Observing wildlife is my hobby. I keep a life list of all animals that I have identified and am in the middle of my second […]
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The title of this book is a morbid wordplay about the “death of rigor” in biomedical research. Richard Harris, a frequent commentator on NPR, provides […]
Sometimes it is important to read a book despite suspecting that you will disagree with it. This was the case with “Our bodies, our data“, […]
“Big data” is a concept that is often touted as the solution to many problems. Cathy O’Neil’s book, “Weapons of Math Destruction“, takes a more […]
Craig Venter is most famous for his role in the race to complete the sequence of the human genome. He led the Celera team, the […]
When did the era of “Genomic Medicine” begin? This question will be debated for a long time. Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher describe the experience […]
The popular literature on “big data” is still fairly sparse. “Uncharted” by Erez Aiden and Michel Jean-Baptiste is a great addition. While their focus is […]
A great way to get me to read your book is to include “-ome” in the title. I read most popular works on genomics and […]