Visualize the management team’s mutations

Infographic: Watch A Company’s Management Team Mutate Over 4 Years
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

What would your corporate structure look like if you tracked every employee, manager, and department over years? Maybe a lot like this.

Unless you’re self-employed, we’re all cogs in a larg­er machine. The prob­lem can be, how do you track that…

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AT&T liberate mifi displays status

AT&T MiFi Liberate: The Best MiFi I’ve Ever Used
Sam Biddle, gizmodo.com

If you can afford one, hotshot, an LTE MiFi will change your life a little bit: you have Internet virtually everywhere you go, a wireless high-speed network in your bag.Most MiFi gadgets are lousy. This one is stellar.What Is It?A tiny…

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Biology is now an information science

Genome sequencing pioneer: How biology entered the information age
John Timmer, arstechnica.com

Eric Lander Nobel Dialogue WeekSTOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—Eric Lander was one of the leaders behind the effort to sequence the human genome. He has also continued to work on various follow-up projects through his involvement with the Broad Institute, a…

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Google cloud music match is free

Google’s cloud-based music-matching service has arrived… and it’s free
Cyrus Farivar, arstechnica.com

This is what Ars editor Cyrus Farivar sent to Google Play this morning.Cyrus FarivarGoogle has announced its own music-matching locker service, but unlike Amazon’s Cloud Player and Apple’s iTunes Match, this new service is free. Google Play, in th…

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Personally experiencing the nightmare of health IT

Robots, iPhones, and Windows XP—a personal journey through hospital IT
Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com

On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, I rushed my wife to the emergency room at Baltimore’s Sinai Hospital. What she thought was just the stomach bug du jour turned out to be a life-threatening condition that would take her to nearly every corn…

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Why neuroscience is a load of hype

Genes, Cells and Brains by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose – review
Steven Poole, guardian.co.uk

Steven Poole praises a strong exposé of the hype surrounding genetics and neuroscience

We have outsourced the job of interpreting ourselves to the modern life sciences. The decoding of the human genome will tell us who we really are, pledged the…

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Funf: computational social science in your pocket

Open-source Funf platform taps into Android’s huge knowledge about you
By Daniel Cossins, wired.co.uk

Magazine

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DIY history digitizes ethnomedical recipe books

DIY History crowdsources the transcription of 17th century cookbooks
By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk

Culture

“We are what we eat,” the old say­ing goes. If so, there’s no bet­ter way to digest cul­ture than to comb through painstak­ing­ly hand­writ­ten cook­books. Now, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Libraries has made the task expo­nen­tial­ly eas­i…

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DIY history identifies forgotten bio prospecting knowledge

How to make calves’ head soup, and other culinary treats from the past
By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk

Culture

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Libraries has made the task expo­nen­tial­ly eas­i­er with the launch of DIY His­to­ry, a crowd­sourc­ing ini­tia­tive that allows vol­un­teers to tran­scribe the Sza­th­mary Culi­nary Archives, cen­turies’ wort…

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Ethnographic documentary filmmaking with a kinect

How a Kinect hack is turning documentary film on its head
By Tom Cheshire, wired.co.uk

Magazine

This arti­cle was taken from the Decem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing…

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