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Walker Percy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Another anthropological writer who had the same theory that owing to the complexities of modern life humans crave destruction and thus have a secret fascination with these events including fires etc. that transcends any feelings of empathy they might also have. Related articles New “Bell…
Sebastian Junger – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Very interesting author who is trained as an anthropologist and has a theory that people’s lives are too complex and thus they crave the simplicity of natural disasters and tragic events such as war which creats bonds and a sense of grounding. Related articles Sebastian Junger launches medical…
Each year, 11% of consumer electronics are returned to stores, but only 5% of those are defective. The other 95% are returned because of poor design. Maya boot camps apply the techniques of usability and anthropology to change the odds. Inside MAYA Design’s Innovation Boot Camps | Fast Company. Related articles Apple acquires eighteen user interface…
Book Review – ‘The Accidental Guerrilla,’ by David Kilcullen – NYTimes.com. Anthropologist David Kilcullen is a former officer in the Australian Army, a strategist and a scholar. He is also an expert on counterinsurgency, or how to combat a rebellion, and one of the few brave souls who had the ear of people in the…
Using new online data sources and massive scale intelligence on social activities, this article argues that anthropology is being reinvented as a hard science. Digital Anthropology becomes a Science – broadstuff. Related articles What role does “digital” have within Anthropology? – Part I (chi.anthropology.msu.edu)
These things look indestructible. Icewall One – Designers of the Igloo Satellite Cabin, PolyPod Snowcamper and other polar field equipment . Related articles Will Apple kill off the iPod Classic? (reviews.cnet.com) Line 6 Pod HD Pro? or Avid Eleven Rack? (gearslutz.com) Halley VI research station, Antarctica – review (guardian.co.uk)
HomeExchange.com. This got great reviews in the Boston Globe. Save on hotels and rentals while traveling and see the world from an anthro perspective. Related articles Time To Get Away? Plan the Perfect Escape at The Boston Globe Travel Show on February 8-10, 2013 (prweb.com) How to save money while seeing the world (getrichslowly.org) Home…
Great article on the cultural origins of new Indie bands such as Bon Hiver. New generation’s Indie sound is grounded in folk roots – The Boston Globe. Related articles Bon Jovi Tickets Surge on BuyAnySeat.com Ahead of Upcoming Album and Tour (prweb.com)
I’ve been playing around with the new Google N Gram viewer and the emerging field of culturomics, the application of high-throughput data collection and analysis to the study of human culture. It’s interesting to see that Timothy was more common in 1920 and that information has grown faster than knowledge In 500 Billion Words, a New…
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…
It seems a no brainer at this point. But it is about time that the life science industry utilized online communal knowledge for drug development The next killer app – The Boston Globe. Related articles Killer Apps May be Confusing US (sophisticatedfinance.typepad.com) Second Screen Killer App: Predictive Gaming is the “Future of Sports Television,” Turner’s…
Just when many were convinced of the futility of AI in the immediate future, an interesting article in Wired shows just how embedded it is in our everyday life, from flash trading to self driving cars, fraud detection and more. The difference? Let computers accomplish tasks we don’t want to do their own way instead…
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Tech hiring is on upswing, but not where you’d expect – The Boston Globe. Related articles Pathology Informatics Conference Moved to May 13-16, 2014 (labsoftnews.typepad.com) National Informatics Center of India Hacked by Code Injector and Yash (news.softpedia.com) Week 1: What is Social Informatics? (taylormharvey.wordpress.com)
Wall St. Computers Read the News, and Trade on It – NYTimes.com.
What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York | Magazine | Wired.com. Related articles Kvetching on 311: What New Yorkers Complain About (ritholtz.com)
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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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