Archive for June, 2016

Watch Cities Spread Across The Planet Over 5,000 Years

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

Watch Cities Spread Across The Planet Over 5K yrs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/history-of-cities-urbanization-map_us_576433f3e4b0fbbc8bea3eda nice #dataviz of 10K pts of urban population data HT @NAChristakis

Biden unveils launch of major, open-access database to advance cancer research – The Washington Post

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

Biden to unveil…#openaccess DB to advance cancer research
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/biden-to-unveil-launch-of-major-open-access-database-to-advance-cancer-research/2016/06/05/8918c442-2b30-11e6-9de3-6e6e7a14000c_story.html Impressive that @VP singled out a bioinformatics project

After Einstein: The Dark Mysteries

Monday, June 20th, 2016

After Einstein: Dark Mysteries by @SheerPriya
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/09/after-einstein-the-dark-mysteries/ Notes sightings of Vulcan until relatively explained Mercury’s orbit http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/09/after-einstein-the-dark-mysteries/

nice description of gravity waves & black holes for the un-initiated QT:{{”
numerous claimed and reported sightings on several continents of the fictional planet Vulcan… [until general relatively]
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Robust transcriptome-wide discovery of RNA-binding protein binding sites with enhanced CLIP (eCLIP) : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group

Saturday, June 18th, 2016

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v13/n6/abs/nmeth.3810.html

Tempus – Buying Time

Saturday, June 18th, 2016

http://www.tempus.com/

What Dead Pigs Can’t Teach Us About ‘C.S.I.’ – The New York Times

Saturday, June 18th, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/science/forensic-science-body-farm.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur&_r=0

Apple’s ‘Differential Privacy’ Is About Collecting Your Data—But Not ​Your Data | WIRED

Saturday, June 18th, 2016

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/apples-differential-privacy-collecting-data/

Graphic details | The Economist

Saturday, June 18th, 2016

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21700617-scientific-study-importance-diagrams-science-graphic-details

The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, By Ants

Saturday, June 18th, 2016

The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, By Ants
http://priceonomics.com/the-independent-discovery-of-tcpip-by-ants/ Protocol has similarities to #ant communication; man reinventing nature

28Pages.org | An information & activism hub for the growing movement to declassify 28 pages on foreign government ties to 9/11

Saturday, June 18th, 2016

https://28pages.org/