Category: Health Informatics

  • Just how hot is it in the US right now?

    Just how hot is it in the US right now? – Boing Boing. Related articles As Climate Changes, Urban Planners Help Cities Adapt (wbur.org) BBC Burnt Over Climate Change Claim UK Will Be As Hot As Madeira (chimalaya.org) Plan Panel Seeks to Rewrite India’s Climate Change Stance (chimalaya.org) Climate change is real, Canadians say, but…

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  • Udacity, Udemy: MOOCs disrupt conventional science and tech talent acquisition and education

    MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls – NYTimes.com. New Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs and startup companies such as Udacity and Udemy are turning conventional education on its head.  Udacity, a startup which is supported by Charles River Ventures,  was created by former professors at Stanford  who taught one AI course online…

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  • AN UNTRASHY TRAILER

    AN UNTRASHY TRAILER | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building. Future-forward design for the world you inhabit – your daily source for innovations in sustainable architecture and green design for the home. Related articles Parallax Landscape Re-Imagines a Low-Carbon Future for a Coal-Dominated Australian City (inhabitat.com) Inhabitat’s Top 6 Architecture Stories of…

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  • JHU 7th Annual Biotech Research Symposium live webcast

    Dr. Jonathan Pevsner will be discussing “Bioinformatics approach to understanding childhood brain disorders“.  Dr. Pevsner is an Associate Professor at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and holds a Primary Faculty Appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Please join us for our 7th Annual Research Symposium online. Click here to view the webcast Related articles…

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  • Coursera partners with universities to create new science, humanities and engineering programs

      Coursera Plans to Announce University Partners for Online Classes – NYTimes.com.   Two more Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller have broken off to create a new online learning startup called Coursera with financial backing from two of Silicon Valley’s premier venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates. The startup will…

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  • Using gaming to visualize and enhance healthcare outcomes

    New startups such as HopeLab are using gaming to enable patients to visualize and achieve improved health outcomes. Is Gamification a Healthcare Game-Changer? – CareCloud.

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  • Singularity University uses software startup model to incubate synthetic biology ventures

    Singularity University which is a private university dedicated to speeding education in science and technology is giving away about 50k in cash and services to startups pursuing the new field of synthetic biology to help solve major projects including energy, healthcare. Singularity University To Incubate Synthetic Biology Startups With New Program | Singularity Hub. Related…

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  • Your Inner Ecosystem | On Point with Tom Ashbrook

    Your Inner Ecosystem | On Point with Tom Ashbrook Envwining a new healthcare  industry based on the biome not synthetic chemicals. Related articles Interdependence of Life – Earth’s Ecosystems (floydmiddle.typepad.com) How does the ocean biome collapse? (ask.metafilter.com) A Day in Eden – St Austell, United Kingdom (travelpod.com) Breitling BlackBird. the Arctic Tundra, the Antarctic Tundra,…

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  • Biotechs engineer ancient organisms and speed product development

    New Boston biotech companies such as Ginkgo BioWorks, Cambrian Innovation, and Manus Biosynthesis are tapping into ancient organisms and new IT capabilities to produce new solutions that are environmentally clean, US based, and fast with as little as 6 month product development life cycles. Gingko notes that 1/4 of their employees are software developers and…

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  • Growing shrimp in the desert

    Cool. Contaminant free shrimp raised in the desert from Blue Oasis, the aquaculture division of Ganix Biotechnologies Inc Better Living Through Aquaculture | Autograph Collection Magazine   Related articles     Green Blog: A Milestone Looms for Farm-Raised Fish (green.blogs.nytimes.com) OriginOil Tests Breakthrough Aquaculture Water Decontamination System (triplepundit.com) Shark DNA Used to Buff Up Aquacultured Fish (southernfriedscience.com)…

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