After decades of sometimes ineffective Western psychological methods, increasingly more psychologists are turning to anthropology and cross cultural approaches to understand the human mind. This one practices in Western Mass… Mind Power – The Boston Globe. Related articles Mind is the Cause of Confusion (shambhala.com) The Wind Never Lies (madinamerica.com) How Meditation Can Make You…
Not exactly rocket science but Chemgenex has developed a nice mashup of mapping for clinical trials searching instead of the usual process of dumping them in Clinicaltrials.gov and hoping some patient or researcher finds them. Novel use of web 2.0 in Pharma clinical trials | Pharma Strategy Blog. Related articles Is clinical quality assurance…
A classic. Wiley: An Anthropology of Biomedicine. Related articles Beyond Biosocialities in Medical Anthropology (CFP, Symposium, Amsterdam, 17-19 January 2013) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) Practice, Drugs and additionally Anthropology have – Fuzhou, China (travelpod.com) International Summer School in Medical Anthropology (CfP, Summerschool, July 2013, Berlin) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) Neanderthal dental tartar reveals evidence of medicine (newscientist.com) Dying for Capitalism…
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Increasingly people are using the FLIR EX320 to diagnose heat loss, medical issues, and engineering concerns. Infrared Diagnostic Home Page. Infrared Diagnostic Home Page Related articles New Infrared Lenses Could Make Driving Safer (news.dice.com) Why Security system uses Infrared Camera? Fact File 37 (dmohankumar.wordpress.com) New production process promises cheaper infrared lenses (gizmag.com) Far Infrared Therapy…
Interesting company that is studying the use of monoclonal antibodies for Hodgkin’s disease Seattle Genetics: News Release. Related articles More Effective, Safer Protection Against Osteoporosis? (medicalnewstoday.com) Clinical trial for rabies monoclonal antibody (medicalxpress.com) Invisible Sentinel Announces Product Launch of Its Foodborne Pathogen Specific Monoclonal Antibodies (sys-con.com) Billionaire’s biotech seals second deal with Synthetic Biologics (fiercebiotech.com) Lymph…
Great article on Franco Moretti, a Stanford English professor, is championing computational linguistics, data mining, computer modeling, and network theory to take a data-centric approach to novels, which he graphs, maps, and charts. Using IBM’s Visual Communications Lab he is turning books into a series of word clouds. He is also identifying the best titles and discovered a…
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Cornell has a great Information science program as well… Cornell University – Information Science – Overview. Related articles Cornell NYC Begins Accepting Applications for ‘Highly Selective’ Beta Class (betabeat.com) Artificial Vision: Cornell and Stanford Researchers crack Retinal Code (pharmaceuticalintelligence.com) Cornell University to install nets on bridges in bid to prevent suicides (foxnews.com)
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Best database for government science information: nsf.gov – National Science Foundation – US National Science Foundation (NSF). Related articles AUI and NRAO Comment On NSF’s Astronomy Portfolio Review Committee (spacedaily.com) Kauffman Foundation joins with NSF and the Deshpande Foundation to form Innovation Corps Program (kauffman.org) Seminar on Student Funding Opportunities at the National Science…
By far the best datasets for disease info are the CDC’s… Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Related articles CDC: West Nile outbreak ‘one of largest’ in US (newsobserver.com) CDC: 41 West Nile deaths in U.S. (content.usatoday.com) CDC: 158 cases of new swine flu strain from pigs (sacbee.com) Dallas mayor…
A totally weird but interesting study. This conflicts with our evolutionary heritage has primates in some ways living in communal groups but may have merit if primates sleep independently. BBC NEWS | Health | Bed sharing ‘bad for your health’. Related articles Human Ancestors Were Nearly All Vegetarians (blogs.scientificamerican.com) Penises, Primates and the study…
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Despite all the grumblings about security vendor’s lack of support for the Mac times are changing and there are now more and more solutions available. Best Security Camera Solutions for Apple Mac Remote Surveillance. http://prmac.com/release-id-15360.htm Related articles Apple Mac Trojan Called OSX/Crisis Is Commercial Malware (legitreviews.com) Internet Explorer on the Apple Mac | Blog…
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An article in Boston Globe magazine charts the curious trend away from real human interaction towards entirely digitally mediated ones and notes the importance of being “un reachable” at times which is becoming increasingly difficult, and of being able to tolerate being alone. In particular the article cites research by an NYU social scientist…
Rather than infer that nanotechnology is safe, members of the public who learn about this novel science tend to become sharply polarized along cultural lines, according to a study conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School in collaboration with the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. The report is published online in the…
I’ve been testing this neat new app called Wordle which I found out about on the Many Eyes site made by Martin Wattenburg and will create visualizations of any text. I applied it to my delicious bookmarks and to my blog. It’s also been applied on Many Eyes to analyze speeches and more. …
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As more web driven mass crowd sourced health data is collected by large search and portals and organized it is being packaged and anonymized to provide services that normally took many months to years and required whole separate agencies and departments to run. So for example Patientslikeme is now making possible users with health conditions…