Archive for March, 2013
Facebook ‘Likes’ reveal more about you than you think | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
March 17, 2013Retrotransposition of gene transcripts leads to structural variation in mammalian genomes
March 17, 2013Adam D Ewing, Tracy J Ballinger, Dent Earl, Broad Institute Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Christopher C Harris, Li Ding, Richard K Wilson and David Haussler
Greg Berns' funny experiment
March 17, 2013NYer Science of Sleeplessness – the benefit of #sleeping alone, discovery of REM & sleepless rats dying in 2 wks
March 17, 2013Elizabeth Kolbert: The Science of Sleeplessness : The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/11/130311fa_fact_kolbert
Absolute quantification of somatic DNA alterations in human cancer
March 17, 2013Nat Biotechnol. 2012 May;30(5):413-21. doi: 10.1038/nbt.2203. Carter SL, Cibulskis K, Helman E, McKenna A, Shen H, Zack T, Laird PW, Onofrio RC, Winckler W, Weir BA, Beroukhim R, Pellman D, Levine DA, Lander ES, Meyerson M, Getz G.
Facebook ‘likes’ can predict gender, ethnicity etc….
March 17, 2013http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/03/06/1218772110.abstract Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior
Michal Kosinskia
David Stillwella, and
Thore Graepelb
Will Yankees go from a $208M payroll in ’13 (2nd in MLB to LA’s $213M) to $189M in ’14?
March 17, 2013Yankees, Baseball’s Big Spenders, Are Reining It In – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/sports/baseball/yankees-baseballs-big-spenders-are-reining-it-in.html
Netflix ISP Speed Index
March 17, 2013http://http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/usa (via @WSJ: Netflix announces index that ranks ISPs on quality http://bit.ly/101iJeW )
genetics in the arts – of nature and nurture
March 15, 2013Identity Theft: Nature and Nurture in Art and Science
By Christina Agapakis | March 12, 2013
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Art and science address the question of what makes us who we are in different, difficult, often contradictory ways. Since the phrase “nature and nurture” was first used in the late 19th century, trying to separate the contributions of inborn heredity and external environment to our unique individuality, there have been people who argue for the supremacy of our genome, epigenome, connectome, our individual historical moment and social milieux, or all of the above. ”
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/oscillator/2013/03/12/identity-theft-nature-and-nurture-in-art-and-science/
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