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Cloud and Big Data, Together: A Huge Springboard to Innovation – Forbes

Saturday, March 30th, 2013

Free open data streams, some from gvt.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2013/03/17/cloud-and-big-data-together-a-huge-springboard-to-innovation/

In Asteroid’s Aftermath, a Sigh of Relief – NYTimes.com

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

Nice to average the destructiveness over all possible impact locations
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/science/space/in-asteroids-aftermath-a-sigh-of-relief.html?smid=tw-nytimes

BBC – Future Quantified self: The tech-based route to a better life?

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-self-track-route-to-a-better-life/print More thoughts :
http://blog.gerstein.info/2013/03/thoughts-on-bbc-future-quantified-self.html

You Have 46 Chromosomes. This Pond Creature Has 15,600 – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

non-coding elements removed from “active” genome !
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/06/you-have-46-chromsomes-this-pond-creature-has-15600/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20130210ph-chromopond&utm_campaign=Content

regulatory cancer drivers

Monday, March 11th, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/science/new-mutations-discovered-in-melanomas.html
Two papers in Science talking about recurrent mutations in TERT promoter in melanoma.

1) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/957.full
Highly Recurrent TERT Promoter Mutations in Human Melanoma
Franklin W. Huang1,2,3,* Eran Hodis1,3,4,*,Mary Jue Xu1,3,4,Gregory V. Kryukov1,Lynda Chin5,6,Levi A. Garraway1,2,3,†

2) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/959.full
TERT Promoter Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Melanoma
Susanne Horn1,2,Adina Figl1,2,P. Sivaramakrishna Rachakonda1,Christine Fischer3,Antje Sucker2,Andreas Gast1,2,Stephanie Kadel1,2,Iris Moll2,Eduardo Nagore4,Kari Hemminki1,5,Dirk Schadendorf2,*,†,Rajiv Kumar1,*,†

why sitting is bad

Monday, March 11th, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/business/stand-up-desks-gaining-favor-in-the-workplace.html +
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/01/sitting_is_the_smoking_of_our_generation.html making a strong case for a standing desk & walking meetings….

Global Temperatures Highest in 4,000 Years, Study Says – NYTimes.com

Saturday, March 9th, 2013

~50 deg. in Jan. in NYC in global context

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/science/earth/global-temperatures-highest-in-4000-years-study-says.html

Article: The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

Saturday, March 2nd, 2013

D GELERNTER describes the original lifestreams idea from a 2013 perspective
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/the-end-of-the-web-computers-and-search-as-we-know-it/

Big biology: The ’omes puzzle : Nature News & Comment

Friday, March 1st, 2013

http://www.nature.com/news/big-biology-the-omes-puzzle-1.12484?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130228
Where once there was the genome, now there are thousands of ’omes.
Nature goes in search of the ones that matter.
by Monya Baker
27 February 2013Contains an interesting ‘omes crossword

The Drama Over Project Encode, And Why Big Science And Small Science Are Different | Popular Science

Friday, March 1st, 2013

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/fracas-over-project-encode-and-why-big-science-and-small-science-are-different