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Atrazine: Syngenta's Herbicide Doesn't Just Poison Frogs - It Could Give You Cancer

F William Engdahl | Ecologist | June 2, 2014

Tyrone Hayes has fought a 15-year battle with Syngenta following his discovery that its herbicide Atrazine scrambles sex in frogs, writes F William Engdahl. Now he wants to know - is Atrazine the cause of the US's 2-fold reproductive cancer excess among Blacks and Hispanics?...

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Big Data Systems Are Making A Difference In The Fight Against Cancer

Ben Lorica | Forbes | January 17, 2014

As open source, big data tools enter the early stages of maturation, data engineers and data scientists will have many opportunities to use them to “work on stuff that matters”. Along those lines, computational biology and medicine are areas where skilled data professionals are already beginning to make an impact. [...] Read More »

How To Deal With The Campus Sexual Assault Crisis

Times Editorial Board | Los Angeles Times | May 12, 2014

...This month, the U.S. Department of Education said it was investigating no fewer than 55 institutions of higher learning for possible mishandling of sexual assault complaints; that includes two schools in Los Angeles — Occidental College and USC — as well as UC Berkeley. 

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Nobel Laureate Randy Schekman Advocates Open Access During Event Monday

Somin Park | The Daily Californian | October 22, 2013

It is time to move away from print journals and toward digital publications, according to UC Berkeley’s most recent Nobel laureate, Randy Schekman, at an open access event Monday evening. Read More »

OpenFDA Backstory: Breaking The Paperwork Backlog

David F. Carr | Information Week | June 5, 2014

The startup Captricity uses a combination of crowdsourcing and OCR to digitize mountains of paper records, particularly for government agencies and healthcare...

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The Future Beyond The Web Is Called FIA

Richard Byrne Reilly | Venture Beat | May 14, 2014

The virtual future beyond the Internet is known as FIA.  At least it is to the National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency in Washington, D.C...

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Why Robert Reich Cares So Passionately About Economic Inequality

Paul Solman | PBS Newshour | October 15, 2013

Friday night's NewsHour featured about six-and-a-half minutes of an interview with newly minted movie star Robert Reich, professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. We thought some folks might be interested in the entire discussion and therefore are presenting it in two installments, edited slightly for ease of reading.

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