Archive for March, 2013

Cloud and Big Data, Together: A Huge Springboard to Innovation – Forbes

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2013/03/17/cloud-and-big-data-together-a-huge-springboard-to-innovation/

You Have 46 Chromosomes. This Pond Creature Has 15,600 – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

non-coding elements removed from “active” genome !
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/06/you-have-46-chromsomes-this-pond-creature-has-15600/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20130210ph-chromopond&utm_campaign=Content

Interesting outsider’s lab take on ENCODE

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

http://rajlaboratory.blogspot.co.uk/

E-cigarettes: Vape ’em if you got ’em | The Economist

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21573985-challenge-big-tobacco-vape-em-if-you-got-em

of toasters and twitters

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

http://qz.com/65565/future-of-twitter-is-robots-tweeting-at-each-other/ QT:”
Twitter is full of weird stuff none of us ever notice because it mostly just looks like spam or nonsense. But if you look closely, as some have, you’ll find spies using Twitter to communicate with each other in code, environmental sensors broadcasting useful data, a toaster with 2,000 followers and an artificially intelligent chat-bot that debates deniers of climate change.

Evolution versus “intelligen… Comput Syst Bioinformatics Conf. 2006 – PubMed – NCBI

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17369648
Comput Syst Bioinformatics Conf. 2006:299-310.
Evolution versus “intelligent design”: comparing the topology of protein-protein interaction networks to the Internet.
Yang Q, Siganos G, Faloutsos M, Lonardi S.

Paperless

Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

this is very funny and perhaps a good reason not to go completely paperless

Social science: Dr Seldon, I presume | The Economist

Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

how psychohistory (from the Foundation Trilogy) is finally coming into its own!
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21572159-data-social-networks-are-making-social-science-more-scientific-dr-seldon-i

Google Keep: Worth Trying, with Caution | TIME.com

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

http://techland.time.com/2013/03/21/google-keep-worth-trying-with-caution/

Surprise U.S. Housing Demand Catches Industry Off-Guard – NYTimes.com

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/business/economy/in-us-surprise-housing-demand-catches-industry-off-guard.html