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The Big Shift in Platform Business Models: Everywhere you look today, platform businesses are in the news. Most of the stories

The Big Shift in Platform Business Models: Everywhere you look today, platform businesses are in the news. Most of the stories focus on what platforms do. Some highlight the value they provide in terms of ease and convenience in connecting with needed resources. Others focus on the...
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“It’s true — I saw it on Facebook”: "When my cousins' Facebook timelines make no meaningful distinction between

“It’s true — I saw it on Facebook”: "When my cousins' Facebook timelines make no meaningful distinction between fact-checked magazine stories and flat-out lies from an AdSense scammer or a Fox News propagandist, the means by which meaningful public discourse can happen isn't only damaged, it's...
Source: niemanlab.org

Snapchat grows up: "Organizations that aren’t on Snapchat Discover will go beyond the experimental phase on Stories. The

Snapchat grows up: "Organizations that aren’t on Snapchat Discover will go beyond the experimental phase on Stories. The remaining skeptics won’t be for much longer."
Source: niemanlab.org

NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories of 2016: Dear Readers, We are pleased to bring you our 2016 NEJM Journal

NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories of 2016: Dear Readers, We are pleased to bring you our 2016 NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories. As usual, our list focuses on inpatient and intensive care topics that most of us see in our daily practice. We hope that you find this list...
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NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016: On behalf of the editors of NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry , I am pleased

NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016: On behalf of the editors of NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry , I am pleased to present the Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016. The selection of the 10 best stories was, as always, difficult, with more than 200 summaries published in the past year that inform...
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Here’s another startup trying to make it easier for publishers to engage with readers: Antenna allows readers to react

Here’s another startup trying to make it easier for publishers to engage with readers: Antenna allows readers to react to stories with pre-set emotions, and the company is expanding into e-commerce.
Source: niemanlab.org

100 Stories: The Impact of Open Access Jean-Gabriel Bankier. Promita Chatterji.

100 Stories: The Impact of Open Access Jean-Gabriel Bankier. Promita Chatterji.
Source: bepress.com

Just read Sapiens by Yuval Harari. Sparkling account and interesting perspective of the history of humankind. Full of stories.

Just read Sapiens by Yuval Harari. Sparkling account and interesting perspective of the history of humankind. Full of stories. Learnt about Montezuma, learnt a lot about the agricultural revolution, the affluence of hunter-gatherers, and a lot about our disregard for other animals. Basically we haven't...
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Good read. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. A powerful book on animal rights written 40 years ago (updated 20 years ago

Good read. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. A powerful book on animal rights written 40 years ago (updated 20 years ago and re-issued recently with an introduction by Yuval Hariri) and having stood the test of time and debate. It is called 'the bible' of the animal rights movement and rightly so ......
Source: amazon.co.uk

Top Dermatology Stories of 2015: By the NEJM Journal Watch Editors NEJM Journal Watch Dermatology presents its list of

Top Dermatology Stories of 2015: By the NEJM Journal Watch Editors NEJM Journal Watch Dermatology presents its list of the 10 top stories … NEJM Journal Watch.
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‘It was the scariest thing I've ever done’: the Irish women forced to travel for abortions: Every year, thousands of

‘It was the scariest thing I've ever done’: the Irish women forced to travel for abortions: Every year, thousands of women come from Ireland to England for abortions – illegal at home, and punishable in Northern Ireland by life imprisonment. These are their stories
Source: theguardian.com