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...nearly 800 people. That's one of the reasons researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, developed HealthMap, a website that mines more than 30,000 data sources - including news media and government alerts - and puts them on a Google Map to show where outbreaks are occurring, in real time. Whether it's measles in Sussex, foot-and-mouth disease in Taiwan or avian flu in Indonesia, as reports of diseases bubble up, HealthMap researchers scan them and post them online. The result is about as close...
...iPhone app makes HealthMap information even more accessible to the average person, by marrying the map's network of global data with the smartphone's GPS function, which tracks an individual user's location. So the program enables you to find out instantly whether there are any new outbreaks close to home. "The system can deliver reports that are relevant to your location," says Clark Freifield, a Ph.D. student at MIT's Media Lab and a co-founder of HealthMap. See the top iPhone applications...
Wonder what those new carts are selling? Should you buy a Falafel or head back to your House for free HUDS? To make the decision easier, we've got a handy map that shows what food you can find where, and how much you'll have to shell out to get it. Just click on the cart or sign to see the menu. They're serving lunch every weekday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. through the end of October...
...Aesthetically, the colors are completely different—more black and white with dark wood, instead of that really early 90's orange thing we had going on," Criscuoll says of the renovated store. On a large black board hanging on the wall, she plans to paint a map of the world that illustrates the origins of the store's coffee...
Swine flu arrived in Macon County, Alabama, last week, showing up in classrooms at all levels and leaving a spate of empty desks in its wake. But authorities are battling the virus on its own turf, using vacant seats as both a map and compass to stem the tide...