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My Neighbors Smoke Weed All Day, and It’s Stinking Up the Joint – The New York Times
April 11, 2025Ramos, J. T. (2025, March 29). My neighbors smoke weed all day, and it’s stinking up the joint. The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/realestate/marijuana-odor-apartment.html
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Q: I am a shareholder in a northern Manhattan co-op. New neighbors have moved in and they smoke marijuana all day, starting early in the morning. The smell is very strong, permeates the hallways, and makes its way into my unit, which is down the hall and around the corner. I know they have a right to smoke in their apartment, but the smell is difficult to tolerate….
A: You can certainly write a letter to your neighbors, asking them to better ventilate their unit. But that might not solve the problem….
You can try to protect your apartment by adding weatherstripping to your door and using an under-door draft stopper, said Mark Foley, president of the Folson Group, a business consultant for condo and co-op buildings. You could also offer to install these things for your neighbors’ door, he said.
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How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer | The New Yorker
March 13, 2025The woman featured, CeCe Moore, is quite clever, going far beyond simply examining genealogical matches to track potential suspects.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/22/how-your-family-tree-could-catch-a-killer
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Genealogists grew interested in genetics at the turn of the
millennium, when it became possible to analyze bits of information from the Y chromosome—known as Y-DNA—on a commercial scale. Because the Y chromosome is passed from father to son with little mutation, and because surnames historically were passed down the same way, it seemed worth exploring whether the confluence could be useful to researchers. In the late nineties, Bryan Sykes, an Oxford geneticist, persuaded forty-eight men who shared his surname to take Y-DNA tests. “Sykes” comes from a Middle English word meaning “spring” or “stream,” and the name was thought to have arisen separately among unrelated families that lived near various sources of water. But the genetics suggested that the men descended from a single ancestral line. “If this pattern is reproduced with other surnames, it may have important forensic and genealogical applications,” Sykes concluded.
Theoretically, researchers could use Y-DNA to establish the pedigree of a man with an unknown identity. Sykes made a similar case for mt-DNA, which is passed down on the maternal line, in a book titled “The Seven Daughters of Eve.”
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The first step was to establish a DNA profile for the adoptee in a database like GEDmatch, to look for partial genetic matches with other users. The people linked with those matches were not always easy to identify; some users logged on without any personal information or, worse, under aliases. But, when the genealogists succeeded, they could trace back family trees until they identified common ancestors. Then they would reverse the process: starting from the common ancestors, they would build a complete tree of all the descendants, knowing that the adoptee’s parents had to be among them. The amount of DNA that the adoptee shared with matches in the database was a key clue to where he or she belonged in the larger tree; personal details, like birth dates and geography, could also provide clues.
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Media query (Nature Medicine): Quantum computing and health
January 19, 2025Guenot, M. (2025). Can quantum computing crack the biggest challenges in health? Nature Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03369-w
Great story by @Marianne_Guenot, providing good & *not* good news about QC for biomedicine.
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The potential power of quantum computers in cracking problems that classical computers cannot is not all good news, says Mark Gerstein, a professor of biomedical informatics at Yale University who recently co-authored a review about quantum computing and health for Nature Methods3.
Experts predict that quantum computers could become fiendishly good at breaking through current encryption algorithms, says Gerstein, which could pose a problem for the privacy of confidential patient data. “There’s a huge push right now to get post-quantum cryptography to work,” he says.
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The idea, then, is not for quantum computers to replace classical computers, says Gerstein. Instead, they should be considered as adding a node to a computing chain, as each can contribute different strengths to solve a problem. “The art here is figuring out which bit of this big calculation you can quantize,” says Gerstein.
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Turning on pseudogenes | Interviews | Naked Scientists
January 3, 2025QT:{{”
Kat – Do you think that there are other pseudogenes lurking the genome that have this kind of roles that are actually not drunk and not dead, and could be very active and important?
Howard – Yes, indeed. So, I think over the last several years, the other investigators have found have resembled from the ENCODE project that many pseudogenes are actually being transcribed, that they’re made. They’re evidence of their activation and that work was led by a Professor Mark Gerstein from Yale. More recently, other people have realised that pseudogenes because they’re copies of normal genes, they have many of the same regulatory sequences embedded in them. And so, when the pseudogenes are made, because of these regulatory sequences, compete for different cellular factors.
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https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/turning-pseudogenes
For Her Scientist Husband, an Architect Creates a Boldly Contemporary Retreat
December 26, 2024A private study
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asked her to design a studio for him on their weekend property in upstate New York….studio, intended solely as his private refuge for reading, writing and thinking, she wanted the structure to be as open to its setting as possible. Located near a cliff above a large pond, it is surrounded by woodland and meadows.
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For Her Scientist Husband, an Architect Creates a Boldly Contemporary Retreat
Source: Architectural Digest
A Refuge in the Woods
The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts | Dynamic Ecology
December 22, 2024QT:{{”
Publishing is growing exponentially – While the number of scientists is also growing exponentially, it is at a slower rate than papers. We are producing more papers per scientist every year. This is a profoundly important fact. Every ecologist knows the power and unsustainability of exponential growth. This also makes it abundantly clear that the publishers only deserve half the blame. Scientists have created a Red Queen situation in which we’re aggressively chasing opportunities to publish. Do we really need 1,000,000 (about +40%) more publications than 10 years ago! (Figure 1).
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