Author: timbatchelder
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Using gaming to visualize and enhance healthcare outcomes
New startups such as HopeLab are using gaming to enable patients to visualize and achieve improved health outcomes. Is Gamification a Healthcare Game-Changer? – CareCloud.
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Singularity University uses software startup model to incubate synthetic biology ventures
Singularity University which is a private university dedicated to speeding education in science and technology is giving away about 50k in cash and services to startups pursuing the new field of synthetic biology to help solve major projects including energy, healthcare. Singularity University To Incubate Synthetic Biology Startups With New Program | Singularity Hub. Related…
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Stanford professors create startup to expand high quality university education online
The Stanford professor whose online computer science course went viral is now at it again.. From Silicon Valley, A New Approach To Education : All Tech Considered : NPR. Related articles Stanford University Students Launch Sites By Hand, A Social Business for Global Development of Personal Websites and Effective Web Solutions (prweb.com) Menlo Ventures’ Pishevar…
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Your Inner Ecosystem | On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Your Inner Ecosystem | On Point with Tom Ashbrook Envwining a new healthcare industry based on the biome not synthetic chemicals. Related articles Interdependence of Life – Earth’s Ecosystems (floydmiddle.typepad.com) How does the ocean biome collapse? (ask.metafilter.com) A Day in Eden – St Austell, United Kingdom (travelpod.com) Breitling BlackBird. the Arctic Tundra, the Antarctic Tundra,…
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Covestor: Crowdsourcing Investment Management
Covestor Investment Management. Related articles Feature Friday: Covestor Profile Videos (continuations.com) Covestor issues open invitation to enable anyone to become a portfolio manager * (covestor.com) Covestor Will Give New Clients iPads(TM) (covestor.com) Investment Advisors Joining Social Networks: Adding to the evidence (covestor.com) Vancity divests Enbridge holdings (vancouverobserver.com) Share Your Feedback With the Community (covestor.typepad.com)
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Storytelling and science: how fiction results in more behavior change than non-fiction
Why fiction is good for you – Boston.com. New studies show that in fact a steady diet including some fiction is good for us and results in more effective behavior change and learning than non-fiction. This is because of cognitive “shields” we put up when reading non-fiction. Also fiction acts as a social glue to…
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Biotechs engineer ancient organisms and speed product development
New Boston biotech companies such as Ginkgo BioWorks, Cambrian Innovation, and Manus Biosynthesis are tapping into ancient organisms and new IT capabilities to produce new solutions that are environmentally clean, US based, and fast with as little as 6 month product development life cycles. Gingko notes that 1/4 of their employees are software developers and…
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Microsoft says social science will be the next frontier of science and technology
Microsoft Research New England head notes that social science will be the next frontier of science and technology. Where creativity meets technology – Boston.com Related articles A New Kind Of Social Science For The 21st Century (lookingbeyondborders.com) What’s Soft about Social Science? (everydaysociologyblog.com) Adventures in Ideas: Which Social Science Should Die? (freakonomics.com) Social Science…
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Growing shrimp in the desert
Cool. Contaminant free shrimp raised in the desert from Blue Oasis, the aquaculture division of Ganix Biotechnologies Inc Better Living Through Aquaculture | Autograph Collection Magazine Related articles Green Blog: A Milestone Looms for Farm-Raised Fish (green.blogs.nytimes.com) OriginOil Tests Breakthrough Aquaculture Water Decontamination System (triplepundit.com) Shark DNA Used to Buff Up Aquacultured Fish (southernfriedscience.com)…
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All businesses will become coffee shops
Given that most functions of a modern business and organizations from education to retail can now be duplicated with $500 worth of computer equipment this article argues that many can now be better managed as coffee shops. In the future, everything will be a coffee shop – Boston.com. Related articles Coffee Expo Seoul 2013 to Provide…
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