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http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346124/title/Across_1,000_genomes,_rarities_abound

Interesting account of work on sphere packing. As the number of spheres increases from 4 (the tetrahedron), new things emerge : new seeds not built from previous solutions and flexible solutions that can have internal subparts twist without breaking contacts. Great animations of the later.

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-science-of-sticky-spheres

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/32603/title/Predicting%20Publishing%20Futures http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/full/489201a.html http://klab.smpp.northwestern.edu/h-index.html

http://www.sciencecodex.com/first_wgs_of_multiple_pancreatic_cancer_patients_outlined_in_study_by_tgen_mayo_and_shc-99930

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/03/111003fa_fact_gawande

From EK:”
A very long paper discussing how genetic diversity of a population is related to economic development-
http://ideas.repec.org/p/bro/econwp/2010-7.html
…. featured in as Science Editor’s choice !!
[but]… enough people were disturbed by it
so they wrote up a comment in Nature…”

http://www.nature.com/news/economics-and-genetics-meet-in-uneasy-union-1.11565

http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7417-591a
Particularly relevant to genomics and refers to authorship on the main ENCODE paper
QT:”
Biagioli agrees that delineating each person’s contribution should help, but he says that the descriptions are frequently too brief. As an example, he cites the study published this month in Nature by the ENCODE Project Consortium [the ENCODE “main paper”] . It ascribes generic tasks such as “data analysis”, “writing” or “scientific management” to large sets of authors, making it impossible to tell, for example, who analysed which data.
“

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19940117,00.html
Interesting how much has changed… & remained the same

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/10/09/world/europe/09reuters-nobel-physics.html

http://www.nature.com/news/encode-the-human-encyclopaedia-1.11312