Archive for the ‘PopSci’ Category
Measurement: Is Paris worth a mass? | The Economist
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013The Most Striking Equation in Mathematics « Galileo’s Pendulum
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013YaleNews | Genetic landscape of common brain tumors holds key to personalized treatment
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013Harvard professor blasts Neanderthal clone baby rumor on Web
Thursday, January 24th, 2013The Tomato – Ripe, Juicy and Bursting With Genes – NYTimes.com
Thursday, January 24th, 2013Web Hunt for DNA Sequences Leaves Privacy Compromised
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013http://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, 2013hapmap 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, 2013Bedford’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