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Archive for April, 2010

Rationale of a human-truck hybrid

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 Posted in politics | 1 Comment »

Lawrence Lessig uses Sen. Scott Brown's (R-MA) inability to explain why he opposes the financial reform bill as further reason that the way we fund elections (or, rather, politicians) needs ... Read more..

Lightning strike

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

A previous cloud post, Puff piece, has gotten a bit of attention from Jason Stowe and Informatics Iron. While the Informatics Iron piece was positive, Mr. Stowe took issue with ... Read more..

Permanent campaign

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

NPR has a series this week about the current level of distrust Americans have with government. The latest installment, Americans Distrust Congress? That's No Surprise, ties some of the low ... Read more..

Breast cancer quartet

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Today in Nature our recent research studying basal-like breast cancer as compared to normal DNA, a subsequent brain metastasis, and a xenograft derived from the primary tumor (a xenograft is ... Read more..

Twitterpated

Monday, April 12th, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Just wanted to let everyone know that The Genome Center is now on Facebook and Twitter. So become a fan a listen to our tweets (immediately after typing that sentence ... Read more..

Misdirection

Friday, April 9th, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

I know it's two posts in a row, but here is another clip from The Daily Show worth checking out. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c Read more..

Race to the bottom

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 Posted in politics | 1 Comment »

Yesterday on NPR there was a story reporting new details on the assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. Of course, according to one member of the Texas school board, no ... Read more..

Sing like a bird

Thursday, April 1st, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The zebra finch reference genome and several companion papers are being published today in Nature and Genome Research. The zebra finch is a model for human vocal development and it ... Read more..