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Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval Monya Baker, nature.com Personal genetics company 23andMe announced Monday that it was seeking FDA approval for an initial batch of seven health-related tests with scores more to follow. 23andMe, based in Mountain View, California, markets genetics test… http://flpbd.it/usMr0 Related articles 23andMe’s Tools Help Solve Ancestry Mystery (23andme.com) One Million…
Intel’s futurist knows what tech you’ll want tomorrow by Brian Cooley, cnet.com Brian David Johnson is Intel’s guy in charge of knowing what tomorrow will be like. No pressure. He shows CNET’s Brian Cooley what’s next. Technological futurism to Intel’s Brian David Johnson is a lot more than engineering. … http://flpbd.it/CdGlY Related articles Is…
Computing is evolving from silicon to biology and now to social sciences. Introducing the human computer – Boston.com. Related articles Imagining Tomorrow’s Computers Today (news.sciencemag.org) Announcement: UC Irvine to lead social computing research center (universityofcalifornia.edu) New Anthropology and Archaeology Resource Network (aaanet.org) Beyond Biosocialities in Medical Anthropology (CFP, Symposium, Amsterdam, 17-19 January 2013) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) A…
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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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…
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.
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)
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…
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…
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…
Experience Research. Related articles The Tree: I Was a Teenage Ethnographer! (dailyreturns.wordpress.com) Leet Noobs: An ethnographic view of WoW raiding from researcher Mark Chen (wow.joystiq.com) What Twitter Can Learn From Weibo: Field Notes From Global Tech Ethnographer Tricia Wang (fastcompany.com) Ethnographic Practice in Industry (qrfrag.blogspot.com) Bordering on (in)visibility: The mobility and containment of Haitian…
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