http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/2013325182246584689.html
Archive for March, 2013
Tinkering knowledge sharing, or why we need to hack science – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
March 26, 2013Save iPhone Notes to a Gmail Account
March 25, 2013Record and Play Audio Notes in Word 2011 for Mac – For Dummies
March 25, 2013recording audio in word notebooks
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/record-and-play-audio-notes-in-word-2011-for-mac.html
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel – NYTimes.com
March 24, 2013Some quotes that I thought interesting:
“That is private family information,” said Jeri Lacks-Whye, Lacks’s granddaughter. “It shouldn’t have been published without our consent.” Some scientists agree: Jonathan Eisen, a genomics researcher at the University of California, Davis, tweeted, “A bit stunned that the people publishing the HeLa genome appear to not have gotten consent from the family.” Another said this was going to further damage public trust in science. A few argued that the cells had changed so much over time, they couldn’t accurately tell us anything about Lacks (to which a geneticist replied, “Your claim is so wrong that I don’t know where to start”).
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After hearing from the Lacks family, the European team apologized, revised the news release and quietly took the data off-line. (At least 15 people had already downloaded it.) They also pointed to other databases that had published portions of Henrietta Lacks’s genetic data (also without consent). They hope to talk with the Lacks family to determine how to handle the HeLa genome while working toward creating international standards for handling these issues.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-the-sequel.html?pagewanted=all&pagewanted=print http://www.g3journal.org/content/early/2013/03/11/g3.113.005777.abstract
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel – NYTimes.com
March 24, 2013Some quotes that I thought interesting:
“That is private family information,” said Jeri Lacks-Whye, Lacks’s granddaughter. “It shouldn’t have been published without our consent.” Some scientists agree: Jonathan Eisen, a genomics researcher at the University of California, Davis, tweeted, “A bit stunned that the people publishing the HeLa genome appear to not have gotten consent from the family.” Another said this was going to further damage public trust in science. A few argued that the cells had changed so much over time, they couldn’t accurately tell us anything about Lacks (to which a geneticist replied, “Your claim is so wrong that I don’t know where to start”).
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After hearing from the Lacks family, the European team apologized, revised the news release and quietly took the data off-line. (At least 15 people had already downloaded it.) They also pointed to other databases that had published portions of Henrietta Lacks’s genetic data (also without consent). They hope to talk with the Lacks family to determine how to handle the HeLa genome while working toward creating international standards for handling these issues.
Space archaeology: Dredging up the future | The Economist
March 24, 2013NYer book review on “A History of Culinary Revolution”, illuminating recent emergence of fork & overbite
March 24, 2013BOOKS
A FORK OF ONE’S OWN
Jane Kramer: A History of Culinary Revolution : The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/03/18/130318crbo_books_kramer
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