Category: Digital health

  • OurStage: discover indie artists

    OurStage. Related articles Get Acquainted: Dice Ceno (spacedoutmagazine.com) Has Digital Delivered on its Promise? (digiday.com) Australian Pop/Rock Band, The Jefferson, Venture to the U.S. to Tour Their Powerful Melodic Debut Album “Safe Return To Earth” (prweb.com) Rapt.fm: Rap freestyle with anyone in the world (and just maybe, be the next Eminem) (venturebeat.com) AppNeta Launches Real…

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  • Abbott Looks to Consumer for Growth

    Abbott Looks to Consumer for Growth – WSJ.com. Related articles Gilead Shares Rise on Hepatitis C Treatment (minyanville.com) Hep C drugs bring high cure rates in trial (todayonline.com) Abbott’s three oral hepatitis C drugs produce high cure rates in trial (medcitynews.com) Abbot Holding Steady For Long-Term Investments (seekingalpha.com) Big Corporate Breakups In 2011 (forbes.com) Abbott…

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  • ‘Experimental Man’ tests modern medicine: David Ewing Duncan

      ‘Experimental Man’ tests modern medicine – The Boston Globe.   Related articles   New Cookbooks Highlight the Promises of Paleolithic Eating to Kick Diabetes, Cancer, and Obesity to the Curb (prweb.com) Has Modern Medicine Bested Evolution? (bigthink.com) Neurobiology of the Placebo Effect (scientificamerican.com) Not Your Father’s Medical Tests (click2houston.com) Personalized Health Manifesto Unveiled at…

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  • Why Sufi Muslims could be our most valuable allies in the fight against extremism

    Why Sufi Muslims, for centuries the most ferocious soldiers of Islam, could be our most valuable allies in the fight against extremism – The Boston Globe. Interesting article that shows the value of understanding ethnography and underlying spiritual traditions in the fight against terrorism. We incorrectly classify all muslims as terrorists. Related articles Should Anthropologists…

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  • The End of Alone: moving from real interaction to online lives

    The End of Alone – The Boston Globe. An article in Boston Glove magazine charts the curious trend away from real human interaction towards entirely digitally mediated ones and notes the importance of being un reachable at times which is becoming increasingly difficult Related articles TEDx Boston….enjoy a ‘front row’ VIP experience, without stepping away…

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  • Looking Down the Road: A Systems Approach to Futures Studies by Hamilton College anthropologist Douglas Raybeck

      Amazon.com: Looking Down the Road : A Systems Approach to Futures Studies (9781577661160): Douglas Raybeck: Books.   Douglas Raybeck, one of my professors at Hamilton, taught me the importance of a socio cultural perspective on new technologies, technical communications, ethnography, and physiological anthropology.     Related articles   Anthropologists Approve Comprehensive Overhaul of Ethics…

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  • The Wikipanion Experience

      The Wikipanion Experience.   A time magazine top 10 iphone app     Related articles   8 Apps Every Writer and Blogger Should Know (mashable.com) Wikipanion – Robert Chin (itunes.apple.com) 11 Apps Optimized for Your iPhone 5 (iphone.appstorm.net) 7 Awesome Wikipedia Apps for iPad (educatorstechnology.com) The best apps, communities & tools for writers and…

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  • Downsized, but still in the game: information hoarding in economic downturns

      Downsized, but still in the game – The Boston Globe.   This article discusses survival syndrome which is increasingly common and includes creating information silos and information hoarding behavior as more employees fear for their jobs in the recession.     Related articles   A Hoarding Culture vs. A Sharing Culture (educationinnovation.typepad.com) Arriving at…

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  • Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School

    Yikes. His conclusion is that MBA students at Harvard insecure overachievers and “a factory of unhappy people”. Related articles Is management a religion? (lucasolari.com) How MIT Became the Most Important University in the World (bostonmagazine.com)

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  • Matchmaking takes a high tech approach

    Matchmaking takes a high tech approach – The Boston Globe. High tech meets cross cultural reality: biodata approaches take tradition family based decisions about marriage which account for education, income, genes, background, occupation, and interests and were once decided by families Related articles Traditional Matchmaking Goes On-Line With the First of its Kind Hosted Video…

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  • Evolutionary curveball for curvy

    Evolutionary curveball for curvy? – The Boston Globe. Current issue of Current Anthropology links body shape, assertiveness and economic viability in recession. Related articles Evolutionary Psychology Primer (thisismyphd.wordpress.com) Are there universals in human behavior? (psychologytoday.com) Evolution and the mind: An author’s response (salon.com)

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