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With ever increasing megapixel counts in smartphone cameras, do you need a dedicated camera at all? Or perhaps could you just get a really tiny compact camera? At this point in time at least, the answer is probably no. Or at least not if you really want consistently good image quality. The reason is, that…
It takes crisp photos and videos faster than you can blink. Source: Sony A6300 review: Faster than the competition and shoots sharp 4K
Ginseng: a medicinal root with a long tradition of harvesting in Appalachia. But can the plant withstand the demands of a global market? Hal Herring takes a personal look at the plants, the place a… Source: Ginseng Digging: Local Traditions and Global Markets for Appalachia’s Medicinal Plants – Cool Green Science
Source: The Therapeutic Potentials of Ayahuasca: Possible Effects against Various Diseases of Civilization
The substance, called harmine, helps regenerate pancreas cells. Source: Chemical in Ayahuasca Has Potential to Treat Diabetes
Every year, thousands of tourists head to the Peruvian Amazon to take the plant medicine ayahuasca. But what does the powerful drink actually do, and what do local shamans think of the rise in its popularity? Source: Peru’s ayahuasca industry booms as westerners search for alternative healing | Travel | The Guardian
Because modern culture doesn’t have a role for the shamanic archetype, many people who grow up outside indigenous villages are shamans — healers who have access to the spirit world — and don’t know Source: 10 Signs You’re A Healer & Don’t Know It – mindbodygreen.com
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: I’m very please to announce that the next contributor in the Co-designing with machines edition is Astrid Countee (@ianthro), an anthropologist, software develope… Source: An Engineering Anthropologist: Why tech companies need to hire software developers with ethnographic skills | Ethnography Matters
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: Next up in our Co-designing with machines edition is Madeleine Clare Elish, (@mcette), is an anthropologist and researcher at Data & Society, presents a case … Source: The future of designing autonomous systems will involve ethnographers | Ethnography Matters
Last weekend, my friends and I went camping at a private spot in Big Sur that has the only fresh water swimming hole in the area. It’d previously been off-limits, but thanks to a new service called Hipcamp, anyone can now book it online. How’s it work? Source: Hipcamp Wants To Be Airbnb For Camping
Population growth over the last century has undoubtedly been dramatic. While it took many thousands of years before the world reached 1bn inhabitants, it was just a few hundred more before we reached today’s population of 7.3bn. By 2050, it is set to swell to well over 9bn – a situation […] Source: The Planetization…
Trade is not only a response to market demand, it creates demand and therefore recreates the need for it; trade becomes its own justification. Source: Food: Trading away our future – part II
A Melbourne researcher says it’s not realistic to keep consuming farmed livestock at current rates and eating feral animals is an alternative. Source: Feral meat a step towards a more sustainable diet, researcher says – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Foodie fads are a dime a dozen in the internet age, but grass-fed beef can’t be one of them because it’s really nothing new. Any trip through the countryside is not complete without admiring cows mooing about in fields of green, grazing on what’s beneath their noses. You’ve probably even eaten grass-fed beef before without…
The ethical, environmental, and health problems of virtually every food in the supermarket. Source: Food Safety: A Guide to Healthy and Clean Eating — Grub Street
These two UC Santa Cruz professors think it’s time to have a talk with Siri. Source: Why don’t we say what we mean? | University of California
How much do you really need to say to put a sentence together? Source: The World’s Most Efficient Languages – The Atlantic
Thinking of working on your conversion optimization and landing page optimization? understanding UX design is essential for conversion optimization. Source: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding UX Design
The Paleo Approach is now available! If you want the nitty gritty details (explained in an approachable way!), the diagrams and illustrations, the scientific citations, all of the information in one place, FAQ, information on supplements, help troubleshooting, practical implementation tips, food lists, it’s all in my book: The Paleo Approach Cookbook is also now available!…
The Enterprise Data Management Council (EDM Council) received approval for FIBO Foundations as the first of thirty data content standards for the financial industry. The Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) is an open standard for defining the business terms and relationships associated with financial instruments, pricing concepts and financial processes. These “common language” standards are…
Cambridge Semantics completed a FIBO project to harmonize State Street’s Interest Rate Swap data with Dun & Bradstreet’s entity hierarchy data. Source: FIBO, FIBO, It’s Off to Work We Go
Interest in FIBO is high as banks like State Street complete successful tests. Source: FIBO Marches Forward: A Look Inside State Street’s FIBO Proof of Concept
Climate control has become a necessity, but it’s not a solution. Source: Your air conditioner is making the heat wave worse – The Washington Post
New studies are examining the “will to fight” in ISIS soldiers and their opponents. Source: New studies explore why ordinary people turn terrorist | Science News
TORONTO, ON – An international team of researchers has developed a website at d-place.org to help answer long-standing questions about the forces that shaped human cultural diversity. D-PLACE – the .. Source: Massive open-access database on human cultures created – Scienmag
The lesser known Sensory Ethnography Lab is an experimental hotbed for docs that don’t deal in ‘talking heads’ Source: Harvard’s semi-secret lab that pumps out great documentaries | Dazed
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