Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • Discovering the next cures from indigenous medicine

    Horseradish Tea And Other Global Cold Cures All Things Considered, npr.org Horseradish Tea And Other Global Cold Cures NPR All Things Considered From chick­en noo­dle soup to alcohol-spiked drinks, every­one has a pre­ferred rem­e­dy for cold symp­toms. Since she was feel­ing a lit­tle under the weath­er, Melis­sa Bloc… http://flip.it/e61h1 Related articles Patent Medicines Get A…

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  • Google knowledge graph on drugs

    Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs by Casey Newton, cnet.com Google’s evolv­ing data­base of the rela­tion­ships between peo­ple, places and things gets a new dose of med­i­cine. Search­ing for infor­ma­tion about med­i­cine on Google? You’ll soon find drugs inject­ed into your search… http://flip.it/tRy2u Related articles Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com)…

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  • Vinod Khosla says tech will replace 80% of what docs do

    Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do – Fortune Tech cnn.com Data-driven healthcare won’t replace physicians entirely, but it will help those receptive to technology perform their jobs better. By Vinod Khosla FOR­TUNE — Health­care today is often real­ly the “prac­tice of med­i­cine” rather than the… http://flip.it/t2nZy Related articles Vinod Khosla To Entrepreneurs: Venture…

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  • How to use Creative Commons visuals

    How to Use Creative Commons Visuals on Your Site Nina Frazier, mashable.com Tracking down quality visuals to accompany stories and blog posts can be difficult. Luckily, there are more than 200 million free photos on the web that are available for almost anyone to use — as long as they follow the tenets of Creative…

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  • Why health IT is the core of reform

    Why IT is the core of the healthcare renaissance kevinmd.com Warning! I am a practicing doctor who sees real patients using an electronic medical record (EMR). My sole agenda is to provide the best patient care. I have no financial stake in information technology (IT). However, unlike the editorial board at… http://flip.it/YDFkX Related articles Practice…

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  • The Leaderless Organization: more makers and fewer managers

      Greg, digitaltonto.com Good leadership, after all, is defined by its absence. Related posts:• 3 Levels of Strategy • Apple’s (not so) Stupid Strategy • How Companies Fail • 21st Century Strategy • Why The Lunatics Really Do Run The Asylum http://flip.it/Qfaj5 The Leaderless Organization Related articles Why Some Of The World’s Best Leaders Are…

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  • Popcorn: turn video into a computable medium

    Popcorn: Content Creation that Tastes Good iqagency.com A new type of video content creation. This post is about a brand new dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy for video called Pop­corn. It’s one of a num­ber of tech­nol­o­gy led efforts to broad­en what video is capa­ble of, and in a world where soon 90% of da… http://flip.it/EZTdB

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  • Best lenses for your micro four thirds camera

    (via Top 10 Native Lenses for Micro Four Thirds cameras 2012 | OSGFilms) Related articles Panasonic’s Beginner-Friendly Lumix GF6 Brings Wi-Fi to Micro Four Thirds (gizmodo.com) Panasonic 14-140mm f/4.0-5.8 OIS Video Optimized Micro Four Thirds Lens for Panasonic Digital SLR Cameras@’ (hkzwes.wordpress.com) Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera: The 1080HD RAW Pocket Camera (cultofmac.com) Olympus M. Zuiko…

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  • John Hodgman’s Apocalypse Survival 101

    beeeeeenr, youtube.com YouTube http://flip.it/W9TP2 http://flip.it/hVJfB John Hodgman’s Apocalypse Survival 101 Related articles Design, explained: John Hodgman at TED2012 (ted.com) Chaos, squeaky toys, and deranged millionaires: 5 TEDx Talks to get you laughing (tedx.com)

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  • Fiscal Cliff Fictions: Let’s All Agree to Pretend the GOP Isn’t Full of It

    Michael Grunwald, time.com It’s really amazing to see political reporters dutifully passing along Republican complaints that President Obama’s opening offer in the fiscal cliff talks is just a recycled version of his old plan, when those same reporters spent the last year… Fiscal Cliff Fictions: Let’s All Agree to Pretend the GOP Isn’t Full of…

