24 May 2021

Big Ideas ~ What's Most On my Mind...

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When I'm not distracted by current difficulties, here are the Big Ideas which are most on my mind (and mostly my original ideas, unless...
02 August 2020

Systematics ~ Sociome, Diseasome, Interactome

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Tim Clancy spots this complex systems hierarchy infographic from Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health, 2013... "A great examp...
24 June 2020

Great Inventors ~ Migrants Making America...

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20 April 2020

Covid-19 Testing ~ Diagnostic Tech Strategies...

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The Center of Complex Interventions (CCI) offers COVID-19 RNA Testing Technology Assessment ... "This living document aims to survey...
18 April 2020

Heroines ~ Artist Manara's Homage to Frontliners

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Italian graphic novel artist/illustrator Milo Manara pays homage to the current pandemic's heroic women drawing rather differently tha...
25 March 2020

Calling Bullshit ~ Factcheck Covid-19 Misinfo

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WIRED's Tom Simonite writes about The Professors Who Call ‘Bullshit’ on Covid-19 Misinformation ... "Jevin West told fellow Univ...
13 March 2020

Covid-19 Trendscape ~ Comparative Exponentials

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Andreas Burkert has been updating Covid-19 exponential trendscape plots.  This one's most recent as of Friday 13th posting, but see his...
10 March 2020

Flattening the Curve ~ Mitigating Covid-19....

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David Reiley writes... "Here's something we all need to know. In China, when the spread of the virus is slow, we see a 1% death r...
11 February 2020

Humanity’s Sweet Spot ~ Sustainable + Social

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MIT colleague Anna Waldman-Brown spotlit this provocative infographic in one of her "Academic frustrations of the day", a plot of....

American Evolution ~ Rails, Roads & US Cities!

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The FT  shares this compelling piece Mapping how railroads built America mashing up the evolution of US railroads over time with the growth...
01 February 2020

Inclusive Economies ~ Spring 2020 @ MIT D-Lab

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Together with colleagues Kate Mytty and Libby McDonald, I'm co-teaching the Inclusive Economies seminar at MIT this Spring 2020 every W...
30 January 2020

AI for Impact ~ Spring 2020 @ MIT Media Lab

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Together with colleagues Professors Alex "Sandy" Pentland and Ramesh Raskar, I'm co-teaching the AI for Impact seminar this S...
29 January 2020

Surreal Value ~ Apple's Exponential Exhuberance

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The FT reports on the Apple Effect ... "When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, it was valued at $3bn, less than one-tenth of Sie...
27 January 2020

Suspended Animation ~ Cool Emergency Surgery

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The Guardian's Science Editor Ian Sample wrote in Nov 2019 about Humans put into suspended animation for first time ... "The pr...
23 January 2020

Democracy 2019 ~ Economist Index of World Pox

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The Economist says... "Democracy is in retreat, according to the latest edition of the Democracy Index from our sister company, The...
15 January 2020

MIT Nuts & Bolts of New Ventures ~ IAP Jan 2020

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On Tuesday night, 21 January 2020, Joe Hadzima and I kick off the latest incarnation -- the 31st year (!!) -- of our MIT Nuts & Bolts o...
05 January 2020

Losing Faith ~ Shifts in Religous Zeal Appeal

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The Economist spotlights Arab Barometer religious trendscape. .. "NO TO RELIGION or sect,” cry the protesters in Iraq. “No to Islam,...
30 December 2019

Meet Markets ~ How Most of US Link Up ...

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The Economist spotlights the changing Meet Markets , how people in America couple up...
28 December 2019

World Population ~ Demographically Transitioning

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The WEForum and Visual Capitalist share cool world population infographics from Our World in Data by economist Max Roser spotlighting how ...
21 December 2019

Mapping Corruption ~ Transparency to Opacity

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Visual Capitalist's Chart of the Week maps Transparency International 2018 data about corruption perceptions worldwide...