Unraveling the Science Behind Ethnicity Estimation – Ancestry Blog
November 7, 2018A Brief History of AI – Francesco Corea – Medium
November 7, 2018No Wi-Fi on Metro North, and here’s why | CT Viewpoints
November 6, 2018Cat’s in the Cradle – Wikipedia
November 4, 2018Powering the internet of things | August 7, 2017 Issue – Vol. 95 Issue 32 | Chemical & Engineering News
November 3, 2018Powering the internet of things
https://CEN.ACS.org/articles/95/i32/Powering-internet-things.html Great variety of sources & uses for #EnergyHarvesting devices — eg smart card readers for door & sensors for T gradients
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“Like Enerbee, many energy-harvesting firms remain optimistic and say the technology is improving. Most also acknowledge, as does Alta’s Vijh, that “the market for energy harvesting and the internet of things is a little slow now.” But sooner or later, he says, “it’s going to happen.””
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Powering the internet of things | August 7, 2017 Issue – Vol. 95 Issue 32 | Chemical & Engineering News
https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i32/Powering-internet-things.html
DNA Sequencing Giant Illumina Will Buy Pacific Biosciences For $1.2 Billion – Exclusive CEO Interview
November 3, 2018We’re now all ILLUMINATED: DNA Sequencing Giant $ILMN Will Buy @PacBio For $1.2B, by @MatthewHerper
https://www.Forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2018/11/01/dna-sequencing-giant-illumina-will-buy-pacific-biosciences-for-12-billion–exclusive-ceo-interview/ After raising $360M from VCs + $200M from an IPO
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“Pacific Biosciences was originally supposed to be an Illumina-killer. Founded in 2003 by chief technology officer, Steven Turner, who invented the firm’s basic technology with PacBio’s chief scientific officer, Jonas Korlach, PacBio emerged in 2009 boasting that it would disrupt the sequencing market, raising $360 million in venture capital and scoring a $200 million initial public offering. But its machines were too slow, expensive and unwieldy to slow down Illumina’s ascent. Shares plummeted, and even at the rich premium being offered by Illumina, shares are at half the IPO price.”
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An Aging Marathoner Tries to Run Fast After 40 | WIRED
November 3, 2018Michael Specter: The Growing Battle Over How to Treat Lyme Disease : The New Yorker
November 3, 2018http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/01/130701fa_fact_specter
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“The disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. In the Northeast and the Midwest, B. burgdorferi is transmitted by the bite of a black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis. (In the Western United States, a related tick, Ixodes pacificus, prevails, and in Europe the main vector is Ixodes ricinus.) Lyme was all but unknown until 1977, when Allen Steere, a rheumatologist at Yale, produced the first definitive account of the infection. The condition was initially thought to have been an outbreak of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in and around Lyme, Connecticut. In 1982, Willy Burgdorfer, a medical entomologist at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories, determined that the infection was caused by the previously unknown spirochete borrelia. As is common in scientific practice, the bacterium was named for him: Borrelia burgdorferi.”
“The controversy over Lyme disease is unlikely to diminish until scientists resolve at least two critical, but related, questions. Can the bacteria persist in the body, causing harm and illness months or even years after treatment has ended? And can prolonged antibiotic therapy destroy the remaining bacteria?”
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