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Schumer warns DNA-home tests could be gathering personal info | New York Post

December 3, 2017

https://nypost.com/2017/11/26/schumer-warns-dna-home-tests-could-be-gathering-personal-info/

NOT-OD-17-110: Request for Comments: Proposal to Update Data Management of Genomic Summary Results Under the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy

December 3, 2017

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-17-110.html

Things Looked Bleak Until These Birds Rapidly Evolved Bigger Beaks – The New York Times

December 3, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/science/birds-beaks-evolution-snails.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur

How the Ferry Is Changing the Brooklyn-Queens Waterfront – NYTimes.com

December 3, 2017

Interesting reading. Noted the: Durst’s, Spitzer’s, Ferries, Red Hook
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/realestate/how-the-ferry-is-changing-the-brooklyn-queens-waterfront.html

What Happens When You Put 500,000 People’s DNA Online – The Atlantic

December 3, 2017

What Happens When You Put 500,000 People’s DNA Online
https://www.theAtlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/what-happens-when-you-put-500000-peoples-dna-online/543747/ Goes over @UK_BioBank’s big effort to put out the data without preferential access & also the great excitement for rapid
dissemination via preprint servers such as @bioRxivPreprint

Mapping air pollution with new mobile sensors

December 3, 2017

Mapping #AirPollution with new mobile sensors
https://www.EDF.org/airqualitymaps Quote: “Any business that relies on heavy-duty diesel trucks can pose a health risk to its neighbors.”

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“This is one of several spots that caught our interest: High levels of pollutants in an area that includes homes, and this playground, close to industrial warehouses. Any business that relies on heavy-duty diesel trucks can pose a health risk to its neighbors.”
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CVS Is Said to Agree to Buy Aetna, Reshaping Health Care Industry – The New York Times

December 3, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/business/dealbook/cvs-is-said-to-agree-to-buy-aetna-reshaping-health-care-industry.html

What We Can Learn From the Second Life of Google Glass

December 3, 2017

https://singularityhub.com/2017/11/26/what-we-can-learn-from-the-second-life-of-google-glass/

Winners and losers in the Senate GOP tax bill: A running list – The Washington Post

December 2, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/01/winners-and-losers-in-the-senate-gop-tax-bill-a-running-list/

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Deep learning and Google Street View to estimate the demographic makeup of neighborhoods across the United States

December 1, 2017

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/11/27/1700035114.abstract