http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/business/stand-up-desks-gaining-favor-in-the-workplace.html +
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/01/sitting_is_the_smoking_of_our_generation.html making a strong case for a standing desk & walking meetings….
David Owen: The Rise of Purell : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/04/130304fa_fact_owen
~50 deg. in Jan. in NYC in global context
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2013.01.033
Cross Talk and Interference Enhance Information Capacity of a Signaling Pathway Sahand Hormoz
QT:”
A recurring motif in gene regulatory networks is transcription factors (TFs) that regulate each other and then bind to overlapping sites on DNA, where they interact and synergistically control transcription of a target gene. Here, we suggest that this motif maximizes information flow in a noisy network. Gene expression is an inherently noisy process due to thermal fluctuations and the small number of molecules involved. A consequence of multiple TFs interacting at overlapping binding sites is that their binding noise becomes correlated. Using concepts from information theory, we show that in general a signaling pathway transmits more information if 1), noise of one input is correlated with that of the other; and 2), input signals are not chosen independently.
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http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/01/sitting_is_the_smoking_of_our_generation.html And I would like to make a case for a standing desk….