Archive for January, 2015

How My Mom Got Hacked – NYTimes.com

Saturday, January 10th, 2015

How My Mom Got Hacked http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/how-my-mom-got-hacked.html The Cryptowall #crime business, complete w/ customer support & #Bitcoin payment suggestions

Ozobot: The tiny robot that comes alive on your iPad REVIEW

Friday, January 9th, 2015

http://mashable.com/2015/01/09/ozobot-review/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

Study Finds Reading to Children of All Ages Grooms Them to Read More on Their Own – NYTimes.com

Friday, January 9th, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/us/study-finds-reading-to-children-of-all-ages-grooms-them-to-read-more-on-their-own.html?src=twr&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

What Happens When We All Live to 100? – The Atlantic

Friday, January 9th, 2015

What Happens When We All Live to 100?
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/what-happens-when-we-all-live-to-100/379338 Will the 3month/yr increase in life expectancy plateau? Will it affect society?

QT:{{”
The university, a significant aspect of the contemporary economy, centuries ago was a place where the fresh-faced would be prepared for a short life; today the university is a place where adults watch children and grandchildren walk to Pomp and Circumstance. The university of the future may be one that serves all ages. Colleges will reposition themselves economically as offering just as much to the aging as to the adolescent: courses priced individually for later-life knowledge seekers; lots of campus events of interest to students, parents, and the community as a whole; a pleasant
college-town atmosphere to retire near. In decades to come, college professors may address students ranging from age 18 to 80.
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Registration open for spring MOOCs: Free online learning with Yale experts

Friday, January 9th, 2015

Spring #MOOCs [open]…Online Learning w/ @Yale Experts
http://news.yale.edu/2014/12/22/registration-open-spring-moocs-free-online-learning-yale-experts 6 total: 4 soc science, 2 humanities, 0 natural science

How My Mom Got Hacked – NYTimes.com

Thursday, January 8th, 2015

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/how-my-mom-got-hacked.html?referrer=

Systematic analysis of noncoding somatic mutations and gene expression alterations across 14 tumor types : Nature Genetics : Nature Publishing Group

Thursday, January 8th, 2015

Analysis of noncoding somatic mutations &…expression alterations http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v46/n12/full/ng.3141.html 505 WGS variants w. RNAseq, #TCGA as of Mar ’14

all of what’s in TCGA as of spring ’14

505 TCGA WGS Somatic mutations, Expression Calls, CNA
via
https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn2882200

Orthogonal to PCAWG-607 (Alexandrov et al + 100 "public" stomach cancers)

Optical illusion: The bulging checkerboard illusion.

Thursday, January 8th, 2015

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/01/08/optical_illusion_the_bulging_checkboard_illusion.html

This military program lost 100 times as much money as Solyndra — yet no one talks about it – Vox

Monday, January 5th, 2015

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/5/7490593/F-35-vs-solyndra

Why I Hope to Die at 75 – The Atlantic

Monday, January 5th, 2015

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/