http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/science/a-mathematical-challenge-to-obesity.html
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A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity – NYTimes.com
May 26, 2012Men Should Skip Common Prostate Test, Panel Says – WSJ.com
May 25, 2012http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303610504577418440316431530.html
Seems to be all the more important to separate aggressive from indolent cancer
In Their Prime: Mathematicians Come Closer to Solving Goldbach’s Weak Conjecture: Scientific American
May 13, 2012Google’s Brin Makes Strides in Hunt for Parkinson’s Cure – Businessweek
May 12, 2012http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-11/google-s-brin-makes-strides-in-hunt-for-parkinson-s-cure-health
great qt on pot. for $1b check
To combat his lrkk2 allele
Internal Time: The Science of Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired | Brain Pickings
May 12, 2012Another Genetic Quirk of the Solomon Islands: Blond Hair
May 5, 2012Science paper
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6081/554
From SB: It is always cool to associate a variant to a clear phenotype ( even it it isn’t the causal variant).
Questions for the Itch Doctor: Scientific American
April 23, 2012http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=itch-doctor Center for the Study of Itch at Wash U
The Limits of Intelligence: Scientific American
April 16, 2012http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-limits-of-intelligence
log (brain mass) = .75 * log(body mass)
An Adventure in the Nth Dimension » American Scientist
April 16, 2012An Adventure in the Nth Dimension » American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/an-adventure-in-the-nth-dimension n-ball size v n: pi, 4.2=pi*4/3, 5=(pi^2)/2, 5.3=(8/15)*pi^2, 5.2, 4.7, 4.1…. to zero
resulting from the competition of pi^m v m!
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