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  • Time remapping video

    Stunningly surreal time remapping video David Pescovitz, boingboing.net “timeRemap­Ex­portHD” by Adrien M / Claire B. My friend Dustin Hostetler put it well: “I feel like in 50 to 100 years, when mankind looks back on this era of tech­nol­o­gy advance­ment, this is the sort of piece they’ll ref­er­ence as the moment t… RT @BoingBoing: Stunningly…

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  • Tech insurgents replace “disrupters”

    Meet Betabeat’s 2012 Tech Insurgents | Betabeat The Editors, betabeat.com Just don’t call them dis­rupters. By 11/14 11:30am Jack Dorsey, cofounder of Twit­ter and Square, recent­ly tried to dis­abuse the tech indus­try of its infat­u­a­tion with the word ‘disruption.’ “We don’t want ‘disruption,’ where we just move… Meet Betabeat’s 2012 Tech Insurgents | Betabeat http://flip.it/WgfQz http://flip.it/bz0gh…

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  • The relationship between coffee shop density and political party

    Coffee shops vs. 2012 election results ilovecoffee.jp Coffee shops vs. 2012 election results – I Love Coffee http://flip.it/UB02D http://flip.it/FQbvX Related articles Death Wish Coffee is World’s Strongest (techeblog.com) Coffee Coffee Coffee (writingformultimedia.com)

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  • Breast cancer exploitation and the pink nausea

    Possibly the worst example of “pink nausea” and breast cancer exploitation ever Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net As I said to can­cer pals on Twit­ter ear­li­er today, if my loved ones arrange a funer­al for me where every­one is dressed like this, I swear unto you that I will come back from the dead and stab every­one…

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  • The circadian rhythms of death

    Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net This is pos­si­bly one of the weird­est things I have read this year. You (yes, you) are more like­ly to die around 11:00 am than any other time. That is, pro­vid­ed your death is the sort that hap­pens in old age, as opposed to, say, being hit … RT @BoingBoing: The circadian…

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  • Why you do not need to be irradiated by airport security

    For those about to opt-out: a TSA scanning machine cheat-sheet Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net As Cory notes in this pre-Thanksgiving trav­el day post, some trav­el­ers in Amer­i­ca will be opt­ing out of scan­ning machines in TSA lines for pri­va­cy con­cerns, or for health and safe­ty rea­sons. I want­ed to post a reminder, how­ev­er, tha… RT @xeni:…

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  • Expereal will visualize and analyze your life in real time

    Expereal: iPhone app to rate/analyze your life via data visualization Jonathan Cohen, boingboing.net Expe­re­al is a free iPhone app devel­oped to help peo­ple bet­ter under­stand them­selves, to feel even more con­nect­ed to the world, and to, hope­ful­ly, make more informed deci­sions about their lives. The mar­ket­place has social media… RT @BoingBoing: Expereal: iPhone app to…

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  • The long term side effects of cancer treatment: chemo brain

    New evidence of ‘chemo brain’ proves cognitive damage from cancer treatment isn’t ‘all in your head’ Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net Can­cer sur­vivors every­where are nod­ding in agree­ment today: “chemo brain” is real, as those of us who have expe­ri­enced the cog­ni­tive dam­age asso­ci­at­ed with chemother­a­py already know. Mem­o­ry loss, prob­lems with con­cen­tra­tion an… RT @BoingBoing: New…

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  • uBiome: donate some gut flora for a good cause

    scientificamerican.com Help researchers map the human microbiome, the microorganisms that inhabit every inch of our skin as well as our ears, mouth, sinuses, genitals and gut [More] uBiome, Citizen Science | Scientific American http://flip.it/6OVC4 http://flip.it/FKzXC uBiome Related articles The uBiome Citizen Science Project Interview (makezine.com) What Really Happens When You Take Antibiotics? (wakingtimes.com) On Ethics…

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  • What jellyfish can teach us about immortality

    Do jellyfish hold the secret to immortality, and a cure for cancer? Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net Nathaniel Rich on the so-called “immor­tal jel­ly­fish,” Tur­ri­top­sis dohrnii: “[It] seems able to sur­vive, and pro­lif­er­ate, in every ocean in the world. It is pos­si­ble to imag­ine a dis­tant future in which most other species of li… RT @BoingBoing: Do…

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