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http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=11398

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_trap/2011/11/naked_mole_rats_can_they_help_us_cure_cancer_.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_trap/2011/11/black_6_lab_mice_and_the_history_of_biomedical_research.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_trap/2011/11/lab_mice_are_they_limiting_our_understanding_of_human_disease_.html

http://news.yale.edu/2012/03/28/you-room-bacteria-counts-spike?id=373?utm_source=YNemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=yn-04-02-12

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/health/research/dnas-power-to-predict-is-limited-study-finds.html?_r=2&hp
based on :
The Predictive Capacity of Personal Genome Sequencing
Nicholas J. Roberts,1* Joshua T. Vogelstein,2* Giovanni Parmigiani,3 Kenneth W. Kinzler,1 Bert
Vogelstein,1† Victor E. Velculescu1†
scitranslmed.3003380

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/business/mining-our-personal-data-for-our-own-good.html

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life now featured in nytimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/business/mining-our-personal-data-for-our-own-good.html

Some thoughts:

* Interesting and very precise measurement of daily email flow, meetings, and phone calls.

* Found the consistency of his late night schedule and the
exponentially decreasing length of his phone calls interesting. It’s also interesting how working on his book affected all of this.

* He felt that this form of personal quantification was a bit more useful currently than his personal genome and I’m inclined to agree.

Obesity and the brain: A high-hypothalamus diet
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/03/obesity-and-brain

Just a mouse study, but published in Science and argues that keeping too clean is harmful:
http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/22/let-them-eat-dirt/