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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/opinion/wobbling-on-climate-change.html?smid=tw-share

the "circle of life"

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214001547#

Volume 24, Issue 6, pR238–R240, 17 March 2014

Evolution: Dynamics of De Novo Gene Emergence

Rafik Neme
Diethard Tautz

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.016

Doesn’t attach but very compact

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/14/logitech-keys-to-go-review-finally-an-ipad-keyboard-i-can-see-myself-using-long-term/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeotoole/2014/11/13/evernote-and-the-100-year-business-plan-why-users-love-it-and-funders-hated-it

The tallest & shortest man in the world meet for a day
http://mashable.com/2014/11/13/tallest-shortest-man-record Great images illustrating the extent of human variation

Where can I see a webpage that shows information about me?
See a system information script for an example of the type of information a website can get about your computer.

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/systeminfo.cgi

http://m.wsj.com/articles/too-much-coffee-may-result-in-caffeine-intoxication-but-specific-risks-and-benefits-are-still-up-for-debate-1414432501?mobile=y&mod=e2tw

http://online.wsj.com/articles/americans-cellphones-targeted-in-secret-u-s-spy-program-1415917533?mod=e2tw

Retreat From US-Stock Fund Managers http://online.wsj.com/articles/retreat-from-u-s-stock-fund-managers-accelerates-1415048462
Instead money into US large-cap indexes. Int’l & small-cap managers still popular

QT:{{"

Yes, investors are still sinking money into U.S. stocks. But
increasingly they are doing it through traditional index mutual funds
and exchange-traded funds that track a specific market benchmark or
sector, without the variability of a fund manager’s hand. While active
stock funds have been seeing uninterrupted outflows, passive
U.S.-stock funds have collected inflows for eight months in a row.

Meanwhile, other broad categories are booming, too. Investors are
piling into bond funds and both active and index international-stock
funds.

…
“Active management has never been in worse repute,” says John
Rekenthaler, vice president of research at Morningstar. “This is the
darkest of days.”

Investors are sour on active U.S.-stock managers for good reason:
performance, or the lack of it, particularly during the 2008-09 U.S.
market slide.
…

Big institutional investors, meanwhile, determined long ago that
managers’ inconsistent results don’t justify their higher fees, and
pledged allegiance to lower-cost indexing.

In addition, many investors have flocked to bond funds and given
investment dollars to international stock-fund managers who, unlike
U.S.-stock managers, haven’t broken their trust.

Actively run international-stock funds, particularly small-cap stock
portfolios, have been relatively more successful at adding value over
an index than their U.S.-stock peers.

According to S&P Dow Jones Indices, 30% of international stock-fund
managers topped their benchmark in the five years through June, while
32% of emerging-market managers and 54% of international small-cap
managers did so.
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