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Google has bought abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com(businessinsider.com)
2 points by qCOVET 11y ago|1 comments
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Ooho Edible plastic free water bottles(aol.com)
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New Quantum Teleportation Record – 100 Km(osapublishing.org)
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Harvard is a 'hedge fund with a university attached to it'(businessinsider.com)
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The Semiotics of “Rose Gold”(newyorker.com)
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Sharebeast.com seized by FBI(businessinsider.com)
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by qCOVET 11y ago
Here is a great video of Scott Galloway (NYU Prof) on Angela's transition to Apple (2013) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDnwfjwfkxo
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by qCOVET 11y ago
Great story. I wonder how many of the young kids currently crying in the arms of their Syrian parents and hoping to survive political games, voyage across deadly waters and, kicks and blows in foreign lands, would be future graduates of Ha
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by qCOVET 11y ago
This is really sad. Here is an article for Startup founders and how to cope w/ stress and protect their mental health: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-startup-founders-can...
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by qCOVET 11y ago
Thank you. Great answer! I vaguely remember from my academia days that there was another protein of immense interest that led to centrosomal aggregation of proteins - a precusor to Alzhemier and it was called something like - alpha-synuclei
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by qCOVET 11y ago
Very interesting - thank you for sharing. Summary for others: Protein misfolding and aggregation inside the cell was known to contribute to Alzheimers. This article points to the possibility of misfolded and aggregated proteins of Alzheimer
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National Geographic put a GPS tracker inside a fake ivory(businessinsider.com)
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by qCOVET 11y ago
A cyber security company that does this "the box has Apache, pushing PHP, running as root." is not a cyber security company .. lol
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by qCOVET 11y ago
Thanks op for the link .. great pictures! India's historical legacy is absolutely breath taking. From the beautiful palaces in Jaipur, to the ultimate gift of Love in Agra, India's rich heritage tells stories of architectural brea
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Polaroid's retro camera prints with zero ink(dailydot.com)
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by qCOVET 11y ago
I believe University of Waterloo is one of the few that does full ownership of work by Prof (I could be wrong) .. and year after year, they beat the biggest Universities in Canada for being ranked as the #1 in entrepreneurship, tech commerc
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by qCOVET 11y ago
I think he is a rebellious entrepreneur who found himself confined in a space that does not align with who he is. I have been in his shoe and can clearly see why he chose to write that. He could have quietly vanished and worked as a 'r
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by qCOVET 11y ago
I absolutely agree with everything in this post. When I was a post doctoral fellow, my principal investigator would publish at least one paper a month. She was celebrated in the department. (a) The papers were published in journals like -
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by qCOVET 11y ago
This was already shared 6 days ago by user midko .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10143929
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Tiny Drops of Early Universe 'Perfect' Fluid(bnl.gov)
1 points by qCOVET 11y ago|0 comments
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by qCOVET 11y ago
I don't know much about circRNAs so excuse my naiveness - I wonder if it could be used for gene replacement therapy in the future? Something like, if there is a stop codon somewhere in the middle of a gene, the small piece of circRNA,
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by qCOVET 11y ago
From the author - Clay Christensen himself: "Consider the hegemony of Detroit’s Big Three—General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. At one time, they dominated the auto industry, producing bigger, faster, safer, more comfortable cars with mo
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by qCOVET 11y ago
This is a great example of Clay Christensen's Disruption. The cheap phone manufacturers, will emerge as big winners in the long run and push the current high-end manufacturers to either compete at their price point, or have their marke
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by qCOVET 11y ago
re: your comment 'how do you stop anything in the brain - cut the brain out ?' No, you can still design chemicals and peptides that could cross the blood brain barrier via adsorptive endocytosis, saturable transporters and trans-m
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The .onion Special-Use Domain Name Approved(datatracker.ietf.org)
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by qCOVET 11y ago
I started a not to be named University entrepreneurship program. I drew similar pictures and it looked beautiful, as if the ecosystem was bursting with activity. But the reality was different. It lacked excitement, it lacked visibility, it
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by qCOVET 11y ago
If you wish to learn a bit more .. Consider the DNA to be the basic hardware of life ... there has to be software layers that control how, when, where and how much information is to be decoded from the DNA. One layer of abstraction is epig
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Here is the documentary if you don't want to read the blog post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuGI6pQFZC0
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That is what I thought ... ahah
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I think Universities need to actively promote common spaces where researchers and graduate students from different faculties could meet and talk about different ideas. These common and fertile space would allow for collision of ideas to tak

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