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Hidden Brain
Taken in aggregate, the billions of online searches we make every day say a lot about our most private thoughts and biases.

I, Robot: Our Changing Relationship With Technology

Oct 03, 2019
Do you ever catch yourself yelling at your Alexa? Or typing questions into Google that you would never ask aloud? This week, we explore our changing relationship with technology.
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Shots - Health News
UK Biobank has granted 10,000 qualified scientists access to its large database of genetic sequences and other medical data, but other organizations with databases have been far more restrictive in giving access.

How Should Scientists' Access To Health Databanks Be Managed?

Sep 06, 2019
Medical and genetic data from more than a million Americans are now in scientific databases. Some programs hoard the data, while others share widely with scientists, hoping to speed medical discovery.
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Shots - Health News
UK Biobank, based in Manchester, England, is the largest blood-based research project in the world. The research project will involve at least 500,000 people across the U.K., and follow their health for next 30 years or more, providing a resource for sci

UK Biobank Requires Earth's Geneticists To Cooperate, Not Compete

Aug 31, 2019
A project that shares medical information from 500,000 volunteers is driving innovative research around the world. The richness of the database means scientists are motivated to make it even better.
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Technology
The 10-Year Challenge has gone viral on platforms like Facebook, but some worry about how the data will be used.

Could The 10-Year Challenge Be Putting Your Data At Risk?

Jan 20, 2019
The viral 10-Year Challenge on social media could train facial recognition technology on how we age, and potentially be used against us, argues author and tech consultant Kate O'Neill.
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Shots - Health News
According to the law in most states, health care providers own patients' medical records. But federal privacy law governs how that information can be used. And whether or not you can profit from your own medical data is murky.

If Your Medical Information Becomes A Moneymaker, Could You Get A Cut?

Oct 15, 2018
Sometimes discoveries derived from patients' medical data become the foundation of new profit-making companies. A fledgling industry wants to help patients get a cut of the cash.
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Shots - Health News
Scientists are training a computer to detect pancreatic tumors from CT scans at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Md. The project uses anonymized patient CT scans to build a system that can recognize tumors.

When Scientists Develop Products From Personal Medical Data, Who Gets To Profit?

May 31, 2018
Data from patient medical records are being used to develop commercial products. What rights do we have over the use of our personal health information?
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All Tech Considered
In<em> </em><em>Making Tracks,</em> Frick<em> </em>uses human data from sensors to create portraits.

An Artist Sees Data So Powerful It Can Help Us Pick Better Friends

Feb 25, 2018
It can feel intrusive to have so much data collected about us, but Laurie Frick is optimistic about how big data will evolve. She says it could help us evaluate how we respond to other people.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Computational Propaganda: Bots, Targeting, And The Future

Feb 09, 2018
Computational propaganda was invented by people who realized the possibilities emerging from the intersection of new technologies and behaviors they create — and it's frightening, says Adam Frank.
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Shots - Health News
Careful custody of blood tests and tissue samples is essential to the success of precision medicine.

Precision Medical Treatments Have A Quality Control Problem

Dec 29, 2017
The goal is to customize treatments for cancer and other diseases to a patient's own biology. But something as simple as failing to take care of tissue samples en route to the lab can derail that.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

The Big Idea Behind Big Data

Nov 17, 2017
As we find our way in a world shaped by Big Data, it's not the reams of information we gather but the networks they illuminate that's the newest addition to science's index of things, says Adam Frank.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

What Does It Take To See Gentrification Before It Happens?

Aug 29, 2017
The great hope of urban advocates is to democratize data, allowing residents to see more clearly how a neighborhood is changing — but knowledge of those changes may accelerate them, says Adam Frank.
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All Tech Considered
The Foxconn data center was designed to sit on a natural plateau, where the altitude and monsoon climate keep the average annual temperature at 59 degrees.

A Remote Chinese Province Uses Its Climate To Grow A Big-Data Industry

Jul 03, 2017
Southwest China's Guizhou province is one of the country's poorest, most remote regions. But Guizhou has some unique advantages, which it is trying to use to transform itself into a big-data hub.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Could You Help Rewire Income Disparity?

