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Giant golden bees on a skyscraper
On a side of the Eureka Tower, on Melbourne's Southbank, you'll find a colony of giant golden bees. It's a giant sculpture made from anodized aluminium. These creatures are a gleaming metaphor for a hive of frenetic activity and harmonious high-density city living. Eureka Tower is a 297.3-metre (975?ft) skyscraper that once was the world's tallest residential tower when measured to its highest floor. It was surpassed by Ocean Heights and the HHHR Tower in Dubai. https://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/m/15356/queen-bee-eureka-tower
21 September 2017 by oliver

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Hyper-personalised sneakers
Online retailer Shoes of Prey is expanding into the growing athleisure and "hyper-personalised" fashion market. with a new range of sneakers. Shoes of Prey allows customers to create bespoke shoe designs with 3D-model technology on its website. http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/shoes-of-preys-latest-business-venture-cements-2017-as-the-year-of-the-sneaker-20170919-gyk7aj.html
21 September 2017 by lynnwood

Industrial

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Clothes that grow with your child
Petit Pli creates advanced technical children?s clothing . Children grow 7 sizes in their first 2 years and this equates to wasted clothing. The versatile waterproof clothes made by Petit Pli are pleated in such a way that they can grow bi-directionally to custom fit a range of sizes. The continuous size adjustment is a new way of approaching garment design, one suitable to high growth rates and discrepancies in children?s sizes. Petit Pli uses technical materials that are ultra-lightweight, waterproof and breathable because children are very active. http://petitpli.com/
20 September 2017 by idealist

Climate

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Climate Change & Public Health - Threat or Opportunity
Saturday morning 23rd September seminar in Sydney involving Nobel Peace Prize winner, Prof Jonathan Patz, Director of the Global Health Institute, Uni of Wisconsin will debate our options with leading Australian academics and advocates from 350.org, the Climate And Health Alliance (CAHA) and Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) Book via - https://www.humanitix.com/event/climate-change-public-health/
18 September 2017 by Jeremy Wright

Artistic

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Art classes make medical students better clinical observers
Penn-CHOP researchers have found that students who took a course in art observation significantly improved their clinical observation and professional development skills. The art sessions were taught by professional art educators using the "Artful Thinking" teaching approach, which emphasizes introspection and observation before interpretation. In a post-study questionnaire, students who received the art training indicated that they had already begun to apply the skills used in the course in clinically meaningful ways as first-year medical students. Following the success of the study, The Perelman School of Medicine will be offering this Philadelphia Museum of Art course to first-year medical students during the 2017 fall semester. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/uops-acc090617.php
17 September 2017 by idea-2

Healthcare

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A 10 sec check for cancer
Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a pen called the "MacSpec pen" that can screen and analyze tissue samples for cancer in just 10 seconds when the process usually takes weeks. The pen, which looks like a white permanent marker with a cord down its back, is made with a 3D-printed surgical-ready plastic tip and uses water instead of gases and other harming solvents. The tool works by releasing a small water droplet onto a tissue sample and sucking the water, with some residual tissue, into a mass spectrometer to analyze the tissue samples in real time. With 93 percent accuracy, the researchers identified lung, ovary, thyroid and breast cancers using both mice and human tissue samples. https://www.google.com.au/amp/newatlas.com/macspec-pe
17 September 2017 by idea-2