Archive for March, 2013

Tinkering knowledge sharing, or why we need to hack science – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/2013325182246584689.html

Save iPhone Notes to a Gmail Account

Monday, March 25th, 2013

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/06/save-iphone-notes-to-gmail-account.html
http://lifehacker.com/5569758/seamlessly-sync-iphone-notes-to-a-gmail-account

Record and Play Audio Notes in Word 2011 for Mac – For Dummies

Monday, March 25th, 2013

recording audio in word notebooks

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/record-and-play-audio-notes-in-word-2011-for-mac.html

Most popular human cell in science gets sequenced : Nature News & Comment

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

http://www.nature.com/news/most-popular-human-cell-in-science-gets-sequenced-1.12609

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel – NYTimes.com

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

Some quotes that I thought interesting:
“That is private family information,” said Jeri Lacks-Whye, Lacks’s granddaughter. “It shouldn’t have been published without our consent.” Some scientists agree: Jonathan Eisen, a genomics researcher at the University of California, Davis, tweeted, “A bit stunned that the people publishing the HeLa genome appear to not have gotten consent from the family.” Another said this was going to further damage public trust in science. A few argued that the cells had changed so much over time, they couldn’t accurately tell us anything about Lacks (to which a geneticist replied, “Your claim is so wrong that I don’t know where to start”).

After hearing from the Lacks family, the European team apologized, revised the news release and quietly took the data off-line. (At least 15 people had already downloaded it.) They also pointed to other databases that had published portions of Henrietta Lacks’s genetic data (also without consent). They hope to talk with the Lacks family to determine how to handle the HeLa genome while working toward creating international standards for handling these issues.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-the-sequel.html?pagewanted=all&pagewanted=print http://www.g3journal.org/content/early/2013/03/11/g3.113.005777.abstract

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel – NYTimes.com

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

Some quotes that I thought interesting:
“That is private family information,” said Jeri Lacks-Whye, Lacks’s granddaughter. “It shouldn’t have been published without our consent.” Some scientists agree: Jonathan Eisen, a genomics researcher at the University of California, Davis, tweeted, “A bit stunned that the people publishing the HeLa genome appear to not have gotten consent from the family.” Another said this was going to further damage public trust in science. A few argued that the cells had changed so much over time, they couldn’t accurately tell us anything about Lacks (to which a geneticist replied, “Your claim is so wrong that I don’t know where to start”).

After hearing from the Lacks family, the European team apologized, revised the news release and quietly took the data off-line. (At least 15 people had already downloaded it.) They also pointed to other databases that had published portions of Henrietta Lacks’s genetic data (also without consent). They hope to talk with the Lacks family to determine how to handle the HeLa genome while working toward creating international standards for handling these issues.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-the-sequel.html?pagewanted=all&pagewanted=print

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel – NYTimes.com

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-the-sequel.html?pagewanted=all&pagewanted=print

Space archaeology: Dredging up the future | The Economist

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/03/space-archaeology?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/dredgingupthefuture

NYer book review on “A History of Culinary Revolution”, illuminating recent emergence of fork & overbite

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

BOOKS
A FORK OF ONE’S OWN
Jane Kramer: A History of Culinary Revolution : The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/03/18/130318crbo_books_kramer

BBC – Future Quantified self: The tech-based route to a better life?

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-self-track-route-to-a-better-life/print More thoughts :
http://blog.gerstein.info/2013/03/thoughts-on-bbc-future-quantified-self.html