Why Panasonic Lumix GH3 will be the best video tool

Panasonic Lumix GH3 launches on December 13th, but pricing remains a mystery
Mat Smith, engadget.com

Pana­son­ic’s forth­com­ing mirror-less mul­ti­me­dia won­der has been given a release date. Yep, the Lumix GH3, with its ‘unlim­it­ed record­ing time’ and mag­ne­sium alloy build, will arrive in the Land of the Ris­ing Sun just over a month from…

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Stitcher is the best podcast app keeps the news flowing

Stitcher keeps the news flowing for desktop users with new web-based app
Zachary Lutz, engadget.com

Stitch­er is already a heavy hit­ter in the world of mobile apps, but users will now find their favorite radio shows and pod­casts are acces­si­ble from the desk­top. Today, the com­pa­ny announced an HTML5 ver­sion of its pop­u­lar app that’s…

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LinkedIn disrupts biotech pharma recruiting

LinkedIn: The Quiet Force Transforming Biotech & Pharma
Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com

Luke Tim­mer­man

Mark Levin’s busi­ness is biotech­nol­o­gy, so it’s no sur­prise he knew zilch about a tech com­pa­ny called LinkedIn as recent­ly as two years ago. But these days Levin sounds like he can bare­ly do his job with­out…

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Recruiters who know social media are in demand

Recruiter Job Demand Remains Strong
www.recruiter.com, recruiter.com

Accord­ing to a new sur­vey by WANT­ED Ana­lyt­ics, there were over 14,000 jobs post­ed online in Sep­tem­ber for recruiters and other staffing pro­fes­sion­als. The num­ber rep­re­sents a 12 per­cent growth over Sep­tem­ber 2011, but a…

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Knode attempts to compete with LinkedIn in biotech networking

Knode: The Next Stage of the Internet is About What You Know
Alex E. Weaver, bostinno.com

Pre­dict­ing what’s “next” for the Inter­net can be a lot like surf­ing the web itself: daunt­ing, frus­trat­ing and often point­less. There’s a lot of infor­ma­tion swirling around out there, after all, and peo­ple are inter­act­ing with it in…

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The anthropology of why constant contact makes you alone

In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’
Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org

In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air from WHYY

As soon as Sher­ry Turkle arrived at the stu­dio for her Fresh Air inter­view, she real­ized she’d for­got­ten her phone. “I real­ized I’d left it behind, and I fel…

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Why seeing death helps you to value life

America’s next top mortician: “It really improves your life to be around corpses”
By J. B. Staniforth, salon.com

“Ask a Mortician,” Caitlin Doughty’s popular, droll web series, has an agenda: to get us to embrace our mortality

When we think of mor­ti­cians, we cer­tain­ly don’t imag­ine a bub­bly, self-effacing 28-year-old woman like Caitlin Doughty. But…

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DRC 2012: Interactive Sessions on Understanding Data and Human Behavior

DRC 2012: Interactive Sessions on Understanding Data and Human Behavior
core77.com

Pho­tos Cour­tesy of Paul Sheetz for DRC.

After being greet­ed by the wel­com­ing com­mit­tee, check­ing in, exchang­ing my Polaroid photo for my nametag and tak­ing in the intro­duc­to­ry con­fer­ence expe­ri­ence I chugged my morn­ing c…

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Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing

Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing: This…
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Tom Wolfe on his soci­o­log­i­cal approach to writ­ing:

This atten­tion to sta­tus … start­ed when I was in grad­u­ate school and I was in a pro­gram called Amer­i­can Stud­ies, which was a mix­ture of dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines but one [in which…

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Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout

Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout
Byron Tau, politico.com

The Obama cam­paign emails sup­port­ers in Penn­syl­va­nia this handy graph­ic remind­ing them to find out some sim­ple infor­ma­tion about elec­tion day.

The email seems straight­for­ward enough, but it’s actu­al­ly an exact clone of a social…

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Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings

Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings
Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com

Online real estate ser­vice Zil­low is expand­ing its real estate list­ings today by adding “pre-market inven­to­ry” — specif­i­cal­ly, homes that have either been fore­closed or are in the fore­clo­sure process.

Increas­ing the selec­tion of…

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GMO in my foods: there’s an app for that

An App To Tell You If There Are Genetically Modified Ingredients In Your Food
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

There are no laws that say companies have to tell you if they’re using genetically modified ingredients. If that doesn’t sit right with you, there’s now an app to help you sort out which foods’ genes have been altered.

Genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied…

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