Recently I've become aware of more and more concern about the electromagnetic soup we are embedded in from all of our various gadgets. While Europe has taken a much more cautious approach on this, the USA as always, has let free enterprise rule. Here is a fairly balanced Wiki article on this topic. Needless to … Continue reading Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: fact or fiction?
Center for Democracy & Technology | Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free. Related articles The Declaration of Internet Freedom (muninetworks.org) Civil liberties groups praise revised cybersecurity bill (networkworld.com) Google and Facebook's new tactic in the tech wars (tech.fortune.cnn.com) Is it time for an online 'constitutional moment'? On the Declaration of Internet Freedom (blogs.siliconvalley.com) Journalists, … Continue reading Center for Democracy & Technology | Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free
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For years, other countries have been far more cautious about the impacts of electromagnetic radiation on human health than in the US and far too little is known about this as we increasingly expose ourselves to these fields. In parts of Europe for example there are much stricter regulations on exposure to EMFs than in … Continue reading Wifi laptops exposure and reproductive health
Over the past years, I've realized that my devices and the information they store is increasingly important to me. But unlike many commercial sectors from pharmaceuticals to shipping, there was no consumer level technology to easily, inexpensively and legally monitor them and their use. However recently new applications such as Prey and Apple's Find my … Continue reading Prey: Affordable tools emerge to track and visualize the travels of your devices
I've been an early adopter of services such as Mint to track my spending but I have just never been able to get around to switching my checking account out of the mega banks and into a more web friendly, agile resource. Finally it seems that the Internet is penetrating the previously fortified world of consumer … Continue reading PerkStreet: disrupting financial services (finance 2.0)
As with other fields such as medicine, after years of massive costs and sometimes ineffective methods, resulting in catastrophic failures such as 9/11, new leadership at our intelligence agencies such as Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper are adopting digital and social science methods such as crowd sourcing, data science, knowledge management. Social scientists have … Continue reading Intelligence agencies, mired in inefficiencies, begin to adopt social science and crowd sourcing methods
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Book Review - 'The Accidental Guerrilla,' by David Kilcullen - NYTimes.com. Anthropologist David Kilcullen is a former officer in the Australian Army, a strategist and a scholar. He is also an expert on counterinsurgency, or how to combat a rebellion, and one of the few brave souls who had the ear of people in the … Continue reading The Accidental Guerrilla by David Kilcullen
This is really kind of sad...To improve drug safety, FDA should check its mixed-up files - The Boston Globe. Related articles FDA Issues New Cautionary Guidelines for Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants, Parker Waichman LLP Reports (prweb.com) DrugRisk Announces Updated Information on Mirena Lawsuits (prweb.com) FDA's Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food and Current … Continue reading To improve drug safety, FDA should check its mixed-up files
Popular movies like the new Chernobyl film point to a disturbing trend: Many of the residents of radiation exposure such as Chernobyl and Fukushima experience long term health problems such as thyroid disease, heart disease, heart valve/vascular disease that take decades to appear leaving them disabled and requiring disability benefits but with little sources of support. … Continue reading Health problems of victims of Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear plant take years to appear
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I've been using this a bit and it isn't half bad. Collaboration Software: Share Documents Online, Cloud Email, Task and Mobile Collaboration. Related articles Are online collaboration tools ready for your business? (zdnet.com) Video Conferencing & Unified Collaboration Solution Now Available at No Cost (virtual-strategy.com) Top 5 Social Enterprise Technologies for Business (mashable.com) Rackspace and … Continue reading Hyperoffice Collaboration Software: Share Documents Online, Cloud Email, Task and Mobile Collaboration
Employment Screening, Verification and Background Checks - LexisNexis. Be sure to check your credit, identity periodically with data brokers. others include zaba search, intelius, voompeople, equifax, lexis nexis, center for tech and democracy, Related articles Pre-employment Screening, Criminal Record Checks, Background Check Services & More... (kellybusinessadvisors.com) Realtor background checks include reputation, character: legal? (agbeat.com) 3 … Continue reading Employment Screening, Verification and Background Checks – LexisNexis
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UNC has put its Masters in Industrial Engineering program online, including human factors courses. University of North Carolina Online: Master of Engineering program. Related articles UNC system says strategic plan will help it ‘do business differently’ (newsobserver.com) UNC system proposes $266 million in budget increases over five-year span (newsobserver.com) UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School Partners with … Continue reading UNC Master of Industrial/Systems Engineering goes online
With everything moving to the cloud, it was just a matter of time until some company came along and did it for home security, a field which has long been ripe for disruption and long the terrain of obscure companies that require a mass "system" installation costing thousands of dollars, a dedicated electrician and mega … Continue reading Dropcam Echo: Home security moves to the cloud
For a long time the process of identifying suspects in criminal cases was a rather frighteningly imprecise one of line ups relying on human's often variable ability to remember specific facial features. Now, using evolutionary and anthropometric sciences, this article shows how new software can allow identification using a gradual process of increased recognition more … Continue reading EvoFIT: Evolutionary science and anthropometrics applied to criminal facial recognition software
Fascinating article which shows how social network analysis (SNA)science is being used in the business world including everything from finding Saddam Hussein (by mapping his chauffeurs' habits online) to identifying healthcare fraud. Mining social networks: Untangling the social web | The Economist. Related articles Big Data To Become Powerful Driver Of IT Spending - Gartner (misco.co.uk) … Continue reading Social network analysis science detects Medicare fraud, terrorisms plots
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