Interesting but dated read. Discusses how hThe Future of Man @sciam: Interesting but dated; how humans are anti-evolving because of medicine http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-future-of-man #evolution
http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammag/?contents=2009-jan
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We estimate that approximately 73% of all protein-coding SNVs and approximately 86% of SNVs predicted to be deleterious arose in the past 5,000–10,000 years.
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6,515 #exomes reveals the recent origin of most human protein-coding variants: ~75% #SNVs arose in last ~7.5K yrs
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7431/full/nature11690.html
The bread #wheat genome using… shotgun sequencing: ~5X human, from 3 diff. component genomes, many #pseudogenes
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v491/n7426/full/nature11650.html
Great eval of @LastPass on old @SecurityNow episode, highlighting total #encryption approach & plan if company tanks
Also, login grids, 1-time passwords
Steve thoroughly evaluates LastPass, explains why high-security passwords are necessary, and tells us how LastPass makes storing those passwords secure.
http://twit.tv/show/security-now/256
downloaded, synched, listened & posted
Good discussion of lots of technical stuff, including regions of the brain, how nerves work, & artificial neural nets
http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/B002KE9BPO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352690693&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Brain%3A+A+Very+Short+Introduction+%28Unabridged%29