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Through website, patients creating own drug studies – The Boston Globe. Related articles Leading Health Website Offers New Approach to Comparative Medicine (prweb.com) Healthy Big Data: Putting Patients In Control (servicesangle.com) Crowd-sourcing a cure for cancer (bbc.co.uk) Would You Want to See Everything Your Doctor Writes About You? (theatlantic.com) The Mass. healthcare market is “ferocious.”…
Born to party – The Boston Globe. Republicans are actually more afraid of outside intruders while Democrats are more collaborative and less paranoid. This research shows that Republicans have a biological difference and startle more easily. It draws upon an emerging field of evolutionary anthropology and psychology. Related articles Boston Globe endorses Barack Obama over…
Buzz factor – The Boston Globe. Related articles Linguists Tracking Slang Through Twitter (euzicasa.wordpress.com) Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain (popalx.wordpress.com) African Linguist Network – Home (metaglossia.wordpress.com) ‘Fiscal cliff’ for Word of the Year! (economy.money.cnn.com) George Lakoff, Conceptual Metaphors, and Biblical Interpretation (chajc.wordpress.com) The Biological Origin of…
How to fight a rumor – The Boston Globe. Interesting article on Obama‘s web 2.0 approach to rumors: put them all up there and then direct people to read about the truth. Related articles Romney’s Bureaucratic, Bumbling Campaign, Ctd (andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com) Data drove Obama’s ground game (thehill.com) Election 2012: where do…
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A trio of MIT grads and design wunderkinds at Sosolimited tracks speech patterns and eye blinks, analyze body language and word choices, and run reams of statistics of the presidential debates. Related articles MIT grads’ technology gauges Olympic mood (bostonglobe.com) MIT Uses Social Media Tech To Gauge Olympic Fervor (sporttechie.com) Twitter Sentiment to Light Up London’s Ferris…
Book Excerpt: The Numerati by Stephen Baker – BusinessWeek. This is a pretty fascinating book and article on the uses of anthropologists/social network analysis at IBMin order to fit employees to the best jobs. The new trend is measuring everything, from keystrokes, to vacation destinations, favorite foods… Related articles Meet Apple’s Favorite Blogger (Business Week)…
Boston.com – Ideas – Globe. Both campaigns are linguistically all about Obama according to metrics of the word patterns in blogs. Related articles Republican ethos on display – Boston Globe 5 Things to Watch at the DNC on Thursday President Obama sweltered in Windham, NH, as he talked about his opponents … – Boston Globe…
Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?. Related articles ADHD Symptoms In Toddlers (answers.com) Girls with ADHD more prone to self-injury, suicide as they enter adulthood (sciencedaily.com) Irregular sleep patterns linked to ADHD-like symptoms, says study (time4sleep.co.uk) Is there a link between ADHD and spectacular financial failures? (guardian.co.uk) Girls with ADHD more prone to self-injury,…
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