Category: Digital health

  • DIY history digitizes ethnomedical recipe books

    DIY History crowdsources the transcription of 17th century cookbooks By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk Culture “We are what we eat,” the old say­ing goes. If so, there’s no bet­ter way to digest cul­ture than to comb through painstak­ing­ly hand­writ­ten cook­books. Now, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Libraries has made the task expo­nen­tial­ly eas­i… RT @WiredUK: DIY History…

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  • DIY history identifies forgotten bio prospecting knowledge

    How to make calves’ head soup, and other culinary treats from the past By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk Culture The Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Libraries has made the task expo­nen­tial­ly eas­i­er with the launch of DIY His­to­ry, a crowd­sourc­ing ini­tia­tive that allows vol­un­teers to tran­scribe the Sza­th­mary Culi­nary Archives, cen­turies’ wort… http://flip.it/m6bBi Related articles BioCurious DIY BioPrinter…

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  • The linguistic analysis and prediction of Parkinson’s

    Max Little knows how to detect early symptoms of Parkinson’s. Just call him By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Decem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… RT…

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  • Ethnographic documentary filmmaking with a kinect

    How a Kinect hack is turning documentary film on its head By Tom Cheshire, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Decem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… RT @WiredUK: How…

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  • IBM bets on cognitive social science for tech

    IBM predicts how future technology will radically augment your senses By Chris Welch, theverge.com IBM today pub­lished its annu­al 5 in 5 report, cit­ing five are­nas of tech­nol­o­gy the com­pa­ny believes will see vast advance­ments over the next five years. This year’s list focus­es on the five human sens­es and how future tech will… RT…

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  • NRA hides under the social media covers

    National Rifle Association disappears from Facebook and stops tweeting in wake of school shooting By T.C. Sottek, theverge.com The Nation­al Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion (NRA) — the largest gun rights advo­ca­cy group and one of the pre­vail­ing lob­by­ing orga­ni­za­tions in the Unit­ed States — has pulled back from its social media pres­ence fol­low­ing the New­town, Con­necti­… RT…

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  • The Evernote clipping obsession

    The Verge at work: backing up your brain By Thomas Houston, theverge.com How I use Evernote as a memory tool for deep reading, writing, and research The Verge at Work is a series about process. We’re not sci­en­tists, and we’re not gurus, we’re just try­ing to get some work done. The solu­tions pre­sent­ed here ar……

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  • T-mobile eyes Metro PCS with iPhone 5

    (via Can you say MetroPCS iPhone? T-Mobile sure can — Apple News, Tips and Reviews)</p Related articles MetroPCS recommends amended T-Mobile deal (seattlepi.com) T-Mobile says first day Apple iPhone 5 sales were huge; device sold like “Gangbusters” (phonearena.com) MetroPCS encourages shareholders again to vote for T-Mobile deal (geekwire.com) MetroPCS delays vote after T-Mobile beefs up…

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  • iPhone 5 on cricket

    (via iPhone 5 to debut on Cricket Wireless on Sept. 28 | TechHive) Related articles Cricket’s iPhone 5 play stumbles amid half the predicted demand (slashgear.com) Apple to Release a New A1428 iPhone 5 Starting April 12th With AWS Support! (applios.wordpress.com)

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  • Mailbox app for iPhone replaces Apple mail

    Mailbox for iPhone: a next-generation email app inspired by Sparrow and Clear By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com Cloud to-do list com­pa­ny Orches­tra today announced Mail­box, an email client for the iPhone it’s been build­ing for the last year. I’ve been test­ing Mail­box for the last few weeks and it’s noth­ing short of spec­tac­tu­lar. It’s the best…

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