Color will help you uncover.
This Color Test Will Reveal Your Primary Emotion
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Which "Rugrats" Character Are You Based On Your Zodiac?
A baby’s gotta do what a baby’s gotta do!
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7 Last-Minute Costumes You Can Make With Just A T-Shirt
Don’t have time for a full-scale costume? WE GOT YOU.
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To prove you're not thirsty in the slightest, why not go as Netflix and/or Chill?
Grab an ice cube tray, a handheld fan, or anything else that's ~~~~~~~~~~chill.
Lauren Zaser / BuzzFeed Life
Got a tie-dyed shirt? Congrats, you're the Jerry Garcia Beanie Baby.
Just add a big red tag (and a cast, if you're Brett).
Lauren Zaser / BuzzFeed Life
Baseball t-shirts can be easily turned into the SEX BASES.
This costume ignited a weeks-long debate in our office re: what the bases actually are, but "French, Feel, Finger" seemed to be the prevailing opinion. We used a Cricut (see note at the bottom) to make the handprints but there is no reason you shouldn't just dunk your palms in red paint and SPLATTER.
Sarah Kobos / BuzzFeed Life
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Are These Foods Yum Or Yuck?
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11 Beautiful Fucking Baby Names I Made Up
Feel free to use any of these original names I just thought of for your offspring.
Isamora
Pronounced: Iza-more-a.
Inspired by the words "is" and "more," for the baby who's cup runneth over. "Isa" for short.
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Ryeme
Pronounced: Rhy-em.
For those who love music but don't want to name their baby "Melody." "Rye" for short.
Loryn Brantz / Thinkstock
Mayla
Pronounced: May-la.
Inspired by the month of May.
Loryn Brantz / Thinkstock
Lilyond
Pronounced: Lily-yond.
A play on the words "lily" and "pond."
Loryn Brantz / Thinkstock
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Who's Jim Webb's Biggest Enemy? The Guy He Killed In Vietnam Who Tossed A Grenade At Him
On Tuesday night, Anderson Cooper asked all the Democratic presidential candidates which "enemy" they were most proud of making.
Most people gave straight-forward answers (the NRA, the Iranians, etc.)
Until they got to Jim Webb, who literally said this:
"I'd have to say the enemy soldier that threw the grenade that wounded me."
"But he's not around now to... talk to."
No, really:
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Which Kardashian/Jenner Should Be Your BFF?
You’ll have a ride or die kind of friend.
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17 Cool And Clever Ways To Show Your Unwavering Devotion To Kale
“I’m so crazy for you. It kales me.”
Get a kale tattoo.
Wear this shirt that says kale instead of Yale.
Publicly complain about the lack of kale emoji.
Buy ALL the kale at your local grocer, leaving none for less devoted lovers.
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We Know Your Favorite Pub Grub Based On Your Taste In Beer
Beer is the great decider.
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What Is Britney Spears Dreaming About In This Photo?
It could be any number of things.
Britney Spears recently posted this photo of herself sleeping to her Instagram.
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27 Things Everyone Obsessed With Ikea Will Understand
POÄNG for life.
You know of a blue and yellow wonderland so magical that you've actually devoted whole days to visiting it.
Shopping here is your weekend workout.
Håkan Dahlström / dahlstroms.com / Creative Commons / Via Flickr: dahlstroms
The moment you step foot inside, it's like everything calls to you "come sit, take a break, you've earned it."
You know you want to.
Antonio Tajuelo / Creative Commons / Via Flickr: antoniotajuelo
But then you immediately have the urge to redecorate your entire place...
"I can see my place looking like...this place."
...and find yourself mentally remodeling your home every two seconds...
"I wonder if my landlord would notice if I changed the ENTIRE kitchen?!"
Kelly Sue DeConnick / Creative Commons / Via Flickr: kellysue
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Who Said It: David Brent Or Michael Scott?
That’s what he said.
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16 Killer Halloween Looks You Can Pull Off All Year-Round
It’s your aesthetic. Own it.
These fab lashes
Find here.
Via partycity.com
This Killer clutch
Find here.
Via amazon.com
And this sweet one
Find here.
Via dollskill.com
This badass hand candy
Find here.
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We Know Your Subconscious Fear Based On Your Birth Month
*Evil laugh, evil laugh, evil laugh*
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17 Gifts To Give The Impatient "Ricky And Morty" Fan In Your Life
We miss you Rick and Morty.
