Category: Digital Transformation

In an unlikely collaboration with Amazonian shamans, medical researchers seek a cure for autoimmune disease.

Source: Scientists Put Shamanic Medicine Under The Microscope

Source: IBM Watson’s personality reader is creepily accurate | The Memo

Canadian startup Vitality Air is selling bottled air from the Rocky Mountains and it can’t keep up with demand from Chinese customers in smog-choked cities.

Source: 4,000 Bottles of Fresh Air Shipped to China, Company Struggling to Keep Up With Demand

Audience engagement doesn’t require tricks, just a few simple speaking strategies.

Source: ‘YouTube Voice:’ The linguistics behind the phenomenon | Marketplace.org

Recurrent neural network for generating stories about images

Source: Generating Stories about Images — Medium

Farm Forward’s new Buying Poultry app aims to steer consumers toward turkeys (and other poultry) that fits their values.

Source: Want to Find Sustainable Poultry? There’s an App for That | Civil Eats

While you may think that body language is the biggest giveaway, new research has discovered you can tell more by relying on a single cue.

Source: Everything You Think You Know About Detecting Lies Is Wrong

As the U.N. climate summit in Paris gets underway this week, a French startup has launched a live map of air pollution to show which cities are suffering the worst. (Hint: Check out China!)

Source: At COP 21, Plume Labs launches live map of air pollution around the world | VentureBeat | Big Data | by Chris O’Brien

Scientists will be able to use the site to access previously sequenced genomes.

Source: FDA Unveils New Site To Tailor Medical Treatment To An Individual’s DNA

Climate scientists used to think their work was key to stopping climate change. But increasingly, they’ve realized that climate science barely matters at all in the fight.

Source: Climate Scientists Used to Just Get Angry. Now They’re Taking Action | WIRED

Source: New NASA satellite maps show human fingerprint on global air quality

Source: Humans Sleep More Efficiently Compared To Other Primates | Anthropology.net