Wednesday, January 01, 2014

A Few Recent Interesting Reads

[with many more in Pocket waiting for me]

-Esquire: The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden... Is Screwed
The man who shot and killed Osama bin Laden sat in a wicker chair in my backyard, wondering how he was going to feed his wife and kids or pay for their medical care.
-Wired: New Mars Meteorite Contains 10 Times More Water Than Previous Finds 
 
-PSMag: The Formula [about the Gini number] 




-Terry Gross interview with Chris Hayes on Fresh Air [podcast] 





-Berkeley Wellness Letter: Is Inflammation the Root of All Disease? -> an idea I've been exploring recently is along these lines. Is it that diseases is bad or is the bigger problem the response our bodies have to infection/disease? Seems like it is the body's response is the problem and generally it is an inflammation response. 

-PhysOrg: Researchers use Moore's Law to calculate that life began before Earth existed [could support the "seeding" theory of life on Earth. If Universe is 14 billion yrs old then took 4 billion years for first life to appear then it scattered through the universe if this hypothesis is correct]