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.@Illumina announces new CEO
http://www.frontlinegenomics.com/3534/illumina-announce-new-ceo Illuminating news. Congrats to @fdesouza at his new position, important for #genomics

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/science/asap-bio-biologists-published-to-the-internet.html?smid=pl-share&_r=0

http://www.frontlinegenomics.com/3534/illumina-announce-new-ceo/?utm_source=newsletterEU17%2F03%2F16&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletterEU17%2F03%2F16

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/meat-eating-among-the-earliest-humans

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/pi-day-why-pi-matters

Throw caution to the wind?
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21684774-everything-stay-same-everything-may-need-change-throw-caution Interesting piece about#Nobelprizes. Negative on the continuation of the #chemistry one

@Chemjobber I agree. Sad to see chemistry so assaulted!

The Billionaire Battle in the Bahamas
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/peter-nygard-louis-bacon-legal-battle-bahamas v different styles of the rich, accentuating neighbors arguing over a driveway

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/pi-day-why-pi-matters

Learn Different
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/07/altschools-disrupted-education An “AltSchool” for kids (not a Mooc) where all is filmed & analyzed. A prep-school for #1984 in ’16.

Annals of Technology MARCH 7, 2016 ISSUE

Learn Different

Silicon Valley disrupts education.

BY REBECCA MEAD

Seen from the outside, AltSchool Brooklyn, a private school that opened in Brooklyn Heights last fall, does not look like a traditional educational establishment. There is no….