Category: Digital Health

  • Biosemiotics: integrating the science of signs with the science of life

    Biosemiotics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Related articles NYC: A Great Place To Visit. But… (thenarcissisticanthropologist.com) Speaking at Semiofest May 26th in London (brandnoise.typepad.com) Of Screen and Semiotics (acejet170.typepad.com) You Did What With Your Hands? (psychologytoday.com) Our Semiotic CultureIntelligence Apps Debut at SXSW 2012 (brandnoise.typepad.com) Semiotics and successful new business pitches (stephengreensted.wordpress.com) The Semiotics of…

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  • Dr Helen Fisher: Biological anthropologist creates online dating algorithms

    Dr Helen Fisher – Biological Anthropologist – Home Page. Related articles Helen Fisher – the brain in love (TED) (lovetheorist.com) Do Pheromones Really Work? (bellasugar.com) Love vs. Lust (and the Brain) (bigthink.com) Survey: 30% of Meat Eaters Won’t Date a Vegetarian (newsfeed.time.com) An Affair Of the Head (wed-gie.com) Love, Sex and Your Smartphone (forbes.com)

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  • Dabble Boston

      Boston – Dabble.  

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  • Wikimapia – Let’s describe the whole world!

        Wikimapia – Let’s describe the whole world!.   Related articles Wikimapia (philbradley.typepad.com) Introducing GeoXray for Crisis Mapping (irevolution.net)  

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  • Google Transit

        Google Transit.   Related articles   Why Google’s “million transit stops” belong to you (openplans.org) Google Maps Expands Transit Info (pcworld.com) Google simplifies public transit information (thehindu.com) Google Transit Directions Stop Working (seroundtable.com) Google adds public transit data to Maps API (venturebeat.com) Google Adds Transit Detours To Maps (phonescoop.com)  

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  • Anthropology Careers – UNT Anthropology

    Anthropology Careers – UNT Anthropology. Related articles Baobabs and Briars: Plucking Anthropological Essentials From ‘The Little Prince’ (aaanet.org)

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  • iCopyright: getting companies to do the right thing

    About the Plugin – iCopyright :: iCopyright. Related articles 5 Quality Copyright Plugins for WordPress (wpjedi.com)

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  • Escapeartist.com: crowdsourcing expat advice

    Live Overseas; Resources, Articles & Videos For Living Overseas In A Multi-Newsletter Format By Nation, Featuring Expat Taxes, Asset Protection, 2nd Passports, International Real Estate, Overseas Jobs – Expatriate Resources – Overseas Retirement. Related articles Expats see cost of living rise (independent.co.uk) Expat Extremophiles (retirenicaragua.wordpress.com) Expats (justinelarbalestier.com)

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  • AT&T Labs Research: Anthropology meets innovation

    AT&T Labs Research – July 2012. Related articles IBM Opens Its First Research Lab in Africa (voanews.com) IBM to open research lab in Kenya (bbc.co.uk) You Can Find a Job in R&D If You Look Hard Enough (news.dice.com) 2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Social Anthropology in Norway (phdland.com) Microsoft hires 14 Yahoo researchers to kickstart…

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  • Social networks replace expert knowledge

    Interesting article on the effects of online networks and the Internet on our perception and use of experts. Your help with the new expertise: KMWorld. Related articles Social Media Strategy: “I don’t think my audience is using social media.” (digitalsurgeons.com) Salamworld Social Network (islamicchamper.wordpress.com) Blog Post: Bing Adds Quora Experts to Social Sidebar (bing.com:80) Is…

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  • James W. Pennebaker: Natural language and health

    Over the course of his career, Pennebaker has studied the nature of physical symptoms, health consequences of secrets, expressive writing, and natural language, and has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Army Research Institute, and other federal agencies for studies in language, emotion, and social dynamics. A pioneer of writing…

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  • MIT OpenCourseWare 21A.215 Medical Anthropology

      MIT OpenCourseWare | Anthropology | 21A.215 Medical Anthropology, Fall 2004 | Readings. Related articles Free Online Course Materials | Resource Home | MIT OpenCourseWare (anthonyvenable110.wordpress.com) Participate in the Extreme and Informal Learning Survey (saylor.org) New Year’s Resolution: MIT OpenCourseWare (ritholtz.com) Introduction to Psychology now available in MIT OpenCourseWare’s innovative OCW Scholar format (web.mit.edu) Invtitation…

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  • Walt Disney anthropologists capture youth trends

      Walt Disney Expert Uses Science to Draw Boy Viewers – NYTimes.com.  

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  • Social networks make medicine human again

    ‘ An excellent article in Businessweek highlights the fact that Social networks like PatientsLikeMe let people take charge of their own care—changing the nature of drug research and the practice of medicine Related articles Deals of the Week Ponders PatientsLikeMe and Empowerment (invivoblog.blogspot.com) Merck to draw on social network for psoriasis patients (fiercebiotechit.com) Merck’s partnership…

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  • Eastern meditation inspired approach infiltrates psychology

    After decades of sometimes ineffective Western psychological methods, increasingly more psychologists are turning to anthropology and cross cultural approaches to understand the human mind. This one practices in Western Mass… Mind Power – The Boston Globe. Related articles Mind is the Cause of Confusion (shambhala.com) The Wind Never Lies (madinamerica.com) How Meditation Can Make You…

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  • Wiley: An Anthropology of Biomedicine

      A classic. Wiley: An Anthropology of Biomedicine. Related articles Beyond Biosocialities in Medical Anthropology (CFP, Symposium, Amsterdam, 17-19 January 2013) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) Practice, Drugs and additionally Anthropology have – Fuzhou, China (travelpod.com) International Summer School in Medical Anthropology (CfP, Summerschool, July 2013, Berlin) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) Neanderthal dental tartar reveals evidence of medicine (newscientist.com) Dying for Capitalism…

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