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Eat right and exercise is about as basic as medical advice gets. Follow it, and you'll benefit from better overall fitness, improved quality of life, and a reduced risk for chronic conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes. The American Cancer Society now says the evidence has piled up that diet and exercise can help cancer survivors manage, beat, and stay free of their disease, too. "There's just been an explosion of research in this area that gives us the confidence that these things matter," Colleen Doyle, director of nutrition and physical activity for ACS, tells Shots.

free open life sciences resources designed to spread knowledge of life sciences using new mediums.

This is written by the SVP of Scitable, Vikram Savkar. Seems like an amazing guy. http://www.scienceprogress.org/2010/05/invest-in-teaching/ Nice find, by the way.

heard about this open source company via NASA open source summit Bioclipse is a free and open source workbench for the life sciences.

-The World Bank opened its vast storehouse of data to the public a year ago. Since then, people have come in droves--at the rate of about 100,000 a week--for thousands of free, curated and searchable datasets on education, poverty, health, water access and numerous other indicators.

Free software for the carrara 3d authoring tool to generate 3d models from video data like the kinect tool produces.

Body area network (BAN), wireless body area network (WBAN) or body sensor network (BSN) are terms used to describe the application of wearable computing devices

Three films exploring the very thing that makes us human. Each episode features an extraordinary character who can do extraordinary things with their brain. Marc Yu is only 7 years old, but he already has a repertoire of over 15 classical piano pieces - some of them over 20 minutes long. Chess grand master Susan Polgar tells the story of how her father turned her and her sisters into chess prodigies. Autistic Savant George Widener stuns us with his superhuman calculating and memory skills. And prepare to be moved by Tommy McHugh - the Liverpool hardman who turned into an obsessive artist after surviving a stroke. We find out how they do it. Episodes included: Make Me A Genius, Accidental Genius, and Born Genius.

... global collaboration ...

This is a preview profile on BiomedExperts - the first literature-based scientific social network. It brings the right researchers together and allows them to collaborate online. Elsevier Inc. provides the BiomedExperts network of +1.8 Million pre-calculated profiles free of charge to researchers worldwide.

SCVNGR is a game. Playing is simple: Go places. Do challenges. Earn points and unlock rewards! (Think free coffee!) Individuals and enterprises build on SCVNGR by adding challenges and rewards to their favorite places. very interesting use of geolocation, gaming and social tech. Founder gave one of the keynotes at SXSW

Bay Area Community Exchange Presents John Robb's Open Source Ventures Friday, March 18, 2011 at 7:30 PM (PT) San Francisco, CA this is free- suggest if you can make it you make it ... should be good info

The Living Human Project (LHP) is developing a worldwide, distributed repository of anatomo-functional data and of simulation algorithms relative to the human musculoskeletal apparatus, fully integrated into a seamless simulation environment and directly accessible by any researcher in the world. This infrastructure will be used to create the physiome of the human musculoskeletal system.

Bio mathematics and related areas use mathematical principles to investigate biological issues

Modeling biological systems is a significant task of systems biology and mathematical biology. Computational systems biology aims to develop and use efficient algorithms, data structures, visualization and communication tools with the goal of computer modeling of biological systems.