Several people have contacted me in the last twenty four hours about a relatively new site called FamilyTreeNow.com. The site is one of a couple of large 3rd party data aggregators that are advertised as a way of finding genealogical information and/or locating lost friends. It all sounds great – “make finding family free!” – but it can be extremely dangerous for those who are subject to stalking or other […]
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Directing a New Nexus Lab Experiment
When I first arrived at ASU, I spent a bit of time in the Nexus Lab – talking with Michael Simeone, working with a few students who were doing some encoding, and giving a few presentations. One of those presentations as part of the Research Advancement series, was where I met my current collaborator, Jessica Rajko. From that first meeting we’ve developed our #VibrantLives work and have gone on to show […]
Coming Soon: Size Does Matter
This is a placeholder post – one that I’m using to remind me of some thinking, writing, and making that I’d like to do in the near future. In a recent HSCollab Possibility Lunch we spent time talking about the many many different kinds of information coded in human performance/life. We were thinking through uptake of the dress-wearing of Young Thug and Jayden Smith (below) and how we might understand these […]
