Category: Digital Health

  • IBM Gaming and Leadership Report

    IBM Research | IBM Innovation | Gaming and Leadership Report. Related articles InterConnect 2012: Where business and IT leaders connect (ibm.com) Is Big Tech Back on Top? (fool.com) The first step to changing the culture in healthcare (kevinmd.com) IBM Watson: All grown up and off to medical school (katsinsight.com) Who Should Replace Mark Zuckerberg? (fool.com)…

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  • Center for Democracy & Technology | Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free

    Center for Democracy & Technology | Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free. Related articles The Declaration of Internet Freedom (muninetworks.org) Civil liberties groups praise revised cybersecurity bill (networkworld.com) Google and Facebook’s new tactic in the tech wars (tech.fortune.cnn.com) Is it time for an online ‘constitutional moment’? On the Declaration of Internet Freedom (blogs.siliconvalley.com) Journalists,…

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  • John Rooksby ethnography and tech expert

    John Rooksby. Related articles What kind of researcher do you want to be? (cassieearl.wordpress.com) Outside In: Breaking Some Anthropology Rules for Design [guest contributor] (ethnographymatters.net) More self-managing organizations? (orgtheory.wordpress.com) Ethnography & The Customer: Building a Compelling Brand (ablebrains.typepad.com) Ethnography revisited – timing and pacing (orgtheory.wordpress.com)

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  • “Culture” in the Science Fictional Universe of “Big Data”

            Ethnography.com » Blog Archive » “Culture” in the Science Fictional Universe of “Big Data”.   Related articles   Forget the Cloud: DNA Could Become the New Home for Big Data Storage (bostinno.com) New Web Intelligence and Big Data Coursera Class (datascience101.wordpress.com) UC Berkeley Big Data Bootcamp (datascience101.wordpress.com) The Big Apple’s Big…

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  • How language drives biology and culture

    How language transformed humanity | GrrlScientist | Science | guardian.co.uk Interesting TED Video and article suggesting that language has driven all biological and cultural evolution and is our most powerful neurological social technology allowing us to implant a thought into someone’s mind without the need for surgery according to Mark Pagel. Language created social learning…

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  • Hipmunk updates flight search app for iPad

    Hipmunk updates flight search app for iPad | Travel | Macworld. Related articles Hipmunk Flight & Hotel Search (for iPad) (pcmag.com) Find your next flight with Hipmunk iPhone app (reviews.cnet.com) Review: Don’t leave home without Hipmunk’s travel search app for iOS (macworld.com) Hipmunk (pcmag.com) Hipmunk and Kayak launch tools to help you fly cheap (venturebeat.com)…

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  • Hamilton college alumni weekend features new science center and other innovations

    I just returned from alumni weekend at Hamilton College and was amazed at the evolution of this school since I completed my studies there. A new science center that looks like an Apple store, expanding visibility for its expertise in writing, media and communications, a dynamic network of alumni and new e-learning platforms connecting it…

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  • Cornell scientists use Twitter to capture global mood, chronobiology

    Most adults I know dismissed Twitter, with only 140 characters at their disposal, as a waste of time just a year ago. But after the Iranian revolts, the Arab Spring and the London riots in which Twitter played a key part, it is not so easily dismissed anymore. But its seemingly brief and trivial nature is…

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  • Ratings and reviews: the end of serendipity (and bad hotel rooms)

    An interesting article which points out some social downsides to the Internet including the fact that almost everything now comes with a sea of reviews and ratings making the act of discovering something entirely oneself a little more difficult. Rate This Article: What’s Wrong with the Culture of Critique | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related…

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  • Sugar as a toxin: YouTube video of biochemistry and evolutionary medicine

    Recently a YouTube video explaining the biochemistry of sugar has elevated public awareness of thousands of Americans enough to question heir intake. Much of the research, this speaker notes, points to sugar as a direct toxin, including more recent discoveries on its effect on insulin signaling and cancer. Of course anthropologists have long documented the…

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  • Juan Downey: Energy anthropologist and artist

    I really like this guy’s stuff. A self proclaimed “energy anthropologist” this video artist travelled deep into South America to find a primal, invisible forms of energy which he documented. Juan Downey, like all the best avant-gardists going right back to the 19th century, had a utopian streak.  He spent seven years traveling back and…

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  • Johns Hopkins researchers identify health benefits in hallucinogenic mushrooms

    Anthropology has long documented that most traditional medical systems use indigenous plants often with psychoactive, spiritual effects. Recently researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been studying the effects of psilocybin, a chemical found in some psychedelic mushrooms, that’s credited with inducing transcendental states. Now, they say, they’ve zeroed in on the perfect…

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  • Intelligence agencies, mired in inefficiencies, begin to adopt social science and crowd sourcing methods

    As with other fields such as medicine, after years of massive costs and sometimes ineffective methods, resulting in catastrophic failures such as 9/11, new leadership at our intelligence agencies such as Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper are adopting digital and social science methods such as crowd sourcing, data science, knowledge management.  Social scientists have…

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  • Mac/PC demographics

    Hunch Blog | Blog Archive | Mac vs. PC: A Hunch Rematch. Hilarious. Related articles PC Mag: iMac is Editor’s Choice (appleday.org) Death Ray Manta out now on iOS (vg247.com) How to create a Raven desktop app for Macs and PCs (raventools.com) MAC vs. PC vs. State Of Confusion (techmamas.com) Mac OS is better and…

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  • Future Perfect: Ethnographic approaches to technology R&D

      Jan Chipchase is a Executive Creative Director of Global Insights at frog – a global design and innovation company. Prior to this role she worked for almost a decade as a strategist in Nokia’s Los Angeles design studio and Principal Scientist in the Nokia Research Center, Tokyo. She specializes in taking teams of concept/industrial designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists,…

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  • Gillian Tett, managing editor at FT, considers the cultural side of finance

    A social anthropologist who writes about finance for FT.. Gillian Tett – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Related articles FT pin-up Gillian Tett is the hot ticket (standard.co.uk) Davos Needs Some Creative Intelligence (creativeintelligencebook.com) Peter Lauria Says That Gillian Tett Is Now a Celebrity… (delong.typepad.com) What is organisational culture? Ask an anthropologist. (flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com) Leeds Building Society…

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  • U. Penn KM expert Barry G. Silverman analyzes human terrain data

    This guy is an expert on the use of knowledge management approaches and anthropological data (human terrain) in military systems. Barry G. Silverman. Related articles ZyDoc Expands NIH SBIR NLP Grant for EHR Usability Research Study to Other Facilities (prweb.com) Bertrand Duperrin: Making internal collaboration work: An interview with Don Tapscott (mckinseyquarterly.com) Is there a…

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