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Hilarious. For anyone who has ever gone to “Dunkin”. If you are going to work in the Boston tech and science community, you need to “speak the language”…. A linguistic taste of Massachusetts – Boston.com.
Covestor Investment Management. Related articles Feature Friday: Covestor Profile Videos (continuations.com) Covestor issues open invitation to enable anyone to become a portfolio manager * (covestor.com) Covestor Will Give New Clients iPads(TM) (covestor.com) Investment Advisors Joining Social Networks: Adding to the evidence (covestor.com) Vancity divests Enbridge holdings (vancouverobserver.com) Share Your Feedback With the Community (covestor.typepad.com)
Why fiction is good for you – Boston.com. New studies show that in fact a steady diet including some fiction is good for us and results in more effective behavior change and learning than non-fiction. This is because of cognitive “shields” we put up when reading non-fiction. Also fiction acts as a social glue to…
New Boston biotech companies such as Ginkgo BioWorks, Cambrian Innovation, and Manus Biosynthesis are tapping into ancient organisms and new IT capabilities to produce new solutions that are environmentally clean, US based, and fast with as little as 6 month product development life cycles. Gingko notes that 1/4 of their employees are software developers and…
Microsoft Research New England head notes that social science will be the next frontier of science and technology. Where creativity meets technology – Boston.com Related articles A New Kind Of Social Science For The 21st Century (lookingbeyondborders.com) What’s Soft about Social Science? (everydaysociologyblog.com) Adventures in Ideas: Which Social Science Should Die? (freakonomics.com) Social Science…
What a bad time to launch a startup telling people how broke they are, in graphic terms. Track, share, and compare Net Worth. How do you measure up? NetworthIQ. Related articles With a networth of $70M, Chris Rock calls July 4th “Happy White People’s Day” (fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com) Net’worth vs Network (lawrencegonzalez01.wordpress.com) Middle class set back over…
Experience Research. Related articles The Tree: I Was a Teenage Ethnographer! (dailyreturns.wordpress.com) Leet Noobs: An ethnographic view of WoW raiding from researcher Mark Chen (wow.joystiq.com) What Twitter Can Learn From Weibo: Field Notes From Global Tech Ethnographer Tricia Wang (fastcompany.com) Ethnographic Practice in Industry (qrfrag.blogspot.com) Bordering on (in)visibility: The mobility and containment of Haitian…
EPIC 2012 • October 14-17, 2012 • Savannah, GA. Related articles Population Health and Social Governance: Analyzing the Mainstream Incorporation of Ethnography (2012) (foucaultnews.wordpress.com) July Edition of Ethnozine – Ethnography of Wikipedia Sources, Live Fieldnoting, & 4 guest contributors for The Ethnographer’s Reading List (ethnographymatters.net) Ethnography & The Customer: Building a Compelling Brand (ablebrains.typepad.com) Ethnography…
Ethnography.com » Blog Archive » “Culture” in the Science Universe of “Big Data”. Related articles The Anthropology of Snacks, Widgets, and Pills: What I Learned from Ethnographic Consumer Research Big data and DNA: What business can learn from junk genes Where does ethnography belong? Thoughts on WikiSym 2012 Big Data vs Intelligent Data (and what…
Pretty much a perfect day of xc skiing and pancakes. Snowshoes and maple at Morse Farm in Montpelier, Vt. – Boston.com.
