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Kevin

Never go blind – stem cells FTW

stem cell eye

Never ceases to amaze me at how awesomely fast technology and medicine continues to progress. Here’s a new story on probably the first (published) human trial with stem cells and its effects on blindness. Maybe its about time I can finally trust Lasik…

“This trial is more about assessing the safety of the transplantation than its efficacy; but the ambiguity surrounding Freeman’s improvements draws attention to the need for control groups and larger sample sizes in future trials. For now, however, these results are pretty much everything the researchers could have hoped for.

“This is very important for the field of human embryonic stem cell research,” says Dr. Steven Schwartz, director of the Diabetic Eye Disease and Retinal Vascular Center at UCLA and lead author of the paper. “It opens the door for multiple strategies in the field, and hopefully for everyone investigating [this technique], it puts some wind in their sails.”

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No comments yet | posted on: January 24, 2012 in Uncategorized

Kevin

Spread the word: Why #SOPA and #PIPA are so dangerous

Most of you have heard of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, but have you also heard of PIPA, the Protect IP Act? While the SOPA brand has been damaged due to the mass negative attention it has received and the companies publicly opposing it, the PIPA bill is essentially the twin sister of SOPA and has mostly slid under the radar. The bill is scheduled for a Senate floor vote on January 24th and companies such as MAKE, all of O’Reilly Media, Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, Tucows, Twitpic, and more have pledged to go dark tomorrow to build awareness on this issue.

Don’t let your government destroy what is the fabric of the internet.
Do your part and help spread the word.

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

No comments yet | posted on: January 17, 2012 in Uncategorized

Anne Ishii

The Average Successful Start-up Raises around $23.5mm between 1.5 & 7 years; and Other Interesting Stats

via Techcrunch

No comments yet | posted on: January 13, 2012 in IVL, Solutions

Anne Ishii

MUST ATTEND: Chip Kidd, who knoweth nothing about e-books, moderates panel on Digital Publishing

This is an absolute must-attend event. Tactile Book Design Hero Chip Kidd wants to referee the discussion on digital design and publishing. Chip, an Imprint Culture Lab alumnus and dear friend, has long spoken off-the-record about the tragic dissipation of print. I’m excited to hear any last hurrahs, especially coming from such a seasoned champion and spokesperson.

What does Chip Kidd—author, editor, art director and jacket designer for over 25 years for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group—know about digital publishing and the future of the book? Absolutely NOTHING, so therefore he will be moderating a panel of people who actually do, including Craig Mod, writer, designer and mentor of 500 Startups and designer and product planner at Flipboard, who will discuss the procession in physical vs digital books and how to think different about the design format of the book; Carin Goldberg, award-winning designer, principal of Carin Goldberg Design and instructor at School of Visual Arts, who will fill us in on how she is working to empower and prepare her design students in the digital age; Jeremy Clark, Director of User Experience for Adobe and head of the Experience Design team’s digital publishing group, who will tell us how he works with high profile media publishers to create digital publishing products.

No comments yet | posted on: January 6, 2012 in ICL, Name Drop

Kevin

Ever wonder how Google captures all of those map street-views?

We all knew that Google drove around with these gnarly cameras on top of their cars to capture these amazingly accurate street-views, but did you also know that they use bikes, snowmobiles, and even a push-cart? I call dibs on the snowmobile!