BioAnalysis

The following is a collection of more in-depth writings posted to this site. While these show up on the main blog as they’re published, they’re also broken out here for quick access in the future.

• Toy companies: now rotting your brain from the inside! (first published July 4, 2009): An overview of the latest consumer applications for EEG technology and a look forward.
• Q: How Will Televised Sports Survive without John Madden? A: Biometrics. (first published July 6, 2009): An exploration of how tracking athletes’ biometric data can enhance sports entertainment and create new product opportunities aimed at sports fans.
• A tribute to Abe Lincoln – the only US President to hold a patent (first published July 12, 2009): In honor of our current president and his support for the key technological enablers of the future, we explore another president who backed efforts to spur American innovation.
• Prediciting Sports Injuries: A Primer for Predicting Disease? (first published September 27, 2009): A review of one MLB team’s analytical method for predicting player injuries and potential healthcare applications outside of professional sports.
• Space: The Final Frontier (of medical innovation?) (first published November 19, 2009): A look ahead at the challenges and steps necessary to ensure people-friendly space travel.
• More Bad News for VCs…or is it? (first published November 20, 2009): A review of the issues plaguing the Venture Capital industry — and why they might not be all that bad.
• Thanksgiving with John Madden: Turducken and Concussions (first published November 26, 2009): A Thanksgiving treat: we honor John Madden on his favorite holiday by extending the discussion on concussions in football and ways that we can prevent them with better technology, design, and diagnosis.
• The Science of Thanksgiving Sleepiness (first published November 30, 2009): We discuss why Thanksgiving dinner (and overeating in general) makes us so tired and ways to combat the drowsies through better understanding of human physiology.
• Amusement Parks: Making a Mockery of Evolutionary Traits (first published December 2, 2009): A discussion of how applying life sciences can make amusement parks more fun.
• Are Americans Worth their Weight in Gold? No, but some iPhones are. (first published December 7, 2009): A fun math problem that explores the relative value of American health care relative to that of other countries…and to iPhones.
• Can Flying Ever Be Made People-Friendly? (first published December 12, 2009): We discuss the horror of modern day air travel and planned or hypothetical improvements.