Archive for April, 2012

Lab mice: Are they limiting our understanding of human disease? – Slate Magazine

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

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

Poly Density Kit at Educational Innovations

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

http://www.teachersource.com/Density/Density/PolyDensityKit.aspx Salt water & ethanol have different densities. Poly beads fit between the two.

Euler’s Disk at Educational Innovations

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

http://www.teachersource.com/Energy/GyroscopesAndTops/EulersDisk.aspx higher frequency => higher friction ’till it stops

Inside Pfizer’s palace coup – Fortune Features

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/28/pfizer-jeff-kindler-shakeup/

YaleNews | With you in the room, bacteria counts spike

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

http://news.yale.edu/2012/03/28/you-room-bacteria-counts-spike?id=373?utm_source=YNemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=yn-04-02-12

Outsourcing research, at what cost?

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

http://www.thehindu.com/education/article3012207.ece

The Hindu FOR A FEE: Parceling out research work defeats the goal of producing scholarship. Photo: K.V. Srinivasan

The Predictive Capacity of Personal Genome Sequencing

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

http://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†
scitranslmed.3003380

Google testing its ‘reality glasses’

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/google-begins-testing-its-augmented-reality-glasses/# http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9c6W4CCU9M4

Project Glass: One day… – YouTube

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9c6W4CCU9M4

perhaps of interest: Wolfram measuring his own life

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/business/mining-our-personal-data-for-our-own-good.html