Archive for July, 2013
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Sunday, July 14th, 2013Less Vacation Baggage: How to Pack Lighter – WSJ.com
Saturday, July 13th, 2013The Mycobacterium tuberculosis regulatory network and hypoxia
Saturday, July 13th, 2013http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12337.html#
QT:”
We have taken the first steps towards a complete reconstruction of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis regulatory network based on ChIP-Seq and combined this reconstruction with system-wide profiling of messenger RNAs, proteins, metabolites and lipids during hypoxia and re-aeration. …Using ChIP-Seq combined with expression
data from the induction of the same factors, we have reconstructed a draft regulatory network based on 50 transcription factors….The regulatory network reveals transcription factors
underlying these changes, allows us to computationally predict expression changes, and indicates that Rv0081 is a regulatory hub. “
Where Car Is King, Smartphones May Cut Traffic – NYTimes.com
Saturday, July 13th, 2013U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement – NYTimes.com
Saturday, July 13th, 2013on mail covers program :
Not just electronic comm. surveilled: Tracking postal metadata similarly to NSA email snooping http://bit.ly/15oZmNs via
@michaellawcarl
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html
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Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves the images.
Together, the two programs show that postal mail is subject to the same kind of scrutiny that the National Security Agency has given to telephone calls and e-mail.
The mail covers program, used to monitor Mr. Pickering, is more than a century old but is still considered a powerful tool. At the request of law enforcement officials, postal workers record information from the outside of letters and parcels before they are delivered. (Opening the mail would require a warrant.) The information is sent to the law enforcement agency that asked for it. Tens of thousands of pieces of mail each year undergo this scrutiny.
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David Pogue, The Most Prolific Technology Critic In The World, Cannot Say No – Forbes
Saturday, July 13th, 2013Forbes profile of @Pogue : Every year, he writes more books than he reads – wish I could write so fast! http://bit.ly/12u4YHO
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2013/07/01/the-most-prolific-technology-critic-in-the-world-cannot-say-no/
Words to Start a Stampede – New York Apartment for Sale – NYTimes.com
Friday, July 12th, 2013Fund management: The rise of smart beta | The Economist
Friday, July 12th, 2013Better ways of weighting #stocks in an index MT @shortmsgs: Fund management: The rise of smart beta http://bit.ly/15lsGUO #markets
Better ways of weighting… than by market cap!