Archive for October, 2013

Science publishing: The golden club : Nature News & Comment

Friday, October 18th, 2013

http://www.nature.com/news/science-publishing-the-golden-club-1.13951?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews

Problems with scientific research: How science goes wrong | The Economist

Friday, October 18th, 2013

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21588069-scientific-research-has-changed-world-now-it-needs-change-itself-how-science-goes-wrong

Unreliable research: Trouble at the lab | The Economist

Friday, October 18th, 2013

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-think-science-self-correcting-alarming-degree-it-not-trouble

Slick “ENCODE-like” interface to all the #TCGA papers

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Slick "ENCODE-like" interface to all the #TCGA papers nature.com/tcga via @roelverhaak @obahcall

Anatomy of successful computational biology software

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Anatomy of successful #compbio software: Right place at right time, Packages, Clean design, Insight.. go.nature.com/aUCA5y MT @BetaScience The anatomy of successful computational biology software
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n10/full/nbt.2721.html

Evening train times: NHV => GC/NYP

Thursday, October 17th, 2013

Updated NHV=>NYC for (M)nr, amtrak (R)egional & (A)cela evening trains: 530 M, [56789,10]:45 M, [67]:20 A, [89]:10 R, 1135 M, 1235 R

MNR departures

4:47 PM
5:33 PM
5:52 PM
6:53 PM
7:55 PM
8:48 PM
9:45 PM
10:45 PM
11:35 PM

Amtrak Departures

6:19pm – 7:45pm
2173 Acela Express

7:27pm – 8:55pm
2175 Acela Express

8:14pm – 9:50pm
177 Northeast Regional

9:12pm – 10:45pm
179 Northeast Regional

12:35am – 2:15am
67 Northeast Regional

Who Wants to Be a Russian Billionaire? – Emerging Europe Real Time – WSJ

Thursday, October 17th, 2013

Who Wants to Be a Russian #Billionaire? Has great #stats:
~100K people worth >$50M. Half live in US.
http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/10/09/who-wants-to-be-a-russian-billionaire via @changeist

QT:”
Russia: 35% of the country’s entire wealth now in the hands of just 110 people….

Credit Suisse estimates that worldwide there are 98,700 “ultra-high net worth individuals,” or people worth $50 million or more. Almost half of them live in the United States.

Who Wants to Be a Russian Billionaire?
http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/10/09/who-wants-to-be-a-russian-billionaire

PLOS ONE: Content Disputes in Wikipedia Reflect Geopolitical Instability

Thursday, October 17th, 2013

Content Disputes in #Wikipedia Reflect Geopolitical Instability: bio #network ideas applied to social context
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0020902

Content Disputes in Wikipedia Reflect Geopolitical Instability http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0020902

(guilt-by-association)

Can Big Data Distract? – datascience@berkeley

Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

http://datascience.berkeley.edu/big-data-distraction/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=1_kw

How Achy Joints Predict the Weather – WSJ.com

Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304500404579127833656537554.html?mod=e2tw