Using new tools to share your thinking

By rickColosimo / December 17, 2010 / Comments Off on Using new tools to share your thinking

Several years ago, I had an idea for a tool I’ve called the “exonet.” The name derives from both being separate and distinct from the intranet/extranet and from the idea that our DNA is typically divided into introns and exons by geneticists. (The introns are the parts between the “genes” that don’t, strictly speaking, code…

Follow-up on diet app

By rickColosimo / November 13, 2010 / Comments Off on Follow-up on diet app

Here’s an interesting take on my idea for an evidence-based diet: an app that spits out recipes based on ingredients you feed it. (I should really edit that sentence; it sounds like I made a pun on purpose.) It’s one piece of the puzzle; a feed of data points gleaned from articles, this app, a…

Evidence-based diet – in a box

By rickColosimo / November 13, 2010 /

This fancy meal in a box gives me an interesting idea about how to launch the idea in a simpler version. Rather than go whole-hog to the full meal preparation and individualized diet => menu route, you could streamline the development and start with a launch of semi-specialized menus, such as heart-healthy, cancer risk, or…

Follow-up: evidence based diets

By rickColosimo / May 14, 2010 / Comments Off on Follow-up: evidence based diets

This visualization (far less interactive than the word “interactive” implies, IMHO) attempts to display the quality of evidence connecting various nutritional supplements to the ailments they’re supposed to affect. The list is pretty random, and there’s probably a need to investigate or at least share how the evidentiary grades are assigned. But, I can see…