Archive for February, 2016

article i was talking about…

Sunday, February 7th, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/how-to-raise-a-creative-child-step-one-back-off.html?_r=0

How quality control could save your science : Nature News & Comment

Sunday, February 7th, 2016

How QC could save your science
http://www.nature.com/news/how-quality-control-could-save-your-science-1.19223 “Traceable Data” is a key for #ReproducibleResearch via @iddux
http://www.nature.com/news/how-quality-control-could-save-your-science-1.19223

Electric eel – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sunday, February 7th, 2016

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

Casiquiare canal – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sunday, February 7th, 2016

it forms a unique natural canal between the Orinoco and Amazon river systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casiquiare_canal

Light-bulb moment | The Economist

Saturday, February 6th, 2016

Light-bulb moment
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21688375-bright-idea-save-beloved-technology-dustbin-light-bulb-moment Perhaps future homes will showcase classic incandescent #bulbs as they do for fireplaces

Saudi City of Jeddah Aims to Build World’s Tallest Tower – WSJ

Friday, February 5th, 2016

Jeddah Aims to Build World’s Tallest Tower
http://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-city-of-jeddah-aims-to-build-worlds-tallest-tower-1454409001 Going up as oil is falling; cf Empire State: begun in ’20s & done in ’30s

Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but It Is Still in the Game – NYTimes.com

Friday, February 5th, 2016

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/technology/dropbox-may-not-be-lebron-james-but-it-is-still-in-the-game.html?_r=1&referer=https://www.google.com/

Yale M.B.A.s Question Whether Their Business School Is Too Corporate – WSJ

Friday, February 5th, 2016

http://www.wsj.com/articles/yale-m-b-a-s-question-whether-their-business-school-is-too-corporate-1454495402

Ten Simple Rules for a Bioinformatics Journal Club

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004526

2016 News Release: New NIH research program targets the genomic basis for human disease

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016

https://www.genome.gov/27563453