http://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_radical_wisdom_for_a_company_a_school_a_life?language=en On accumulating money: […] if you’re giving back, you took too much. And some of the other very interesting things: And so we said, look, the retirement, the whole issue of how we distribute our graph of life. Instead of going mountain climbing when you’re 82, why don’t you do it next week? And we’ll do it like …
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The team began experimenting with Morse code using various percussion instruments and a keyboard. They learned that operators skilled in Morse code can often read the signals at a rate of 40 words per minute but played that fast, the beat would sound like a European Dance track. from https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/02/hiding_a_morse_.html Put that way, kinda …
Thousands of people will have their personal files held hostage this year, by software that uses virtually unbreakable encryption. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/534516/holding-data-hostage-the-perfect-internet-crime/
ADN, pochoir de Goin (Thierry Ehrmann/Flickr/CC) Vos gènes sont à vendre et ils peuvent rapporter gros (mais pas à vous) http://blogs.rue89.nouvelobs.com/la-sante-na-pas-de-prix/2015/01/24/vos-genes-sont-vendre-et-ils-peuvent-rapporter-gros-mais-pas-vous-234118 (EN) https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.rue89.nouvelobs.com%2Fla-sante-na-pas-de-prix%2F2015%2F01%2F24%2Fvos-genes-sont-vendre-et-ils-peuvent-rapporter-gros-mais-pas-vous-234118 http://mediacenter.23andme.com/blog/2015/01/06/23andme-genentech-pd/
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Beyond lab folklore and mythology: What the future of science will look like if we’re bold enough to look beyond centuries-old models. by Mike Loukides | January 16, 2015 http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/01/beyond-lab-folklore-and-mythology.html Labs where there was a shared common knowledge of how to do things, but where that shared culture never made it outside, not even to the lab down …
Using Aquarium, I transformed e. coli with a plasmid that expresses GFP. hourrah!
The United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers” In 2015, in France, people die for drawing cartoons… Devotion and Courage. Terrorist Attack against Charlie Hebdo My most humble and …
Split-colour bird is half male, half female http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/half-male-half-female-bird-cardinal-plumage_n_6392336.html (FR) http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2015/01/01/photo-oiseau-double-plumage-male-femelle-gynandromorphisme-bilateral_n_6403366.html?utm_hp_ref=france