Author: timbatchelder
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Just how hot is it in the US right now?
Just how hot is it in the US right now? – Boing Boing. Related articles As Climate Changes, Urban Planners Help Cities Adapt (wbur.org) BBC Burnt Over Climate Change Claim UK Will Be As Hot As Madeira (chimalaya.org) Plan Panel Seeks to Rewrite India’s Climate Change Stance (chimalaya.org) Climate change is real, Canadians say, but…
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Udacity, Udemy: MOOCs disrupt conventional science and tech talent acquisition and education
MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls – NYTimes.com. New Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs and startup companies such as Udacity and Udemy are turning conventional education on its head. Udacity, a startup which is supported by Charles River Ventures, was created by former professors at Stanford who taught one AI course online…
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ReD Associates: Anthropological perspectives on business problems
ReD Associates | Ideas that transform marketplaces. Related articles Increasing Companies’ Profitability with Managed Print (icnmsolutions.wordpress.com) Calling All Anthropologists: We Need a Photo of You! (aaanet.org) Outside In: Breaking Some Anthropology Rules for Design [guest contributor] (ethnographymatters.net) Creating knowledge in social sciences (thehindu.com) Morbid Road Trip: Medical Oddities Around the World (mentalfloss.com) Instagram Ethnographer…
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Netflix’s Unlimited Employee Vacation Policy; Why It Works
Netflix’s Unlimited Employee Vacation Policy; Why It Works. Related articles The Vacation Paradox: Why Some Companies Are Paying Workers To Go Away (loszachreport.wordpress.com) To Recruit Techies, Companies Offer Unlimited Vacation (businessweek.com) Flexible & Unlimited Vacation Policies? (thehrstrategiesblog.wordpress.com) Know Your Apps: Netflix (samsung.com) Netflix to raise subscription cost – will you stay our leave? (epicagear.com) Netflix…
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AN UNTRASHY TRAILER
AN UNTRASHY TRAILER | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building. Future-forward design for the world you inhabit – your daily source for innovations in sustainable architecture and green design for the home. Related articles Parallax Landscape Re-Imagines a Low-Carbon Future for a Coal-Dominated Australian City (inhabitat.com) Inhabitat’s Top 6 Architecture Stories of…
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JHU 7th Annual Biotech Research Symposium live webcast
Dr. Jonathan Pevsner will be discussing “Bioinformatics approach to understanding childhood brain disorders“. Dr. Pevsner is an Associate Professor at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and holds a Primary Faculty Appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Please join us for our 7th Annual Research Symposium online. Click here to view the webcast Related articles…
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Coursera partners with universities to create new science, humanities and engineering programs
Coursera Plans to Announce University Partners for Online Classes – NYTimes.com. Two more Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller have broken off to create a new online learning startup called Coursera with financial backing from two of Silicon Valley’s premier venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates. The startup will…
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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge
Welcome | The Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Related articles Leo Villareal’s ‘BUCKYBALL’ Brings Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome To Madison Square Park (PHOTO) (huffingtonpost.com) Bucky’s Desperate Call for a Design Science Revolution (buckyworld.me) Futuristic housing never built in 1960s Harlem (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com) Innovative Firm Aims to Spark Revolution in Design, Sustainability (prweb.com)
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A linguistic taste of Massachusetts
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.
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