Category: Digital health

  • Through website, patients creating own drug studies

    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.”…

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  • Born to party: bio anthropological perspectives on party affiliation

    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…

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  • Buzz factor: evolution of techie catch phrases

        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…

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  • How to fight a rumor: Obama’s Web 2.0 Strategy

        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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  • GPS for the Mac

      GPS for the Mac | Macworld.     Related articles   Learn About Diverse Career Opportunities Available to Those with Geospatial Expertise (prweb.com) GIS in the Digital Humanities: A free one day seminar (ihrprojects.wordpress.com) New SAASM Compatible GPS Module For Digital Cameras Delivers Advanced Geotagging and ‘Object’ Location Capabilities (prweb.com) GPS technology trends (zintro.com)…

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  • Sosolimited tracks linguistics of debates

      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…

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  • Obama Uses Social Networking for Content Focused Campaign

      This is amongst the rare elections in my experience where the Democrats have succeeded in communications and this is due to Obama’s clever use of social networking technologies, as this MIT article describes. While McCain and Palin continue to use their crudely effective cliche sound bytes to attract less knowledgeable voters, Obama/Biden are proving…

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  • The Numerati by Stephen Baker: The Rise of Anthro Network Analysis

    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)…

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  • Linguistic analysis of election perception

    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…

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  • Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?

    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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