Author: Mike Garrity

Directed Graphs in Inheritance 0

Directed Graphs in Inheritance

When I talked about maternal haplogroups the other day, I touched on how this and the paternal haplogroup map onto your inheritance tree. Some of the details of how this works can be a...

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Cicadas

It’s that time of year. The days are really hot and sunny and the cicadas are buzzing in the tops of the trees. They’ve been coming out of the ground, sheding there exoskeletons and...

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I Write Like

Have you seen I Write Like? It’s a simple webpage with a text field. You paste in a bunch of text you wrote. They analyze it, and then they give you the name of...

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Mount Washington

We spent this weekend at the Mount Washington Hotel. My company rents it out every year for a big party. It is always nice to get up into the mountains during the hot part...

ITA 0

ITA

You may have seen in the news the other day that Google is buying ITA. It’s an interesting news item for the reason others have noted. ITA wrote the software which is at the...

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4th of July

Yesterday we all went canoeing on the Concord river. It’s been really hot this weekend, so the river was an awfully nice place to be. We went to the South Bridge Boat House and...

Rooting a Nook 0

Rooting a Nook

As you might have noticed, there’s a bit of a price war going on in eReaders. We got a Nook the other day. We chose it over the Kindle because it is more hackable....

Close the Libraries 1

Close the Libraries

Cory Doctorow points out this Fox News article arguing that we should close libraries because they’re a waste of public funds. It’s interesting, because as we pointed out in our post about Cory’s talk...

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23andMe PLoS Genetics Paper

Researchers at 23andMe have used the data that they’ve been collecting to publish a paper in PLoS Genetics. They’ve been having their users fill out surveys about things like how curly their hair is...

Russell Kirsch Says He’s Sorry 0

Russell Kirsch Says He’s Sorry

Science News had a funny article the other day about Russell Kirsch who is believed to have scanned the first digital image when he worked at the National Bureau of Standards in 1957. He...