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https://getpocket.com/?ep=1

https://get.google.com/tips/#!/?category=ask-google

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/the-gene-hackers

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/politics-and-the-new-machine

Canonical genetic signatures [across 132 structures] of the adult human #brain [in 6 individuals]
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.4171.html HT @ozgunharmanci

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We applied a correlation-based metric called differential stability to assess reproducibility of gene expression patterning across 132 structures in six individual brains, revealing mesoscale genetic organization. The genes with the highest differential stability are highly biologically relevant, with enrichment for brain-related annotations, disease associations, drug targets and literature citations.
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No more of the same [security theatre]
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21678236-lot-what-passes-security-airports-more-theatrical-real-no-more Relative merits for the #TSA mining & profiling travelers v hi-tech scanning

Data mining & profiling v “predictable” scanning
Contrast US v IL

#Russia & the Curse of Geography
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/russia-geography-ukraine-syria/413248/ Issues always faced: “the ports still freeze & the European Plain is still flat”

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“Russia has not finished with Ukraine yet, nor Syria. From the Grand Principality of Moscow, through Peter the Great, Stalin, and now Putin, each Russian leader has been confronted by the same problems. It doesn’t matter if the ideology of those in control is czarist, communist, or crony capitalist—the ports still freeze, and the European Plain is still flat.”
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http://news.yale.edu/2015/07/20/making-miniature-brains-skin-cells-better-understand-autism

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21678517-come-france-starts-coming-terms-its-worst-ever-terrorist-attack?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/francestartscomingtoterms

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Early in the 20th century polio would become the world’s most feared disease. The disease hit without warning, tended to strike white, affluent individuals, required longquarantine periods during which parents were separated from children: it was impossible to tell who would get the disease and who would be spared.[11] The consequences of the disease left polio victims marked for life, leaving behind vivid images of wheelchairs, crutches, leg braces, breathing devices, and deformed limbs. However, polio changed not only the lives of those who survived it, but also effected profound cultural changes: the emergence of grassroots fund-raising campaigns that would
revolutionize medical philanthropy, the rise of rehabilitation therapy and, through campaigns for the social and civil rights of the disabled, polio survivors helped to spur the modern disability rights movement.

In addition, the occurrence of polio epidemics led to a number of public health innovations. One of the most widespread was the proliferation of “no spitting” ordinances in the United States and elsewhere.[53]

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Polio as a rich man’s disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_poliomyelitis