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– Does this make Bioinformatics cool?
http://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century Harvard Business Review

http://hbr.org/2012/10/big-data-the-management-revolution/ar/1 Also, Making Advanced Analytics Work for You
http://hbr.org/2012/10/making-advanced-analytics-work-for-you/ar/1

http://hbr.org/2012/10/big-data-the-management-revolution/ar/1

Interesting account of work on sphere packing. As the number of spheres increases from 4 (the tetrahedron), new things emerge : new seeds not built from previous solutions and flexible solutions that can have internal subparts twist without breaking contacts. Great animations of the later.

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-science-of-sticky-spheres

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/mat-honan-data-recovery/all/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447196

http://www.bioethics.gov

cites Greenbaum et al. PLOS CB (’11)!

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/are-you-likely-to-respond-to-exercise

From XJM:

A few references about nonsynonymous/synonymous ratio in Cancer: Here is a Nature paper finding nonsynonymous/synonymous ratio to be 3:1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2712719/

Here is an article reporting the ratio to be about 4:1
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v43/n11/full/ng.950.html

Another one:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1755-148X.2012.00976.x/full

An online powerpoint reporting 2:1 ratio:
http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/DIR/DIRNewsFeatures/Next-Gen101/Samuels_WholeExomeSequencing.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/21/magazine/the-rebel-code.html