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Rather scary

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau7292.full

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6423/130.full
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6423/130

“Is Email Making Professors Stupid?” is the Q posed by
https://www.Chronicle.com/interactives/is-email-making-professors-stupid . My A: YES. The article has a nice description of the problem with 24/7 connectivity: how the urgent but unimportant crowds out the important but non-urgent

QT:(((”
“Knuth does provide his mailing address at Stanford, and he asks that people send an old-fashioned letter if they need to contact him. His administrative assistant gathers these letters and presents them to Knuth in batches, getting urgent correspondence to him quickly, and putting everything else into a “buffer” that he reviews, on average, “one day every three months.”

Knuth’s approach to email prioritizes the long-term value of uninterrupted concentration over the short-term convenience of accessibility. Objectively speaking, this tradeoff makes sense, but it’s so foreign to most tenured and tenure-track professors that it can seem ludicrous — more parody than pragmatism. This is because in the modern academic environment professors act more like middle managers than monastics. A major factor driving this reality is the digital communication Knuth so carefully avoids. Faculty life now means contending with an unending stream of electronic missives, many of which come with an expectation of rapid reply.”
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“Is Email Making Professors Stupid?” is the Q posed by
https://www.Chronicle.com/interactives/is-email-making-professors-stupid . My A: YES. The article has a nice description of the problem with 24/7 connectivity: how the urgent but unimportant crowds out the important but non-urgent

https://www.k12schoolsupplies.net/Read-Light-Up-Your-Imagination-Argus-Large-Poster-p/t-a67365.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/business/family-tree-dna-fbi.html

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/28/18194560/ancestry-dna-23-me-myheritage-science-explainer

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/531384v1.abstract

Meet Ryan, the seven-year-old YouTuber who made £17.3m in a year
https://www.theGuardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2018/dec/04/meet-ryan-the-seven-year-old-youtuber-who-made-173m-in-a-year What will he make when he turns 20!

Meet Ryan, the seven-year-old YouTuber who made £17.3m in a year | Technology | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com
Name: Ryan. Age: Seven. Value: £17.3m. It’s wrong to hate a child, isn’t it? Yes! Of course it is. Especially if you hate them for having more money than you. Let’s end this line of inquiry …

Changes in gene activity may one day reveal…time of death
https://www.ScienceMag.org/news/2018/02/changes-gene-activity-may-one-day-reveal-time-death-crime-victims Discusses paper by @RodericGuigo (“Effects of death & post-mortem cold ischemia on….#transcriptomes,”
https://www.Nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02772-x). Obvious forensic interest but maybe a #privacy angle as well

Changes in gene activity may one day reveal the time of death for crime victims