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Monday, January 9th, 2017IU website can help track spread of fake news
Monday, January 9th, 2017Points of significance: P values and the search for significance : Nature Methods : Nature Research
Sunday, January 8th, 2017World War Three, by Mistake – The New Yorker
Sunday, January 8th, 2017#WWIII, by Mistake
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/world-war-three-by-mistake Scary Cold War near misses (incl. ’80 defective-chip false alarm) & dangers of aging Minuteman
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“On June 3, 1980, at about two-thirty in the morning, computers at the National Military Command Center, beneath the Pentagon, at the headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), deep within Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, and at Site R, the Pentagon’s alternate command post center hidden inside Raven Rock Mountain, Pennsylvania, issued an urgent warning: the Soviet Union had just launched a nuclear attack on the United States. The Soviets had recently invaded Afghanistan, and the animosity between the two superpowers was greater than at any other time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
U.S. Air Force ballistic-missile crews removed their launch keys from the safes, bomber crews ran to their planes, fighter planes took off to search the skies, and the Federal Aviation Administration prepared to order every airborne commercial airliner to land.”
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YaleNews | In memoriam: Carolyn Slayman, pioneering researcher, educator helped shape medical school
Sunday, January 8th, 2017In memoriam: Carolyn Slayman
http://News.Yale.edu/2017/01/06/memoriam-carolyn-slayman-pioneering-researcher-educator-helped-shape-medical-school Dean w. unflappable personality; worked w/ her for many years @Yale. Will be missed…
Priorities – Todoist
Saturday, January 7th, 2017https://support.todoist.com/hc/en-us/articles/205873321
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