Colorado – Insight Sciences

Visualizing global water risk

February 4, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

An Incredibly Detailed Map Shows The Potential Of Global Water Risks
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

Aqueduct, a new tool from the World Resources Institute, lets you see all the bad things that might stem from water, from droughts to floods and beyond.

Remember the drought that hit the U.S. in 2012? It was a big deal, even if it didn’t…

RT @FastCompany: Aqueduct, a new tool from the World Resources Institute, lets you see all the bad things that might stem from water: http://flip.it/Df6IF http://flip.it/dtmuP

WRI, CDP Streamline Water Risk Tools (environmentalleader.com)
‘Things Could Get Ugly’: Fracking Set to Escalate US Water Wars (commondreams.org)

Facts about guns and mass shootings

December 27, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Nine facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States
Ezra Klein, washingtonpost.com

When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid “politicizing” the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for “don’t talk about reforming our gun control laws.”Let’s be…

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New Research Confirms Gun Rampages Are Rising – and Armed Civilians Don’t Stop Them (motherjones.com)
President Obama blasts ‘shameful’ Senate (video.msnbc.msn.com)
Maddow to gun nuts: Violent threats are ‘not how we do things in this country’ (rawstory.com)

University of Colorado Denver: Engineering/GIS program

August 29, 2009 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

GIS Day — GIS Day (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

University of Colorado Denver.

This is a very good Engineering/GIS program

$3.7 Billion Reasons Why GIS Technology is The Future (spacedaily.com)
10 Must Consider GIS/Geo Tech Job Opportunities (gisuser.com)
Library offers free information classes (bsudailynews.com)
Mapping Mars with Open Planetary Data (mapbox.com)
Geospatial industry asks Immigration to ease recruitment (computerworld.co.nz)
Institute to introduce GIS (fijitimes.com)
Geographical Information Systems – What is GIS And How It Is Changing Our World? (ruralstops.blogspot.com)
Blog: MapBrief (visurus.wordpress.com)
Build Dynamic Mapping Applications with ArcGIS Runtime (prnewswire.com)
Job Announcement: GIS Software Developer, Digital Library Systems and Services, Stanford (cesta.stanford.edu)

Whocalled.us: trace that caller

August 28, 2009 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Voice over Internet Protocol, how it works — Voice over Internet Protocol, how it works (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Background Checks Do’s and Don’t’s (kellybusinessadvisors.com)
Background checks should be required for all gun purchases (bangordailynews.com)
Info Quest, Inc. Unclear about Background Checks? (backgroundchex.wordpress.com)
3 Little Known Reasons Employers Ask for a Background Check (kellybusinessadvisors.com)
Obama urges tighter background checks on gun buyers (news.yahoo.com)
WhitePages’ new Current Caller ID app is the future of smartphone calling (venturebeat.com)
Police advisory: internet and computer scam affecting Darien residents (darientimes.com)
Caller ID meets Facebook and Twitter in new WhitePages app (geekwire.com)
Expert Review: Samsung Knack Cell Phone (samsung.com)
Caller Id and the Fall (danielundem.com)

KGI | Master of Bioscience

November 9, 2008 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Roche Products v. Bolar Pharmaceutical — Roche Products v. Bolar Pharmaceutical (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

KGI | Master of Bioscience.

This cross btw an MBA and a biotech degree is pretty cool.

Cancer Treatment Centers of America First in U.S. to Test Novel Nanotherapy for the Treatment of Lung Cancer (prweb.com)
Colorado BioScience Association names Giles CEO (bizjournals.com)
Need An Alternative To Stocks Like Merck And Abbott Labs? Try Neurocrine Biosciences (seekingalpha.com)
Aastrom Biosciences’ CEO Discusses Q3 2012 Results – Earnings Call Transcript (seekingalpha.com)
Kansas Bioscience Authority pays out millions more in investments (bizjournals.com)
MichBio Rolls Out New Business Intelligence Service For Bioscience Companies (detroit.cbslocal.com)
STEM Visa Reform Bills Would Exclude Biosciences (news.sciencemag.org)
San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Deals at MEI Pharma, Auspex, Ambit (xconomy.com)
Neurocrine Biosciences To Present At Lazard Capitalmarket’s 9th Annual Healthcare Conference (sys-con.com)
Saltire-Shaped Laboratories – The Biosciences Research Building by Lyons Boasts Compiled Complexity (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)