When FiveThirtyEight's political minesweeper Nate Silver analyzes the data from Google Flu Trends, there are bound to be some notable results.
We're previously written about how Google Flu Trends uses flu-related search data to ...READ»
Legally spreading illness:Here’s a fun question for you. What is the quickest way to legally spread swine flu in the USA? You don’t know? Here’s a clue. It has to do with people you interact with every ...READ»
Reports about the new swine flu surfaced last March. By April, there was an App for that. Now there are close to 30 swine flu-related Apps in Apple's Store, the most recent from Harvard Medical School.
The HMS Mobile Swine Flu ...READ»
Earlier today, Google announced that it was expanding its flu trends program to 16 additional countries, bringing the total to 20 countries. Google first released the program last November after noticing a geographical correlation ...READ»
Chinese vaccine manufacturer, Sinovac has the first government-approved H1N1 vaccine in its possession, and now stands to make a killing in exports. Mexico has already ordered 10 million doses, according to a recent report in China ...READ»
While we wait for scientists to perfect a vaccine for the H1N1 virus, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the MIT Media Lab have offered up a helpful tool in our arsenal against the flu: the Outbreaks Near Me iPhone app, ...READ»
As the start of a new school year begins, concerns over H1N1--aka swine flu--are growing. Everyone's waiting to hear when a vaccine will be available, and earlier this summer, the CDC predicted that 120 million doses ...
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You're the head of the World Pandemic Control, and you've just received word that Gamers' Flu--a rare, highly contagious disease--is spreading through Europe. Should you close the airports, or the markets? Should you distribute face ...READ»
At the beginning of June, swine flu or H1N1 hit my daughters’ school in full force. Thankfully, everyone survived the outbreak, but what about next time? Experts predict that we haven’t seen the last of H1N1, or its more ...READ»
We know that the HR community recognizes the importance of work+life flexibility, but what about the people who drive the financial decisions, and write the checks. Is work+life flexibility on the radar screen of CFOs? Is it a ...READ»
Japanese officials are about to test a cellphone-based tracking system in an attempt to combat future pandemics. It's a bit like trying to solve the problem with good design, just with much less civil liberty.READ»
Over the past two weeks since we released the thought-provoking results of the 2009 Work+Life Fit Reality Check, I’ve been asked by a number of people what I think the findings mean. To me, the results confirm that it’s time, ...READ»
It might not save you from swine flu, but the Breathing Bud device can at least warn you when air quality is shoddy. The concept device, designed by Xinxin Wang and Zhi Chai, contains a vent at its base that sucks in air for ...READ»
In its battle for success, Twitter just made what looks like a minor change, but it could actually transform the lifecasting networking site in terms of increased relevance, and also turn it into a very powerful tool. The ...READ»
As the world watches the rising death toll from the Mexican outbreak of swine influenza, and wonders what's going to happen next, it looks like new media darling Twitter has caught a bad case of H1N1 itself. The social networking ...READ»
A central front in the war on super bugs like swine flu is hospitals themselves--they're crowded with nooks that can shelter disease, and frequently become vectors for outbreaks. This week, Britain's Design Council unveiled a slew ...READ»
Outbreaks of swine flu have been identified in Mexico, the United States and Europe, according to the World Health Organization. The super-virus--an amalgamation of strains that circulate in pigs, humans and birds--is known as H1N1, ...READ»
