https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/12/health/stanford-geneticist-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-trnd/index.html
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Human Genome Project pioneer seeks cure for chronic fatigue syndrome to save his own son – CNN
May 25, 2019Is Conference Room Air Making You Dumber? – The New York Times
May 19, 2019https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/health/conference-room-air.html
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Other scientists who read the study got interested in the subject. A team led by Harvard researchers published similar results in 2016.
They had office workers come into a mock workplace for six days and take the same kind of problem-solving test while exposed to various concentrations of both carbon dioxide and volatile organic compounds commonly found in office buildings.
As levels of carbon dioxide rose from 550 ppm to 945 ppm to 1400 ppm, subjects’ scores under most headings declined substantially. (Problem-solving ability also seemed to suffer as levels of volatile organic compounds rose.)
“What we saw were these striking, really quite dramatic impacts on decision-making performance, when all we did was make a few minor adjustments to the air quality in the building,” said Joseph Allen, a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who led the study.
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Stony evidence of the hellfire that drove dinosaurs to extinction – Dinosaur extinction
May 19, 2019Scott Kelly Spent a Year Taking Photos in Space. They’re Beautiful. – The New York Times
April 15, 2019Let People Share DNA With a Click
April 13, 2019one end of the spectrum on open DNA
Let People Share DNA With a Click
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-22/the-nih-should-become-the-facebook-of-genome-data
Here are cognitive scientist Steven Pinker’s 13 tips for better writing / Boing Boing
April 13, 2019liked particularly:
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3. Don’t go meta. Minimize concepts about concepts, like “approach, assumption, concept, condition, context, framework, issue, level, model, perspective, process, range, role, strategy, tendency,” and “variable.”
8. Old information at the beginning of the sentence, new information at the end.
10. Prose must cohere: readers must know how each sentence is related to the preceding one. If it’s not obvious, use “that is, for example, in general, on the other hand, nevertheless, as a result, because, nonetheless,” or “despite.”
12. Read it aloud.
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https://boingboing.net/2019/03/27/here-are-cognitive-scientist-s.html
WIRED: Scientists Need More Cat DNA, and Lil Bub is Here to Help
April 3, 2019amusing…
The story has an interesting mendelian disease angle.
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-need-more-cat-dna-and-lil-bub-is-here-to-help/
Scientists Need More Cat DNA, and Lil Bub is Here to Help
WIRED
Unusual DNA helped make Lil Bub a cat celebrity. Now that genetic data could improve medical care for cats without millions of Instagram followers. Read the full story
Untangling the Formation of DNA Loops – Scientific American
April 3, 2019SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MARCH 2019
Untangling the Formation of DNA Loops
New discoveries on ancient loops in DNA offer clues into gene regulation
By Erez Lieberman Aiden
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/untangling-the-formation-of-dna-loops/
Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud
April 3, 2019QT:[[”
“As he grew in his profession, Six came to feel he had a right to express himself on the family collection. A series of clashes with his father ensued, many of them about providing greater public access, which has always been a difficulty. Currently, tours of the
collection, which are by appointment only, are booked into next year. The picture that the younger Six sketched was of an inward-looking father who is trying to preserve a legacy by keeping the world at bay, who comes to realize over time that he also has to do battle with a gregarious and extroverted son who feels that the way to preserve that legacy is precisely by sharing it with the wider world. The battles left the younger Six progressively more exasperated: “I would cycle home after and think, Jesus, Dad, I’m trying to help you.””
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Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/magazine/rembrandt-jan-six.html
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