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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204653604577249230164868846.html

http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(12)00020-7

T Hudson et al.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/07/the-tower-of-1776.html

Good quotes related to management hierarchies:
“Companies have been flattening out their management hierarchies in recent years, eliminating layers of middle management that can create bottlenecks and slow productivity.”
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The bossless structure can be chaotic at times, he says….
Since it was founded in 1958, W.L. Gore has operated under what it calls a “lattice” management structure, which relies on teams in place of bosses and traditional chains of command, and which was discussed by Malcolm Gladwell in his 2000 book “The Tipping Point.”
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303379204577474953586383604.html

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15557443
Nice writeup in Economist
Useful QTs :
“That highlights the role of ‘information intermediaries’. ” “These days metadata are undergoing a virtual renaissance. “

http://www.visualnews.com/2012/06/19/how-much-data-created-every-minute Interesting the large amount of tumblr blog posts relative to wordpress ones.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/06/27/science.1222077.abstract
Park lab led analysis of TCGA data

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n3/full/nbt.2136.html
Note: “the functional consequences of most mutations was modest”.

http://www.technologyreview.com/demo/427992/building-an-organ-on-a-chip/
Interesting video

http://www.nature.com/news/correction-algorithms-extend-the-reach-of-genome-sequencing-1.10924