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http://www.catonmat.net/blog/mit-linear-algebra-part-three/

http://eol.org/pages/1078536/names

Bacteria appear to be placed under Insecta in EOL’s taxonomy http://eol.org/pages/40008429/overview Rather puzzling! Any ideas why?

How Much Warmer Was Your City in ’15
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/19/us/2015-year-in-weather-temperature-precipitation.html#new-haven_ct Great #viz of NHV’s freezing Feb. & hot Dec. HT@chaubtu

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/19/us/2015-year-in-weather-temperature-precipitation.html#new-haven_ct

http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

http://www.nature.com/news/biologists-urged-to-hug-a-preprint-1.19384?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

https://quantixed.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/white-label-the-growth-of-biorxiv/

iPad Pro reinvents the…fashion sketch
http://mashable.com/2016/02/18/ipad-pro-fashion-sketch $AAPL uses classic Haute couture to make ipad more appealing to the tech set

Stopping the big burp
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21688374-researchers-new-zealand-are-trying-prevent-livestock-belching #Methane from livestock is a major greenhouse gas, perhaps reducible with genetic engineering

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/science/wild-tomatoes-repel-whiteflies-study-finds.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur&_r=0

Massively parallel quantification of…regulatory effects of #noncoding…variation in a…cohort
http://genome.cshlp.org/content/25/8/1206.long new popstarr assay

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26084464
Genome Res. 2015 Aug;25(8):1206-14. doi: 10.1101/gr.190090.115. Epub 2015 Jun 17.
Massively parallel quantification of the regulatory effects of noncoding genetic variation in a human cohort.
Vockley CM1, Guo C2, Majoros WH3, Nodzenski M4, Scholtens DM4, Hayes MG5, Lowe WL Jr5, Reddy TE6.