-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Over the course of his career, Pennebaker has studied the nature of physical symptoms, health consequences of secrets, expressive writing, and natural language, and has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Army Research Institute, and other federal agencies for studies in language, emotion, and social dynamics. A pioneer of writing…
A classic. Wiley: An Anthropology of Biomedicine. Related articles Beyond Biosocialities in Medical Anthropology (CFP, Symposium, Amsterdam, 17-19 January 2013) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) Practice, Drugs and additionally Anthropology have – Fuzhou, China (travelpod.com) International Summer School in Medical Anthropology (CfP, Summerschool, July 2013, Berlin) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) Neanderthal dental tartar reveals evidence of medicine (newscientist.com) Dying for Capitalism…
Interesting company that is studying the use of monoclonal antibodies for Hodgkin’s disease Seattle Genetics: News Release. Related articles More Effective, Safer Protection Against Osteoporosis? (medicalnewstoday.com) Clinical trial for rabies monoclonal antibody (medicalxpress.com) Invisible Sentinel Announces Product Launch of Its Foodborne Pathogen Specific Monoclonal Antibodies (sys-con.com) Billionaire’s biotech seals second deal with Synthetic Biologics (fiercebiotech.com) Lymph…
Great article on Franco Moretti, a Stanford English professor, is championing computational linguistics, data mining, computer modeling, and network theory to take a data-centric approach to novels, which he graphs, maps, and charts. Using IBM’s Visual Communications Lab he is turning books into a series of word clouds. He is also identifying the best titles and discovered a…
Cornell has a great Information science program as well… Cornell University – Information Science – Overview. Related articles Cornell NYC Begins Accepting Applications for ‘Highly Selective’ Beta Class (betabeat.com) Artificial Vision: Cornell and Stanford Researchers crack Retinal Code (pharmaceuticalintelligence.com) Cornell University to install nets on bridges in bid to prevent suicides (foxnews.com)
US Government Printing Office – FDsys – Home.
An article in Boston Globe magazine charts the curious trend away from real human interaction towards entirely digitally mediated ones and notes the importance of being “un reachable” at times which is becoming increasingly difficult, and of being able to tolerate being alone. In particular the article cites research by an NYU social scientist…
Rather than infer that nanotechnology is safe, members of the public who learn about this novel science tend to become sharply polarized along cultural lines, according to a study conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School in collaboration with the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. The report is published online in the…
I’ve been testing this neat new app called Wordle which I found out about on the Many Eyes site made by Martin Wattenburg and will create visualizations of any text. I applied it to my delicious bookmarks and to my blog. It’s also been applied on Many Eyes to analyze speeches and more. …
IRMS Knowledge Base. Related articles Apple extends iCloud storage upgrades Knowledge as a Service: A Conversation with Wade Pfeiffer, President and CEO, Safeharbor Knowledge Solutions Netformx Expands KnowledgeBase with ShoreTel UC Solutions 3 Ways Successful Leaders Buffer And Bounce Back From Adversity NewsGator Enriches Social Learning In SharePoint
Insight Sciences 