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Yours to cut out & keep. Foldoscope, the $1 #microscope made from paper, cheap glass lens, LED, watch batt. & Cu tape
http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21603183-one-made-largely-paper-and-could-help-diagnosis-tropical

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/opinion/sunday/what-you-learn-in-your-40s.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/15/style/tmagazine/endofcuisine.html?smid=tw-nytimes

Bioengineering & #systemsbiology. Classic def’n in terms of the “4 M’s”—Measurement, #Mining, Modeling & Manipulation
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16474915

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Systems Biology can also be defined operationally, as
by the MIT Computational & Systems Biology Initiative,
in terms of the “4 M’s”—Measurement, Mining, Modeling,
and Manipulation—illustrated schematically in Fig. 1 (see
http://csbi.mit.edu/).

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Facebook Could Decide an Election—Without You Ever Finding Out. @zittrain advocates regulating digital gerrymandering
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117878/information-fiduciary-solution-facebook-digital-gerrymandering

Interesting but addressing mappability issue is key! Might want to also use a non-analytic stat test….
Compared to wavelets, non-independence betw. scales, perhaps key for allowing pruning.

Multiscale representation of #genomic signals. Fold changes & peaks at different scales; better expression prediction
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v11/n6/full/nmeth.2924.html

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v32/n6/full/nbt.2926.html

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/competition-is-stiff-to-manage-tech-billions

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21600856-survival-ferns-present-depended-ancient-accident-time-and

#Horizontaltransfer of an adaptive chimeric photoreceptor [Neochrome] from bryophytes to #ferns. Careful #phylogeny
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/18/6672.abstract

http://beckerinfo.net/bioinformatics/systems-biology/