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Animal (Taken with instagram)

Infographic on “putting Pinterest to work”

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Do the Want Receptors of my brain care that this single ring costs between thirty-six and forty-two hundred dollars? Do they care that it’s on jewelrydesignsformen.com? No, in fact they’re suggesting that for that amount of money, an order customized for my child-sized hands should probably be included. Here’s what the ring is made of:

(via BibliOdyssey: The Bookplate Collection)

Anatomy of a Smart City infographic

Sign up New Relic’s webapp performance tool at the free level and get this cool “data nerd” t-shirt.  Then send it to me. I wear a large. (via Web Application Performance Management (APM) : New Relic)

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jtotheizzoe:

wired:

Craig Venter has been on a tear of invention and exploration. In 2004 he sailed around the world, discovering thousands of new species and sequencing millions of new genes. In 2007 he unveiled his own genome, unexpurgated (it revealed a predisposition for risk-taking, among other things). And in 2010 he announced the first successful synthesis of life—a unique critter borne from two distinct organisms, thus proving for the first time that it is indeed possible to create new organisms for specific purposes and functions. He is, in every respect, the epitome of an icon—a figure who has pushed science forward, sometimes by sheer force of will.

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Photo: Joe Pugliese

Everyone’s favorite genome cowboy, profiled at Wired Science.

To get your appetite going, here’s some of his words about how the human genome project panned out, and where we’re going from here (emphasis mine):

“… what most people think about when it comes to genetics is personalized medicine. If we sequence your genome or my genome, what can we interpret, what can we predict for the future, what can we change? That’s in its absolute infancy. We’re at the point where we don’t need one genome or just a few genomes to interpret your genome. We need tens of thousands of genomes as a starting point, coupled with everything we can know about their physiology. It’s only when we do that giant computer search, putting all that DNA together, that we will be able to make sense in a meaningful statistical manner of what your DNA is telling you. We’re just at the start of trying to do that.”

(Source: Wired)