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by bedris 15y ago
I actually don't mind the government running a background check on me or looking into my private affairs as I don't have anything to hide from them. To me, that actually feels much more dignified than walking barefoot over a disgusting carp
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Second-Quarter VC Activity(xconomy.com)
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by bedris 15y ago
I agree that Secrets of Consulting is a terrific book. I've always been amused by Weinberg's The Lone Ranger Fantasy: "When the clients don't show their appreciation, pretend that they're stunned by your performance--but never forget that
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1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future (2008)(gizmodo.com)
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by bedris 15y ago
Like many things, the quality and value of your education is not only a function of the institution you attend, but also of your goals, drive, and temperament. If your goal is to simply obtain a degree so that you can get a job with your cr
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by bedris 15y ago
How to accept a compliment. Thanks or agreement feels egotistical. Trying to act as humble by playing it down doesn't seem to be received well either. "The refusal of praise is only the wish to be praised twice." - Francois de La Rochefou
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by bedris 16y ago
This could also be due to the fact that CD47 blockade allows preferential phagocytosis of cancer cells by macrophages [1,2] so it might not be solely radiation sensitivity that is leading to the clearance of the tumor cells. [1] http://www
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by bedris 16y ago
Here is the original Sci Transl Med (2008) paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2811586/?tool=pu... And here is a follow-up paper in Am J Pathol (2008): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2543077/?tool=pu... Both
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by bedris 16y ago
I think that #4 is extremely important and rarely mentioned. It's much easier to go to bed earlier guilt-free, and to fall asleep once you're there, knowing that you have accounted for ideas-in-progress, you have acknowledged loose ends and
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by bedris 16y ago
Press release from Sangamo Biosciences, which has some good background information on zinc finger nuclease gene editing technology for those who are not familiar with the technique: http://investor.sangamo.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=5
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by bedris 16y ago
In addition, professionally edited journals frequently have feature/news stories and research highlights, which require staff to select relevant topics and to write and edit the articles. Also, journals can have advertisements for products
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by bedris 16y ago
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funds approximately one third of all biomedical research in the USA [1], requires that all peer-reviewed manuscripts that arise from NIH funds be submitted within 12 months of acceptance to a j
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by bedris 16y ago
Regardless of whether you are trying to sell someone on your services, I feel that this is a very good piece of advice: The majority will thank your asserted approach, and are looking forward to your conversation. At a professional confer
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by bedris 16y ago
Look at the first photo of a friend, then examine every one of your friends (the average user has a couple hundred) and match them up, assuming that their profile photo is similar to the randomly-selected photo from the social captcha The
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by bedris 16y ago
For those interested in more background on the microfluidic technology used, here is the original paper published in Nature in 2007: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7173/abs/nature06...
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by bedris 16y ago
Some other good ones (not all entrepreneurship-specific): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=442022
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by bedris 16y ago
Her cells, when grown in culture, have been dividing and replicating for a very long time. The fidelity of a cell's replication machinery is not 100%, such that every generation, new mutations are introduced into the cell's DNA. Owing to th
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by bedris 16y ago
This is a great story, but it suffers from a certain measure of survivorship bias. Ed Witten certainly had the fortitude and introspection to jump from field to field yet still keep in mind the ultimate goal of his explorations (which event
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by bedris 16y ago
It would probably include a few types of tea, plus a tea mug (with a mesh infuser for steeping the loose-leaf tea and a lid to maintain water temperature), some measuring utensils, etc.
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by bedris 16y ago
So I was surprised at the sheer volumes of decisions that had to be made when I became a startup CEO. Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing stru
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by bedris 16y ago
Of course. But a lot of important and/or entertaining journalism has resulted from interviewers finding ways to get the interviewees to divulge more than they had initially intended to. I just thought that the sudden segue into a completely
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by bedris 16y ago
Q: Do you have any thoughts about the contacts sharing spat between Google and Facebook? A: It's entertaining. Q: How did the offer from Y Combinator come about? Either the interview was edited because they couldn't get anything else out
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by bedris 16y ago
This is the stupidest idea I've ever heard.
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by bedris 16y ago
"If you done it, it ain’t bragging." -Walt Whitman
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Do Techies Make Good Leaders?(online.wsj.com)
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by bedris 16y ago
I upvote all comments that compare Larry David to Laurence Olivier, regardless of what the commenter is saying.
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by bedris 16y ago
In the biological and biomedical sciences, it is literally impossible.
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by bedris 16y ago
Actually, a colon (:) would have been the correct punctuation mark to use. The headline should have been: Meet Tumblr: Facebook and Twitter's New Rival
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by bedris 16y ago
Individuals (scientists, doctors, lab technicians, inventors) can do the innovating, can do the research. They just need to be paid and given space and tools and time to do it in. Enter government. Government does not need to innovate, jus
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by bedris 16y ago
One even said that squatting is a very unnatural moment for human body and is best to avoid it Then babies need to fire their personal trainers: http://personaltrainerbath.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/BA... http://www.malvernstrength

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