Monday, November 18, 2024

Medic Mobile

November 1, 2010 by  
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“Is free and enables large-scale, two-way text messaging using only a laptop, a GSM modem, and inexpensive cell phones. Its aim is to advance healthcare networks in under served communities using innovative, appropriate mobile technologies. Every day, more than 450,000 mobile phones in the USA find their way into desk drawers or rubbish bins and […]

The Windowfarms Project

October 19, 2010 by  
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“These vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens are built using low-impact or recycled local materials. Windowfarms is a vertical urban farming project for New York City apartment windows. The system is made from common water bottles and inexpensive parts available at hardware and hydroponic stores. It is supported by an information crowd-sourcing effort. […]

The Human Brain Bank

October 18, 2010 by  
Filed under kiwiStyle

“The N.Z Neurological Foundation Human Brain Bank is established in the Department of Anatomy with Radiology. The bank provides tissue for research programmes such as the pattern of cell death and chemical changes in Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Epilepsy and Motor Neuron Disease. N.Z. Neuroscientist Professor Richard Faull, whose world-leading research on the […]

New Zealand Air Line Pilots’ Association

October 1, 2010 by  
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“Contains the most comprehensive information on the 1979 Erebus disaster. This New Zealand Air Line Pilots’ Association (NZALPA) site is dedicated to informing us all about the plane crash that took the lives of 257 passengers and crew of Air NZ flight TE901 on November 28, 1979. Antarctic overflights were a new and exciting breakthrough […]

Mothers2Mothers

September 25, 2010 by  
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“Is a mentoring programme offering comprehensive support for HIV-positive pregnant women and new mothers. Mentor mother Monoang Mohakala said, “in short, we see in them our input and they are HEROES in our lives.” Preventing the transmission of HIV from a mother to a child is a straightforward medical procedure. Its simplest application, a single […]

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