Author: timbatchelder

  • Eastern meditation inspired approach infiltrates psychology

    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…

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  • Web 2.0 in pharma clinical trials: Chemgenex

    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…

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  • Wiley: An Anthropology of Biomedicine

      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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  • Kytta® natural products

    This is derived from Comfrey. Kytta® – Natur hilft heilen. Pflanzliche Arzneimittel bei Muskelschmerzen, Gelenkschmerzen, Einschlafstörungen und innerer Unruhe.. Related articles Deals of the Week Ponders PatientsLikeMe and Empowerment (invivoblog.blogspot.com) Organoid Seen Cutting Drug Cost With Lab Mini-Intestine – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) Now available! Natural baby products! (babyorganicjoy.wordpress.com)

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  • Infrared Diagnostics: New ways to analyze infrared heat patterns for medicine, architecture

      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…

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  • Seattle Genetics studies monoclonal antibodies for Hodgkin’s disease

    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…

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  • Moretti: Applying Quantitative Analysis to Classic Lit

    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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  • Media-finder: Largest Online Database of U.S. & Canadian Publications and Catalogs

    Search the Largest Online Database of U.S. & Canadian Publications and Catalogs. Related articles Overnight trips to the U.S. soar as new Canadian duty-free rules kick in (vancouversun.com) VehicleHistory.com Joins Google Plus to Connect with More U.S…. (prweb.com) Canada doesn’t want Khadr back: Poll (lfpress.com)

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  • Cornell University Information Science

    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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  • Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology: Syracuse University iSchool

      Another good program in information science: Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology – iSchool – Syracuse University. Related articles Syracuse Hack BeerText.Us Hits Thousands of Users in 72 Hours (twilio.com) Syracuse University Men’s Soccer features Central New York trio of freshmen (cnycentral.com) Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies Offers Certificate of Advanced Study in…

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  • UC Berkeley School of Information: Birth of the iSchool

      Increasingly new information schools are cropping up with combine engineering, social science and technology studies. School of Information. Related articles Yale Braunstein, professor of information, dies at 67 (ischool.berkeley.edu) Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies Offers Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science (digital-scholarship.org) UC Davis tops Sierra magazine’s green rankings (universityofcalifornia.edu) UC Berkeley…

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  • US Government Printing Office

      US Government Printing Office – FDsys – Home.  

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  • FindLaw: Crowd-sourced legal information

      Best legal database besides which Lexis/nexis which costs $$$ Lawyer, Lawyers, Attorney, Attorneys, Law, Legal Information – FindLaw.  

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  • National Science Foundation (NSF) databases for science information

      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…

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  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention databases for pharma intelligence

        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…

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  • Evolutionary and health aspects of bed sharing

      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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  • Heating Help: Community for DIY energy conservation

      Heating Help – Heating Systems. Related articles DIY: How To Make Your Own Studded Ballerina Flats (fabsugar.com) Five DIY Home Energy Upgrades Under $100 (earthtechling.com) DIY Prototype Proves Cheap Solar Air Conditioning Is Possible (earthtechling.com) There Is Such Thing As DIY Molten Lava and It’s Awesome (gizmodo.co.uk)  

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  • Apple Mac Remote Surveillance: Yes, it is possible and easier than PC

      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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  • Refinancing more effectively using online resources

      Auto refinance, Car refinance, Car loan, Auto loan, CD rates. This is a great service which Boston Globe mentioned whcih allows you to bid on the best rates for bank funds Related articles Refinance Market is Booming – in Autos (subprimeautoloanlenders.com) How to Refinance Your Home – StreamlineRefinance.net (streamlinerefinance.net) :Bad Times To Refinance |…

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  • Mobile communications and loneliness

      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…

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  • Nano Culture Wars Coming Soon

      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…

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  • Wordle and the future of Data Visualization

      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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  • NESEA – We Connect Sustainability Professionals to Ideas and Each Other.

    NESEA – We Connect Sustainability Professionals to Ideas and Each Other.. Related articles Unity College Shows Off Their New Solar Array this Weekend Middlesex sustainability workshop for London’s hospitality industry Thinking Sustainable Real Estate Sustainability One house every minute: are sustainability targets an impossible mission?

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  • Google replaces CDC, Patientslikeme Replaces FDA?

    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…

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