Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the Asteroid Threat
If I had Tyson as my high school physics teacher, I might be a scientist today. I find him fascinating to listen to.
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Google Glass
Check out Google Glass. It’s the next big thing: wearable, context-aware computing. Google’s doing this with Glass, Apple is chasing the same goal with its rumored smartwatch. This is quite literally the next web, surpassing the semantic web. It’s contextual computing, and everything’s headed here. If post-PC computing (iPads, tablets) was the last gold rush,
Read More...When It Comes to Health and Fitness, Tracking Is Knowing
The Taking Control of Your Health series thus far, in case you missed earlier posts: The First Step Towards Better Health: Bloodwork as Your State of the Union Understanding What ‘Real Food’ Is, Part I Understanding Food: What Are Fats Besides a Bad Word? Understanding Food: Proteins Understanding Food: Carbohydrates Controlling Stress: The Part of
Read More...By All Accounts
By All Accounts By: Steven Brenner and Shannon Roche In the world of banking, the ability to track the movement of funds into systems has always been a top priority. While computers have exponentially increased tracking and monitoring capabilities, the digital world has also introduced a great deal of additional complexity into the banking
Read More...[HOW-TO] PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: Creating the Sourcing Event
Now that we have discussed an overview of Strategic Sourcing, bid factors and scoring, let’s focus on creating the sourcing event. There are three types of events in PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: A sell event: the sale of goods that you own (equivalent to a forward auction). A buy event: the purchase of goods or services
Read More...Oracle’s PeopleSoft Named Best in KLAS for Financials/ERP Software in Healthcare for the Second Year in a Row
From Marketwire: For the second year in a row, KLAS has named Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financials best Financials/ERP software in its “2012 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services” report(i). The annual report, now in its 15th year, ranks the best-performing healthcare IT vendors in nearly 100 market segments based on ratings from nearly 20,000 interviews
Read More...Higher Ed Facilities Maintenance Webinar
Webinar: Adding Facilities Management to your PeopleSoft Solution MIPRO Consulting and Oracle would like to invite you to a webinar entitled Adding Facilities Management to your PeopleSoft Solution For years, when you talked to people about a “full suite” PeopleSoft solution, they would tell you that the solution had three elements – Human
Read More...PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: Total Cost Modeling
We discussed in my previous blog about bid factors weighting and scoring. Today, we will review total cost modeling which allows bids to be analyzed based upon price, best score and lowest total score. In simple language, total cost modeling allows the flexibility to make the best decision for award. PeopleBooks has some good information
Read More...Numberphile
I wasted so, so much time with this over the weekend. It’s a bunch of videos about math and numbers that frequently careen into popular geek culture. So well done. Don’t say you weren’t warned. Just click on one of the doodles and grab a coffee. Before you know it, you’ll be late for your
Read More...Understanding Food: Carbohydrates
Ah, carbohydrates. The new bad guy, right? The one who makes you decline those buttery dinner rolls and carrot cake? Well, yes. Bad guys. Sort of. Not all the time. Depends on you, your metabolism and activity level. First, let’s explain what carbs are. In essence, they’re sugars, and sugars have the effect of raising
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