Archive for November, 2016

Delhi Closes Over 1,800 Schools in Response to Dangerous Smog

Saturday, November 19th, 2016

Delhi Closes >1,800 Schools in Response to Dangerous Smog
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/world/asia/delhi-closes-over-1800-schools-in-response-to-dangerous-smog.html Wow: #airquality equiv. to ~25 cigarettes/day

Data mining reveals that Pokemon Go players increased their activity levels by 25 percent on average

Saturday, November 19th, 2016

Pokemon GO players increased their activity levels by 25%
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602706/pokemon-go-increased-us-activity-levels-by-144-billion-steps-in-just-30-days From doing query relating websearch terms w. band usage

Monitor and Find Everything from the Internet – Wireless Sensor Tags

Saturday, November 19th, 2016

Monitor & Find Everything: Wireless #Sensor Tags
http://wirelesstag.net Useful for temp & motion. Can be combined w/ other stuff via @IFTTT

Interesting paper?

Saturday, November 19th, 2016

Links related to the ISCB Curriculum Task force

Saturday, November 19th, 2016

Here are some links related to the ISCB Curriculum Task Forces:

http://connect.iscb.org/communities/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=f7986992-1c0c-4a52-bd1d-74a2386c4962

https://www.iscb.org/curriculum-guidelines-colleges-universities

http://connect.iscb.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=79&MID=30&tab=digestviewer&CommunityKey=e0568cb2-e72e-4bfc-bb66-7d1f2265d846

Paper bike helmet wins Dyson award – BBC News

Thursday, November 17th, 2016

Paper bike helmet wins @JDF award
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38004215 ~$4 foldup @EcoHelmet might be useful for shared #bikes; degrades after a few uses

Atlas Recall is a (mostly) photographic memory for your computing life

Thursday, November 17th, 2016

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/david-pogue-review-of-atlas-recall-160114345.html

The quiet rise of the NIH’s hot new metric : Nature News & Comment

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

The quiet rise of the NIH’s hot new #metric [RCR]
http://www.nature.com/news/the-quiet-rise-of-the-nih-s-hot-new-metric-1.20957 Rank a popular paper in boring field be highly? HT @Magda_Skipper

Public v. Private Polling – PredictWise

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

http://predictwise.com/blog/2016/11/public-v-private-polling/

IBM, Broad Institute Cancer Study to Offer New Source of Biomedical Data for Drug Resistance Research | GenomeWeb

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

https://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/ibm-broad-institute-cancer-study-offer-new-source-biomedical-data-drug-resistance