Monthly Archives: June 2008

Weekend hiking workout

I am always encouraging people to exercise and live an enriched life, so I figured I should post my weekend hike. Had a great hike up La Luz [..]

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Personal health measurements

No matter what suggestions I make to try to improve your body and mental health (or the many other good sources of information and inspiration) it is nice [..]

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Diabetes, Obesity, and Gasoline keep on rising

New data released from CDC indicates that the number of cases of diabetes in USA has risen to 24 million (2007), up from 21 million 2 years ago [..]

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Combining exercise and an enriched environment: walking book club

In previous posts (here, here, here, here) I have explained how the two simplest things you can do for better brain and body health is live in an [..]

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Easy digestion: visualization of modern day data

Here is a video of Chris Jordan (at TED conference) who is a photographer who wants to make visualization of data in our modern world easier to digest, [..]

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Life is information

DNA contains the information, in a code, that enables an organism to become ‘alive’. Life is really all about information. That is why the previous post regarding Google [..]

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The big picture of the small picture

So to jump from the big perspective of humanity (previous post on the Wade Davis video) now I am going to jump to the molecular level. You can [..]

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more perspectives for brain health

One dilemma of blogging is on a day like today I want to blog three different things (with a limited amount of time); different perspectives, personal genomics, and [..]

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Who could make sense out of mountains of scientific data ?

I posted earlier today about the mountain of cancer data donated by GlaxoSmithKline. While scientist and big pharmaceuticals are constantly generating more biological data the bottle neck problem [..]

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Mountain of data

Image via Wikipedia Many scientist believe that in the near future there will be breakthroughs due to our ability to generate huge data bases, and more importantly our [..]

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