Jun 27, 2017
New research using network science shows that shifting individual behavior in small ways could influence economic equality, says blogger Adam Frank.
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Shots - Health News
This computer-enhanced barium contrast X-ray shows colon cancer in red. Researchers have been trying to figure out what looks to be a decade-long rise in colon cancer among people younger than 50.

Why Are More Young Americans Getting Colon Cancer?

Feb 28, 2017
Data suggests that the rate of colon cancer among people under 50 is on the rise, but there are lots of possible explanations for that. Scientists say teasing out the truth will be tricky.
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Shots - Health News

Big Data Coming In Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can Process It

Nov 28, 2016
There's a plethora of projects to gather data about the brain, various kinds of cancer and every type of cell in the body. But researchers are struggling to keep up with the information explosion.
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Goats and Soda

See How Global Health Has Changed Since You Were Born

Nov 02, 2016
'Global Health Check' lets you enter your birth year for a look at diseases milestones, life spans, mortality rates and more.
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All Tech Considered

Can Web Search Predict Cancer? Promise And Worry Of Big Data And Health

Jun 10, 2016
Microsoft researchers say in a new study that Bing searches held clues to pancreatic cancer diagnoses. But what role should new data streams like Web searches and social media play in public health?
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Politics
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump caused a stir recently by saying that data and campaign technology was "overrated" in the political world.

Trump's Disinterest In Data Has Some Republicans Worried

May 31, 2016
The decision to eschew "microtargeting" and other sophisticated tools could have a significant negative effect on Republican candidates down the ballot from Donald Trump.
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All Tech Considered
Following the example set in Pakistan, the government of Bangladesh is having the mobile operator Grameenphone, which is majority-owned by Telenor, fingerprint SIM card customers. This is an FAQ on the biometric program.

How A Mobile Carrier In Asia Is Beating Google At The Data Game

Mar 01, 2016
As Internet giants vie for business in Asia, European mobile carrier Telenor realizes it can have better, bigger Big Data than even Google, putting itself in uncharted territory.
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Heating Up

Big Data Predicts Centuries Of Harm If Climate Warming Goes Unchecked

Nov 30, 2015
It took about 30 teams of scientists worldwide, using supercomputers to churn through mountains of data, to see patterns aligning of what will happen decades and centuries from now.
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Shots - Health News
(Left to right) Students Christine Schindler, Mary Quien and Micah Timen share popcorn and a laugh during a research session. Timen worked as an accountant before medical school; his database project tracked the relative costs of a hip replacement throug

Medical Students Crunch Big Data To Spot Health Trends

Oct 30, 2015
It's not enough anymore to learn how to size up the symptoms of a particular patient, say specialists in bioinformatics. Modern doctors need to learn to see patterns in huge data sets, too.
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Cities Project
Transit Labs produced an <a href="http://blog.transitlabs.com/part-ii-deeper-look-detroits-routes-population-density/">interactive graphic</a> for a deep look into Detroit's public transportation system.

Apps, Maps And Head Counts Transforming Public Transit

Oct 29, 2015
Transit decisions are made by political bodies, and the results are often that the communities with the most political and economic power drive the bus, so to speak. Big data may change that.
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Shots - Health News
<em>Bacillus subtilis</em> may look like pasta under the microscope, but the bacteria are common in the gut of humans. Could the microbes be contributing to our belly fat? Too soon to tell, scientists say.

Does This Phylum Make Me Look Fat?

Aug 20, 2015
The relationship between the types of microbes in our gut and belly fat is turning out to be a lot more complicated than scientists first thought.
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Shots - Health News
Carol and John Iovine say the health coach their insurer assigned John after he had a torrent of grave health problems in 2014 has helped them get the medical care he still needs. And it's helped keep him out of the hospital.

Insurer Uses Personal Data To Predict Who Will Get Sick

Jun 08, 2015
A Philadelphia health insurance company analyzes its clients' health data and other factors to find the frailest and assign them health coaches. That may improve health, but is it a breach of privacy?
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All Tech Considered
Taser International is now selling police departments the technology to store videos from body cameras.

As Police Body Cameras Increase, What About All That Video?

May 29, 2015
Police cams have suddenly become a big business. But the real money is in selling departments a way to store each day's video. Firms are offering easy uploads to the cloud but costs are bound to grow.
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