On Monday we reviewed the state of health 2.0 and it was also the topic of this week's RWW Live, our live podcast show. At the end of the podcast, I asked all the panelists to list their favorite health 2.0 app (about the 58:30 mark if you want to listen to it). I've listed all the apps the panelists chose at the end of this post, but I wanted to highlight my own choice in this post. I selected MyMedLab, an online lab testing service - despite it being only available in the U.S. There appear to be two...
A team of indie filmmakers just wrapped The Beast of Bottomless Lake, their pseudo-documentary on the legendary Ogopogo monster, a massive creature said to live in Vancouver's Okanagan lake. And now, a real-life documentary crew from the History Channel claims to have found a "baby Ogopogo" in an underwater cave at the lake. They've also used infrared cameras in helicopters and sonar to look for a mama Ogopogo swimming around, and they think they've spotted her. The snakey Ogopogo, first seen in the nineteenth century, is supposedly 12 meters long. The History Channel team says their sonar spotted something...
A team of indie filmmakers just wrapped The Beast of Bottomless Lake, their pseudo-documentary on the legendary Ogopogo monster, a massive creature said to live in British Columbia's Lake Okanagan. And now, a real-life documentary crew from the History Channel claims to have found a "baby Ogopogo" in an underwater cave at the lake. They've also used infrared cameras in helicopters and sonar to look for a mama Ogopogo swimming around, and they think they've spotted her. The snakey Ogopogo, first seen in the nineteenth century, is supposedly 12 meters long. The History Channel team says their sonar spotted...
Bone fragments found near the wreckage of Steve Fossett's plane indeed belonged to the adventurer, extinguishing any lingering hope that he might have survived his plane's September 2007 crash in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The Associated Press and others report that Madera County Sheriff John Anderson announced today the results of DNA tests on bones that found last week. Also found were Fossett's tennis shoes and driver's license. Both had bite marks, suggesting that animals dragged his remains from the crash. The test results are a final note in a saga spanning Fossett's disappearance, a fruitless search for his...
Time's Anita Hamilton is refreshingly honest about why the magazine has picked 23andMe, the mail-order DNA testing outfit, as one of its top innovations of 2008: Anne Wojcicki, the startup's cofounder, is married to Google cofounder Sergey Brin. Few outlets are as forthright in displaying their motivations for celebrating 23andMe, arguably the least innovative and least scientific of the retail DNA tests on the market. Give Anne Wojcicki a prize, and her loyal husband will attend the awards ceremony. It's a great way to get Googler star power on the cheap....
1. DNA tests. 2. Electric cars 3. An unmanned moonship. 5. The world’s biggest particle accelerator. What are we missing here? No. 4 — Hulu.com. That’s right, easy access to TV on the web is changing the world, according to Time, which just released its list of the 50 best inventions of 2008. We totally agree. By the way, even better: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog finished at No. 15, just ahead of the world’s first moving skyscraper and an expressive robot. Good enough for the Evil League of Evil?...
New York-based network Familybuilder has been growing quite handily over the past year and a half since it first launched as a Facebook application. As of late June this year, it had grown to encompass users on MySpace, Bebo, Hi5 and Orkut, and had reached over 16 million people. Now it claims north of 20 million or more. And as of October 15, it will do its users one better than simply connecting the profiles of relatives. It will begin to provide DNA tests to users who care for a deeper understanding of their ancestral tree. For just $59.95 per...
Social genealogy service Familybuilder, the company we profiled in June as “Possibly the largest online genealogy service you’ve never heard of” has started a price war in the DNA testing market by offering tests from $59.95. Starting October 15, paternal (YDNA) and maternal (mtDNA) tests will be $59.95 each, or combined a low $119.90. This compares to $149/ $179 (total $328) on AncestryDNA or $399 (combined test) from the Google backed 23andme. Familybuilder will combine its social networking genealogy network of over 20 million family tree profiles on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut and Hi5 to promote the now cheaper DNA...
DNA tests on sushi from four restaurants found that two of the eateries have been selling mislabeled sushi, such as cheap tilapia passed off as expensive white tuna, the Times reports. Six out of ten grocery stores tested have also been passing the phony fish – and they would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for a couple of curious high school seniors, who spent about $300 collecting samples and sending them off to a lab for "DNA bar code" analysis. And ersatz sushi sellers better get used to this sort of thing; one kid’s father, a...
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