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Untangling the Formation of DNA Loops – Scientific American

April 3, 2019

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MARCH 2019

Untangling the Formation of DNA Loops

New discoveries on ancient loops in DNA offer clues into gene regulation

By Erez Lieberman Aiden

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/untangling-the-formation-of-dna-loops/

Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud

April 3, 2019

QT:[[”
“As he grew in his profession, Six came to feel he had a right to express himself on the family collection. A series of clashes with his father ensued, many of them about providing greater public access, which has always been a difficulty. Currently, tours of the
collection, which are by appointment only, are booked into next year. The picture that the younger Six sketched was of an inward-looking father who is trying to preserve a legacy by keeping the world at bay, who comes to realize over time that he also has to do battle with a gregarious and extroverted son who feels that the way to preserve that legacy is precisely by sharing it with the wider world. The battles left the younger Six progressively more exasperated: “I would cycle home after and think, Jesus, Dad, I’m trying to help you.””
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Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/magazine/rembrandt-jan-six.html

legislation to update children’s online privacy

March 31, 2019

https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senators-markey-and-hawley-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-update-childrens-online-privacy-rules

Excellent review for cbb752 students

March 31, 2019

Balanced perspective on history and future of genomic medicine by Jay Shendure https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)30152-7

How I Would Cover the College-Admissions Scandal as a Foreign Correspondent | The New Yorker

March 31, 2019

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-i-would-cover-the-college-admissions-scandal-as-a-foreign-correspondent

Policy-relevant proportions for direct effects

March 31, 2019

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3523303/

discusses NDE & NIE

neuroDEVELOPMENTS: Neuroscience Research to Clinical Relevance

March 31, 2019

https://mailchi.mp/add7f814b67d/neurodevelopments-720229
https://www.libd.org/neurodevelopments/

the Lieber’s neuroDEVELOPMENTS newsletter, which features the PsychENCODE paper

politics questions galore

March 31, 2019

prediction markets
https://www.predictit.org/

Equivalence of the Mediation, Confounding and Suppression Effect

March 31, 2019

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819361/

Mediation (statistics) – Wikipedia

March 31, 2019

Cites the classic paper:

Baron, R. M. and Kenny, D. A. (1986) “The Moderator-Mediator Variable Distinction in Social Psychological Research – Conceptual, Strategic, and Statistical Considerations”, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 51(6), pp. 1173–1182.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediation_(statistics)