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Kitchen as a Pollution Hazard: #health impact is on a par with car accidents & greater than secondhand smoke or radon
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/the-kitchen-as-a-pollution-hazard

QT:”

Recently Dr. Logue estimated the long-term health effects expected from hundreds of chemicals found in average homes. Her 2012 study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, used a common epidemiological metric known as disability-adjusted life-year to show that the population-wide health impact of indoor pollutants is on a par with that of car accidents, and greater than that of traditional concerns like secondhand smoke or radon.

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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

RT @ilonummi: Scientists Trace Memories of Things That Never Happened – http://bit.ly/1e4YgK3 http://bit.ly/1e4YhgZ

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/science/false-memory-planted-in-a-mouse-brain-study-shows.html

NYer: Slow ideas – surgical anesthesia v antiseptics: people talking to people spread innovation http://bit.ly/1c11yRZ via @davidwcovington
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/29/130729fa_fact_gawande

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/education/edlife/universities-offer-courses-in-a-hot-new-field-data-science.html

MT @KromerBigData: #DataScience in @nytimes http://bit.ly/13mPhxS McKinsey says ~60% more in field needed for ~500K new jobs in 5yrs

QT:”As an academic field, it cuts across disciplines, with courses in statistics, analytics, computer science and math, coupled with the specialty a student wants to analyze, from patterns in marine life to historical texts.”

QT:”Universities can hardly turn out data scientists fast enough. To meet demand from employers, the United States will need to increase the number of graduates with skills handling large amounts of data by as much as 60 percent, according to a report by McKinsey Global Institute. There will be almost half a million jobs in five years, and a shortage of up to 190,000 qualified data scientists, plus a need for 1.5 million executives and support staff who have an understanding of data.”

Lister… Ecker

MT @BiomedRevon: Global #epigenomic reconfiguration during mammalian #brain development http://bit.ly/16lbboa cortex methylation over time

A “map showing how methylation changes in the frontal cortex over time. During the first two years of life… a wave of methylation alters the DNA in genes ”

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/07/05/science.1237905

MT @KimKarman: Why is the rich US in such poor health? New Sci http://bit.ly/1bXuTMZ A: we’re fat, sedentary, drug-abusing, gun-loving…

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929250.200-why-is-the-rich-us-in-such-poor-health.html#.UfNBQGSG1A8

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929252.000-voice-almighty-decoding-speechs-secret-signals.html MT @Annamariette: Voice almighty: Decoding #speech’s secret signals New Sci http://bit.ly/13N1v72 CEOs w/ deeper voices are paid better

MT @hlatim: Checkpoint Charlie | Economist http://bit.ly/137nZLO checkpoint inhibitors for lymphocyte proliferation, which combats #cancer

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21578986-new-class-drugs-being-deployed-struggle-against-cancer-checkpoint

MT @ChristianMesser: $MSFT crisis: Stock plunging, Ballmer under attack. http://bit.ly/1382z12 ~35=>~32 on 7/19, ~60 all-time high ~’00
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/07/22/microsoft_crisis_stock_plunging_ballmer_under_attack.html