#Sugar on trial: What you really need to know. Great consumption incr. in last 150yrs. The new nicotine?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129540.500-sugar-on-trial-what-you-really-need-to-know.html HT @Andy912f
What is #Anxiety? A personal history of the concept & its treatment, from Freud to #valium http://nyr.kr/1cMzQ6P HT @NockLabHarvard
@Atul_Gawande : What is Anxiety? Louis Menand explains, complete with a history of the concept, in a terrific @newyorker piece:
http://nyr.kr/1cMzQ6P
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2014/01/27/140127crat_atlarge_menand
Science Junkie’s Guide to Art, by @jahlela. Nice bits on some unusual sci #viz, eg a circuit design etched into skin!
http://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/2014/01/10/science-junkies-guide-art
http://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/2014/01/10/science-junkies-guide-art/
Great descrip. & visualization of the mosaic result of #Xist activity. Seeing X Chromosomes in a New Light http://nyti.ms/1alnZSX HT @jflier
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/science/seeing-x-chromosomes-in-a-new-light.html
.@rtraborn @hyphaltip Another thing beyond earthquakes for E Coasters to fear about #SoCal: the Valley-Fever Menace
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/20/140120fa_fact_goodyear
Getting close and personal: Nice pop overview of #cancer genomics & finding new cancer drugs http://econ.trib.al/DevSlDS HT @ElementoLab
A REPORTER AT LARGE
THE INTELLIGENT PLANT
Scientists debate a new way of understanding flora.
BY MICHAEL POLLAN
DECEMBER 23, 2013
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_pollan
How Smart Are #Plants? Do they feel pain? Is plant #neurobiology an oxymoron? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_pollan HT @AlanGuerryMS @michaelpollan (1/2)
Time-lapse #video of a bean “striving” to reach a pole. If we were slower, perhaps #plants would seem smarter
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/video-do-bean-plants-show-intelligence.html (2/2)
The Search for a Blockbuster Insomnia #Drug: from biochemical innovation to dosing gamesmanship (1/2)
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/09/131209fa_fact_parker MT @jekbradbury
.@jekbradbury Bizarre ending to story with $MRK arguing against efficacy of low-dose #suvorexant promoted by hyper-cautious FDA (2/2)
The night: Why they call it the graveyard shift. Health hazards of not #sleeping now treated like smoking in the ’50s
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029450.700-the-night-why-they-call-it-the-graveyard-shift.html
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/new-dilemmas-for-the-prisoner
New Dilemmas for the Prisoner: Weird things happen with repeated iterations of the #PrisonersDilemma
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/new-dilemmas-for-the-prisoner #gametheory