Archive for the 'PopSci' Category
March Came In Like A Lamb, Went Out Like A Globally Warmed Lion On Steroids Who Smashed 15,000 Heat Records | ThinkProgress
April 13, 2012RealClimate: Evaluating a 1981 temperature projection
April 13, 2012YaleNews | With you in the room, bacteria counts spike
April 8, 2012The Predictive Capacity of Personal Genome Sequencing
April 8, 2012http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/health/research/dnas-power-to-predict-is-limited-study-finds.html?_r=2&hp
based on :
The Predictive Capacity of Personal Genome Sequencing
Nicholas J. Roberts,1* Joshua T. Vogelstein,2* Giovanni Parmigiani,3 Kenneth W. Kinzler,1 Bert
Vogelstein,1† Victor E. Velculescu1†
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perhaps of interest: Wolfram measuring his own life
April 8, 2012perhaps of interest: Wolfram measuring his own life
April 8, 2012http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life now featured in nytimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/business/mining-our-personal-data-for-our-own-good.html
Some thoughts:
* Interesting and very precise measurement of daily email flow, meetings, and phone calls.
* Found the consistency of his late night schedule and the
exponentially decreasing length of his phone calls interesting. It’s also interesting how working on his book affected all of this.
* He felt that this form of personal quantification was a bit more useful currently than his personal genome and I’m inclined to agree.
Article: Obesity and the brain: A high-hypothalamus diet
March 30, 2012Obesity and the brain: A high-hypothalamus diet
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/03/obesity-and-brain
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