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Framing Political Messages with Grammar and Metaphor » American Scientist

February 5, 2013

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.15923,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/framing-political-messages-with-grammar-and-metaphor/1

Meat of the Matter: Are Our Modern Methods of Preserving and Cooking Meat Healthy?: Scientific American

February 5, 2013

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=meat-of-the-matter-modern-methods-preserving-cooking-meat-healthy&print=true

Measurement: Is Paris worth a mass? | The Economist

February 5, 2013

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21569417-kilogram-it-seems-no-longer-kilogram-paris-worth-mass

The Most Striking Equation in Mathematics « Galileo’s Pendulum

February 5, 2013

Euler’s Eq.
http://galileospendulum.org/2011/12/09/the-most-striking-equation-in-mathematics/

YaleNews | Genetic landscape of common brain tumors holds key to personalized treatment

January 30, 2013

http://news.yale.edu/2013/01/24/genetic-landscape-common-brain-tumors-holds-key-personalized-treatment?utm_source=YNemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=yn-01-29-13

Harvard professor blasts Neanderthal clone baby rumor on Web

January 24, 2013

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/harvard_professor_blasts_neanderthal_clone_baby_rumor_web

The Tomato – Ripe, Juicy and Bursting With Genes – NYTimes.com

January 24, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/science/the-tomato-ripe-juicy-and-bursting-with-genes.html

Web Hunt for DNA Sequences Leaves Privacy Compromised

January 22, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/health/search-of-dna-sequences-reveals-full-identities.html about
Identifying Personal Genomes by Surname Inference
Melissa Gymrek, Amy L. McGuire, David Golan, Eran Halperin, Yaniv Erlich SCIENCE VOL 339 18 JANUARY 2013

Search of DNA Sequences Reveals Full Identities – NYTimes.com

January 18, 2013

hapmap ceph people revealed
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/health/search-of-dna-sequences-reveals-full-identities.html?_r=0

Free exchange: The scam busters | The Economist

January 12, 2013

Bedford’s law (lots more leading 1s than 9s) used for fraud detection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford‘s_law
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21568364-how-antitrust-economists-are-getting-better-spotting-cartels-scam-busters