning? Congratulations, you get 20 points. Hit your quarterly performance target early? Good work, you get half a day's extra holiday. You voted in the recent elections so…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (636 words)

The race to stop a global killer

Scientific endeavour isn’t always as glamorous as crashing atoms into each other deep underground in Switzerland, or sending rovers to roam the surface of Mars looking for clues to life. For Dirk…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (630 words)
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