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  • Using video to re-invent education (TEDTalks)

      An excellent overview of the potential of online video to re-invent education by hedge fund analyst and creator Salman Khan.   Salman Khan: Lets use video to reinvent education | Video on TED.com.   Related articles   Let’s use video to reinvent education: Salman Khan on TED.com (ted.com) An Olympic phenom gives out gold, silver…

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  • Scoot: a better way to get to work

    scoot. Related articles First Impressions on a First Flight on Scoot, Singapore’s Newest Airline (jaunted.com) To Skate or to Scoot (5min.com) Scoot’s smoothest moves (todayonline.com) Have you heard of Scoot? (teacherlingo.com) Top Two Achievable Apps for the Electric Motorcycle (tsrperformance.com) Proposed e-bike ban sparks debate (blogs.windsorstar.com) WITH VID: E-bike debate picks up speed in Windsor…

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  • Health problems of victims of Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear plant take years to appear

    Popular movies like the new Chernobyl film point to a disturbing trend: Many of the residents of radiation exposure such as Chernobyl and Fukushima experience long term health problems such as thyroid disease, heart disease, heart valve/vascular disease that take decades to appear leaving them disabled and requiring disability benefits but with little sources of support.…

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  • BleepingComputer Discussion Forums

    BleepingComputer Discussion Forums. Related articles Is Your Computer Infected? If So, These 3 Forums Could Be Your Lifeline (makeuseof.com) Cloud computing: 9 in 10 are positive on it, survey says (zdnet.com) Cloud Computing is Having a Disruptive Impact on Sales (customerthink.com) Giving great technical support at a small software company without being swamped (successfulsoftware.net) Tech…

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  • SonicRim | Global Design Research

    SonicRim | Global Design Research. Related articles Sharp debuts custom Feel UX for AQUOS line Is UX Strategy Fundamentally Incompatible with Agile or Lean UX? Using Neuroscience to Inform Your UX Strategy and Design UX Strategy: The Heart of User-Centered Design How to Calculate the ROI of UX Using Metrics Stakeholder Research Precedes UX Research…

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  • MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining

    MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining This new center, part of the MIT Human Dynamics group, studies the ways we can use millions of sensors in portable devices already in common use to actually measure human behavior in real time. So, the end of psychology, the beginning of digital anthropology. Related articles Social Robots May Gain…

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  • Mzinga, Inc. | The Leader In Social Software & Analytics Solutions

    Mzinga, Inc. | The Leader In Social Software & Analytics Solutions. another web 2.0 instant social networking market research tool Related articles OmniSocial Launched By Mzinga Insight on social software and big data analytics IDC: Analytics a $51B business by 2016 thanks to big data Big Data is a Big Confusion Webinar: Demo of Survey…

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  • Jan Chipchase: Future Perfect ethnographic design research

    Future Perfect » Everything’s Rosy. Related articles Jan Chipchase: Smart Service Design Needs A New Language For Anonymity (fastcodesign.com) chipchase chitchat (wklondon.typepad.com) Learning how to listen (slideshare.net) Using Drone for Ethnographic Research? Not Yet. (w5blog.com) Ethnographic Practice in Industry (qrfrag.blogspot.com) Ethnography in the public eye; a few lessons along the way (blogs.lse.ac.uk) User experiences (ethnographymatters.net)…

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  • The Alliance for Green Heat: finally some kind of objective analysis of biofuel stoves

    The Alliance for Green Heat. It seemed impossible to find any kind of standardized analysis of biofuel, pellet or other wood burning stoves which are immersed in a kind of cloud of owner loyalties. Fortunately I at least found this site which provides a good summary of some of the models. Enviro mini appears to…

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  • Email Marketing and Social Media Marketing Software – iContact

    Email Marketing and Social Media Marketing Software – iContact. I’m introducing web 2.0 tools into life science companies and am interested in this contact tool for creating newsletters etc. Related articles Email Marketing Meets Social Media (twincreekmedia.com) 11 Ways to Combine Email & Social Media Marketing to Get More Customers (blogs.constantcontact.com) Can’t Social Media and…

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  • Get Your Walk Score – Find Walkable Apartments and Rentals

    Get Your Walk Score – Find Walkable Apartments and Rentals. This cool little tool allows you to figure how easy or difficult it is to walk around your area and get stuff, or whether you need to drive everywhere. useful for finding places to live. Related articles Walkability – A Jane Jacobs Metric? (gehlcitiesforpeople.dk) What’s…

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  • The 4-Hour Workweek: Getting stuff done using crowdsourced innovation

    The 4-Hour Workweek and Timothy Ferriss. Related articles The Many Roads to Retirement (getrichslowly.org) The four-hour week (thehindu.com) Doing something meaningful. (millahallanoro.wordpress.com) The 4-hour work week? Could it be real? (millahallanoro.wordpress.com) Basics of Working Productively and Effectively [John Murray] (ecademy.com) Should we drop the “Virtual Assistant” title? (vadirectory.net) The 4 Hour Work Week (startups.typepad.com) To…

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  • Web Hosting Reviews – User Reviews on Web Hosting

    Web Hosting Reviews – User Reviews on Web Hosting Jury. Related articles ITXDesign Announces Unlimited Web Hosting Services (virtual-strategy.com) Why Most Web Hosting Companies Hate Email | Blog (rackspace.com) Transfer Your WordPress Blog to a New Web Host (clurradonald.com) Affordable Hosting (leccoworkshop.com) Cheap and Quality Web Hosting for PHP (bnt.typepad.com) Rackspace is the Most Reliable…

