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http://www.nature.com/news/sleeping-beauty-papers-slumber-for-decades-1.17615?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

#NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning
http://www.wired.com/2013/06/general-keith-alexander-cyberwar/ Overview of the activities of Alexander the Geek, spy master behind #stuxnet

Mtn gorilla genomes reveal…impact of long-term…inbreeding http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6231/242 Pop. variation so low that very deleterious SNPs purged

Science 10 April 2015:
Vol. 348 no. 6231 pp. 242-245
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa3952

Mountain gorilla genomes reveal the impact of long-term population decline and inbreeding

Yali Xue1,*,
Javier Prado-Martinez2,*,
Peter H. Sudmant3,*,
…
Tomas Marques-Bonet2,12,
Chris Tyler-Smith1,†,
Aylwyn Scally13,†

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6230/22.summary

From the archives: Nash’s Nobel prize | The Economist

What’s Behind Big Science Frauds? – NYTimes.com

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/04/did-natural-selection-make-dutch-tallest-people-planet

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/john-f-nash-jr-dies-nobel-laureate-was-subject-of-a-beautiful-mind/2015/05/24/61463418-0219-11e5-bc72-f3e16bf50bb6_story.html?tid=sm_tw

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