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Mobile medical resources for iOS, Android & Blackberry | Skyscape. Related articles 500+ Android And iOS Apps Now Available on Appy Pie Inc (prweb.com) Home Depot abandoning BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple’s iPhone and iOS (technologynewsworldwide.com) Opinion: An Apple iOS UI redesign? Nice, but not essential (electronista.com)
Why are the predictions of well known experts worse than those of people who linger in obscurity? Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between the hedgehog, who knows one big thing, and the fox, who knows many little things, provides a clue to the answer. John Kay – The world needs more foxes and fewer hedgehogs. Related articles…
With the increasing evidence that wild game has a much improved nutritional and health profile than factor farmed foods, there are more events springing up that provide access to curious urbanites in the Pioneer Valley. In Western Mass., hunters’ communal grill – Boston.com. Related articles Chef relishes wild hunt for…
Interesting new program focused on KM. A friend, Katrina Pugh, is on the faculty… Information and Knowledge Strategy | School of Continuing Education. Related articles 360training.com Appoints Ronald Trautman Chief Revenue Officer (prweb.com) Title Lending Company Opens Additional Store in Columbia, SC (prweb.com) Oncology Learning Network Continuing Education Course to Offer Certificate in Lung Cancer…
In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture – NYTimes.com. Related articles Are words the atomic unit of a dynamic system? (sappingattention.blogspot.com) Optimal algorithm for finding all ngrams from a pre-defined set in a text (cs.stackexchange.com) The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu) Google Labs’ NGram Viewer: what we learned from 5 million books (nextlevelofnews.com)…
This man has revived the traditional practice of gleaning for the modern age: recycling produce that would otherwise be thrown out from large supermarket supply chains. Boston Area Gleaners | Harvesting Against Hunger. Oakes Plimpton Wicked Local Article Related articles Frontline Online: How can you help to reduce food waste? (theecologist.org) Surplus fruit picked across…
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via online.wsj.com Okay it has finally happened. Computer science has become biology and digital DNA has been used to make the first synthetic cell. The potential applications are diverse from biofuels to medicine. But what about the risks? Related articles Shakespeare’s sonnets encoded in DNA (guardian.co.uk) Huge Amounts Of Data Can Be Stored In DNA (news.sky.com)…
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A recently concern has emerged over the EMF emissions of hybrids which contain a powerful (AC) electric motor and may subject occupants to unhealthy EMF levels. However Consumer Reports conducted testing and found that in reality conventional cars often have just as high EMF levels (though from a slightly less dangerous DC motor). Mythbuster: EMF…
A basic principle of behavioral science (actually originally from anthropology) is that subjective measures of behavior such as surveys or interviews are almost always fraught with inaccuracies because people’s words and behaviors do not always align. Now,with the emergence of both the massive online data collection made possibly by the internet and also new biometric…
Recently social data science has found fertile new ground in the booming field of online dating. By tweaking algorithms to increase the likelihood of a match, many online dating sites are becoming defacto behavioral science labs, constantly analyzing what makes people want to hang out, or start a relationship. Now along comes another company that…
Yet another Boston area school has launched a health and medical informatics program, largely online. Know for its bioinformatics degree, Brandeis is now adding courses in these other areas. Health and Medical Informatics | Programs and Courses | Graduate Professional Studies | Brandeis University. Related articles Information Technology improves patient care and increases privacy, informatics…
For many cancer survivors, the conventional mainstream treatment, radiation and chemotherapy come with a host of side effects which are crippling and sometimes lethal, which might be slow growing or treatable more conservatively. For example, new studies show that survivors of Hodgkin’s disease once considered the lone example of the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy…
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Sleep apnea patients have long suffered from a lack of ethnographic research and usability studies of the conventional therapy, the CPAP. Many find it very uncomfortable to use and thus compliance is low. Fortunately new research is showing that oral appliances have much higher usability. SomnoMed Home. Related articles Available Sleep Apnea Treatments (topdentists.com) Is…
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Computer and information scientists at Indiana University have developed a process to identify false tweets after these have become increasingly prevalent in politics and other sectors such as so called Twitter Bombs. Tracking The ‘Truthiness’ Of Tweets : NPR.
A new chart shows the subtle differences between a Geek, a Creep, a Dork and a Loser. A Taxonomy of Nerds – Brainiac . Related articles A Brief History Of Nerds In Pop Culture (neatorama.com) A Proposal for a New Taxonomy and Measurement Framework for Digital Marketing (covario.com) Infographic: Geek vs. Nerd (englishblog.com) New Version…
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