Archive for August, 2016

Let There Be Light! Inventor Alice Chun and Dr. Alison Thompson Bring Solight’s SolarPuff to the World

Monday, August 22nd, 2016

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregory-weinkauf/let-there-be-light-invent_1_b_10823542.html

Kenyans sweep distance races, Jamaicans sprints: How evolution has shaped elite sports | Genetic Literacy Project

Sunday, August 21st, 2016

https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/08/14/kenyans-sweep-distance-races-jamaicans-sprints-evolution-shaped-elite-sports/

Eat, Pray, Latin – The New Yorker

Friday, August 19th, 2016

Eat, pray, #Latin
http://www.NewYorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/eat-pray-latin “An undead language, a ghost shadowing…our words, a zombie…in sentences,” viz pseudolanguage!

Your Microbe Aura Could Be as Distinctive as Your Fingerprint – The Atlantic

Friday, August 19th, 2016

Your Microbe Aura Could Be as Distinctive as Your Fingerprint http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/inside-the-germ-cloud/406591 Pot. #privacy risk, but will we see microbiome perfume

15 Years After 9/11, Is America Any Safer? – The Atlantic

Friday, August 19th, 2016

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/are-we-any-safer/492761/

ginany.com

Thursday, August 18th, 2016

http://ginany.com/every day 11a-10p

73 & lex

A new age of espionage | The Economist

Thursday, August 18th, 2016

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21660104-electronic-spycraft-getting-easier-more-controversial-old-style-human-sort

Sprinter Dutee Chand Challenges Ban Over Her Testosterone Level – The New York Times

Thursday, August 18th, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/sports/sprinter-dutee-chand-fights-ban-over-her-testosterone-level.html?action=click&contentCollection=International%20Sports&module=RelatedCoverage&region=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article&_r=0

Direct Identification of Hundreds of Expression-Modulating Variants using a Multiplexed Reporter Assay: Cell

Thursday, August 18th, 2016

Identification of…expr.-Modulating Variants using #MPRA, by @sabeti_lab http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)30421-4 Some w. allelic skew related to PWM change

The Unseen – The New Yorker

Thursday, August 18th, 2016

ANNALS OF SCIENCE
JUNE 20, 2016 ISSUE
THE UNSEEN
By Raffi Khatchadourian

Millions of microbes are yet to be discovered. Will one hold the ultimate cure?

The Unseen http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/20/miracle-microbes Argues for symbiosis over competition in #microbial communities. Are #antibiotics really for warfare?