NYer on #Alzheimer’s Research: baptists v dissenting tauists http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/06/24/130624fa_fact_groopman
The baptists believe in that beta-amyloid is key
Place Hacking – would have been called stunt trespassing 10 years ago MT @alorenza: Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky http://bit.ly/14HLEET Best Urban Explorers and Place Hacking Stories – GQ March 2013
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201303/urban-explorers-gq-march-2013?printable=true&mobify=0
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201303/urban-explorers-gq-march-2013?mobify=0
QT:
Despite its financial woes, deCode has begun to pay off, not in money, but in science. About 10 years ago its scientists co-discovered the association of the neuroregulin 1 (NRG1) gene with schizophrenia, and they have had some more modest successes with other diseases. But last week, deCode produced not only its most important genetic finding to date, but also quite possibly the most important genetic finding in Alzheimer’s disease in the last 20 years.
To be fair, the company had plenty of help. Coauthors of their paper, “A mutation in APP protects against Alzheimer’s disease and
age-related cognitive decline” … the key to the study rests on two things: the use of genetically defined populations, and genome sequencing and analysis based on a specific hypothesis.
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http://genomebiology.com/2012/13/10/176
Nice overview of #Alzheimer’s research giving context for deCode’s finding of a protective APP mutation
http://genomebiology.com/2012/13/10/176
generic boosters w/ out- & inside antennas + VZW & ATT offer pers. cell tower plugging into broadband
or
Better Cellphone Signal: Generic boosters w/ out & in antennas + personal cell tower (VZW). http://bit.ly/156QbDa via @nahumg @brasonja
My data is worth ~$.75 ! MT @FinancialTimes: How much is your personal data worth? Find out using FT’s calculator http://bit.ly/17rnely
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#Detroit owes $25K/resident. Escape burden by moving! Economist | Iron Orr http://bit.ly/14ClZh1 via @v_cro @theeconomist
What to get – fitbit’s better hardware v jawbone’s software? Also, there’s nike plus and there are rumors of a new one.
… bet they will all introduce new ones for the fall?
Wearable Devices Nudge You to a Healthier Lifestyle
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/technology/personaltech/wearable-devices-nudge-you-to-a-healthier-lifestyle.html
Fitbit’s hardware v Jawbone’s software? Also, Nike MT @nikohrdy: Wearable Devices Nudge You to Health http://bit.ly/11OZeYQ
#quantifiedself
chrome OS & #android will coexist in the short term according to
#Google Exec http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/exclusive-sundar-pichai-reveals-his-plans-for-android
Worries about tech obsessed kids b/c work quality proportional to filtering distractions http://bit.ly/11Z7z7I via @Prof_Thea @nytimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/my-kids-are-obsessed-with-technology-and-its-all-my-fault.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all QT:
“Midway through my 20s I underwent a reformation. I began reading, then writing, literary fiction. It quickly became apparent that the quality of my work rose in direct proportion to my ability filter out distractions. I’ve spent the past two decades struggling to resist the endless pixelated enticements intended to capture and monetize every spare second of human attention.”
Companion to piece in Atlantic Monthly
Thermodynamic sinks: oxides, alkaline cation + molecular anion, fluorides, dissolved salts
https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-thermodynamic-sinks-of-this-world #chemistry
by Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann
QT:”
Let’s use some simple chemistry to get a feeling for the thermodynamic sinks of this world. …. Here is the first principle of stability, one we have already seen in the reaction forming water: Form oxides. ….The prescription is obvious: Form oxides, form solid state, ionic compounds. The elements don’t stand a chance, except for the early noble gases …. one finds that all carbonates are very stable, as are most salts containing nitrate (NO3-), sulfate (SO42-), phosphate (PO43-) and silicate ions…..
There is a pattern emerging in the nature of the more stable compounds: It’s not simply ionic bonding (Na+Cl-, Li+H-), but ionic bonding between an alkali or alkaline earth cation and a molecular anion (CO32-, SiO44-). Of course, within each molecular ion there lurks ionicity… Ions within ions!
But there are compounds more stable than oxides, and these are fluorides—for example, CaF2, fluorite, or Na3AlF3, cryolite. In these even more ionicity is provided than in oxides. ….
Also, in the temperature range where water is a liquid, a good number of salts, hardly all, dissolve in water with a negative Gibbs energy of solution….
So my tentative answer to the question posed at the beginning is not romantic. The final product (at P = 1 atmosphere and 298 kelvin) will be a messy soup of cations of the less electronegative elements (including the transition metals) with molecular anions, in water. “