Dara Lind. One chart that proves Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders's voters aren't the same. March 31, 2016, 1:50 p.m. ET
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/31/11338806/trump-sanders-populism-voters
Pew Research Center. March 31, 2016
http://www.people-press.org/2016/03/31/campaign-exposes-fissures-over-issues-values-and-how-life-has-changed-in-the-u-s/
2152 - RAG-time revisited
Monday, February 18, 2008
RAG: Ralph, Al, George
http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2008/02/2152-rag-time-revisited.html
<< (..) researchers were able for the first time to view the release and re-uptake of dopamine — a neurotransmitter involved in motor learning, habit formation, and reward-seeking behavior — in individual synapses. When all the neurons were electrically stimulated in a sample of brain tissue, the researchers expected all the synapses to release dopamine. Instead, they found that less than 20 percent of dopaminergic synapses were active following a pulse of electricity. >>
The case of the silent synapses: Why are only 20% of synapses active during neurotransmission? Unknown information coding in the brain? February 26, 2016
http://www.kurzweilai.net/study-finds-only-a-small-portion-of-synapses-may-be-active-during-neurotransmission
Daniela B Pereira, Yvonne Schmitz, et al. Fluorescent false neurotransmitter reveals functionally silent dopamine vesicle clusters in the striatum. Nature Neuroscience (2016) doi:10.1038/nn.4252. Published online 22 February 2016
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.4252.html
<< There's poetic justice in Trump's rise to the top of the GOP presidential field. The GOP is reaping precisely what it has sown. >>
Dave Pruett. From the Party of Abe to the Party of Donald. 03/24/2016 07:46 pm ET
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/from-the-party-of-lincoln_b_9535034.html
<< Zollman [Kevin Zollman, Carnegie Mellon University] notes being among the first to endorse a candidate who is best positioned to win has its advantages. “You get more credibility,” he said. “I want to endorse early so I can say, ‘I was there first’ — the political version of being a hipster.” >>
<< That’s what game theorists call “costly signaling,” a concession an individual makes to indicate greater strength. Academics have theorized that the sharing of food in hunter-gatherer societies might not be primarily altruistic, but rather a chance for the best hunters to show off their skills, and thereby move up in the reproductive pecking order. >>
<< But that was before the 2016 race turned into a game theory experiment, where true feelings are set aside for the purpose of a single mathematical result. >>
Andrew McGill. The Anti-Trump Endorsement Game. The mathematical strategy behind endorsing Ted Cruz, as explained by game theory. The Atlantic. March 25, 2016
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/trump-cruz-kasich-endorsement/475230/
<< (..) another turn of the cards in a game that refuses to conform to old rules. The winner will be the candidate who figures out the new ones. >>
Andrew McGill. The Game Theory Principles Behind a Political Endorsement Against Trump. The Atlantic. March 27, 2016.
http://m.govexec.com/oversight/on-politics/2016/03/game-theory-principles-behind-political-endorsement-against-trump/126971/
<< "It doesn’t do anything magical rather than live, eat, and self-replicate,” Venter [@JCVenter] says. But it is, he says, “the first designer organism in history" >>
Matthew Herper. After 20 Year Quest, Biologists Create Synthetic Bacteria With No Extra Genes. Mar 24, 2016 02:00 PM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/03/24/bio-maverick-craig-venter-hacks-bacteria-to-have-tiniest-possible-genetic-code/
<< JCVI-syn3.0 is a working approximation of a minimal cellular genome, a compromise between small genome size and a workable growth rate for an experimental organism. It retains almost all the genes that are involved in the synthesis and processing of macromolecules. Unexpectedly, it also contains 149 genes with unknown biological functions, suggesting the presence of undiscovered functions that are essential for life. >>
Clyde A. Hutchison III, Ray-Yuan Chuang, et al. Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome. Science 25 Mar 2016: Vol. 351, Issue 6280, DOI: 10.1126/science.aad6253
<< My name is Wan Yang, ... >>
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/4bm28u/plos_science_wednesday_hi_reddit_my_name_is_wan/
<< Here we develop and report forecast systems that are able to predict irregular non-seasonal influenza epidemics >>
Yang W, Cowling BJ, Lau EHY, Shaman J (2015) Forecasting Influenza Epidemics in Hong Kong. PLoS Comput Biol 11(7): e1004383. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004383
http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004383
