Archive for October, 2012

What Is Daylight-Saving Time? | Wired Science | Wired.com

Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/what-is-daylight-savings

Comparing Hurricanes Sandy And Irene — Photos – WSJ.com

Monday, October 29th, 2012

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203880704578084772419442066.html
Will be an even more dramatic image when their “eyes” line up more….

As Sandy descends, tips from Katrina survivors – CNN.com

Monday, October 29th, 2012

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/opinion/koch-storm-advice

Some useful tips, including:”
• When you make a video of your home for insurance purposes
beforehand, open drawers and closets so the contents are visible.

• Have a tire plug repair kit and pliers to pull out nails or screws, since debris in the roadway causes flats and leaks that are tough to repair when everything is closed.

• Bank safes and safe deposit boxes are not waterproof. During flooding, items left in them may be damaged and not accessible for weeks.

ScienceDirect.com – New Scientist – Taking back what’s yours

Monday, October 29th, 2012

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407912622787
your info has value

AJHG – Divergent Whole-Genome Methylation Maps of Human and Chimpanzee Brains Reveal Epigenetic Basis of Human Regulatory Evolution

Monday, October 29th, 2012

http://www.cell.com/AJHG/retrieve/pii/S0002929712004107

2010 Academic R&D Spending Trends | C&EN

Monday, October 29th, 2012

Comparatively low spending on chemistry at Yale
http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i43/2010-Academic-RD-Spending-Trends.html http://cen.acs.org/content/dam/cen/90/43/09043-scitech1.pdf

regression – Intuitive explanation of the bias-variance tradeoff? – Cross Validated

Monday, October 29th, 2012

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/4284/intuitive-explanation-of-the-bias-variance-tradeoff

Hurricane Sandy’s Five-Fold Flood Threat, with Local Maps | Climate Central

Sunday, October 28th, 2012

Norwalk, Bridgeport and parts of Westport are quite vulnerable
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/hurricane-sandy-five-fold-flood-threat-with-local-maps-15168

Wind Map of US

Sunday, October 28th, 2012

http://hint.fm/wind/

Something’s Rotten in Bethesda — The Troubling Tale of PubMed Central, PubMed, and eLife « The Scholar ly Kitchen

Sunday, October 28th, 2012

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/10/22/somethings-rotten-in-bethesda-the-troubling-tale-of-pubmed-central-pubmed-and-elife