News Outlets Wonder Where the Predictions Went Wrong
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/business/media/news-outlets-wonder-where-the-predictions-went-wrong.html The real loser in the election: #datascience-based polling
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News Outlets Wonder Where the Predictions Went Wrong – The New York Times
November 12, 2016Your Microbe Aura Could Be as Distinctive as Your Fingerprint – The Atlantic
August 19, 2016Your Microbe Aura Could Be as Distinctive as Your Fingerprint http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/inside-the-germ-cloud/406591 Pot. #privacy risk, but will we see microbiome perfume
The Unseen – The New Yorker
August 18, 2016ANNALS OF SCIENCE
JUNE 20, 2016 ISSUE
THE UNSEEN
By Raffi Khatchadourian
Millions of microbes are yet to be discovered. Will one hold the ultimate cure?
The Unseen http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/20/miracle-microbes Argues for symbiosis over competition in #microbial communities. Are #antibiotics really for warfare?
The Brain That Couldn’t Remember – The New York Times
August 13, 2016The #Brain That Couldn’t Remember
http://www.NYTimes.com/2016/08/07/magazine/the-brain-that-couldnt-remember.html Fight over the ownership of HM’s highlights issues in consent HT @FearLoathingBTX
The Big Fight Over Fossils
August 7, 2016Big Fight Over Fossils
http://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2016/06/27/lee-berger-digs-for-bones-and-glory #Paleoanthropology issues: open v closed data, scholarship v showmanship. Genomics parallels
Same but Different – The New Yorker
August 6, 2016Annals of Science MAY 2, 2016 ISSUE
Same but Different
How epigenetics can blur the line between nature and nurture.
BY SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE
Same but Different by @DrSidMukherjee
http://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2016/05/02/breakthroughs-in-epigenetics Nice #epigenetics overview, from Waddington to histone marks & ant castes
Some overlap w/ the book
Matter, energy… knowledge: How to harness physics’ demonic power | New Scientist
June 4, 2016Matter, energy… knowledge: How to harness #physics’ demonic power
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23030730-200-demon-no-more-physics-most-elusive-entity-gives-up-its-secret/ Keeping memories costs energy, erasure does work
Emptying memory represents energy that can perform work
Why Basketball Runs in the Family – WSJ
June 1, 2016Why Basketball Runs in the Family
http://www.wsj.com/articles/nba-basketball-runs-in-the-family-1464130236 49% of NBA players related to an elite athlete, probably b/c of height selection
Bacteria on the Brain – The New Yorker
May 2, 2016Bacteria on the #Brain
http://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2015/12/07/bacteria-on-the-brainNice #bioethics discussion of greater allowance for risk in innovative treatment vs research
QT:{{”
…Schrot sent an e-mail to Robert Nelson, a pediatric ethicist and oncologist at the F.D.A., describing the procedure and asking for advice. Nelson replied quickly. “If the product”—Enterobacter—“you plan to use is available to you,” he wrote, in part, “I would suggest you proceed under the strategy of innovative treatment rather than research.”
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AstraZeneca launches project to sequence 2 million genomes
April 29, 2016AstraZeneca…proj. to seq. 2M
http://www.nature.com/news/astrazeneca-launches-project-to-sequence-2-million-genomes-1.19797 Ironic @JCVenter Qt: Think carefully before you just dump your genome on the Internet
For complete irony, compare this qt w/ commentary on @JCVenter’s original personal
sequencehttp://www.WashingtonPost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090602362.htmlhttps://twitter.com/markgerstein/status/726064243695583232
QT:{{”
“Human Longevity’s databases are kept locked behind layers of security. “If I were advising a younger Craig Venter, I’d say, ‘Think carefully before you just dump your genome on the Internet’,” Venter says. “The levels of prediction are getting much more interesting.” “}}
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