January 2012
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December 2011
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Also, happy holidays.
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Seeing Terror Risk, U.S. Asks Journals to Cut Flu... →
For the first time ever, a government advisory board is asking scientific journals not to publish details of certain biomedical experiments, for fear that the information could be used by terrorists to create deadly viruses and touch off epidemics.
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This is a bad year for dictators.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the mercurial strongman extolled at home as the “Dear Leader” and reviled abroad as a tyrant, has died at 69, North Korean media reported Monday.
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Ice Cube Is in the House! →
You don’t want to live in nothing I draw. I got a certificate. For a year. In ’88. I don’t think I picked up a T-square since.
Ice Cube, architectural drafter?
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Devastating Explosions →
Listening to this (uggggghhhhh) lecture… I’ll take it.
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DNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data →
The field of genomics is caught in a data deluge. DNA sequencing is becoming faster and cheaper at a pace far outstripping Moore’s law, which describes the rate at which computing gets faster and cheaper.
The result is that the ability to determine DNA sequences is starting to outrun the ability of researchers to store, transmit and especially to analyze the data.
“Data handling is now the...
November 2011
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If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I’m going to eat meat; that’s how much I...
– Robert Smith
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