Author: timbatchelder

We’ve all needed to find an old, lost contact before.

Source: How to Find Anyone on the Internet for Free

Big data is changing how businesses grow, making data science one of the hottest careers. BU’s new center for Computing & Data Sciences will put it at the forefront of this new world.

Source: Data Science Jobs Are Hot—and with a State-of-the-Art Building, New Faculty, and a New Major, BU Is Ready | Bostonia | Boston University

I retired from active-duty service in the U.S. Air Force two years ago, capping a 28-year career as a communications officer and, later, a cyberspace

Source: The Air Force Isn’t Doing Information Technology Right – War on the Rocks

 

Fritjof Capra goes beyond The Tao of Physics with The Systems View of Life, a much-needed vision of biology with a dash of Eastern mysticism

Source: All systems Tao: Holistic view of life’s networks | New Scientist

The Future of Work is Not Corporate — It’s DAOs and Crypto Networks | Future https://flip.it/ComOll

The Future of Work is Not Corporate — It’s DAOs and Crypto Networks

Exploring the impact of stress on our brains and subsequent online behaviours, and how this might be alleviated via compassionate design.

Source: De-stressing design

Shandra Trantham has Friedreich’s ataxia (FA), a rare genetic disease that is slowly robbing her of the ability to walk and talk

Source: 24-Year-Old Researches Treatment for Her Own Crippling Disease: ‘I’m in a Race Against Time’

UK Biobank,

Source: A Massive New Study of 88,000 People Says This Is When You Should Go to Bed, According to Science | Inc.com

“Embodied Mind” author Thomas Verny on consciousness and the brain’s amazing “backup system”

Source: “The brain has a backup system”: Why people missing much of their brain can miraculously recover | Salon.com

 

Low-code and no-code platforms are building sites that are just as impressive as ones built by skilled developers, and do it in less than half the time of their counterparts.

Source: Low-Code and No-Code Design Is the Future of Website Building

The Verge: FDA clears Withings’ EKG and blood oxygen features. https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/12/22722333/withings-fda-clearance-blood-oxygen-heart-rhythm