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  • Anthropological perspectives on why dieting is a waste of time

    Daniel Lieberman: ‘Dieting is a disaster for everyone’ Interview by Ian Tucker, theguardian.com Harvard’s professor of human evolutionary biology explains why obesity is the major 21st-century problem – and why we are ill-equipped to deal with it Daniel Lieberman is a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard and has published… http://flip.it/F9R8p Related articles Making…

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  • The New Science of Building Great Teams

    (via The New Science of Building Great Teams – Harvard Business Review) Related articles When Hell Froze Over – in The Harvard Business Review (blogs.berkeley.edu) Harvard Business Review reduced to quoting dead eugenicist for argument against Bitcoin (peculium.net) When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review (xconomy.com) The Two Most Important Words Managers…

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  • 2U now offers online MOOC courses from top schools for credit

    2U One-Ups MOOCs, Coursera, Now Offers Online Undergrad Courses From Top Schools For Credit Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Four years after it launch­ing its first grad­u­ate pro­gram with USC, 2U today has announced its foray into under­grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion through a new pro­gram called Semes­ter Online. The com­pa­ny will be pow­er­ing a vir­tu­al class­room… Related articles Exploring…

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  • Online courses challenge universities

    Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university? Carole Cadwalladr, guardian.co.uk Publishing, music, shopping, journalism – all revolutionised by the internet. Next in line? Education. Now US academics are offering world-class tuition – free – to anyone who can log on, anywhere in the world, is this the end of campus life? Tw……

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  • Clayton Christensen: “Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them

    Clayton Christensen: “Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them” Rip Empson, techcrunch.com If you get the oppor­tu­ni­ty to hear Clay­ton Chris­tensen hold court, seize it. Chris­tensen is a Har­vard Busi­ness School pro­fes­sor and renowned author and inno­va­tion expert, per­haps best known for his book “The Inno­va­tor’s Dilemma,” wh… http://flpbd.it/vxutu Related articles Turning openness into…

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  • Personal Genome Project picks up participants

    Personal Genome Project – Homepage. Related articles Personal Genome Project Posts DNA Info Online (npr.org) Years to Regeneration and Antiaging via Stem Cells and Gene therapy per George Church (nextbigfuture.com) George Church, Harvard genetics professor, banters with Stephen Colbert (boston.com) Open-source science helps San Carlos father’s genetic quest (mercurynews.com) Do-it-yourself biotech: Ellen Jorgensen at TEDGlobal…

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  • Anant Agarwal: expanding online education from MIT and Harvard with EdX

    Anant Agarwal believes an online education from MIT and Harvard should be available to all – Magazine – The Boston Globe. Related articles Why Comparing edX to MIT is Like Comparing a Toyota to a Ferrari (bostinno.com) UC Berkeley latest to join edX program (zdnet.com) Q & A with Anant Agarwal: Anant Agarwal Discusses Free…

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  • Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School

    Yikes. His conclusion is that MBA students at Harvard insecure overachievers and “a factory of unhappy people”. Related articles Is management a religion? (lucasolari.com) How MIT Became the Most Important University in the World (bostonmagazine.com)

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  • Buzz factor: evolution of techie catch phrases

        Buzz factor – The Boston Globe.   Related articles   Linguists Tracking Slang Through Twitter (euzicasa.wordpress.com) Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain (popalx.wordpress.com) African Linguist Network – Home (metaglossia.wordpress.com) ‘Fiscal cliff’ for Word of the Year! (economy.money.cnn.com) George Lakoff, Conceptual Metaphors, and Biblical Interpretation (chajc.wordpress.com) The Biological Origin of…

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  • Professional master’s degree programs in regulatory affairs and biomedical quality systems : Article : Nature Biotechnology

    Professional master’s degree programs in regulatory affairs and biomedical quality systems : Article : Nature Biotechnology. Related articles RAPS Publishes New Edition of Fundamentals of EU Regulatory Affairs (biotechblog.com) Drug discovery (economist.com) Bio-engineered Jellyfish Swim (the-scientist.com) Scientists engineer a cyborg jellyfish from rat cells and silicone (io9.com) Schadt reflects on first year at $100M genomics…

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