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The U.S. will spend $230 million on health care in the next hour. One in six Americans goes without health insurance (around 47 million people). According to the National Academy of Sciences, lack of health insurance results in lost economic value equal to $178 million to $356 million every day, due to the poorer health and earlier deaths of the uninsured. The U.S. ranks #24 among the 30 most affluent countries in life expectancy – yet spends more on health care than any other nation. The U.S. infant mortality rate is on par with that of Croatia, Cuba, Estonia, and Poland; if the U.S. infant mortality rate were the same as that of top-ranked Sweden, 21,000 more American babies would live to celebrate their first birthdays every year. A baby born in Washington, D.C. is almost two-and-a-half times more likely to die before age one than a baby born in Vermont. African American babies are more than twice as likely to die before age one than either white or Latino babies. Changes in...

When you meet your  robot overlord , it may be wearing super-intelligent skin  designed by a Stanford researcher --a solar-powered, super-sensitive, chemical-sampling covering that makes your meatbag covering look pathetic. Zhenan Bao is behind the advances, and the recent development centers on a stretchable solar cell system that can expand and shrink along two different axes, making it perfect for incorporation into artificial skin for robots, human prosthetic limbs, or even clothing. Bao's earlier successes with artificial skin have resulted in a highly flexible and durable material, which is part of a flexible organic-chemistry transistor, built on a thin polymer layer. When the skin is subjected to pressure, the current flowing through the transistors is modified as tiny pyramid shapes molded into the polymer layer compress, resulting in a super-sensitive transducer that can apparently detect the pressure from a house-fly's feet. By modifying the transistor with a biol...

Very very cool work!....I suggest you give it a try guys! Just press play on  Arcade Fire 's new web music video, " The Wilderness Downtown ," and you'll know that you're seeing a glimpse of the future of entertainment Utilizing cutting-edge internet technology, the Montreal-based rock band, along with director Chris Milk and partners at Google, have created an interactive media experience. Users type in their childhood address, and a custom-generated music video is created featuring images of their childhood home and neighborhood, pulled from Google Maps and Street View. "You do get a little bit of the feeling of, 'Wow, I felt a little bit like I was there again,'" said Andy Berndt, vice president of Google's creative lab. "The Wilderness Downtown" relies on  HTML5 technology , a new web development standard that allows programmers to use web browsers in a whole new way. Windows pop open and closed in a choreographed fashion,...

The Problem By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth's population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim. An estimated 10 9 hectares of new land (about 20% more land than is represented by the country of Brazil) will be needed to grow enough food to feed them, if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today. At present, throughout the world, over 80% of the land that is suitable for raising crops is in use (sources: FAO and NASA). Historically, some 15% of that has been laid waste by poor management practices. What can be done to avoid this impending disaster? A Potential Solution: Farm Vertically   

A cheap way to turn a screen of any size into a touch-sensitive device. An ultra-precise game controller. A new way to manipulate images. These are just some of the possible uses for ZeroTouch, an interface unveiled this week at the  Conference on Human Factors in Computing by researchers from Texas A&M University in College Station. ZeroTouch  senses an object's position using a series of infrared LEDs and sensors mounted on the outside of what looks like an empty picture frame. The LEDs create a grid of invisible beams that crisscross the space inside the frame. A finger or other object that enters the frame blocks some of the beams, allowing the software monitoring the beams to track the movement of the object in real time. The system can be used to turn any screen, including supersized televisions, into a touchscreen. Combined with a traditional touchscreen, ZeroTouch can also be used to increase the range of commands that a system can understand. The Texas team demon...

There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the population reference bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child,Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stocking, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney,jump into the sleigh and get...