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#Gut bacteria found to have a role in both #PTSD and Alzheimer's disease

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Gut bacteria found to have a role in both PTSD and Alzheimer's disease We are rapidly discovering that the vast community of bacteria that live in our gut are actually playing roles in everything from Multiple Sclerosis to depression. Two new studies have now found connections between the gut microbiome and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Alzheimer's disease.

GM's SURUS: A Modular Electric Truck Platform

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GM's SURUS: A Modular Electric Truck Platform (and We Do Mean "Platform") For decades, automotive design has been limited by the components necessary to make the car run. The interior and exterior forms we can create evolve as the mechanics evolve. As our tool correspondent David Frane pointed out in his write-up on the Bollinger B1, "Traditional [vehicle] design flies out the

Blockstack - A New Internet for Decentralized Apps

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A development platform for decentralized applications built on top of the blockchain.

The Role Of Storyboarding In #UX Design

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The Role Of Storyboarding In UX Design To come up with a proper design, UX designers use a lot of different research techniques, such as contextual inquires, interviews and workshops. They summarize research findings into user stories and user flows and communicate their thinking and solutions to the teams with artifacts such as personas and wireframes.

The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

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The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective When I give the dating app LoveFlutter my Twitter handle, it rewards me with a 28-axis breakdown of my personality: I'm an analytic Type A who's unsettlingly sex-focused and neurotic (99th percentile). On the sidebar where my "Personality Snapshot" is broken down in further detail, a section called "Chat-Up Advice" advises, "Do your best to avoid being negative.

The animated guide to #blockchain

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The Hacking of the American Mind with Dr. Robert Lustig

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