Archive for the ‘PopSci’ Category
Men Should Skip Common Prostate Test, Panel Says – WSJ.com
Friday, May 25th, 2012http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303610504577418440316431530.html
Seems to be all the more important to separate aggressive from indolent cancer
In Their Prime: Mathematicians Come Closer to Solving Goldbach’s Weak Conjecture: Scientific American
Sunday, May 13th, 2012Google’s Brin Makes Strides in Hunt for Parkinson’s Cure – Businessweek
Saturday, May 12th, 2012http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-11/google-s-brin-makes-strides-in-hunt-for-parkinson-s-cure-health
great qt on pot. for $1b check
To combat his lrkk2 allele
Internal Time: The Science of Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired | Brain Pickings
Saturday, May 12th, 2012Another Genetic Quirk of the Solomon Islands: Blond Hair
Saturday, May 5th, 2012Science paper
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6081/554
From SB: It is always cool to associate a variant to a clear phenotype ( even it it isn’t the causal variant).
Questions for the Itch Doctor: Scientific American
Monday, April 23rd, 2012http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=itch-doctor Center for the Study of Itch at Wash U
The Limits of Intelligence: Scientific American
Monday, April 16th, 2012http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-limits-of-intelligence
log (brain mass) = .75 * log(body mass)
An Adventure in the Nth Dimension » American Scientist
Monday, April 16th, 2012An Adventure in the Nth Dimension » American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/an-adventure-in-the-nth-dimension n-ball size v n: pi, 4.2=pi*4/3, 5=(pi^2)/2, 5.3=(8/15)*pi^2, 5.2, 4.7, 4.1…. to zero
resulting from the competition of pi^m v m!
Computational Biology: Mouse project to find each gene’s role
Saturday, April 14th, 2012http://ravi-computationalbiology.blogspot.com/2010/05/mouse-project-to-find-each-genes-role.html
KO every mouse gene for $1B