Physics – TimBatchelder

Turn your Mac into a spectrometer

June 3, 2013June 10, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

(via Turn Your Laptop Into a Spectrometer – Popular Mechanics)

Apple (Finally) Updates The Mac Pro (techcrunch.com)

Why now is the best time to travel the world

April 30, 2013June 30, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management

Five Reasons Why There’s Never Been a Better Time Than Now to Travel the World.
Matthew Scott, expeditionportal.com

If reading about the glorious expeditions of yesteryear such as the famous Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition has you yearning for a serious overland trip, don’t worry, it’s act …

Can mental training in compassion lead to altruistic behavior and better health? (sharpbrains.com)
Discover 3.2: Sequential Segmentation Primer (blogs.adobe.com)
Adobe Analytics: Now in Online Bookstores (blogs.adobe.com)
Edward Snowden – the Globalisation of Whistleblowing (nsnbc.me)
Home, Sweet Home (Well, at least temporarily) (annagoestooxford.wordpress.com)
Google Enhanced Campaigns to Impact Google’s Ad Revenue; New Algorithms Crucial For Advertiser Success (blogs.adobe.com)
Merit Animation (designworklife.com)

Accelerator 2013

January 16, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

startl.org

Applications now open for 2013 Accelerator

After a year hiatus, Startl is again partnering with DreamIt Ventures to offer a very select group of enterprises the opportunity to engage in an intensive, company-building immersion…

http://flip.it/1zxEW

Accelerator 2013

Ranking Applicants For An Accelerator (alexstechthoughts.com)
DreamIt Health Startup Medlio Has a Virtual Insurance Card: An Interview With David Brooks (managemypractice.com)
Particle Accelerators 101: If Only Every University Course Was Animated (gizmodo.com.au)

Computational social science

January 12, 2013April 24, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

(via Computational social science: Making the links : Nature News & Comment)

Scott Atran: The Folly of Defunding Social Science (huffingtonpost.com)
Data Science in Business/Computational Social Science in Academia? (r-bloggers.com)
Article Review: “Computational Social Science” by Lazer Et Al (rfidentity.wordpress.com)

Mitt Romney: I believe in basic science

September 13, 2012February 16, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Mitt Romney: I believe in basic science, and by “basic science” I mean “cold fusion”
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net

I’m not entirely sure what to say about this excerpt from a Washington Examiner interview other than, “*headdesk*”.

Mitt Romney: I do believe in basic science. I believe in participating in space. I believe in analysis of new sourc…

http://flpbd.it/KM069

Mitt Romney Announce Plans to Run for Pope (godshmod.wordpress.com)
Mitt Romney Believes in Cold Fusion? (delong.typepad.com)
President Obama and Mitt Romney Select The Resumator to Staff Their Campaigns (prweb.com)
“I love cars, American cars. I was born in Detroit.” – Mitt Romney (automobilemag.com)
Mitt Romney: ‘I’m not going away’ (dailykos.com)
Mitt Romney: ‘We Lost, but I’m Not Going Away’ (newser.com)

Quantum2: an innovative skills development program provided by the Information Professional Development Group at ProQuest

August 28, 2009August 28, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science, Regenerative Economy

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Quantum2: an innovative skills development program provided by the Information Professional Development Group at ProQuest.

Interesting site for information professionals on setting up an information/KM center.

Research databases on the new ProQuest platform (lmulibrary.typepad.com)
ProQuest Rolls Out New Graduate Education Program (detroit.cbslocal.com)
ebrary Fortifies Strategic E-book Acquisition for K-12 Libraries with Common Core Standards Content (virtual-strategy.com)
ProQuest, CALIS Unlock Global Access to Chinese Dissertations (detroit.cbslocal.com)
ProQuest Releases Digital NAACP Content Ahead of Schedule (detroit.cbslocal.com)
Innovative Next Generation Life Coaching Hits the UK (holisticwords.com)
The relationship between TeacherInsight(TM) scores and Professional Development and Appraisal System domain scores (udini.proquest.com)
Innovative Next Generation Life Coaching Hits The UK (prfire.co.uk)
A Workshop on Quantum Information Science (cccblog.org)

Systems theory: foundations of business analysis

August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

NASA Watching Atlantic Tropics: Katia, Tropica... — NASA Watching Atlantic Tropics: Katia, Tropical Storm Lee and System 94L [detail view] (Photo credit: NASA Goddard Photo and Video)

Systems theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A core part of the theory used by the business analyst according to Michael Hugos, along with Information Theory

System Theory (2nd Reference) (prerna4everything.wordpress.com)
System Theory (Referred Article) (prerna4everything.wordpress.com)
Eyal Sulganik: Towards a Theory of “Mathematical Accounting” (gilkalai.wordpress.com)
Complexity:: understanding living systems (fitforrandomness.wordpress.com)
Projects are systems (herdingcats.typepad.com)
Entropy and randomness in communications, a quick introduction (cartesianproduct.wordpress.com)
Bertrand Duperrin: Keep IT Simple … (isismjpucher.wordpress.com)
Multiple factors, including climate change, led to collapse and depopulation of ancient Maya (esciencenews.com)
Total Quality Management Strategy (thinkingbookworm.typepad.com)