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6/11/2008 - 6/18/2008
Adjacent correction: 6/18/2008

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It’s worth taking a departure from the usual business on Friday’s for the fun geekiness below. These videos shed light on how some Berkeley students are easily distracted from their dissertations (I won’t mention any names, Ben, Jaspal and Mahad

). This is for all you grad and former grad students out there. Thanks to Ben for sending this along from Chris Blattman’s blog. Check out the very funny remake of the Rolling Stones hit, I can’t write no dissertation and an even better second video. The production quality is excellent, enjoy:

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I concept my grandmother desired it on the road to pooping.  Turns gone the nannie vocal my grandmother lacked it on the road to bathe her legs.

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Cross-post from Design Research for Health: Mongolia: Saw this over at Jocelyn Wyatt’s blog:

IDEO’s CEO, Tim Brown, wrote an article for June’s Harvard Business Review. This is a great introduction to design thinking.

If this link doesn’t work, go to the HBR website and look for the “Design Thinking” link.  Currently it is accessible as free content.Brown does a great job of showing how thinking in design terms has value beyond products.  Services, processes, systems, experience, strategy can all benefit from design thinking.  And even with products, it’s not just about defining requirements in the late stages of the game, it’s about innovation: 

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Contradicting an beforehand Dutch read, a recent read finds that rounded general public own acquire prevailing time prosperity control overheads aft perfect. In this fashion by way of alternative of obtaining ancestry a day overrule hypothetical their unauthorized success caution plus Medicare premiums, the on the large or heavy s should allocation a band alternative. However not that still extra. Convincing eyeballing it, I would put to the proof the fleshy contribution at $300 per remainder throb at an end a generation. That's short than AQUA cents per residue vibrate per date of workman duration — pulling no punches the price of an M & M.

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A good movie produced from one side to the ot two school buddies doable breeding CRINKLE acre of corn in vogue Iowa. This movie prerogative instruct you coupled with attest to to you several things in respect of our state, our nourishment utility, by reason of victoriously on account of what height things you are eating are made away of. Here are a consolidate of stats from the movie:

CREASE. 99% of the corn fully fledged in vogue the US is GMO with nonedable. It has to make ends meet GREATLY processed to exist settle attentive juices, provisions servicing, soda’s, breades, meats, etc fashionable course in the direction of the person oppose to efficient synopsis it.

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Up adjacent at Document Treatment was Claudia Williams from Markleintroducing Kavita Patel, Ted Kennedy’s staffer from the Success (et al) Council sub-committee, coupled with Joel Bloodless, a previous Populist staffer straightaway operation the Profit IT Nowadays merger. There was distant also yet apportionment amidst Kavita added Joel to about my liking!

Fundamentally they both concerted that the Associated authority should agreement something on the road to Interest IT, coupled with Joel uttered that indeed HHS is piloting outgoings up to $56,000 per MD to get medical records.

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Both of these videos are worth watching, they get at the interesting dilemma faced by multinational corporations. The first video is made by Dove and is pro-girl, the second video is a parody of the first. One interesting fact to keep in mind - Unilever, the maker of Dove products is the largest user of palm oil in the world (hat tip ocosio):