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Nowadays when you take a course of antibiotics, many doctors will recommend eating a lot of yogurt or popping some probiotics to restore the good bacteria that the drugs wipe out. But how well does that work? One recent study found it can take up to a full year for the gut’s microbial ecosystem to recover from a single antibiotic course.
Dave Eggers partners with illustrator Tucker Nichols on a new children’s book detailing the Golden Gate Bridge’s surprising color history.
Imagine this: It’s 1933 and construction has begun on the world’s longest and tallest suspension bridge over the Golden Gate Strait, the entrance to the San Francisco Bay. Years of planning, rigorous engineering, and debate have gone into the design. The 80 miles of galvanized steel needed for the two main towers of the bridge have been ordered, as well as the 1.2 million steel rivets that will hold the bridge together. Workers have started to plunge the towers into the foundation in the sea floor, and yet, there’s one important detail still missing. The color.
In a 90-minute workshop, frog design made a case for why walling your company off from the rest of the industry can be detrimental.
“Most organizations are not very good at collaborating with others inside an ecosystem.”
Fever Scout is like a medical device given a Nike makeover.
It’s 3 a.m., and your baby is crying. You go into the room and realize he’s burning up. The options from here are bleak—probe your thrashing child with a steel-tipped rectal thermometer, or swipe across his head with an unreliable skin thermometer. And even if he’s in the safe range and falls back asleep, chances are good you’ll be up for the rest of the night worrying.
Can the buy-one-give-one model work for housing?
On a flight to Vancouver, two real estate developers happened to sit next to Toms shoes founder Blake Mycoskie. They started to talk, and had an idea: Could the one-for-one model pioneered by Mycoskie also be applied to housing?
And how the terrorist group’s coordinated attacks in Paris represent a disturbing turn of events
ISIS has marched across the Middle East and North Africa, recruiting fighters in what has seemed a frightening, if largely contained, threat. But a new set of visualizations on the New York Times suggests that things might have changed with last week’s Paris attacks. If ISIS is indeed responsible as it has claimed, it’s the first time the organization has launched an organized attack outside of its normal provinces.
German regulators are investigating claims that Apple’s agreement with Amazon subsidiary Audible has helped it monopolize audiobook sales.
Germany’s competition regulator, the Federal Cartel Office, has launched an investigation into the deal Apple inked years ago with Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobooks company, according to Reuters. The probe should address allegations that Apple’s agreement with the tech company has given Amazon an unfair advantage in the audiobooks business in Germany.
Uber now lets drivers pick up passengers headed in the same direction as them.
Car-hailing startup Uber’s latest new feature, currently available only in the San Francisco Bay Area, is aimed at drivers who are beginning or ending their shifts. Uber drivers in the Bay Area now have access to a destination setting feature that lets them pick up only riders who wish to travel in the same general direction they are headed.
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