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https://www.yahoo.com/tech/tiny-new-cameras-with-big-sensors-the-leica-t-vs-85764760379.html

Could #Soylent Replace Food? #Opensource drink merges cultures of software startups & #diet supplements
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/12/140512fa_fact_widdicombe HT @msteib

ANNALS OF GASTRONOMY

THE END OF FOOD

Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our meals?

BY LIZZIE WIDDICOMBEMAY 12, 2014

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(food_substitute)

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/05/04/magazine/tale-of-two-schools.html

ANNALS OF CONSERVATION

BLUE BLOODS

The horseshoe crab is half a billion years old, but its existence may be threatened.

BY IAN FRAZIERAPRIL 14, 2014

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/04/14/140414fa_fact_frazier

Can the Horseshoe #Crab Be Saved? Its blue, Cu-based blood contains #LAL which acts as a sensor for bacterial toxins
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/04/14/140414fa_fact_frazier

http://mashable.com/2014/05/12/google-drive-tips/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

https://www.cloudhq.net/dropbox

DEPT. OF ESPIONAGE

A NEW KIND OF SPY

How China obtains American technological secrets.

BY YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEEMAY 5, 2014

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/05/140505fa_fact_bhattacharjee

rather sad

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/05/140505fa_fact_stuart

The science behind Michael Levitt’s Nobel Prize
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/october/michael-levitt-science-100913.html Interesting spin on the Nobel: no mention of the word “chemist”, just “biologist”. No mention of QMM, but lots of discussion of protein structure prediction and folding.

Stanford Nobel winner Levitt stunned by good news – San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_24276968/stanford-nobel-winner-levitt-stunned-by-good-news QT:{{”
His hero is French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois, who at 70 indignantly told someone at her Museum of Modern Art exhibit, “You think this is a retrospective? I’m just beginning.” Then she rented a Brooklyn warehouse and went on to create her most famous work. “}}

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/american-british-israeli-biophysicist-michael-levitt-news-photo/454782861
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/professor-michael-levitt-laureate-of-the-nobel-prize-in-news-photo/454797555 pics from ceremony

need adjusted p values after multiple hypothesis correction

Spurious Correlations
http://www.tylervigen.com