Archive for May, 2013

Triple-nested Klein bottle – Boing Boing

Monday, May 27th, 2013

Interesting #image of an impossible object MT @sciam: Triple-nested Klein bottle – http://bit.ly/16iRP7W
http://boingboing.net/2013/05/25/triple-nested-klein-bottle.html

Is The 70-Hour Work Week Worth The Sacrifice? – Forbes

Monday, May 27th, 2013

MT @drbachinsky: Q: Is The 70-Hour Work Week Worth The Sacrifice? A: NO – Forbes http://bit.ly/12aXqLX

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelsimmons/2013/05/13/is-the-70-hour-work-week-worth-the-sacrifice/

ToddMcLellan Things Come Apart

Saturday, May 25th, 2013

http://www.exposureguide.com/culture/photographer-shoots-50-disassembled-objects-in-photo-series-things-come-apart/ http://www.toddmclellan.com/thingscomeapart
MT @stewartfinn: ToddMcLellan Things Come Apart http://bit.ly/12D0go0 relating partslists to whole, inspiration for http://partslist.org

NHGRI to Unveil Funding for Tools to Interpret Non-coding Genomic Regions

Saturday, May 25th, 2013

http://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/nhgri-unveil-funding-tools-interpret-non-coding-genomic-regions?hq_e=el&hq_m=1584748&hq_l=8&hq_v=f72372352c

What is on your skin? Topographic diversity of fungal and bacterial communities in human skin

Saturday, May 25th, 2013

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12171.html QT:”
Microbial sequencing of samples obtained from multiple skin sites in healthy human adults shows that core-body and arm sites are dominated by fungal species of the genus Malassezia, whereas foot sites show high fungal diversity, and that skin topography is associated with differential compositions of bacterial and fungal communities. “

Paper Quantitative measurement of allele-specific protein expression in a diploid yeast hybrid by LC-MS

Saturday, May 25th, 2013

http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v8/n1/pdf/msb201234.pdf
Quantitative measurement of allele-specific protein expression in a diploid yeast hybrid by LC-MS

Philips Hue just got a little brighter with 1.1 app update

Monday, May 20th, 2013

http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/14/philips-hue-app-update/

Robert Bazell Leaving NBC News After 38 Years To Join Yale « TVNewser

Monday, May 20th, 2013

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/robert-bazell-leaving-nbc-news-after-38-years-to-join-yale_b171808

The Wired Atlas of the Human Ecosystem | Wired Magazine | Wired.com

Monday, May 20th, 2013

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/mf_microbiome/

Variation and genetic control of protein abundance in humans

Monday, May 20th, 2013

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12223.html MassSpec data for 95 HapMap cell lines
http://www.peptideatlas.org/PASS/PASS00230
QT:”We found that protein levels are heritable molecular phenotypes that exhibit considerable variation between individuals, populations and sexes….We identified cis-pQTLs (protein quantitative trait loci), including variants not detected by previous transcriptome studies.”