Patch. Related articles Patch puts pressure on local editors (jimromenesko.com) AOL Turning Patch into Craigslist Competitor (betabeat.com) Local news sites form new trade association (nextlevelofnews.com) SOURCE: AOL Faces Brutal Choice On Patch – Close It Or Double Down (AOL) (businessinsider.com) Local news powered by Patch: the state of local news aggregation in 2011 (vielmetti.typepad.com) AOL…
See your portfolio in a whole new light – Wikinvest. Related articles Zemanta now with SlideShare, 5min, Wikinvest, bigger images and 17.9% less fat (zemanta.com) Online Investment Portfolio Manager Comparison: My Wish List (mymoneyblog.com) SigFig Is a Powerful Investment Tracker and Portfolio Advisor (and We’ve Got Invites) [Investing] (lifehacker.com) Bringing more transparency to 401(k) fees…
SES Conference & Expo | Education for Today’s Experienced Marketing & Advertising Professionals. Related articles Demand for SEO Professionals Has Never Been Greater [Study] (conductor.com) Organizational Structure for Paid and Natural Search Teams | Conductor Blog (conductor.com) Learning SEO – Where to Start (distilled.net) Interview with Kevin Gibbons, MD of Quaturo (arhg.net) SES Conference and…
Kurt Vonnegut. He was forced to study biochemistry in college, then attempted to obtain his MA in anthropology however his thesis was rejected as too far out. later when he published books, U Chicago gave him the MA, citing his anthropological style of writing! The world is poorer without him. Related articles Love Letter to…
Maurice Sendak: No backstory required – Boston.com. Related articles Maurice Sendak: “Publishing Is Such an Outrageously Stupid Profession” (publishingperspectives.com) ‘These Republican Schnooks Are So Horrible’: Read an Interview with the Late Maurice Sendak (gawker.com) ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ Barbican (londonartportfolio.wordpress.com) Wild Things: Nature Edition (teacherlingo.com) ‘Where Wild Things Are’ author Maurice Sendak dies at…
Brian David Johnson: Intel’s Guide to the Future – Forbes. Related articles Biology vs. The Machine – Part 3: Conversations about Synthetic Biology (uk.tomorrow-projects.com) Maker Faire New York: Brian David Johnson/Vintage Tomorrows (makezine.com) Breaking Down Barriers – Part 1: Conversation with Ariel Waldman & Brian David Johnson (uk.tomorrow-projects.com) Intel’s Futurist Brian David Johnson: Don’t Let…
Buddhism: The Most Accurate World Religion? – Boston.com. Related articles New research reveals Christianity’s Buddhist roots (examiner.com) Six Tibet Facts get Travelers Thinking about This Year’s Tibet Vacation Tour: Devin Moore’s New Tibet Travel Tips and Facts (prweb.com)
Something in the water – Boston.com. I’ve long followed the field of garbology, or what we can learn from our waste, but now a new molecular twist has come along…. Related articles Molecular Gastronomy Comes To Fast Food (qsrmagazine.com) The Initiation and Growth of Molecular Biology and Genomics (pharmaceuticalintelligence.com) Managing Archaeological Data in the Digital…
The 10 best American colleges for writers | USA TODAY College. Wow. My college made #2 in best colleges for writing! Related articles What’s Better Than College Art History 101? A Campus Museum (forbes.com) Undergrads Do Archaeology, Civic Engagement and Digital Humanities (rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com) Why Listening is Hard and How to Think Critically (conversationagent.com) Ezra Pound…
BzzAgent is the leading word-of-mouth marketing (WOM) company. Another cool Web 2.0 application that allows you to create word of mouth communities and viral networks for your product. Related articles BzzAgent’s Dave Balter Offers Word-of-Mouth Advice Rockin Week with BzzAgent Spread the Word! The Secrets of Word of Mouth Marketing Bzz or bust? Put your…
A fascinating story on the discovery and use of parasitic hookworms to treat allergies based upon bio-anthropological research by a long time allergy sufferer. Gut instinct: the miracle of the parasitic hookworm | Life and style | The Observer. Related articles Worms, Germs, and Dirt: What Can They Teach Us About Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases?…
Mercer’s 2011 Cost of Living survey highlights. best cost of living index for 150 cities. lists cities which are least expensive to retire to worldwide. Related articles Cost of countryside living rises – Confused.com (confused.com) How does your cost of living compare to other cities? (christianpf.com) Tax the Rich? Itemized Deductions & Cost of Living…
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