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The Summer's Most Unread Book Is… A simple index drawn from e-books shows which best sellers are going unread

The classic of this genre is Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time," widely called "the most unread book of all time." How can we find today's greatest non-reads? Amazon's "Popular Highlights" feature provides one quick and dirty measure. Every book's Kindle page lists the five passages most highlighted by readers. If every reader is getting to the end, those highlights could be scattered throughout the length of the book. If nobody has made it past the introduction, the popular highlights will be clustered at the beginning. Thus, the Hawking Index (HI): Take the page numbers of a book's five top highlights, average them, and divide by the number of pages in the whole book. The higher the number, the more of the book we're guessing most people are likely to have read. (Disclaimer: This is not remotely scientific and is for entertainment purposes only!) Here's how some current best sellers and classics weigh in, from highest HI to lowest:
The list - http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-summers-most-unread-book-is-1404417569?mod=trending_now_5
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Surviving Email Politics at Work

Email is an extension of you, part of your reputation. What you say and how you conduct yourself over email is the professional “you.” Managing this carefully is important. We’ve all encountered, and perhaps have been guilty of bad email behavior including over-CC’ing, instantly responding, emailing angrily and putting untenable promises in writing. Considering how important your emails can be to your effectiveness at work, I chatted with some colleagues to put together a survival guide. We believe that if we all did more of this, we’d build better reputations and relationships, and avoid unnecessary politics.
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140711225303-156078-the-email-survival-guide-politics-at-work A useful guide on how to use email at work.
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The Mysterious Tree of a Newborn’s Life
SAN FRANCISCO — Minutes after a baby girl was born on a recent morning at UCSF Medical Center here, her placenta — a pulpy blob of an organ that is usually thrown away — was packed up and carried off like treasure through a maze of corridors to the laboratory of Susan Fisher, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences. There, scientists set upon the tissue with scalpels, forceps and an array of chemicals to extract its weirdly powerful cells, which storm the uterus like an invading army and commandeer a woman’s body for nine months to keep her fetus alive.....
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Only recently, for instance, did scientists start to suspect that the placenta may not be sterile, as once thought, but may have a microbiome of its own — a population of micro-organisms — that may help shape the immune system of the fetus and affect its health much later in life. Seen shortly after a birth, the placenta is bloody and formidable looking. Fathers in the delivery room sometimes faint at the sight of it, doctors say. It is bluish or dark red, eight or nine inches across and about an inch thick in the middle. The side that faced the fetus is covered by a network of branching blood vessels, the umbilical cord emerging like a fat stalk. The side that faced the mother, glommed onto the uterine wall, looks raw and meaty. When scientists describe the human placenta, one unsettling word comes up repeatedly: “invasive.” The organ begins forming in the lining of the uterus as soon as a fertilized egg lands there, embedding itself deeply in the mother’s tissue and tapping into her arteries so aggressively that researchers liken it to cancer. In most other mammals, the placental attachment is much more superficial. “A parasite upon the mother” is how the placenta is described in the book “Life’s Vital Link,” by Y. W. Loke, a reproductive immunologist. He goes on: “It has literally burrowed into the substance of her womb and is siphoning off nutrients from her blood to provide for the embryo.” Spread out, the tissue formed to exchange oxygen and nutrients would cover 120 to 150 square feet. Every minute, about 20 percent of the mother’s blood supply flows through the placenta. The front line of the invasion is a cell called a trophoblast, from the outer layer of the embryo. Early in pregnancy, these cells multiply explosively and stream out like a column of soldiers. “The trophoblast cells are so invasive from the get-go,” Dr. Fisher said. “They just blast through the uterine lining to get themselves buried in there.” They shove other cells out of the way and destroy them with digestive enzymes or secrete substances that induce the cells to kill themselves. Trophoblasts are so invasive that they will form a placenta almost anywhere, even if they land on tissue other than the uterus. Dr. Fisher’s lab discovered that as trophoblasts invade, they alter certain proteins on their surfaces, called adhesion molecules, to become more motile. Researchers later found that cancer cells do the same thing as they spread from a tumor to invade other parts of the body. “The placenta has essentially been called the chronicle of intrauterine life,” she said. “It really tells the story of what’s been going on. It plays the role of many organs — liver, kidney, respiratory, endocrine.
It sounds like a sci fi horror movie :haha: :hatsoff: to women
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Walking on the Moon LIFE ON EARTH HAS NOT BEEN THE SAME SINCE THE DAY THESE UNFORGETTABLE WORDS CRACKLED OVER THE AIRWAVES: “HOUSTON, TRANQUILITY BASE HERE. THE EAGLE HAS LANDED.” FORTY YEARS LATER, THE MEN WHO MADE THE APOLLO 11 MISSION A SUCCESS TELL THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE TRIP THAT CHANGED THE UNIVERSE. http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/walking-on-the-moon?fullpage=1 Its a rather long read but worth the time spent.

