Google Reader Feed: My Shared Items
Apparently, George Church has figured out a way to do it: [Church] and his team of researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston invented a table-top machine that can generate multiple changes in the DNA of bacteria all at once, speeding up the evolutionary process. The technology, known as multiplex automated genetic engineering, or MAGE, [...]
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I came across this Chris Anderson piece from a 2008 issue of Wired via Ana Andjelic. Anderson argues that in the era of Big Data we no longer need to rely on theory and the scientific method to achieve advances in knowledge: Google’s founding philosophy is that we don’t know why this page is better [...]
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Just yesterday, my colleagues and I were discussing the merits of health supplements. Specifically, we were talking about the extent to which there is scientific evidence to back up their effectiveness claims. Who knew that I would pop open my Google Reader to find that one of the latest creations from Information is Beautiful focuses [...]
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Michael Clarke over at The Scholarly Kitchen writes an interesting post on the reasons why the institution of scientific publication has not been disrupted yet by new technologies and processes: When Tim Berners-Lee created the Web in 1991, it was with the aim of better facilitating scientific communication and the dissemination of scientific research. Put [...]
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I’m hosting an event in Atlanta and will be there through the end of the week. While I’m away, check out this TED talk by V.S. Ramachandran which discusses the amazing subject of mirror neurons and their role in the propagation of culture. Enjoy.
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
