Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Healthy, Wealthy And *Cries*

An MIT Scientist Claims That This Pill Is The Fountain Of Youth
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HEALTHY AND WEALTHY
A LITTLE HARD TO SWALLOW
An MIT Scientist Claims That This Pill Is The Fountain Of Youth
nymag.com
Leonard Guarente is certain he's succeeded where doctors (and quacks) before him have failed. His pill will either extend lives or tarnish his career.
NEEDLE IN A MONEY STACK
How Congress, The FDA And Sarah Jessica Parker Helped EpiPen Become A $1 Billion Business
gizmodo.com
In 2007, an EpiPen cost about $57. Today that price has skyrocketed to over $600 — all for about $1 worth of injectable medicine.
WARM UP TO TURNING OFF THE AC
Your Air-Conditioned Office Could Be Hurting Your Productivity
bloomberg.com
A wide body of research suggests there's a link between the temperature of a workplace and worker productivity.
BANKING WE DIGG
A Bank With A Conscience, What A Concept
aspiration.com
People are excited about putting their money at a financial firm with a conscience — one that cares both about you and about the world. Open a checking account with Aspiration to get up to 100x the interest of the big banks, pay no ATM fees worldwide, and even set your own account fee (even if it's zero). Plus, we donate 10% of all revenue to charity.
CONTROL ISSUES
Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above
bloomberg.com
Since January, police have been testing an aerial surveillance system adapted from the surge in Iraq. And they neglected to tell the public.
FOR WHOSE BENEFIT?
Teenage Wasteland
testkitchen.huffingtonpost.com
The billion-dollar troubled-teen industry has been a disaster for decades. It's still not fixed.
SILICON VALLEY OF THE DAMNED
IT'S A DISASTER
Why Homeland Security Unleashed An 'Alien Virus' On Silicon Valley
motherboard.vice.com
The Wireless Emergency Alert system should be more advanced than the Emergency Broadcast System, if only the telecom industry would let it.
HOOLI ALWAYS WINS
Google Is Using Neural Networks To Compress Photos (Just Like On HBO's 'Silicon Valley')
qz.com
Researchers at Google are working on a way to use neural networks, the building blocks of modern artificial intelligence, to make our picture files smaller without sacrificing quality.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
FELINE AIDS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER
A Hilarious Supercut Of SNL Cast Members Breaking Character
digg.com
IN THE NEWS
Earthquake In Central Italy Leaves 38 Dead And 150 Missing
North Korea Test Fires 'Improved' Submarine Missile
Turkey Sends Tanks Into Syria On Anti-ISIS Operation
Facebook Is Testing Video With Autoplaying Sound
Now just stay in character as 'Good Employee' until 5 pm. You got this.