Archive for September, 2014
Alone in the Virtual Museum – The New Yorker
Sunday, September 28th, 2014With #Google’s Cultural Inst., you can walk
“Alone in the Virtual #Museum”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/alone-virtual-museum Yet real visits rising (>6M to Met in ’13)
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/home
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…gazing at our laptops, will discourage people from actually going to these institutions. This is flatly untrue. Museum attendance is on the rise, dramatically so. The Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, currently hosts 9.3 million visitors annually, and, as the Art Newspaper reported in July, it expects a thirty-per-cent increase, to twelve million a year, by 2025. In second and third place are the British Museum, with 6.7 million visitors a year, and the Met, with 6.2, and the rest of the globe is catching up fast.
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Deutch and Steinfeld: Made in America, and Everywhere Else – WSJ
Sunday, September 28th, 2014Loading
Saturday, September 27th, 2014For Big-Data Scientists, ‘Janitor Work’ Is Key Hurdle to Insights – NYTimes.com
Friday, September 26th, 2014EmTech: Illumina Says 228,000 Human Genomes Will Be Sequenced in 2014 | MIT Technology Review
Thursday, September 25th, 2014The Second Life of Alnylam and Its Nearly Discredited Gene Therapy | MIT Technology Review
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014To Get More Out of Science, Show the Rejected Research
Monday, September 22nd, 2014To Get More…[Show]… Rejected #Research
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/upshot/to-get-more-out-of-science-show-the-rejected-research.html Good ideas on reducing bias but study pre-registration creates bureaucracy
Good sentiment to share data & report all results . However, registering a study creates another level of bureaucracy.
Alone in the Virtual Museum – The New Yorker
Monday, September 22nd, 2014With #Google’s Cultural Inst., can walk
“Alone in the Virtual #Museum”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/alone-virtual-museum Yet real visits on rising (>6M to Met last yr)
QT:{{”
…gazing at our laptops, will discourage people from actually going to these institutions. This is flatly untrue. Museum attendance is on the rise, dramatically so. The Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, currently hosts 9.3 million visitors annually, and, as the Art Newspaper reported in July, it expects a thirty-per-cent increase, to twelve million a year, by 2025. In second and third place are the British Museum, with 6.7 million visitors a year, and the Met, with 6.2, and the rest of the globe is catching up fast.
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The Paleo Lifestyle: The Way, Way, Way Back – NYTimes.com
Monday, September 22nd, 2014The #Paleo Lifestyle: The Way, Way, Way Back http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/fashion/the-paleo-lifestyle-the-way-way-way-back.html #Diet expands to caveman habits for sleep, exercise & gadget use