Category: Ethnographic Methods
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Alex (Sandy) Pentland Homepage: Honest Signals, Reality Mining, and Sensible Organizations
Alex (Sandy) Pentland Homepage — Honest Signals, Reality Mining, and Sensible Organizations. What if you could see yourself as others see you? What if you could have a God’s eye view of how the people in your social network interact? Or `see the rhythms of interaction for everyone in your town? Or even the entire…
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Dr Helen Fisher: Biological anthropologist creates online dating algorithms
Dr Helen Fisher – Biological Anthropologist – Home Page. Related articles Helen Fisher – the brain in love (TED) (lovetheorist.com) Do Pheromones Really Work? (bellasugar.com) Love vs. Lust (and the Brain) (bigthink.com) Survey: 30% of Meat Eaters Won’t Date a Vegetarian (newsfeed.time.com) An Affair Of the Head (wed-gie.com) Love, Sex and Your Smartphone (forbes.com)
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EurekAlert! Science News: useful site for science writers
EurekAlert! – Science News. Related articles Physicists study lily blossoms (proflowers.com:80)
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The End of Rational Economics
The End of Rational Economics – HBR.org . According to the latest issue of HBR in 2008, Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve once hailed as “the greatest banker who ever lived,” confessed to Congress that he was “shocked” that the markets did not operate according to his lifelong expectations. He…
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MIT OpenCourseWare 21A.215 Medical Anthropology
MIT OpenCourseWare | Anthropology | 21A.215 Medical Anthropology, Fall 2004 | Readings. Related articles Free Online Course Materials | Resource Home | MIT OpenCourseWare (anthonyvenable110.wordpress.com) Participate in the Extreme and Informal Learning Survey (saylor.org) New Year’s Resolution: MIT OpenCourseWare (ritholtz.com) Introduction to Psychology now available in MIT OpenCourseWare’s innovative OCW Scholar format (web.mit.edu) Invtitation…
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Wiley: An Anthropology of Biomedicine
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…
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Kytta® natural products
This is derived from Comfrey. Kytta® – Natur hilft heilen. Pflanzliche Arzneimittel bei Muskelschmerzen, Gelenkschmerzen, Einschlafstörungen und innerer Unruhe.. Related articles Deals of the Week Ponders PatientsLikeMe and Empowerment (invivoblog.blogspot.com) Organoid Seen Cutting Drug Cost With Lab Mini-Intestine – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) Now available! Natural baby products! (babyorganicjoy.wordpress.com)
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Evolutionary and health aspects of bed sharing
A totally weird but interesting study. This conflicts with our evolutionary heritage has primates in some ways living in communal groups but may have merit if primates sleep independently. BBC NEWS | Health | Bed sharing ‘bad for your health’. Related articles Human Ancestors Were Nearly All Vegetarians (blogs.scientificamerican.com) Penises, Primates and the study…
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Mobile communications and loneliness
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…
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The End of Alone: moving from real interaction to online lives
The End of Alone – The Boston Globe. An article in Boston Glove 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 Related articles TEDx Boston….enjoy a ‘front row’ VIP experience, without stepping away…
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