A Website by Millennials, for Millennials, PolicyMic is Taking the Next Step

You might not have heard of the news website PolicyMic, but you will. This is because the millennial start-up has been given a boost  of  $10 million in funding from a plethora of investors including Jim Clark, the co-founder of NetScape.  The 3 year-old website is part of new wave of news websites such as BuzzFeed that cater to young people which have caught the eye of investors. "By building a brand for 20-somethings who take pride in staying informed,we want to become the most important news and media company for our generation," said Christopher Altchek, the co-founder and chief executive of PolicyMic. Those are bold words for a website that has flown under the radar for the most part. However, PolicyMic is on the uptick, according to Quantcast, PolicyMic has roughly tripled its monthly unique visitor totals in the past year up to 11.4 million in the United States. 

"Our general view is that news is a growth business," Eric Hippeau, managing director at Lerer Ventures, one of the investors of PolicyMic, told Quartz in March. More people "are accessing and interested in and engaging with news today than ever before, thanks to technology. So we're bullish on content and we're bullish on news." This is good news for the media website as it seems their investors are confident of PolicyMic's success and they are willing to say-so to various media outlets. PolicyMic is a part of new generation of news media outlets that our challenging the status-quo of how people are getting their information and providing feedback on what they learn. The sharp-looking website will be confident that this new influx of cash will help propel them into the mainstream and change the way people get their news. 

3-D Printing Taking Next Step Into Field of Medicine

As the twenty-first century has unfolded, 3-D printing has become one of the most exciting and awe-inspiring technologies to have been invented so far. The ability to create objects from these devices can solve problems ranging from world poverty to printing a chair. This new technology is spreading its wings and now entering the field of medicine, where it has already made an impact on a large scale. It has already produced cheap prosthetic limbs to war victims in Sudan through American Mike Ebeling's organization  "Project Daniel" named after Daniel Omar who was injured in a Bomb explosion in his home village in Sudan. These first forays into medicine show the potential that 3-D printing has and how it could change our lives in the future.

Scientists have now discovered that they will be able to "print" various parts of the human body including: limbs, bones, synthetic skin, noses, ears, and eyes using materials such as thermoplastics. An amazing application of this invention is being worked on at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. At the school they are developing a printer that will print skin straight onto the wounds of burn victims (shown below). This is incredible that there will be a device that, one day, could create skin on sight in a crisis situation better than the best skin graft surgery done today. It will be easier for burn victims to move on from their terrifying ordeal if they are not staring at a reminder in the mirror everyday.

Other uses for 3-D printing in the field of medicine will be creating artificial eyes, noses, and ears that look like authentic body parts. These new plastic surgeries will revolutionize the world of prostheses. The biggest appeal of these new developments is that after they're ordered, replacements can be re-ordered at a fraction of the cost. Also the simple process of scanning a patient's face is more patient-friendly than the current invasive mold process. The most amazing part of all of this is that this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as the future development of 3-D printing goes. Throughout all industries, 3-D printing is going to revolutionize the way we produce goods, objects , tools and will change the way we do business from the ground up.