Archive for December, 2014
Money Lessons From ‘Downton Abbey’ – WSJ
Friday, December 12th, 2014The Slippery Slope of Silicon Valley – NYTimes.com
Thursday, December 11th, 2014The Slippery Slope of Silicon Valley
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/style/uber-facebook-and-others-bedeviled-by-moral-issues.html #Tech world Yin-&-yang – eg for $GOOG, amazing free services v #privacy concerns
The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps | WIRED
Tuesday, December 9th, 2014How Exercise Can Boost Young Brains
Tuesday, December 9th, 2014How Exercise Can Boost Young #Brains
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/how-exercise-can-boost-the-childs-brain Running around & acting like a kid is, in fact, good for kids. Duhh!
A load driver device for engineering modularity in biological networks : Nature Biotechnology : Nature Publishing Group
Tuesday, December 9th, 2014A load driver device for engineering modularity in…#networks http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nbt.3044.html Allows joining components w/o downstream retroactivity
How 3-D Printing Is Changing Medicine
Monday, December 8th, 2014How 3D Printing Is Changing Medicine http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/print-thyself Common in orthodontics (@Invisalign) & some surgeries. Printable organs next?
Also, 3D printing is now available from Amazon & Staples, viz:http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8323871011
USA TODAY reporter Olivia Barker dies at 40
Monday, December 8th, 2014Olivia Barker (@byoliviabarker) dies at 40 usat.ly/1A6O3IX Great writer, nice person, true friend. Enduring reason to fight cancer.