Notes for Thursday, March 7th 2013

Some select notes on this day:


academic stress level survey, http://www.ucu.org.uk/6538#.UThRP6mOIfB.mailto

A.I., multistability in a neuron model with network feedback http://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0021364012230087 …

brains, mouse chimeras with human glia show improved learning performance, http://io9.com/5988969/scientists-enhance-intelligence-of-mice-with-human-brain-cells ..

collective intelligence resources,
http://www.scip.org/files/resources/tovey-collective-intelligence.pdf …

Democracy Now, Operation Condor, Coordinated Campaign By Latin American Dictatorships To Kill Leftists http://owl.li/ivyUb

education and computers, no benefit of having a computer at home for 6-10th grade kids' school outcomes, N = 1123. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2223118 …

education, Head Start evaluation, (minimal effect; publication long-delayed; mainstream media fail; Brookings Inst.) http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2010/01/21-head-start-whitehurst ..

education, single-sex classrooms benefit females' (but not males') performance, via reduction in StereotypeThreat, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2223114 …

exercise and will, .. exercise improves self-control in youth and young adults http://m.healthday.com/iphone_article.htm?CID=0B3F45B2&NFID=C&articleId=674180 …

food, cheese and paleo, http://www.marksdailyapple.com/cheese-unhealthy/#axzz2MoBKCVkm

food, veganism, Barbara J King article, http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/03/07/173436485/discuss-is-humane-meat-an-oxymoron

foods, gmo and sterility, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eilDbdLAyFs

genomes and endosymbionts, Drosophila and Spiroplasma, via ‏@fly_papers, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23462112 ...

genomics conf. fogm13, "future of genomic medicine" = fogm
GholsonLyon. science is divided into silos guarded by silverback gorillas preventing data sharing. #mixedmetaphorFTW
GholsonLyon. the future of genomics medicine is going to come from companies like 23andme. doesn't see it happening from academia..
AT Using a google page rank parallel to describe gene ranking #FOGM13 pic.twitter.com/1UZb53h9Ad ‏ conference site, http://www.scripps.org/events/the-future-of-genomic-medicine-vi-march-7-2013 ..

genomics primer/tutorials at Scripps, http://www.stsiweb.org/index.php/education_training/primer/ ..

happiness and work, 2013 0307,
HSE (2008) Psychosocial Working Conditions in Britain in 2008
Statements rated by respondents:
I can decide when to take a break. I have a say in my own work speed. I have a choice in deciding how to do my work. I have a choice in deciding what I do at work. I have some say over the way I work. My working time can be flexible.

intrusiveness, I can remember when folks were shocked at the idea of routine drug testing as a condition of employment. Tantra Dad ‏@mattcornell

marketing psychology history, Scientific Psychology book 1923, http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/03/scientific-advertising/

medical costs, Diabetes cost $245 billion in the US last year. http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1965185 … evolutionarypsy

medical hubris, doctor knows best, Razib's encounter, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2013/03/your-health-is-your-health

medical hubris, Doctor Pontificate, .. one definition of pontificate, http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/pontificate_1 ..

medicine science-clinical gap, Scientists shocked by the paucity of data a clinician looks at. #FOGM13 drsteventucker Snyder hits a common theme, ...

Mooc design, It suddenly occurs to me that I am an expert in hunter-gatherer demography, and we need h-g group structure in a #mooc johnhawks

noise, how the brain filters out background noise http://scim.ag/15ybBIw, selective entrainment hypothesis studied in epilepsy patients

Parent-Offspring Conflict and the Persistence of Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension in Modern Humans http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056821..

relationships, apps to deal with a messy break-up, by eradicating an ex- online http://nyti.ms/YNVGiT

smartphones, a wearable camera to increase the accuracy of dietary analysis http://bit.ly/12Zi2FW (take photos of meals)

solar system, planets and Sun to scale, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151486624310155&set=a.496176595154.294030.8798180154&type=1

transcripts, .. transcripts of #MOOC lectures. One 15-min lecture has only 2000 words. A great lecture in person but trite to read. johnhawks