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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129514.800-lifelogging-crowdsourcing–life-logs–big-insights.html#.UtA7F2RDuXM

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/01/09/gmail_g_integration_google_plus_users_can_now_email_you_unless_you_opt_out.html

http://lifehacker.com/ive-been-using-tags-all-wrong-1498663444?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Most Dangerous Things to Do on Your Phone While Driving: Dialing! (from data on near crashes)
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/the-most-dangerous-things-to-do-on-your-phone-while-driving/282773 HT @CarolinaFan1982

.@MishaAngrist Even better: We thank… (fict. person) Frum for inspiration… Clever comments in the acknowledgments
http://slate.me/JxbHK8

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/27/academics_hide_snarky_clever_comments_in_the_acknowledgments_sections_of.html

ANNALS OF EXTINCTION PART TWO

THE LOST WORLD

Fossils of the future.

BY ELIZABETH KOLBERT
DECEMBER 23, 2013

Are We Living in the Anthropocene? Yes, and it’s fascinating to imagine today’s manmade world as #fossils
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_kolbert HT @natmoss

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/01/traffic-alerts

QT:”That has made it the most successful initial public offering of a security company in 2013 and a big gain for FireEye’s founder, Ashar Aziz, a former Sun Microsystems engineer who started the company in 2004, and FireEye’s venture capital backers like Norwest, Sequoia Capital and In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, and others.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/technology/fireeye-computer-security-firm-acquires-mandiant.html

FireEye Computer #Security Firm Acquires @Mandiant, a deal partially bankrolled by In-Q-Tel, #CIA VC http://nyti.ms/19MEOQO HT @benhatten

LETTER FROM SHENZHEN
THE GENE FACTORY
A Chinese firm’s bid to crack hunger, illness, evolution—and the genetics of human intelligence.
BY MICHAEL SPECTER
JANUARY 6, 2014

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/06/140106fa_fact_specter

.@andrewhessel Gene Factory: Interesting food for thought on #BGI’s cognitive #genomics research & $GNOM acquisition
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/06/140106fa_fact_specter

Want to write better scientific code? Try this fantastic #CutOutNKeep guide in #PLOSBiology – http://plos.io/1bR5foj #mycodesucks

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001745