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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v538/n7624/full/538275a.html

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/technology/yahoo-data-breach-hacking.html?_r=1

#Bike lanes are a sound public health investment
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-costbenefit-bike-lanes-idUSKCN11Z23A Each $1.3K for NYC provides 1 additional QALY for city residents

….But perhaps non-riders benefit more than riders (who are at risk for injury) cc @dspakowicz

New study of the economics of adding more bikes to NYC (ironically published in the journal “injury prevention”).
article: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2016/09/09/injuryprev-2016-042057.abstract

pop press article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-costbenefit-bike-lanes-idUSKCN11Z23A

QT:{{”
Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.
That’s a better return on investment than some direct health treatments, like dialysis, which costs $129,000 for one
quality-adjusted life year, or QALY, said coauthor Dr. Babak Mohit of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York.
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Painting unprotected bike lanes into roads may not reduce injury and death, she said.
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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/22/upshot/what-2000-calories-looks-like.html

My #Distraction Sickness, & Yours by @sullydish
http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/09/andrew-sullivan-technology-almost-killed-me.html An issue of the iPhone age; perhaps addressed by a digital Sabbath?

QT:{{”
If the churches came to understand that the greatest threat to faith today is not hedonism but distraction, perhaps they might begin to appeal anew to a frazzled digital generation. Christian leaders seem to think that they need more distraction to counter the distraction. Their services have degenerated into emotional spasms, their spaces drowned with light and noise and locked shut throughout the day, when their darkness and silence might actually draw those whose minds and souls have grown web-weary. But the mysticism of Catholic meditation — of the Rosary, of Benediction, or simple contemplative prayer — is a tradition in search of rediscovery. The monasteries — opened up to more lay visitors — could try to answer to the same needs that the booming yoga movement has increasingly met.

And imagine if more secular places responded in kind: restaurants where smartphones must be surrendered upon entering, or coffee shops that marketed their non-Wi-Fi safe space? Or, more practical: more meals where we agree to put our gadgets in a box while we talk to one another? Or lunch where the first person to use their phone pays the whole bill? We can, if we want, re-create a digital Sabbath each week — just one day in which we live for 24 hours without checking our phones. Or we can simply turn off our notifications. Humans are self-preserving in the long run. For every innovation there is a reaction, and even the starkest of analysts of our new culture, like Sherry Turkle, sees a potential for eventually rebalancing our lives. “}}

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602484/how-hackers-could-send-your-polling-station-into-chaos/?utm_campaign=content-distribution&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.momoyanyc.com/

finally, a chance for some unrestricted funds…!

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/nypl-rose-reading-room-and-the-real-meaning-of-luxury-in-new-york-city

https://www.genome.gov/27566612/2016-news-feature-nih-supports-new-approaches-to-discovering—dna-differences-in-the-genomes-regulatory-regions-that-affect-disease-/