Archive for April, 2012

NIH Unperturbed by New Way of Peering Into Personal Genomic Data – ScienceInsider

Friday, April 13th, 2012

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/04/nih-unperturbed-by-new-way.html?ref=hp

March Came In Like A Lamb, Went Out Like A Globally Warmed Lion On Steroids Who Smashed 15,000 Heat Records | ThinkProgress

Friday, April 13th, 2012

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/04/10/461167/march-came-in-like-a-lamb-went-out-like-a-globally-warmed-lion-on-steroids-who-smashed-15000-heat-records/?mobile=nc

RealClimate: Evaluating a 1981 temperature projection

Friday, April 13th, 2012

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=11398

reusable.py is a less than 200 lines of Python code to demonstrate the danger of password reuse

Friday, April 13th, 2012

http://dazzlepod.com/reusable/

Why don’t Americans walk more? The crisis of pedestrianism. – Slate Magazine

Friday, April 13th, 2012

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/walking/2012/04/why_don_t_americans_walk_more_the_crisis_of_pedestrianism_.html

Letter from China: The Wrong Stuff: North Korea’s Failure : The New Yorker

Friday, April 13th, 2012

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/04/the-wrong-stuff-north-koreas-failure.html

Genome Advance of the Month: Discovering the Mutants Among Us

Friday, April 13th, 2012

http://www.genome.gov/27548101

How to build your own 135TB RAID6 storage pod for $7,384 | ExtremeTech

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/90634-how-to-build-your-own-135tb-raid6-storage-pod-for-7384
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Beyond detailing the creation of Storage Pod 2.0, Backblaze also provides some interesting insights into the world of cloud storage. In terms of raw hardware, 1 petabyte now only costs about $57,000. Using Storage Pods, Backblaze can provide 1PB with power, rack space, and bandwidth for three years, for just $95,000. By comparison, 1PB of storage using Dell’s PowerVault arrays costs no less than $502,000 over three years. If you want to store 1PB in Amazon’s S3 cloud, it will cost you just under $2.5 million.

Naked mole rats: Can they help us cure cancer? – Slate Magazine

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_trap/2011/11/naked_mole_rats_can_they_help_us_cure_cancer_.html

Black-6 lab mice and the history of biomedical research – Slate Magazine

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_trap/2011/11/black_6_lab_mice_and_the_history_of_biomedical_research.html