Archive for the ‘PopSci’ Category

Meat of the Matter: Are Our Modern Methods of Preserving and Cooking Meat Healthy?: Scientific American

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=meat-of-the-matter-modern-methods-preserving-cooking-meat-healthy&print=true

Measurement: Is Paris worth a mass? | The Economist

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21569417-kilogram-it-seems-no-longer-kilogram-paris-worth-mass

The Most Striking Equation in Mathematics « Galileo’s Pendulum

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

Euler’s Eq.
http://galileospendulum.org/2011/12/09/the-most-striking-equation-in-mathematics/

YaleNews | Genetic landscape of common brain tumors holds key to personalized treatment

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

http://news.yale.edu/2013/01/24/genetic-landscape-common-brain-tumors-holds-key-personalized-treatment?utm_source=YNemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=yn-01-29-13

Harvard professor blasts Neanderthal clone baby rumor on Web

Thursday, January 24th, 2013

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/harvard_professor_blasts_neanderthal_clone_baby_rumor_web

The Tomato – Ripe, Juicy and Bursting With Genes – NYTimes.com

Thursday, January 24th, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/science/the-tomato-ripe-juicy-and-bursting-with-genes.html

Web Hunt for DNA Sequences Leaves Privacy Compromised

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/health/search-of-dna-sequences-reveals-full-identities.html about
Identifying Personal Genomes by Surname Inference
Melissa Gymrek, Amy L. McGuire, David Golan, Eran Halperin, Yaniv Erlich SCIENCE VOL 339 18 JANUARY 2013

Search of DNA Sequences Reveals Full Identities – NYTimes.com

Friday, January 18th, 2013

hapmap ceph people revealed
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/health/search-of-dna-sequences-reveals-full-identities.html?_r=0

Free exchange: The scam busters | The Economist

Saturday, January 12th, 2013

Bedford’s law (lots more leading 1s than 9s) used for fraud detection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford‘s_law
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21568364-how-antitrust-economists-are-getting-better-spotting-cartels-scam-busters

Alexander Leaf Dies at 92 – Linked Diet and Health – NYTimes.com

Monday, January 7th, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/us/alexander-leaf-dies-at-92-linked-diet-and-health.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&seid=auto