Tag: California

Pesticides found in pregnant U.S. women in UCSF study – SFGate

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Toxics found in pregnant U.S. women in UCSF study - SFGate. Related articles Flame Retardant Exposure Among Pregnant Women Drops in California Following Ban (counselheal.com)

Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com. Related articles Silicon Valley's answer to SXSW: Iggy Pop, Big Data, self-driving cars (bizjournals.com) 10 Silicon Valley businesses hit the Inc. 500 (bizjournals.com) Brazilian government launches Silicon Valley office (zdnet.com) Hey everyone, Jeff Bezos lives in Seattle and Amazon is not a 'Silicon Valley' company (geekwire.com) Leading … Continue reading Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com

RelayRides: why renting will soon be easier than owning

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management

Why Renting Cars Could Soon Be Easier Than Hailing a Taxi Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com San Francisco-based RelayRides just announced a deal that puts new corporate and technological weight behind its vision of ubiquitous mobility. Why Renting Cars Could Soon Be Easier Than Hailing a Taxi http://flip.it/N6Z4N http://flip.it/nT1vk Related articles Why Renting Cars Could Soon Be … Continue reading RelayRides: why renting will soon be easier than owning

Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management

  Ashlee Vance, businessweek.com (An ear­li­er ver­sion of this story ran online.) Max Nanis’s web­site promi­nent­ly fea­tures about two dozen head shots of the skin­ny, scruffy 22-year-old South­ern Cal­i­forn­ian with his shirt off … RT @Techmeme: Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents (@valleyhack / Businessweek) http://flip.it/8vMDb http://flip.it/mGvsQ http://flip.it/Xvjbf Silicon Valley Goes … Continue reading Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents

Collabfinder: make hackathons a part of college life

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A growing list of schools are turning to the “serendipity engine” to help students find cross-discipline collaborators for passion projects. After he grad­u­at­ed from UCLA with a degree in phi­los­o­phy, Sahade­va Ham­mari emailed one of his… CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons … Continue reading Collabfinder: make hackathons a part of college life

Hollywood is learning from Silicon Valley

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

6 Lessons Hollywood Is Learning From Silicon Valley By Nicole LaPorte, fastcompany.com NoCal to SoCal: Cash and talent are nothing compared to equity and IP; corner offices do not equal happiness; and get off that damn phone! The dif­fer­ences between North­ern and South­ern Cal­i­for­nia have long formed the basis for a… 6 Lessons Hollywood Is … Continue reading Hollywood is learning from Silicon Valley

Good Eggs: the Amazon of local food

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management

Good Eggs Aims to Be the Amazon of Local Food By Alexandra Chang, wired.com Good Eggs, which launched last sum­mer as the Etsy of local food, is expand­ing in a bid to become the Ama­zon of local food. The San Francisco-based com­pa­ny launched a new web plat­form Thurs­day that lets users select items from local … Continue reading Good Eggs: the Amazon of local food

Data science of the porn industry

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

What The Average American Porn Star Looks Like [Infographic] By Francie Diep, popsci.com One man’s study of 10,000 porn actors reveals their most popular names, roles, hair color and other characteristics. Your aver­age Amer­i­can porn star, it turns out, is like­ly to be a brown-haired California-born woman named Nikki Lee. That’s … RT @PopSci: Infographic: … Continue reading Data science of the porn industry

10 year old boy starts recycling business

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

10 Year-Old Boy Launches His Own Recycling Business, Donates 25% Of Profits To Homeless Children Lana Winter, inhabitots.com “It’s so easy to do nothing. But it’s really good to do something!” This is the philosophy of wise beyond his years Vanis Buckholz, a 10 year-old boy who launched his own recycling business in his home … Continue reading 10 year old boy starts recycling business

California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial - NYTimes.com http://flip.it/JgDqM http://flip.it/8W5cC   Related articles NYTimes rejects the MOOCopalypse (computinged.wordpress.com) Bill to Create 'New University of California' Dies (insidehighered.com) California Bill Brings Online College One Step Closer (tutoringtoexcellence.blogspot.com)

The Booming Market for Specialized Master’s Degrees

by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

(via The Booming Market for Specialized Master’s Degrees - Businessweek) Related articles Foursquare's New Series D Round Of $41M Helps It Delay Tricky Questions About Its Valuation (techcrunch.com) Bloomberg Businessweek's Big Story On Samsung Fails To Mention One Of The Biggest Reasons For Samsung's Success (embargozone.com)

Bits Blog: Car Insurance by the Mile

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Systems Science

By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com A California company is selling car insurance by the mile, using in-car sensors to log data. The longer plan is to have a running monitor of the car’s health. http://flip.it/iV6qk Bits Blog: Car Insurance by the Mile Related articles Car insurance prices 'start to fall' (bbc.co.uk)