Archive for January, 2014

Louis Menand: What Does Anxiety Mean? : The New Yorker

Sunday, January 26th, 2014

@Atul_Gawande : What is Anxiety? Louis Menand explains, complete with a history of the concept, in a terrific @newyorker piece:
http://nyr.kr/1cMzQ6P

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2014/01/27/140127crat_atlarge_menand?currentPage=all

The Earliest Transcribed Zygotic Genes Are Short, Newly Evolved, and Different across Species

Sunday, January 26th, 2014

http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(13)00788-2

Ecstasy In London? Heroin In Zagreb? The Answer Is Found In The Sewers | Gizmodo Australia

Sunday, January 26th, 2014

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/01/meth-in-london-heroin-in-zagreb-the-answer-is-found-in-the-sewers/

@genomematt1m : Ecstasy In London? Heroin In Zagreb? The Answer Is Found In The Sewers http://feedly.com/e/trJVXawC via @feedly

Seeing X Chromosomes in a New Light – NYTimes.com

Saturday, January 25th, 2014

Great descrip. & visualization of the mosaic result of #Xist activity. Seeing X Chromosomes in a New Light http://nyti.ms/1alnZSX HT @jflier

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/science/seeing-x-chromosomes-in-a-new-light.html

1308.5257 Friendship and Natural Selection

Saturday, January 25th, 2014

http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5257

Russia Plans to Extend Snowden Asylum, Lawmaker Says – NYTimes.com

Saturday, January 25th, 2014

Russia Plans to Extend #Snowden Asylum. It says ironically “US has created a Big Brother system” nyti.ms/1eNfw9C HT @startpointmedia

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/25/world/europe/russia-plans-to-extend-snowden-asylum-lawmaker-says.html

Vicks Starry Night Cool Moisture Humidifier V3700

Saturday, January 25th, 2014

no indications of not using scent

http://www.kaz.com/kaz/humidifiers/products/vicks-starry-night-cool-moisture-humidifier-v3700/

Miller and Pollard depart deanships | Yale Daily News

Friday, January 24th, 2014

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/01/24/miller-and-pollard-depart-deanships/

Dana Goodyear: The Valley-Fever Menace : The New Yorker

Friday, January 24th, 2014

.@rtraborn @hyphaltip Another thing beyond earthquakes for E Coasters to fear about #SoCal: the Valley-Fever Menace
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/20/140120fa_fact_goodyear

The existential despair of the conference call: ConferenceCall.biz captures it.

Friday, January 24th, 2014

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/01/the_existential_despair_of_the_conference_call_conferencecall_biz_captures.html