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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-15/harvard-mapping-my-dna-turns-scary-as-threatening-gene-emerges.html

Evidence report with JAK2 variant – http://evidence.personalgenomes.org/huA90CE6 .

My comment in response to https://plus.google.com/u/0/102948203403308799263/posts/NBHErsbBLxL

“Enjoyed this story very much. Finding that one has a rare but powerful variant will probably one of the first practical ways that personal genomics will impact actual people’s lives — particularly with the ramping up the NHGRI supported sequencing on simple Mendelian disorders.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204528204577009741133297800.html

http://www.economist.com/node/21545972

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-compass-within
Expts show birds seems to use it but hard to get at molecular cause of magnetic sense.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/to-know-but-not-understand-david-weinberger-on-science-and-big-data/250820

http://www.newscientist.com/special/impossible-chemistry
quasixtal, oscill. BZ rxn, XePtF6, 3-atom carbocat., QM tunnels

…and a longer version:
(1) quasicrystals & Shechtman Nobel;
(2) BZ reaction as wave via autocatalytic intermediate synthesis, damped so not to violated 2nd law; (3) Bartlett’s XePtF6 via super oxidizer (i.e. electron grabber) PtF6;
(4) Olah’s carbocation spread over 3 atoms (causes reaction to join on a different C than predicted)
(5) odd tunneling effects with intermediates push reactions to seemingly unfavorable products

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328482.000-driller-killers-turning-bacterias-weapons-on-them.html?

http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/mg21328491.700-power-paradox-clean-might-not-be-green-forever.html

Speed Limits on the Evolution of Enormousness
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/evolution-of-big/

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