Archive for December, 2017
Computers That Can Run Backwards | American Scientist
Friday, December 29th, 2017What Amazon Alexa pays the people building its skills – CNET
Thursday, December 28th, 2017Zip code better predictor of health than genetic code | News | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, December 28th, 2017A Bayesian Framework to Account for Complex Non-Genetic Factors in Gene Expression Levels Greatly Increases Power in eQTL Studies
Thursday, December 28th, 2017NYTimes: A Robot That Has Fun at Telemarketers’ Expense
Thursday, December 28th, 2017https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/fashion/a-robot-that-has-fun-at-telemarketers-expense.html
After being harassed by spam calls, a telephone geek took matters into his own hands and devised a way to keep the person on the other end of the line engaged endlessly…..
Saved Favorite Tweets (from 6 Aug. ’16 to 26 Dec. ’17) (with images) · markgerstein · Storify
Wednesday, December 27th, 2017Archived Tweets, removed from favorites
https://storify.com/markgerstein/saved-favorite-tweets-from-oct-16-to-dec-17
‘I want to help humans genetically modify themselves’
Wednesday, December 27th, 2017How bike-sharing conquered the world – The bicycles that broke free
Sunday, December 24th, 2017evo-devo
Sunday, December 24th, 2017Great #movie introducing Evo-Devo by @AcapellaScience
https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ydqReeTV_vk Lots of complex concepts (cis-reg elements to gradients & patterning) summarized in seconds via @hoondy