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http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0081643

Neutral genomic regions refine models of recent rapid human population growth

Elodie Gazave, Li Ma, Diana Chang, Alex Coventry, Feng Gao, Donna Muzny, Eric Boerwinkle, Richard A. Gibbs, Charles F. Sing, Andrew G. Clark, and Alon Keinan

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Recent rapid growth of human populations predicts that a large number of genetic variants in populations today are very rare, i.e., appear in a small number of individuals. This effect is similar to that of purifying selection, which drives deleterious alleles to become rarer. “}}

An article on how Eric Schadt tries to treat a cancer patient by sequencing… http://www.esquire.com/features/patient-zero-1213-6

http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/content/2/1/15

#Lifelogging: Crowdsourcing + lifelogs = big insights => Glow for fertility. Next? Breath for asthma?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129514.800-lifelogging-crowdsourcing–life-logs–big-insights.html HT @sam_c86

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/feb/06/on-breaking-ones-neck/?pagination=false

http://gizmodo.com/give-your-browser-some-serious-nostalgia-with-these-emu-1504071019?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/01/mayor-de-blasio-and-the-pedestrian-body-count.html?mid=twitter_nymag

$0.19/kW*hr in CT in ’13

http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_6_a

http://michorlab.dfci.harvard.edu/publications/Evolutionary%20Theory%20of%20Cancer,%20NYAS2009.pdf