from innovation to market: a miscellaneum of stray facts, useful insights, inspiring ideas, sobering realities r•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• The TrackerNews Project / J.A. Ginsburg, editorTumblr (3.0; @trackernewsdots)http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/ I would know that rat anywhere. The curve of his spine, the delicate perfection of his rib cage,...http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/49107206691http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/49107206691Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:58:00 -05003D Printer Experience3D printingChicagoTom Burtonwoodadditive manufacturingTrackerNewsJ.A. GinsburgDoodle3D Great tech innovations have a way of morphing from gee whiz wonder to part of the daily landscape...http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/47455677540http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/47455677540Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:48:00 -05003D printingscanned rat skeletonThingiverseIndiegogoPhoton 3 ScannerMakerbot Digitizerbiomimicryprinting cells4D printingself-assembling materialsSingularityYodaJ.A. GinsburgTrackerNews No one wanted to leave on Friday night. The Starter League Class of Winter 2013 clustered near the...http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/46234471889http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/46234471889Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:12:00 -0500The Starter League1871techHTMLCSScodingdevelopersChicago Women DevelopersOpenGov hack nightsJ.A. GinsburgTrackerNewsThe Parent Leader ToolboxHow to Walk to School Boston roads are based on 17th century cow paths. At least that’s what I was told on my first...http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/41205556142http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/41205556142Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:56:00 -0600The Starter League1871codingCSSHTMLlichenTim Berners-LeeGitHubJeff CohenRaghu Betina I spotted this map posted on a wonderful tumblr called Exp.lore, the latest digital project from...http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/39933390009http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/39933390009Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:08:00 -0600migrationbirdsavian flywaysWest Nile VirushorsesextinctionField museumpickled bats It has been a record-breaking year for breaking records. Heat waves. Cold snaps. Floods. Tornadoes....http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/38820377317http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/38820377317Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600350.orgBill McKibbenDo the MathInvestor Network on Climate RiskManhattan ProjectRolling StoneSeattleTEDxMidAtlanticThe Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX)Theo ColbornTrackerNews Dot to DotUSDAclimate changedivestingdroughtendocrineextreme weatherpension funds A few years ago, Maria “Brainpicker” Popova and Mel Exon of BBH Labs put together an...http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/38505960584http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/38505960584Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:06:00 -0600Maria PopovaMel ExonTaped Togethermixed tapeholidaysAuld Lang SyneTannahill WeaversCarl SaganWinter SolsticeTrackerNewsJ.A. Ginsburg Two stories that spun me awake this morning, zipping through Zite and flipping through...http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/37639279456http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/37639279456Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:15:00 -06003D printingwiki weaponsprinted gunsHarvardarcheologyWiredBoing BoingJ.A. GinsburgTrackerNews The hardest thing about 3D printing turns out to be keeping up with all the breakthroughs. 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General Mark Hertlineobesitynational securityDarrell HammondKaBOOM!playgroundsplayTheo Colbornedocrine disruptorsCharity Tilleman-Dick The poetry of metamorphosis is inescapable, even when pared down to the “just the facts...http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/32063295339http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/32063295339Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:27:00 -0500metamorphosisimaginal disksinnovationFeris JabrScientific AmericanIan SampleThe GuardianTravel 720SpotHeroMoxie JeanScholasticaJ. A. GinsburgTrackerNews(from the archives: This article was originally posted in July, 2008 on an iWeb blog called...http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/30104895714http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/30104895714Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:22:00 -0500lichensRich HyerczykChicago Botanic GardenliverwortLynn MargolisDorion SagansymbiosisMarsTrackerNewsJ.A. Ginsburg Disruptive innovation is fun—especially when the industry being disrupted is hopelessly lame. 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Despite some organizational stumbles, the sheer mass of programming and...http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/26149370602http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/26149370602Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:01:00 -0500TechweekChicagoNora EphronBuilt in ChicagoHoward TullmanDennis ManarchyTaskrabbitWow Bao bunsTechweek 100sexismCode AcademyGood Karma Clothing for ChildrenSharon SchneiderJulie BashkinKLUTCHclubJennifer ThomasTravel720TrackerNewsJ.A.Ginsburg“I See I Learn” is a new series of children’s books by my friend / colleague,...http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/25642067768http://trackernewsdots.tumblr.com/post/25642067768Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:30:00 -0500I See I LearnStuart j. MurphyAmerican Library AssociationPre-KCharlesbridgeinnovationwebdocJ.A. Ginsburg