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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-the-sequel.html

NIH makes privacy agreement with Henrietta Lacks’ family
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2013/08/07/henrietta-lacks-nih/2627923

Blood ties : Nature News & Comment
http://www.nature.com/news/blood-ties-1.13513

A Family Consents to a Medical Gift, 62 Years Later – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/science/after-decades-of-research-henrietta-lacks-family-is-asked-for-consent.html

Deal done over HeLa cell line
http://www.nature.com/news/deal-done-over-hela-cell-line-1.13511

http://www.nature.com/news/nih-director-explains-hela-agreement-1.13521

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/shut-up-and-drill-why-fracking-could-end-the-age-of-gas-price-spikes/278494/

http://gizmodo.com/how-different-countries-see-each-other-according-to-go-1075992077

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tony-pawson-internationally-acclaimed-canadian-scientist-dies-at-60/article13697486/

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/two-providers-of-encrypted-e-mail-shut-down/?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

Toy Stories: Nice listing of odd #toys from ’10, e.g. HexBug, Tetraxis, Flash Scrabble, Perfume Sci.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/06/101206fa_fact_marx via @NewYorker

ON AND OFF THE AVENUE
TOY STORIES
Rating this year’s playthings.
BY PATRICIA MARX

* Tetraxis from momath.org
http://momath.org/shop/tetraxis-2/

* Sophisticated Science Perfume Science
by Thames & Kosmos
http://www.amazon.com/Thames-Kosmos-646517-Sophisticated-Science/dp/B001ALLMWS

* Diet coke & mentos – makershed.com

* Zometool Bucky Ball Kit
http://www.amazon.com/Zometool-0B-BKY-PRJ-Bucky-Ball-Kit/dp/B0007W1E3S

* Sophie the Giraffe
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dbaby&field-keywords=Sophie+the+Giraffe&rh=i%3Ababy%2Ck%3ASophie+the+Giraffe

* Scrabble Flash – high speed electronic version of the classic http://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-Scrabble-Flash/dp/B004WOZZ6E

* HexBug (Am Mus Nat Hist)
https://www.facebook.com/hexbug

Seems useful….
http://lifehacker.com/dbinbox-gives-your-dropbox-account-an-inbox-anyone-can-1071910516

this should partially explain the high insertion rate in worm: http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/6/1199.full

QT:”
Of the new mutations observed in MA lines, more than half were short indel mutations, with fewer deletions than insertions (Denver, Morris, Lynch, and Thomas 2004). This finding on indels contrasts with previous work with C. elegans pseudogenes in which deletions are more common than insertions (Robertson 2000; Witherspoon and Robertson 2003) but is consistent with findings in C. elegansmicrosatellite mutation data (Frisse 1999; Denver, Morris, Kewalramani, et al. 2004; Seyfert et al. 2008).
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With Shine, Misfit Says It Has Made a Wearable You’ll Actually Want to Wear
http://allthingsd.com/20130806/with-shine-misfit-says-it-has-made-a-wearable-youll-actually-want-to-wear