Category: Newsletters

Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for December 29, 2021   Edison was right: Waking up right after drifting off to sleep can boost creativity Science, Sofia Moutinho from December 09, 2021 When Thomas Edison hit a wall with his inventions, he would nap in an armchair while holding a steel ball. As he […]

Read More →

Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for December 23, 2021   The most Fascinating Startups at Web Summit: To use or abuse the data, that is the question Dataconomy, Vojna Ngjeqari from December 14, 2021 We met some fascinating startups advancing the human race by using data science. They all have three things in […]

Read More →

Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for December 15, 2021   Patrick J. McGovern Foundation announces new grants to accelerate potential of digital health PR Newswire, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation from December 10, 2021 “To fully realize the benefits of digital innovation in health, including artificial intelligence, greater investments are needed in enabling building […]

Read More →

Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for December 14, 2021   4 Ways to Use the Training Data from Wearable Tech Outside Online, Alex Hutchinson from November 10, 2021 The central question that sports scientists are grappling with these days is this: What the heck are we going to do with all this data? […]

Read More →

Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for December 10, 2021   Virginia Athletics leverages data via advanced analytic techniques University of Virginia, The Cavalier Daily student newspaper, Alex Maniatis from December 02, 2021 Here at Virginia, the football and women’s soccer teams are pioneers in the collegiate landscape. Director of Football Analytics Matt Edwards […]

Read More →

Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for December 7, 2021   Did the ancient Maya fall because of a drought, or something else? Brandeis University, BrandeisNOW from November 29, 2021 A severe, prolonged drought created an agricultural crisis that swept all of the Maya kingdoms into history. That’s the popular narrative for the fall […]

Read More →

Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for December 1, 2021   NYC aims to be first to rein in AI hiring tools Associated Press, Matt O'Brien from November 19, 2021 Job candidates rarely know when hidden artificial intelligence tools are rejecting their resumes or analyzing their video interviews. But New York City residents could […]

Read More →

Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for December 1, 2021   We have received a @theNCI U54 center grant to launch a Cellular Cancer Biology Imaging Research (CCBIR) at @JohnsHopkins and housed in @INBT_JHU Twitter, Denis Wirtz from November 29, 2021 We will develop CODA, a method to image in three dimensions large volumes […]

Read More →

Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for November 29, 2021   Harvard work guru on the make-or-break questions about jobs of the future in U.S. CNBC, Alicia Doniger from November 29, 2021 In a recent interview for CNBC’s “Work in Progress” series, [Rachel] Lipson discussed trends she says the workforce will need to adapt […]

Read More →

Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for November 28, 2021   Accessible data curation and analytics for international-scale citizen science datasets Nature, Scientific Data, Benjamin Murray et al. from November 22, 2021 The Covid Symptom Study, a smartphone-based surveillance study on COVID-19 symptoms in the population, is an exemplar of big data citizen science. […]

Read More →