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First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

A hockey coach?!?

The last post, entitled To the brainy, the spoils , linked to an Economist article about management consulting. It would appear that in the public sector, the highest paid employees tend to work in a tax-exempt sports-entertainment complex that is, ... [Published Information Processing - May 20 2013]

Entities: Management Consulting, Higher Education

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

To the brainy, the spoils

Economist : ... Big trends that befuddle clients mean big money for clever consultants. Barack Obama’s gazillion-page health reform has boosted health-care consulting; firms would rather pay up than read the blasted thing. The Dodd-Frank financial ... [Published Information Processing - May 16 2013]

Entities: Admission, Dodd-Frank, Due Diligence

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Nature News: Chinese project probes the genetics of genius

This article is mostly correct -- see my comments below in [[ brackets ]]. To clarify, my main motivation for understanding the genetics of cognition comes from the observation that the human brain, the most complex object we know of in the universe, ... [Published Information Processing - May 14 2013]

Entities: Genetics, Geneticist, Genomics

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

NGS, GATK and all that

This is a nice introduction to the nuts and bolts of next-generation sequencing. Slides . Related talks from a workshop on GATK (Broad Institute's Genome Analysis Tool Kit). ... [Published Information Processing - May 14 2013]

Entities: Genome

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Dennett and Intuition Pumps

At the bookstore today I spent some time looking at Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking , Daniel Dennett 's new book. I highly recommend his Darwin's Dangerous Idea , discussed earlier here . I'm not a big fan of Dennett's work on free ... [Published Information Processing - May 13 2013]

Entities: Daniel Dennett, 1991 Darwin, Gilbert Ryle

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Research Drives America

[Published Information Processing - May 10 2013]

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Mysteries of the universe

... [Published Information Processing - May 09 2013]

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Exercise response

Positive for most people, but with a lot of genetic variation. Interestingly, a fraction of the population (about 10%) can have a negative health or fitness response to training (see @40 min or so in the video). This professor's company claims to be able ... [Published Information Processing - May 06 2013]

Entities: genetic markers, Genotype, Aerobic

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Nasty, brutish and short?

In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, ... [Published Information Processing - May 06 2013]

Entities: Natural Selection, Thomas Hobbes, Kiang, University of Durham, Medical Research Council

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

BrunoFest 2013

Very sorry I had to miss this event , but one of our cohort of Berkeley students (Josh Burton) was able to attend. The photos below were taken by Josh. Had LHC discovered superpartners, Bruno and Julius Wess would have had a decent claim to a Nobel ... [Published Information Processing - May 05 2013]

Entities: J. D. Jackson, Steven Weinberg, Supersymmetry, Nobel Prize

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Lean in, freeze eggs

Better this than Idiocracy. You could also argue that men should freeze sperm as the incidence of de novo mutations in children increases with paternal age . WSJ : ... Egg freezing stopped the sadness that I was feeling at losing my chance to have the ... [Published Information Processing - May 04 2013]

Entities: Fertility, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Vitrification

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Richard Ford '66

Richard Ford , MSU class of 1966, delivers a commencement address. The President had to hand out diplomas and shake hands, so I had Ford to myself for most of the two hour ceremony. I can't remember the last time I had such an enjoyable discussion of ... [Published Information Processing - May 04 2013]

Entities: Richard Ford, Vaccine

Quotes

...society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — "Chapter XIII.: Of the Natural Condition of Mankind As Concerning Their Felicity, and Misery." , Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes NotNot only has natural selection not stopped since the advent of civilization, it has changed in subtle ways...

Nasty, brutish and short? [Published Information Processing - May 06 2013]

..."Einstein stopped in his tracks," says Gamow, "and, since we were crossing a street, several cars had to stop to avoid running us down"

The last amateurs [Published Information Processing - May 01 2013]

"The Tsarnaev brothers offer a grisly story of American immigration and integration, and Danny offers another ..." New Yorker : ... A sedan swerved in behind him, a man banged on his window, the door opened, a pistol appeared, and soon they were off...

The bright young man who comes here and tries to build something [Published Information Processing - Apr 27 2013]

...If you dial in, you might be able to ask me a question on the air :-) WBUR On Point . (More on the show and its host here .) "To join the conversation on the air, call us at 1-800-423-8255 during a live broadcast." Genius BabiesThe internet headline was “engineering genius babies” out of China. Not true. But the reality is very interesting. We’ll check it out...

On the radio: NPR's On Point [Published Information Processing - Mar 27 2013]

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Mysteries of the universe [Published Information Processing - May 09 2013]
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A hockey coach?!? [Published Information Processing - May 20 2013] The last post, entitled To the brainy, the spoils , linked to an Economist article about management consulting. It would appear that in the public sector, the highest paid employees tend to work in a tax-exempt sports-entertainment complex that is, ...
To the brainy, the spoils [Published Information Processing - May 16 2013] Economist : ... Big trends that befuddle clients mean big money for clever consultants. Barack Obama’s gazillion-page health reform has boosted health-care consulting; firms would rather pay up than read the blasted thing. The Dodd-Frank financial ...
Nature News: Chinese project probes the genetic... [Published Information Processing - May 14 2013] This article is mostly correct -- see my comments below in [[ brackets ]]. To clarify, my main motivation for understanding the genetics of cognition comes from the observation that the human brain, the most complex object we know of in the universe, ...
NGS, GATK and all that [Published Information Processing - May 14 2013] This is a nice introduction to the nuts and bolts of next-generation sequencing. Slides . Related talks from a workshop on GATK (Broad Institute's Genome Analysis Tool Kit). ...
Dennett and Intuition Pumps [Published Information Processing - May 13 2013] At the bookstore today I spent some time looking at Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking , Daniel Dennett 's new book. I highly recommend his Darwin's Dangerous Idea , discussed earlier here . I'm not a big fan of Dennett's work on free ...