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Will These Tiny Devices Make Smartphones a Thing of the Past? | NBC News
September 3, 2017Rev favor
September 3, 2017How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry
September 2, 2017QT:{{”
“The university, in a countersuit, accused Shaw of illegally breeding with the pipeline cultivars on behalf of his new company, while still employed by Davis. Entrusted with the “crown jewels,” the university contended, Shaw had attempted to destroy the public breeding program in order to enrich himself and his friends. Steven Knapp is a genomics expert, formerly of Monsanto, who was hired as Davis’s new breeder. When I talked to him by phone not long ago, he was apoplectic at what he perceived to be Shaw’s breach of loyalty.
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According to Frances Dillard, Driscoll’s global brand strategist and a veteran of Disney’s consumer-products division, berries are the produce category most associated with happiness. (Kale, in contrast, has a health-control, “me” focus.) On a slide that Dillard prepared, mapping psychographic associations with various fruits, strawberries floated between Freedom and Harmony, in a zone marked Extrovert, above a word cloud that read “Social, pleasure, joy, balance, conviviality, friendship, warmth, soft, natural, sharing.” (Blueberries vibed as status-oriented, demanding, and high-tech.)
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Driscoll’s senior vice-president and general counsel compared the company to its neighbors in Silicon Valley. “Growers are sort of like our manufacturing plants,” he said. “We make the inventions, they assemble it, and then we market it, so it’s not that dissimilar from Apple using someone else to do the manufacturing but they’ve made the invention and marketed the end product.” Like Apple, Driscoll’s guards its I.P. jealously.
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How Driscoll’s reinvented #strawberries
http://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/how-driscolls-reinvented-the-strawberry Like Apple, invent & market, don’t manufacture. Now in #opendata v IP fight
On Your Bike, Watch Out for the Air – The New York Times
September 2, 2017QT:{{"
“This elaborate gadgetry is part of a five-year study that aims to find out at what point the harm done by pollution to cyclists might outweigh the health benefits accrued from the exercise.
The strapped-on sensors measure levels of PM 2.5, the fine particulate matter that is about one-thirtieth the diameter of a human hair and thought to be particularly harmful to health. The tiny particles, including black carbon, the main component of soot, penetrate deep into the lungs and bloodstream and may lead to the development of respiratory illnesses like asthma and lung cancer. Even relatively short-term exposures can increase body-wide inflammation and boost the likelihood of strokes and heart attacks.
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A 2014 report issued by the New York City Health Department said that particulates in the air cause more than 2,000 premature deaths and 6,000 emergency room visits and hospitalizations each year.
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On Your #Bike, Watch Out for the Air https://www.NYTimes.com/2017/07/06/well/move/on-your-bike-watch-out-for-the-air.html City riding may bad for the lungs, involving inhaling air w/ high PM 2.5 levels
Home: GA4GH 5th Plenary
September 2, 2017https://broadinstitute.swoogo.com/ga4gh5thplenary/home
Where
Hilton Orlando 6001 Destination Parkway
Orlando, Florida, 32819, USA
October 15, 2017: GenoPri’17 & GA4GH Working Meetings for Active Members
All Day
GENOPRI’17
The 4th Workshop on Genome Privacy and Security (GenoPri’17) will bring together a highly interdisciplinary community to foster research aimed to understand and address all privacy and security issues in genomics.
Find more information at: http://www.genopri.org/
8:30 – 9:00
INTRODUCTION: GA4GH 5th Plenary
Ewan Birney, EMBL-EBI
9:00 – 15:30
COLLABORATIVE INTERNAL WORK MEETINGS
Working meetings bringing together technical Work Stream teams with Driver Projects. These meetings are for active members who were involved in a Task Team in the past year, and/or are participating in 2017 Work Streams and Driver Projects.
15:40 – 17:00
GA4GH STRATEGIC PLANNING
Work Streams and Driver Projects come together in one room to discuss collaboration and to plan for the future.
Genopri 2017 – Home
September 2, 2017ASHG 2017 Schedule of Events | ASHG 2017 Annual Meeting
September 2, 2017http://www.ashg.org/2017meeting/asp/soe/webroot/soe.shtml
HGVS 8:30 – 4 on Tue 10/17
Hilton Orlando Hotel
Lake Eola, Lobby Level
ASHG Pres. address in convention center on Tue. 10/17 at 4:30 pm
Following sessions in the rest of the week at the convention center