The Good Morty Shower Curtain
Find it here.
Engelen / Via society6.com
Evil Rick and Morty Crop Top
Find it here.
Via teesbuy.net
Mr. Poopybutthole Plush Toy
Find it here.
crochetbyallie / Via etsy.com
I'm Tiny Rick! Tea Cup and Saucer
Find it here.
Via etsy.com
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Which Obscure "How I Met Your Mother" Character Are You?
Don’t take this quiz expecting Ted or Marshall.
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10 Sweet And Savory Recipes You Can Actually Make With Beer
You can have your beer and eat it too.
Creamy Autumn Beer Soup
This autumn soup is creamy, delicious, full of flavor, and made with IPA. Get the recipe here.
Via wellandfull.com
Beer-Soaked Garlic and Rosemary Fries
French fries made with beer? Sign me up. Get the recipe here.
Via lexibites.com
Chocolate Stout Peanut Butter Cups
Can we put chocolate stout in all the things?! Get the recipe here.
Via thebeeroness.com
Beer Battered Onion Rings
Heaven. Get the recipe here.
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An Entire Indigenous Australian Community Is Running Out Of Water And It’s Making Kids Sick
Families are concerned that filthy water might have long lasting health effects.
Lyndel Prior and her five children on Palm Island
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Lynndel Prior alleges these boil came after showering in the murky water. (Supplied)
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22 Of The Best Lines From Robin Scherbatsky On "How I Met Your Mother"
Nobody asked you Patrice!
When she wasn't playing any games.
CBS / Via iltuoprofumosulmiocuscino.tumblr.com
When she prioritized food above all else.
CBS / Via pinterest.com
When she had no qualms about hiding what really matters to her.
CBS / Via whatthebuck20.tumblr.com
When Robin was brave enough to be honest with herself.
CBS / Via weheartit.com
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Apple’s Latest ResearchKit Apps Are Taking On Autism And Epilepsy
Duke University
Earlier this week, from the comfort of an elaborately modern mid-town Manhattan hotel suite, I stared into the front-facing camera of a rose gold iPhone 6S Plus and contorted my face into a deep frown and, with the twinkle of a few green dots, caught a glimpse of the future of handheld healthcare.
I was in the suite to demo three new medical research apps that today become the newest members of Apple’s ResearchKit healthcare platform. And the app in front of me — the one I was making peculiar faces at — was a childhood autism and anxiety screener called Autism and Beyond. Developed by Duke University, the app uses facial recognition algorithms to track a child’s responses to various stimuli, screening them for signs of autism. While by no means a replacement for a standard autism screen — a rigorous by-appointment process that typically involves a variety of medical professionals —the app can alert parents to potential abnormalities in a child’s behavior or assuage anxious parents that a particular behavior is scanning as normal.
“This kind of assessment is expensive and requires an enormous amount of human capital," Dr. Helen Egger, Duke’s Chief of Child and Family Mental Health and Developmental Neuroscience told BuzzFeed News. "There's just no way we're going to meet the need simply by training more people because there just won't ever be enough people. With this app we can finally put something in the hands of parents to answer a simple question: ‘When should I worry? Is this typical? Or is this something I need to talk to a professional about?'”
Through Apple’s open source ResearchKit platform, Autism and Beyond can — with the explicit consent of parents — submit data to Duke’s researchers, engineers, and pediatricians to be compiled for autism research. For physicians, the aggregated data will hopefully give researchers the chance to diagnose autism earlier in children; for parents, the app just might give those without easy access to childhood mental health, the ability to catch early signs or simply preliminarily screen for the developmental disorder.
In my demo, I watched as the iPhone’s camera immediately keyed in to different “emotional landmarks” on my face (children using the app will only see the stimuli — videos of toys or friendly young men and women singing songs — but I was getting a glimpse of the technology behind the emotional recognition). When I smiled, the landmarks turned green; when I frowned, the landmarks lit up red, picking up on my distress. In the University’s initial tests, Egger and her team say that initial tests indicate the app codes a child's responses with accuracy close to that of an in-person screen performed by a researcher.
If the app is indeed that accurate, Autism and Beyond could potentially provide a valuable tool to countless families struggling to diagnose their children. For Dr. Ricky Bloomfield, a professor, pediatrician and member of Duke team, the project is personal. “I have a daughter who was diagnosed with autism between six and seven years old. But autism can be diagnosed as early as 18 months. If we'd known earlier we'd have had more tools to help our daughter and it would have dramatically decreased the guilt we felt as a parents,” he said.
