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Cure for #Alzheimer’s
https://www.NYTimes.com/2017/07/14/opinion/sunday/alzheimers-cure-south-america.html Those in WEIRD places (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich,
Democratic) more affected by ApoE4

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Dr. Trumble was trained as an anthropologist, and his field — evolutionary medicine — taught him to see our surroundings as a blip in the timeline of human history. He thinks it’s a problem that medical research focuses almost exclusively on “people who live in cities like New York or L.A.” Scientists often refer to these places as “Weird” — Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic — and point out that our bodies are still designed for the not-Weird environment in which our species evolved. Yet we know almost nothing about how dementia affected humans during the 50,000 years before developments like antibiotics and mechanized farming.
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The absent-minded prof in the news…!

http://www.nature.com/news/cybersecurity-for-the-travelling-scientist-1.22379

Cybersecurity for the travelling scientist

Virtual private networks, tracking apps and ‘burner’ laptops: how to protect sensitive data when you take your research on the road.

Brian Owens

02 August 2017

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Mark Gerstein has had his fair share of scares when it comes to losing track of his electronic devices — and, along with them, access to his private information and research data.

“I’m very security conscious, but also a bit of an absent-minded professor,” says Gerstein, a bioinformatician at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

He recalls one trip to Boston, Massachusetts, when he left his phone in a taxi, and watched it get farther and farther away on the tracking app on his iPad while he ran after the car in vain. Luckily, Gerstein was able to contact the taxi company, and eventually watched his phone make the return journey to his pocket.

Gerstein’s story had a happy ending, but all too often, hardware lost on the road is lost for good.
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New job post @YaleMed http://APPLY.interfolio.com/43598 Exec. Director for the Center for Biomedical #DataScience, an “ambassador” for this new field!

More NYers Opting for…the Bike Lane – 450k trips/day v. 170k in ’05
https://www.NYTimes.com/2017/07/30/nyregion/new-yorkers-bike-lanes-commuting.html But there’s #bikelash from walkers & drivers

https://us.letgo.com/enhttps://offerup.com/

http://www.nature.com/news/cybersecurity-for-the-travelling-scientist-1.22379

http://www.nature.com/news/big-names-in-statistics-want-to-shake-up-much-maligned-p-value-1.22375?WT.mc_id=SFB_NNEWS_1508_RHBox

How far are you from…spots to watch the #Eclipse?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/spectacular-views-of-the-eclipse Does anyone know what we’ll see in CT on 8/21? A partial one?

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“The zone of totality is about 70 miles wide and stretches diagonally across the middle of the country from Oregon to South Carolina. Hundreds of towns and cities in 12 states fall fully within the zone. And the closer you are to the zone’s center, the longer the full eclipse will last. While the maximum possible duration of the full eclipse is about 2 minutes and 40 seconds, the partial eclipse will last upward of two hours in most places nationwide.”
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More New Yorkers Opting for Life in the Bike Lane – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/nyregion/new-yorkers-bike-lanes-commuting.html

On Your Bike, Watch Out for the Air – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/well/move/on-your-bike-watch-out-for-the-air.html