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  • Holly Lynton: ethnographic images of people at work

    I love this photographer. Sheep, tobacco barns, barehanded beekeepers, and a bird in the bus.. Lynton is now photographing sheep farmers and tobacco harvesters in Western Massachusetts. Using sugar water as bait, Lynton collected slugs and set them loose until they wriggled into the composition she wanted.  Her quest led to a beekeeper in New Mexico…

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  • Juan Downey: Energy anthropologist and artist

    I really like this guy’s stuff. A self proclaimed “energy anthropologist” this video artist travelled deep into South America to find a primal, invisible forms of energy which he documented. Juan Downey, like all the best avant-gardists going right back to the 19th century, had a utopian streak.  He spent seven years traveling back and…

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  • Johns Hopkins researchers identify health benefits in hallucinogenic mushrooms

    Anthropology has long documented that most traditional medical systems use indigenous plants often with psychoactive, spiritual effects. Recently researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been studying the effects of psilocybin, a chemical found in some psychedelic mushrooms, that’s credited with inducing transcendental states. Now, they say, they’ve zeroed in on the perfect…

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  • House Hunters International: Rustic Village Homes in Portugal

    These shows are beginning to follow a new plot line. In contrast to earlier years, involving McMansions and posh lifestyles, more and more people, broken from the economic downturn, and inspired by books such as a  A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle decide to purchase a fixer upper in the country and raise sheep. But…

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  • Intelligence agencies, mired in inefficiencies, begin to adopt social science and crowd sourcing methods

    As with other fields such as medicine, after years of massive costs and sometimes ineffective methods, resulting in catastrophic failures such as 9/11, new leadership at our intelligence agencies such as Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper are adopting digital and social science methods such as crowd sourcing, data science, knowledge management.  Social scientists have…

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  • Mac/PC demographics

    Hunch Blog | Blog Archive | Mac vs. PC: A Hunch Rematch. Hilarious. Related articles PC Mag: iMac is Editor’s Choice (appleday.org) Death Ray Manta out now on iOS (vg247.com) How to create a Raven desktop app for Macs and PCs (raventools.com) MAC vs. PC vs. State Of Confusion (techmamas.com) Mac OS is better and…

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  • HomeAway: Crowd-sourcing travel lodging

    Homeaway has emerged as a controversial and disruptive player in the growing market for online, crow sourced vacation lodging. The complaints coming in are similar to those of other sites such as Airbnb and usually involve a less than thorough homeowner leaving his house in disrepair, however the upsides vastly overcome that, opening a whole…

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  • Airbnb and the rise of the rental economy

     Airbnb has popularized what is becoming an increasingly common tendency for people to rent their belongings online. I have used it and it is quite effective and often lodging are superior to the hotels one might get in an area at a fraction of the cost and with many social and environmental perks. In this…

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  • Future Perfect: Ethnographic approaches to technology R&D

      Jan Chipchase is a Executive Creative Director of Global Insights at frog – a global design and innovation company. Prior to this role she worked for almost a decade as a strategist in Nokia’s Los Angeles design studio and Principal Scientist in the Nokia Research Center, Tokyo. She specializes in taking teams of concept/industrial designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists,…

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  • Gillian Tett, managing editor at FT, considers the cultural side of finance

    A social anthropologist who writes about finance for FT.. Gillian Tett – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Related articles FT pin-up Gillian Tett is the hot ticket (standard.co.uk) Davos Needs Some Creative Intelligence (creativeintelligencebook.com) Peter Lauria Says That Gillian Tett Is Now a Celebrity… (delong.typepad.com) What is organisational culture? Ask an anthropologist. (flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com) Leeds Building Society…

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  • U. Penn KM expert Barry G. Silverman analyzes human terrain data

    This guy is an expert on the use of knowledge management approaches and anthropological data (human terrain) in military systems. Barry G. Silverman. Related articles ZyDoc Expands NIH SBIR NLP Grant for EHR Usability Research Study to Other Facilities (prweb.com) Bertrand Duperrin: Making internal collaboration work: An interview with Don Tapscott (mckinseyquarterly.com) Is there a…

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  • Walker Percy: Writers tapping human desires for simplicity and experience

      Walker Percy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Another anthropological writer who had the same theory that owing to the complexities of modern life humans crave destruction and thus have a secret fascination with these events including fires etc. that transcends any feelings of empathy they might also have.   Related articles   New “Bell…

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