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Intel’s futurist knows what tech you’ll want tomorrow by Brian Cooley, cnet.com Brian David Johnson is Intel’s guy in charge of knowing what tomorrow will be like. No pressure. He shows CNET’s Brian Cooley what’s next. Technological futurism to Intel’s Brian David Johnson is a lot more than engineering. … http://flpbd.it/CdGlY Related articles Is…
This man knows when you’re lying about honey sarahpetersmiller1969, grist.org Don’t even try to lie to me about honey, son. (Photo by Jay B. Sauceda.) Did you know that people sell fake honey? They take supermarket honey and try to pass it off as fancy stuff you get for $30 at a farmer’s market. Is…
Computing is evolving from silicon to biology and now to social sciences. Introducing the human computer – Boston.com. Related articles Imagining Tomorrow’s Computers Today (news.sciencemag.org) Announcement: UC Irvine to lead social computing research center (universityofcalifornia.edu) New Anthropology and Archaeology Resource Network (aaanet.org) Beyond Biosocialities in Medical Anthropology (CFP, Symposium, Amsterdam, 17-19 January 2013) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) A…
Just how hot is it in the US right now? – Boing Boing. Related articles As Climate Changes, Urban Planners Help Cities Adapt (wbur.org) BBC Burnt Over Climate Change Claim UK Will Be As Hot As Madeira (chimalaya.org) Plan Panel Seeks to Rewrite India’s Climate Change Stance (chimalaya.org) Climate change is real, Canadians say, but…
MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls – NYTimes.com. New Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs and startup companies such as Udacity and Udemy are turning conventional education on its head. Udacity, a startup which is supported by Charles River Ventures, was created by former professors at Stanford who taught one AI course online…
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Netflix’s Unlimited Employee Vacation Policy; Why It Works. Related articles The Vacation Paradox: Why Some Companies Are Paying Workers To Go Away (loszachreport.wordpress.com) To Recruit Techies, Companies Offer Unlimited Vacation (businessweek.com) Flexible & Unlimited Vacation Policies? (thehrstrategiesblog.wordpress.com) Know Your Apps: Netflix (samsung.com) Netflix to raise subscription cost – will you stay our leave? (epicagear.com) Netflix…
AN UNTRASHY TRAILER | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building. Future-forward design for the world you inhabit – your daily source for innovations in sustainable architecture and green design for the home. Related articles Parallax Landscape Re-Imagines a Low-Carbon Future for a Coal-Dominated Australian City (inhabitat.com) Inhabitat’s Top 6 Architecture Stories of…
Dr. Jonathan Pevsner will be discussing “Bioinformatics approach to understanding childhood brain disorders“. Dr. Pevsner is an Associate Professor at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and holds a Primary Faculty Appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Please join us for our 7th Annual Research Symposium online. Click here to view the webcast Related articles…
Coursera Plans to Announce University Partners for Online Classes – NYTimes.com. Two more Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller have broken off to create a new online learning startup called Coursera with financial backing from two of Silicon Valley’s premier venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates. The startup will…
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Hilarious. For anyone who has ever gone to “Dunkin”. If you are going to work in the Boston tech and science community, you need to “speak the language”…. A linguistic taste of Massachusetts – Boston.com.
New startups such as HopeLab are using gaming to enable patients to visualize and achieve improved health outcomes. Is Gamification a Healthcare Game-Changer? – CareCloud.
Singularity University which is a private university dedicated to speeding education in science and technology is giving away about 50k in cash and services to startups pursuing the new field of synthetic biology to help solve major projects including energy, healthcare. Singularity University To Incubate Synthetic Biology Startups With New Program | Singularity Hub. Related…
The Stanford professor whose online computer science course went viral is now at it again.. From Silicon Valley, A New Approach To Education : All Tech Considered : NPR. Related articles Stanford University Students Launch Sites By Hand, A Social Business for Global Development of Personal Websites and Effective Web Solutions (prweb.com) Menlo Ventures’ Pishevar…
Your Inner Ecosystem | On Point with Tom Ashbrook Envwining a new healthcare industry based on the biome not synthetic chemicals. Related articles Interdependence of Life – Earth’s Ecosystems (floydmiddle.typepad.com) How does the ocean biome collapse? (ask.metafilter.com) A Day in Eden – St Austell, United Kingdom (travelpod.com) Breitling BlackBird. the Arctic Tundra, the Antarctic Tundra,…
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Why fiction is good for you – Boston.com. New studies show that in fact a steady diet including some fiction is good for us and results in more effective behavior change and learning than non-fiction. This is because of cognitive “shields” we put up when reading non-fiction. Also fiction acts as a social glue to…
New Boston biotech companies such as Ginkgo BioWorks, Cambrian Innovation, and Manus Biosynthesis are tapping into ancient organisms and new IT capabilities to produce new solutions that are environmentally clean, US based, and fast with as little as 6 month product development life cycles. Gingko notes that 1/4 of their employees are software developers and…
Microsoft Research New England head notes that social science will be the next frontier of science and technology. Where creativity meets technology – Boston.com Related articles A New Kind Of Social Science For The 21st Century (lookingbeyondborders.com) What’s Soft about Social Science? (everydaysociologyblog.com) Adventures in Ideas: Which Social Science Should Die? (freakonomics.com) Social Science…
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