Yummy molasses cookies

Cheap hearing aids

http://www.mdhearingaid.com/

$300-$600

"if we made a one-size-fits-most, pretty good hearing aid that's user-adjustable, we could actually do it, and do it at a cost-effective price point" - https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/blue-sky/ct-sreekant-cherukuri-mdhearingaid-bsi-20150914-story.html

- reviews on Amazon
http://www.mdhearingaid.com/reviews/amazon/

sold by Amazon and also in Canada

Cool infographics

It's hard to make reams of data engaging or interesting; each of these artists were inventive. 

A graphical representation of which part of a city people send social media photos from, with each color indicating a different social activity, from food to music to nightlife. 

http://stadt-bilder.com/#Berlin

Tweets (photos tweeted) during hurricane Sandy in New York, with a diagonal line indicating when the power went out. 

http://phototrails.net/radial_sandy_hue_created/

An animated globe with current weather patterns like wind or heat:

Misery index of how harsh conditions are currently:

http://earth.nullschool.net/#2014/11/18/1200Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=misery_index/winkel3=-54.00,45.47,190

Beautiful map of current wind:

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-167.07,1.63,441

https://m.facebook.com/EarthWindMap?refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fearth.nullschool.net%2Fabout.html&_rdr

The color of the sky as an indicator of air pollution in China, with an entire year represented by one ring of the circle:

http://xiaoji-chen.com/blog/2011/sky-color-of-10-chinese-cities/

Earth's population as spikes on a page with no map underneath; because populations are concentrated along the coasts, you can recognize the geography easily. 

http://spatial.ly/2014/08/population-lines/

The author, who collected all of these does a great job in Popular Science. Katie Peek, http://www.katiepeek.com/ has a good webpage with links to her work. 

And here's a list of her recent contributions to Popular Science:

http://www.popsci.com/popsci-authors/katie-peek

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Saline injection instead of lidocaine for inserting an intravenous line

Comparison of bacteriostatic normal saline and lidocaine used as intradermal anesthesia for the placement of intravenous lines.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16935736/

Iberico ham flavor comes from acorns

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam%C3%B3n_ib%C3%A9rico
a type of cured ham produced mostly in Spain...made from black Iberian pigs fattened on barley and maize for several weeks...then allowed to roam in pasture and oak groves to feed naturally on grass, herbs, acorns....the diet may be strictly limited to olives or acorns for the best quality jamón ibérico …some producers cure their jamones ibéricos for up to 48 months...is very expensive and not widely available abroad

Dagmar bumpers

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_bumpers

How long did it take to sell a billion dollars worth in China?

The answer will surprise you.
Alibaba, the Chinese equivalent of Amazon, continues to do very well. This statement astounded me - a billion in sales in a quarter-hour. China clearly is a massive marketplace.
"Alibaba recorded its first $1 billion in sales this "Singles' Day"* in only 17 minutes—it took about an hour last year"
*"Singles' Day—so named because the date Nov. 11 has four singles (11/11)—was started as an in-joke between university students, but has morphed into China's equivalent of Cyber Monday...When Chinese netizens celebrate not having anyone special in their lives by buying billions of dollars worth of products online"