Alison E. Berman
Thought Catalog
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Use This Blueprint To Overcome Your Fears
Ask yourself about the why behind what you are doing. What is the intrinsic reason or pull that is guiding you? → Read More
The Future of Digital Health: Personalized Health Care Beyond the Doctor's Office
Sensors, mobile devices, apps, AI: Increasingly, we have the ingredients to expand healthcare beyond the doctor's office. USC's Virtual Care Clinic is assembling these digital tools to deliver personalized healthcare for life—no matter who you are or where you live. → Read More
Technology Can and Should Be Designed for Emotional Wellness
In an interview at Exponential Medicine, Nichol Bradford, co-founder and executive director of Sofia University’s Transformative Technology Lab, explained how new transformative technologies can enhance emotional wellness and awareness. → Read More
The Future of Cancer Treatment Is Personalized and Collaborative
In an interview at Singularity University's Exponential Medicine in San Diego, Richard Wender, chief cancer control officer at the American Cancer Society, discussed how technology has changed cancer care and treatment in recent years. → Read More
The Technologies We'll Have Our Eyes on in 2018
It’s that time of year again when our team throws on our futurist glasses to look ahead at some of the technologies we’re most anticipating in 2018. → Read More
How Neuroscience Is Beginning to Rewire the Brain From the Inside Out
Neuroscience is letting us peer inside the human brain and tackle disease as never before—but these advances call for a rigorous debate on the ethics too. → Read More
Here's a Winter Reading List to Help You Kickstart the Year
It's that time of year again and winter is here. Check out Singularity Hub's Winter Reading List to give you inspiration for a brighter future in 2018. → Read More
Film 'Unrest' Is an Intimate Look Into Life With a 'Disease Medicine Forgot'
In an interview at Exponential Medicine in San Diego, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Brea shared her difficult yet powerful journey with chronic fatigue syndrome. Brea was a healthy PhD student at Harvard University, about to marry the love of her life, when she suddenly fell ill and her body began to fail her. With doctors initially telling … → Read More
MakerNurse Is All About Unleashing Your Nurse's Inner MacGyver
The best solutions are scrappy and created in feedback loops with insights from real users—which is why MakerNurse is opening makerspaces inside hospitals. → Read More
Virtual Reality Is Reshaping Medical Training and Treatment
From training surgeons in VR to a rig that transports patients out of the hospital to grandma's house, virtual reality is finding applications in medicine. → Read More
Can Technology Help Mend America’s Divided Healthcare System?
Disparity in medical treatment is embedded in America’s healthcare system. Can technology help mend our divided healthcare system? → Read More
This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through October 14)
From a Google algorithm that can write machine learning software to a study showing online dating's impact on society, check out these awesome tech stories. → Read More
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around The Web (Through October 7)
From Google's new real-time translator ear buds to the future of computing within mixed reality, check out these awesome science stories! → Read More
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around The Web (Through September 30)
From Dubai testing crew less passenger drones to a strange robot that is designed to fall over and over again, check out these awesome science stories! → Read More
This AI Assistant Helps Demystify Complex Research
In this interview, Anita Schjøll Brede talks about how an AI assistant can help make research accessible to anyone working on solving a complex problem. → Read More
The Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through September 2)
From drones taking on killer sharks to VR dating shows, this week's awesome stories from around the web has lots of new tech advancements to learn about. → Read More
Finish Him! MegaBots’ Giant Robot Duel Is Finally Going Down in Japan
It began two years ago when MegaBots co-founders Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti donned American flags as capes and challenged Suidobashi Heavy Industries to a giant robot duel in a YouTube video that immediately went viral. The battle proposed: MegaBots’ 15-foot tall, 1,200-pound MK2 robot vs. Suidobashi’s 9,000-pound robot, KURATAS. Oehrlein and Cavalcanti first discovered … → Read More
Finish Him! MegaBots’ Giant Robot Duel Is Finally Going Down
It began two years ago when MegaBots co-founders Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti donned American flags as capes and challenged Suidobashi Heavy Industries to a giant robot duel in a YouTube video that immediately went viral. The battle proposed: MegaBots’ 15-foot tall, 1,200-pound MK2 robot vs. Suidobashi’s 9,000-pound robot, KURATAS. Oehrlein and Cavalcanti first discovered … → Read More
The Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 26)
From lab-grown food to advancements in robotics, this week's awesome stories from around the web has lots of new tech advancements to learn about. → Read More
This Inspiring Teenager Wants to Save Lives With His Flying Robots
It’s not every day you meet a high school student who’s been building functional robots since age 10. Then again, Mihir Garimella is definitely not your average teenager. When I sat down to interview him recently at Singularity University’s Global Summit, that much was clear. Mihir’s curiosity for robotics began at age two when his … → Read More