http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout MT @herstoryhere The Scientific 7-Minute Workout http://bit.ly/11XePRj But how long to warmup and cooldown? #exercise
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But there was the potentially politically explosive matter of privacy. Unlike Facebook, where users were at least giving the campaign explicit permission to collect personal data even if they had not read the fine print, television watchers were making no such agreement. To address this, the campaign and Rentrak hired a third party to “anonymize” the data so that they would only know that the information was coming from a set-top box of somebody on the persuadable list; identifying information would be stripped away.
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What if they didn’t hire a 3rd party ? Is this something the government can do ?
Determine who the swing voters are & what they’re watching, so you can target pol ads. Impressive mining but a little scary from privacy perspective
Find swing voters & what they watch to target pol ads. Impressive #mining but a little #privacy scary
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campaigns-digital-masterminds-cash-in.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campaigns-digital-masterminds-cash-in.html
Can IT staff be trusted ? MT @nytimes: N.S.A. Leak Puts Focus on System Administrators
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html?emc=eta1&pagewanted=all Say Hello to the 100 Trillion Bacteria That Make Up Your Microbiome BY MICHAEL POLLAN
Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we?re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.
Our processed-food diets just feed the upper GI via @kellynicola: M POLLAN on the microbiome #health http://bit.ly/11QmmS3
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/leave-the-driving-to-it Sketches an incredible future of computer-aided driving where the daily commute includes a nap! #driving
Accounting for mutational heterogeneity in identifying cancer genes… MutSigCV by @broadinstitute via @notSoJunkDNA: http://bit.ly/14EPvVx http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12213.html doi:10.1038/nature12213
Great primer on network theory MT @russskinner PRISM… analysis: Paul Revere identified by his connections to others http://bit.ly/11DK8R9
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/06/prism_metadata_analysis_paul_revere_identified_by_his_connections_to_other.single.html
Amazing #photo of what the night sky should look like MT @TheAtlantic: whole-sky time-lapse of the galactic center http://bit.ly/14BUQwD
The elasticity of vocal cords, the difficulty of operating on them & the story of a surgeon doing this
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/04/130304fa_fact_colapinto #medicine
QM QBism v Copenhagen. Is Bayesian Belief better explaining
Schrodinger’s Cat than superimposed dead & alive states?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=wave-function