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  • Creating an outdoor theater

    television sets-outdoor television – New York Times. Related articles Free NYC Outdoor Theater Celebrates 50 Years (voanews.com) Outdoor theater: Star Trek’s final frontier (cbsnews.com) Best Outdoor Home Theaters 2012 (cepro.com)

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  • University of Michigan: School of Information

          UMSI.   Related articles   Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies Offers Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science (digital-scholarship.org) Yale Braunstein, professor of information, dies at 67 (ischool.berkeley.edu) Michigan School Report Cards Released (detroit.cbslocal.com) University of Michigan Courses (programmableweb.com)  

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  • John Rooksby ethnography and tech expert

    John Rooksby. Related articles What kind of researcher do you want to be? (cassieearl.wordpress.com) Outside In: Breaking Some Anthropology Rules for Design [guest contributor] (ethnographymatters.net) More self-managing organizations? (orgtheory.wordpress.com) Ethnography & The Customer: Building a Compelling Brand (ablebrains.typepad.com) Ethnography revisited – timing and pacing (orgtheory.wordpress.com)

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  • “Culture” in the Science Fictional Universe of “Big Data”

            Ethnography.com » Blog Archive » “Culture” in the Science Fictional Universe of “Big Data”.   Related articles   Forget the Cloud: DNA Could Become the New Home for Big Data Storage (bostinno.com) New Web Intelligence and Big Data Coursera Class (datascience101.wordpress.com) UC Berkeley Big Data Bootcamp (datascience101.wordpress.com) The Big Apple’s Big…

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  • CS224W Social and Information Network Analysis | Stanford University Online

    CS224W Social and Information Network Analysis | Stanford University Online. Related articles Stanford’s Next Lesson: Free Online Courses For Credit And Degrees? (npr.org) Stanford’s Next Lesson: Free Online Courses For Credit And Degrees? (npr.org) Stanford adds social learning component to free online course (insidehighered.com) Digitization Projects: Stanford Releases Hundreds of Oral History Interviews Online (infodocket.com)…

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  • How language drives biology and culture

    How language transformed humanity | GrrlScientist | Science | guardian.co.uk Interesting TED Video and article suggesting that language has driven all biological and cultural evolution and is our most powerful neurological social technology allowing us to implant a thought into someone’s mind without the need for surgery according to Mark Pagel. Language created social learning…

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  • Doing drug research with a U-haul, duffel bag and a Boise rancher’s local knowledge

          How an informatics analyst at Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Cambridge used a U-haul, duffel bag and the native knowledge of local ranchers in Boise, Idaho to acquire cyclopamine from the corn lily plant which normally costs $22,000 a gram…    

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  • Nokia works to understand developing markets thru ethnographic research

    Great article on the fact that Nokia is investing heavily in a do or die fashion in understanding the anthropology of how people actually use mobile devices in the developing world, and using this to develop a line of low power mobile devices. Nokia Sets Sights on Developing World – Technology Review. Related articles Nokia’s…

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  • Greening capitalism talk from David Blood

    A good overview of the need to make finance more social e.g. focused on the cultural, health and the environmental context of investments. David Blood is a graduate of Hamilton College ’81 who I heard at the reunion weekend.

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  • Hipmunk updates flight search app for iPad

    Hipmunk updates flight search app for iPad | Travel | Macworld. Related articles Hipmunk Flight & Hotel Search (for iPad) (pcmag.com) Find your next flight with Hipmunk iPhone app (reviews.cnet.com) Review: Don’t leave home without Hipmunk’s travel search app for iOS (macworld.com) Hipmunk (pcmag.com) Hipmunk and Kayak launch tools to help you fly cheap (venturebeat.com)…

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  • Hamilton college alumni weekend features new science center and other innovations

    I just returned from alumni weekend at Hamilton College and was amazed at the evolution of this school since I completed my studies there. A new science center that looks like an Apple store, expanding visibility for its expertise in writing, media and communications, a dynamic network of alumni and new e-learning platforms connecting it…

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  • Prey: Affordable tools emerge to track and visualize the travels of your devices

    Over the past years, I’ve realized that my devices and the information they store is increasingly important to me. But unlike many commercial sectors from pharmaceuticals to shipping, there was no consumer level technology to easily, inexpensively and legally monitor them and their use. However recently new applications such as Prey and Apple’s Find my…

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