Category: Digital Health

  • Is a résumé relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects?

    Is a résumé relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects? Stack Exchange, arstechnica.com This Q&A is part of a biweek­ly series of posts high­light­ing com­mon ques­tions encoun­tered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered net­work of 80+ Q&A sites. davidk01 asks: My resume is no… http://flpbd.it/XbZep…

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  • Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct

    Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct | The Crux discovermagazine.com Eric Michael John­son has a mas­ter’s degree in evo­lu­tion­ary anthro­pol­o­gy focus­ing on great ape behav­ioral ecol­o­gy. He is cur­rent­ly a doc­tor­al stu­dent in the his­to­ry of sci­ence at Uni­ver­si­ty of British Colum­bia look­ing at… http://flpbd.it/GVRyf Related articles Ayn Rand is Fiction (evergreeninstitute.wordpress.com) Lawmaker Wants…

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  • Need A Career Role Model? Indiana Jones Is Your Guy

    Need A Career Role Model? Indiana Jones Is Your Guy By Tom Teodorczuk, fastcompany.com What does an archaeologist-slash-action hero out to save the world from maniacal Nazis have to do with battling boring corporate bureaucracy? Everything. Wall Street. Glen­gar­ry Glen Ross. The Man in the Gray Flan­nel Suit.… http://flpbd.it/9rGZB Related articles Charlie Ergen on Dish’s…

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  • Making Visible the Invisible: Meaning, Not Content, Matters in Social Data

    Making Visible the Invisible: Meaning, Not Content, Matters in Social Data Eric Openshaw and Alexander Pentland, Vice Chairman, Deloitte and Founder/Director, MIT Connection Science and Engineering Center, allthingsd.com There is no ques­tion that in today’s con­nect­ed world — where few activ­i­ties go untracked and undig­i­tized — social data is every­where, being gen­er­at­ed by the ter­abyte.…

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  • People and Their Stuff

    People and Their Stuff: Huang Qingjun’s “Family Stuff” and Sannah Kvist’s “All I Own” core77.com The Chi­nese phrase si da jian lit­er­al­ly trans­lates as “four big things,” and in 1950s China, it referred to four objects every fam­i­ly want­ed to own: A sewing machine, a bicy­cle, a wrist­watch and a radio. Over the decades the…

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  • How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer

    How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer (Or Work With One) fastcocreate.com Freelancers share their best practices for being their own boss, and why you should so totally just do it. When talk­ing to cre­ative free­lancers, there’s one phrase that’s often repeat­ed: “I don’t mean to sound cheesy or cliché but…” What… http://flpbd.it/doJLS…

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  • Would You Recognize Yourself With A Completely Symmetrical Face?

    Would You Recognize Yourself With A Completely Symmetrical Face? By Jordan Kushins, fastcodesign.com Julian Wolkenstein explores a scientific concept of beauty with a unique portrait series. Beau­ty is in the eye of the behold­er. Right? Even though every­one’s charmed by wild­ly dif­fer­ent kinds of phys­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics (thank… http://flpbd.it/v6WiS Related articles Non Turing-Recognizable from symmetric difference…

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  • What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy

    What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy Richard Florida is Co-Founder and Editor at Large at The Atlantic Cities. He’s also a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and Global Research Professor at New York University. He is…

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  • How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know

    How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know Eliza Barclay, npr.org Our impulse to share inti­mate details about our lives with­in our social net­works (and even some­times with com­plete strangers) seems to know few bounds. Now devices loaded with health apps let us mon­i­tor and share our sleep pat­terns, stre… http://flpbd.it/Yqlsu Related articles Childhood Obesity…

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  • Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign

    Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign buzzfeed.com Leaked fundrais­ing doc­u­ments show Sil­i­con Val­ley emerg­ing as a key source of Demo­c­ra­t­ic money and power. Val­ley money bests Hol­ly­wood. Pres­i­dent Obama with Google chair­man (and occa­sion­al advi­sor) Eric Schmidt SAN FRAN­CIS­… http://flpbd.it/mrFd3 Related articles Razor Burned: The Beard-less Women of Obama’s Tech Team…

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  • Why Cancer Treatment Is Fatally Flawed

    Margaret I. Cuomo, M.D., huffingtonpost.com Good Morn­ing Amer­i­ca co-anchor Robin Roberts’ recent announce­ment that she had been diag­nosed with myelodys­plas­tic syn­drome (MDS) — a group of con­di­tions in which the cells in the bone mar­row are dam­aged — cer­tain­ly came as … Why Cancer Treatment Is Fatally Flawed Related articles New cancer treatment used for…

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  • Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore

    Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore John Timmer, arstechnica.com Some of the most suc­cess­ful drugs we know about have come from plants, includ­ing the can­cer drug Taxol, the malar­i­al treat­ment artemisinin, and even aspirin. The lat­ter two were iden­ti­fied because of their use in herbal reme­dies that… http://flpbd.it/IKidw Related articles Drug…

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  • Kicking Off a Year of Open Source Everything

    Kicking Off a Year of Open Source Everything Sam Muirhead, lifehacker.com Berlin film­mak­er Sam Muir­head is attempt­ing to live a com­plete­ly open source life for one year. Here’s why. The phrase ‘Open Source’, to many peo­ple, means ‘soft­ware you don’t have to pay for’—but real­ly it’s so much more than th… http://flpbd.it/xl5Kt Related articles The…

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  • I’m Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work

    I’m Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work Tessa Miller, lifehacker.com The inter­net wouldn’t be the same with­out Cate­ri­na Fake. In 2004, she launched Flickr, one of the largest photo host­ing and shar­ing sites. Later, she co-founded Hunch, which aims to per­son­al­ize the web through rec­om­men­da­tions and a… http://flpbd.it/Ixrmx Related articles The meaning of…

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  • Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic

                              Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic Related articles There are 6 types of healthcare consumers; Which ones would you like to target? (medcitynews.com) When Allergies Attack – Asthma & Allergies in America [INFOGRAPHIC] (epicahealth.com) Do You Have 20/20 Vision or…

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  • Food Waste Is Overwhelming

    Food Waste Is Overwhelming. Here Are Five Things People Are Doing About It April Fulton, npr.org The food world is buzzing today about the lat­est news on just how often we waste per­fect­ly good food. And we admit, the sta­tis­tics are pret­ty depress­ing. About 40 per­cent of food in the Unit­ed States today goes uneat­en.…

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  • #The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

      By FAST COMPANY STAFF, fastcompany.com   When it comes to social media success, the long game is more valuable than the short game, according to Hill Holliday’s SVP of digital strategy, Mike Proulx.   “Many brands and indi­vid­u­als mis­tak­en­ly obsess about short­cut tac­tics to gain f…   http://flpbd.it/NcEEF   #The Rules Of Social Media:…

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  • The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing

        The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing fastcocreate.com Rob van Kranenburg outlines a brief history of the next big thing—the internet of things—and argues that U.S. industry and government should be taking a more active role in its evolution. About a decade ago, I would stand…

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  • The Limits of Science—and Scientists

    The Limits of Science—and Scientists | The Crux discovermagazine.com By Ananyo Bhat­tacharya, chief online edi­tor of Nature mag­a­zine. “About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.” The last line of Lud­wig Wittgen­stein’s Trac­ta­tus tends to res­onate with sci­en­tists, scep­tics,… http://flpbd.it/YNwwJ Related articles Final Trac Integrates with AccuTitle Software in Seamless Release Tracking Ordering…

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