Apple Watch censors that monitor heart rate may help researchers develop seizure prediction technology.
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And it’s not just autism. At John’s Hopkins, neurology professors Gregory Krauss and Nathan Crone have used ResearchKit to create an app that tracks epilepsy patients in the hopes of eventually developing an Apple Watch seizure detector. In the current version, users suffering from seizures can use the gyroscope and motion sensor inside the Apple Watch to track their seizures, monitor their heart rates, and log and answer survey questions after the seizure has ended. Dr. Krauss believes the development of an accurate seizure tracker would drastically improve the quality of life for the 5.1 million people in the United States who have had a diagnosis of epilepsy or a seizure disorder, according to the CDC. “Many dealing with seizures are afraid to drive or work alone or stay at home. Being able to detect and alert professionals could give patients far more independence,” he said. The Hopkins app also aims to be a first step toward discovery for some epilepsy patients, who, because of the nature of the disorder, are often left in the dark after a seizure.
“Forty percent of people have some kind of warning before going into a seizure, but are amnesiac after and don't remember having one,” Dr. Crone added. “Patients using this app will be able to look at this and say, ‘whoa, I just had a seizure.” The iPhone app will also allow patients to track medication and carefully monitor how they feel before, during, and after seizures, in order to better understand and track their progress.
Third in the trio of ResearchKit apps debuting today is Mole Mapper, a melanoma screener developed by the Knight Cancer Institute in conjunction with Oregon Health & Sciences University, which aims to monitor and track moles well-before they become cancerous. Like Duke’s autism screener, the app doesn’t purport to detect or diagnose melanomas, — the FTC has previously fined apps that have claimed to identify melanomas — but instead offers the ability to track moles for abnormalities or suspicious growth.
The app asks a lot of its users, who’ll need to take photos of their moles, name them, and then “re-map” them every month. But according to Dan Webster, a Post-Doc at the National Cancer Institute and the developer of Mole Mapper, the app fills in the spaces between infrequent dermatologist visits. “Next time you go to the doctor, you don't just have a single image, you can see three, six, and nine months ago. It’s like six doctors visits in one.”
Mole Mapper
From a research perspective, each of these apps and their corresponding studies suggest the possibility of unprecedented scale, which, in turn, suggests the possibility of unprecedented and accelerated findings in their respective fields of study. It's a heartening and exciting thought, though for now, ResearchKit studies are still in their infancy and the value of data they compile is unknown. And in the early stages there are bound to be, despite Apple’s strict adherence to user data policies and encryption, privacy trepidation from users who aren’t accustomed to uploading personal health data. And there’s also the issue of cost; while some ResearchKit efforts like Autism and Beyond will provide smartphones to some clinical patients without the financial means to purchase them, the vanguard of health tech isn’t cheap. Programs that require the latest hardware can limit participation.
But together these apps hint at a future healthcare that feels...more empowering for patients and the families. Unlike the current system, where bureaucracy and soaring costs can create barriers between professionals and patients, smartphone enabled health apps offer patients the ability to be proactive and take a more active role in researching and possibly finding solutions for particular disorders, by way a kind of quantified vigilance.
Should it prove viable and effective,smartphone health tracking, like the kind proposed by these three apps, could help fill the gaps between doctor’s visits with additional insight into the disorders they’re examining. And it could help, in some small way, to quell the anxiety associated with the uncertainty of a checkup. More importantly, it could serve as an early warning system and ultimately provide a greater modicum of control for patients in medical situations that lack it.
It's this small bit of control — the ability to detect a potential behavioral abnormality in an infant, the opportunity to visualize the growth of a mole or the correlation between skipped meds and a seizure — that sheds light on a few of the many unknowns that can turn doctor and hospital visits into torturous, anxious affairs. And in the process of mapping and tracking and doing, something deeply therapeutic takes root. For epilepsy and melanoma patients, logging information and answering survey questions and seeing ResearchKit’s pool of respondent results might mean feeling less alone with your ailment. And for friends and family who might often feel powerless, contributing to the studies offers the ability to assume a present, supportive, and active role in helping with research.
“People want to manage their disorder and see that evolution and parents want to help to be more present and engaged,” Krauss said of his epilepsy app and the broader smartphone based research system. “And I think today we see the early steps toward the opportunity to help greatly with that.”
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