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Twitter, blogs and other social media can be powerful tools for tracking infectious diseases as they spread
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researchers who followed social media during Haiti’s post-earthquake cholera outbreak in 2010.
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Twitter posts and news about cholera gathered
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in the first 100 days of the outbreak tracked closely
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data reported from hospital and clinics
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social media data were available almost instantly
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others have shown that Twitter and other online sources can provide meaningful information about outbreaks of diseases such as H1N1 and swine flu
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new work establishes that the approach is useful for tracking a disease that emerges in the unsafe living conditions that often follow a disaster, says Polgreen.
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188,819 tweets that contained or were tagged with the word cholera during the first 100 days of the cholera outbreak
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analysis suggests the social tool provides a good measure of the disease’s spread
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The researchers compared the tweets to data from HealthMap, a disease-tracking tool that mines Internet news stories, blogs and discussion groups and lets the public report illness by cell phone. Both the Twitter and HealthMap data corresponded to official data from the Haitian Ministry of Public Health.
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Official sources of data are better validated, but on the downside they are going to take time
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Five Canadians made the trek to Florida to watch the final shuttle launch last year. They are wrapping up filming and interviews — which included astronauts and sci-fi stars — to discuss the legacy of the program.
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How did you get down there?
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drove the entire journey from Toronto to the Titusville/Cocoa Beach area
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stopped at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to shoot prototype shuttle Enterprise before it was moved to New York City
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we had written the Chasing Atlantis Twitter account and site URL on our cars
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A NASA software engineer, Ryan Horan, saw our car with Paul shooting out the window as we passed by the sign for the Kennedy Space Center. He was interested in our project and sent us a tweet.
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arranged
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to join one of the first tours following the reopening of the Vehicle Assembly Building to the public.
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The building is monstrously huge. It will generate its own weather system inside, sometimes producing micro-rain clouds.
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The film was completely self-funded
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posting an Indie-Go-Go or Kickstarter profile up in hopes of helping to cover the post-production costs
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SpaceX successfully launched six ORBCOMM advanced telecommunications satellites into orbit on Monday, July 14, to significantly upgrade the speed and capacity of their existing data relay network.
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SpaceX also used this launch opportunity to try and test the reusability of the Falcon 9′s first stage and its landing system while splashing down in the ocean
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However, the booster did not survive the splashdown. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reported that the rocket booster reentry, landing burn and leg deployment worked well, the hull of the first stage “lost integrity right after splashdown
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Musk tweeted. “Detailed review of rocket telemetry needed to tell if due to initial splashdown or subsequent tip over and body slam.”
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SpaceX wanted to test the “flyback” ability to the rocket, slowing down the descent of the rocket with thrusters and deploying the landing legs for future launches so the first stage can be re-used
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The previous test of the landing system was successful, but the choppy seas destroyed the stage and prevented recovery
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the six satellites launched
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are the first part of what the company hopes will be a 17-satellite constellation. They hope to have all 17 satellites in orbit by the end of the 2014
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