Archive for August, 2015

Even Though it Has $50 Billion of Oil Money, Alaska Can’t Pay Its Bills – The Atlantic

Monday, August 31st, 2015

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/alaska-budget-crisis/402775/?utm_source=SFTwitter

The most incompressible metal osmium at static pressures above 750 gigapascals : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Monday, August 31st, 2015

The most incompressible metal Os at… >750 GPa
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14681.html Surprisingly, core rather than valence electrons affected by pressure

40 maps that explain the Roman Empire – Vox

Sunday, August 30th, 2015

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/19/5942585/40-maps-that-explain-the-roman-empire?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=voxdotcom&utm_content=tuesday

The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t – The New York Times

Saturday, August 29th, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/the-creative-apocalypse-that-wasnt.html

GPS4CAM

Saturday, August 29th, 2015

http://gps4cam.com/

Isp-fellows another privacy tool

Friday, August 28th, 2015

Browse More Privately With the Privacy Badger

Jason B. Jones looks at a new plug-in from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that blocks companies from tracking your behavior across multiple sites.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/browse-more-privately-with-the-privacy-badger/60825

Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Friday, August 28th, 2015

Endosymbiotic origin & differential loss of eukaryotic
geneshttp://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v524/n7566/full/nature14963.html For Euks, horizontal transfer is episodic (v continuous)

Windows OS 10 last upgrade of Windows OS

Friday, August 28th, 2015

http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-microsofts-last-big-splash-os-but-will-a-drip-drip-of-updates-suit-firms-better/

DeconRNASeq: a statistical framework for deconvolution of heterogeneous tissue samples based on mRNA-Seq data

Friday, August 28th, 2015

DeconRNASeq…framework for #deconvolution of heterogeneous tissue samples http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/8/1083.long “App note” w/ very concise code snippet

30 lines of R?

The genetics of Mexico recapitulates Native American substructure and affects biomedical traits

Friday, August 28th, 2015

[Population] genetics of Mexico by @cdbustamante lab
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6189/1280.abstract Has groups as divergent from each other as Europeans v Asians

QT:{{”
We found striking genetic stratification among indigenous populations within Mexico at varying degrees of geographic isolation. Some groups were as differentiated as Europeans are from East Asians.
Pre-Columbian genetic substructure is recapitulated in the indigenous ancestry of admixed mestizo individuals across the country.

The genetics of indigenous Mexicans exhibit substantial geographical structure, some as divergent from each other as are existing populations of Europeans and Asians.
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