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  1. Personal testing of chemical toxins is here: Inexpensive dipstick tests for pesticides in foods | R&D Mag - http://bit.ly/3wTCQJ
  2. Eating my favorite BBQ of all time: Arthur Bryants in Kansas City. Their sauce is truly the elixir of the gods.
  3. Interviewed on Walt Bodine Show, on the NPR affiliate in Kansas City: "The Science of Who We Are", http://www.kcur.org/waltbod...
  4. KC bioethics mt: Stephen Speilberg (doc not director) gives a great overview of why DNA is only part of the equation, also the environment!
  5. KC bioethics mt: Rutger's Keith Wailoo: should genetic tests for diseases such as Tay-Sachs control population? (Reality is: it's happening)
  6. Genetics bioethics meeting in KC, Jon Entine of AEI asks: does race exist? www.practicalbioethics.org
  7. Layoffs at 23andme: http://bit.ly/1sKnG7
  8. Thinking about the X-prizes... why are they so cool? Sure, lots of $, but some teams spend more $ going after the prize than the prize.
  9. In SF: spoke tonight at a mt of biostaticians, those trying to make sense of the heaps of bio-data (DNA, etc) being generated...!
  10. Back home from Ted Med: brain download time.
  11. Ted Med: Andrew Weil on the development of integrated medicine as a medical specialty: this is the future of health care!
  12. Ted Med: Peter Diamandis - developing new X-prizes for life sciences on health care delivery, AI, and more, coming soon.
  13. Ted Med: neurosurgeon Keith Black talks about vaccines for cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
  14. Ted Med: Deepak Chopra and Dean Ornish: Deepak days Desn is real doctor, he's a witch doctor.
  15. Anne used the word "Genomes".
  16. Ted Med: Anne Wojcicki just made it official: 23andme has tested 30,000 genomes (ie. Customers?)
  17. The geo guy at Ted med is Bill Davenhall of ESRI.
  18. I prefer my resveratrol in Malbec!
  19. Ted Med: Navigenics shows an infomercial about adoptees finding out their medical history - but a few DNA markers doesn't tell you much!
  20. TED MED: David Sinclair hands out resveratrol!