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Gabriele Ricci, chief data and technology officer, has been reorganizing the technology function at Takeda Pharmaceutical.

Source: Why Takeda no longer has an ‘IT department’ as part of the drug maker’s digital and data transformation

A recent study links satellite and brain imaging data to identify how environmental factors can impact mental health, cognition and brain development in young people.

Source: Satellite data and neuroimaging reveal how environment can impact brain development

 

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

Source: How the Ivy League Broke America

Tech once used to make homes more sustainable has fresh applications in making structures resistant to hurricanes, hail, blackouts, flooding, wildfires, and other disasters

Source: New Tech Tries to Catastrophe-Proof Your Home  – WSJ

 

We all know they’re insufferable, but they’re also making the world worse.

Source: The Unfettered Selfishness of Digital Nomads

The digitization of healthcare information was supposed to make it all so easy. It hasn’t yet, but it’s getting there.

Source: Medical Records Are a Mess. Here’s How Technology Can Help Make Sense of Them. – WSJ

From quirky designs to odd floor plans, these outside-the-box homebuilding ideas could bring down real-estate prices.

Source: Cure for America’s High Real Estate Prices: Build More Weird Homes – Business Insider

The eugenics movement is taking center stage in the U.S. — both in Trump’s rhetoric, and through a rise in race science.

Source: Eugenics movement on rise in political rhetoric, academic literature

How one company improved employee retention and engagement by rethinking its in-office model.

Source: A hybrid future: Organic Valley’s DIY work approach – Fast Company