Category: Digital health

  • John Rooksby ethnography and tech expert

    John Rooksby. Related articles What kind of researcher do you want to be? (cassieearl.wordpress.com) Outside In: Breaking Some Anthropology Rules for Design [guest contributor] (ethnographymatters.net) More self-managing organizations? (orgtheory.wordpress.com) Ethnography & The Customer: Building a Compelling Brand (ablebrains.typepad.com) Ethnography revisited – timing and pacing (orgtheory.wordpress.com)

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  • “Culture” in the Science Fictional Universe of “Big Data”

            Ethnography.com » Blog Archive » “Culture” in the Science Fictional Universe of “Big Data”.   Related articles   Forget the Cloud: DNA Could Become the New Home for Big Data Storage (bostinno.com) New Web Intelligence and Big Data Coursera Class (datascience101.wordpress.com) UC Berkeley Big Data Bootcamp (datascience101.wordpress.com) The Big Apple’s Big…

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  • How language drives biology and culture

    How language transformed humanity | GrrlScientist | Science | guardian.co.uk Interesting TED Video and article suggesting that language has driven all biological and cultural evolution and is our most powerful neurological social technology allowing us to implant a thought into someone’s mind without the need for surgery according to Mark Pagel. Language created social learning…

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  • Hipmunk updates flight search app for iPad

    Hipmunk updates flight search app for iPad | Travel | Macworld. Related articles Hipmunk Flight & Hotel Search (for iPad) (pcmag.com) Find your next flight with Hipmunk iPhone app (reviews.cnet.com) Review: Don’t leave home without Hipmunk’s travel search app for iOS (macworld.com) Hipmunk (pcmag.com) Hipmunk and Kayak launch tools to help you fly cheap (venturebeat.com)…

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  • Hamilton college alumni weekend features new science center and other innovations

    I just returned from alumni weekend at Hamilton College and was amazed at the evolution of this school since I completed my studies there. A new science center that looks like an Apple store, expanding visibility for its expertise in writing, media and communications, a dynamic network of alumni and new e-learning platforms connecting it…

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  • Cornell scientists use Twitter to capture global mood, chronobiology

    Most adults I know dismissed Twitter, with only 140 characters at their disposal, as a waste of time just a year ago. But after the Iranian revolts, the Arab Spring and the London riots in which Twitter played a key part, it is not so easily dismissed anymore. But its seemingly brief and trivial nature is…

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  • Ratings and reviews: the end of serendipity (and bad hotel rooms)

    An interesting article which points out some social downsides to the Internet including the fact that almost everything now comes with a sea of reviews and ratings making the act of discovering something entirely oneself a little more difficult. Rate This Article: What’s Wrong with the Culture of Critique | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related…

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  • Sugar as a toxin: YouTube video of biochemistry and evolutionary medicine

    Recently a YouTube video explaining the biochemistry of sugar has elevated public awareness of thousands of Americans enough to question heir intake. Much of the research, this speaker notes, points to sugar as a direct toxin, including more recent discoveries on its effect on insulin signaling and cancer. Of course anthropologists have long documented the…

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