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  • Technical Writing Email Discussion List Home | TechWhirl

    Technical Writing Email Discussion List Home | TechWhirl. Related articles The Insider’s Guide to Technical Writing (matthewhelmke.net) Be a warrior with Technical Communications Suite 4! (techcommgeekmom.com) Higher Education in Technical Communication- Is it worth it? (technicalwritingtoolbox.com) Technical Writing as a Calling (heroictechwriting.wordpress.com) Copyright on the Internet – Part 1 – Cooks Source (heratech.wordpress.com)

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  • Blogdigger: how to make sure your blog shows up on search

    Blogdigger : Blog Search Engine – Search Blogs. Be sure to confirm your blogs are up to date on them. See also day pop, live journal, slashdot, naymz, ziggs, findmeon, claimID, naggist, goloco.org, geni Related articles Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search (firstdigital.co.nz) Ping and Distribution Sites I use : BlogBuzzer (elaineossipov.wordpress.com) tgapp-smallpress 0.3.3 (pypi.python.org)…

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  • COLLISIONcollective: the collision of art and technology

    About COLLISIONcollective | COLLISIONcollective. Related articles The Art of Science – Berenice Abbott at MIT (thefinchandpea.com) MIT Students Develop Self-Guided Flying Robot Bird (devicemag.com) How MIT’s Strengthening Their Alumni Connection Through Crowdsourcing (bostinno.com) MIT Creates Car That Avoids Crashes, But Doesn’t Otherwise Interfere (dailytech.com) Researchers at MIT to Produce Tiny, Foldable, Electric Car in 2013…

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  • Best Credit Cards – Reviews, Offers, Applications | Card Ratings

      Best Credit Cards – Reviews, Offers, Applications | Card Ratings. best ratings site for credit cars Related articles Credit Cards Go Social & Why You Should Care (cardhub.com) The credit card to clear your overdraft – Confused.com (confused.com) Credit Card Application Study – 2012 (cardhub.com) Simple Steps to Build and Protect Credit Ratings (dailymorningcoffee.com)…

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  • Pzizz: software for sleep

      pzizz. how does pzizz do these things? * voice: using the latest language techniques (NLP) * music: composed exclusively for pzizz * binaural beat: inducing theta brainwaves * adjust the length of the soundtrack as you need it * every Related articles 10 Best Self-Help and Personal Development iPhone Apps (mindwareforum.com) Energy (Beta Binaural…

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  • Computational Linguistics: links and info

    Computational Linguistics. Related articles Can Computer Speak? (debaprasad.wordpress.com) Crossed conversations (bit-player.org) VigLink’s Principal Data Scientist Selected to Present at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2012)’s TextGraph Conference Workshop (viglink.com) Translation as Object Linguistic Review (socyberty.com)

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  • CBI Social Media Pharma Conference Videos now available from Pixels and Pills

    via www.pixelsandpills.com More videos and tweets from the CBI social media conference by Pixels and Pills are now posted on their site. The importance of trust and authenticity in patient/professional/industry interaction thru new online channels is emphasized. CBI Social Media Tools Conference Agenda Related articles Upcoming Pharma Conferences: December 2012 (medmeme.com) Pharma Marketing to Physicians…

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  • Cognitive Surplus: From Couch Potato to Weekend Warrior?

    via www.wired.com Clay Shirky author of Here Comes Everybody has cranked out another book on the use of social networking, this time turning his microscope on our spare time outside of work. His theory? That the amateur, DIY collaboration made possible by social networks is now leveraging time that was previously spent vegetating in front of…

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  • UNC Master of Industrial/Systems Engineering goes online

    UNC has put its Masters in Industrial Engineering program online, including human factors courses. University of North Carolina Online: Master of Engineering program. Related articles UNC system says strategic plan will help it ‘do business differently’ (newsobserver.com) UNC system proposes $266 million in budget increases over five-year span (newsobserver.com) UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School Partners with…

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  • Continuum: anthro design consultancy reinvents medical devices to meet patient needs

      Interesting article on the redesign of a medical device to match patient’s usage and address low compliance.   Innovative Ideas | Design Thinking | Continuum.   Related articles Pediatric Medical Device Idea Campaign Now Online To Stimulate Early Stage Innovation (kauffman.org) Medi-Solve to Showcase Medical Device Coatings at MD&M West Show in Anaheim, California…

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  • Cyborg Anthropology: Amber Case

    Amber Case has pioneered the field of cyborg anthropology: explaining the human side of new machines… Amber Case Related articles We are all cyborgs now: Amber Case on TED.com (ted.com) Machines Make Us More Human (jtm71.wordpress.com) My top 5 Online Anthropology Sources (thegeekanthropologist.com) The Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology Explains How We’re All Part Machine…

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  • EMF levels in hybrids: fact or fiction?

    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…

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  • TAP® – Thornton Adjustable Positioner: the search for usability in sleep apnea therapies

    TAP® – Thornton Adjustable Positioner :: The TAP® prevents snoring and sleep apnea.. Related articles Snoring ‘may be linked to bad behaviour’ (time4sleep.co.uk) Sleep Apnea FAQ (topdentists.com) What Are Sleep Apnea Causes? (topdentists.com) Is It Snoring or Sleep Apnea? (topdentists.com) Sleep Apnea Tied to More Brain Damage in Women Than Men (nlm.nih.gov) Understanding Sleep Apnea…

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  • SomnoMed: new oral appliances for sleep apnea to increase usability and compliance

    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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