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The New Yorker Stories You Should Read Before the Paywall Goes Up Yesterday, The New Yorker made all of its magazine pieces since 2007 freely available online for three months. After that time, everything will go behind a metered paywall, along the lines of what the New York Times has in place. So what should you read during this three-month free-for-all? We canvassed Slate staff for their favorite New Yorker articles, essays, profiles, and fiction from 2007 to the present. Our annotated list of 30 stories, divided semi-arbitrarily into seven categories, is below. http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/07/22/new_yorker_online_free_for_three_months_what_should_you_read.html

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3D printers could revolutionize how the US military feeds its soldiers

A mere six months after civilian manufacturer 3D Systems debuted the world’s first 3D printer that prints food at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the US Army is making progress adapting food-printing technology for use by troops on deployment. Research teams at several Army installations, most notably the Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) in Massachusetts, are working to develop 3D food printers that are customized for the rigors of areas of military operation. + If the team is successful, soldiers across the globe could look forward to instantly generating their food rations on-site. It would be a much less-costly alternative to having food conventionally produced and shipped in from overseas, according to the NSRDEC researchers, who add that it could also offer troops a much wider variety of cuisine than would otherwise be possible. + “You would like a sandwich, where I would like ravioli. You would print what you want and eliminate wasted food,” said Mary Scerra, an NSRDEC food technologist, in a recent statement. + Widening soldiers’ menu options would be an obvious improvement to life in the base camps—soldiers, like any other human beings, would enjoy more choices of cuisine. But the technology holds some potentially lifesaving implications, as well: Soldiers can count on getting the nutrients that they most crucially need, whenever they need them. A soldier who is worn out from battle and needs carbohydrates or protein could print out protein- and carbohydrate-rich food, while another soldier who is Vitamin-D-deficient could print out a meal rich in Vitamin D. A 3D printer could be fed with all of the above nutrients ahead of time and dispense them in ready-to-eat meals as needed. + This would be a considerable change from traditional meals, ready to eat or MREs, which are largely indistinguishable from each other. A soldier with specific dietary needs cannot expect to have them met by standardized rations, but that soldier could get food meeting his or her specifications from a 3D food printer. + Like any 3-D printer, military or civilian, the food printers that the NSRDEC team is pursuing would connect to software that holds the digital blueprints for building food items in layers of particles stacked atop each other. The particles would come from chemical substrates that would be fed into the printer ahead of time, like the ink cartridges that inkjet printers use to print paper documents with text and photographs. + Lauren Oleksyk, a food specialist in the NSRDEC’s Combat Feeding Directorate, said that her team is currently trying to use a method called ultrasonic agglomeration to 3-D print small snack-type items. Once the team masters this, it might move on to more challenging items such as pizza and pasta. + “The technologies may or may not originate at NSRDEC, but we will advance them as needed to make them suitable for military field feeding needs. We will do what we can to make them suitable for both military and commercial applications.” + If they succeed, food production would be the latest in a series of applications that Army researchers have found in the last few years for 3D printing. The Army is also exploring 3D printing’s medical uses, such as manufacturing new skin and blood vessels.
http://qz.com/243985/3d-printers-could-revolutionize-how-the-us-military-feeds-its-soldiers/ >>The particles would come from chemical substrates that would be fed into the printer ahead of time What would these chemical substrates be?
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Lunch with the FT: Raghuram Rajan http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/b049ce16-230e-11e4-a424-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3AXPgJ66P Lunch with the FT: Vikram Pandit http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/e4f1c550-0762-11e4-81c6-00144feab7de.html#axzz3AXPgJ66P Lunch with the FT: Tim Geithner http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/2e13cb90-dabb-11e3-8273-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3AXPgJ66P Lunch with the FT: Jagdish Bhagwati http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/f3a22bc8-c3db-11e3-a8e0-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3AXPgJ66P Check out more such articles here - http://www.ft.com/intl/life-arts/lunch-with-the-ft

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