Archive for February, 2019

Can Low-Impact Sports Like Cycling Be Putting Your Bones at Risk? – The New York Times

Monday, February 4th, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/well/move/can-low-impact-sports-like-cycling-be-putting-your-bones-at-risk.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

How Machine Learning Could Keep Dangerous DNA Out of Terrorists’ Hands

Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-machine-learning-could-keep-dangerous-dna-out-of-terrorists-hands

Mediation (statistics) – Wikipedia

Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediation_(statistics)

Instrumental variables estimation – Wikipedia

Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

QT:((”
Intuitively, IVs are used when an explanatory variable of interest is correlated with the error term, in which case ordinary least squares and ANOVA give biased results.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_variables_estimation

What Is the Most Poisonous Mushroom? – The Atlantic

Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/deadly-mushroom-arrives-canada/581602

Find My Device – Android

Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

https://www.google.com/android/find

DNA ancestry tests — and their many caveats — explained – Vox

Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/28/18194560/ancestry-dna-23-me-myheritage-science-explainer

Does Journalism Have a Future? | The New Yorker

Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/does-journalism-have-a-future

Zimmer on the microbiome

Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying.

The body’s microbial community may influence the brain and behavior, perhaps even playing a role in dementia, autism and other disorders.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/health/microbiome-brain-behavior-dementia.html

bioarxiv paper on Golden State Killer

Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/531384v1.abstract