tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49731632876601329852024-03-08T07:58:39.786-08:00textstream2A <a href="http://blog.Gerstein.info">secondary</a> stream of textual posts (more info. at <a href="http://streams.Gerstein.info">streams.gerstein.info</a>)rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-24741245893402754802012-07-09T23:11:00.003-07:002012-07-09T23:12:54.767-07:00Letter to the NY TIMES Editor RE: Anahad O’Connor’s “Should Young Athletes Be Screened for Heart Risk?” April 30, 2012<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">The two recent articles discussing sudden cardiac arrest among young athletes (Crouse 5/1 and O'Connor 4/30) raise real concerns as to the trickling down of some of the uber-competitive aspects of professional sports into college, high school, and even middle school programs. With this intense competition comes substantial stress and the constant threat of disabling injury, already too prevalent in professional athletes. While one article suggests screening for at-risk athletes, it fails to include possibly the most useful, practical and far-reaching tests. Genome-wide screening presents an optimal solution: not only are costs falling perceptively, but screening can look beyond narrow risk groups, and potentially uncover predispositions to more common injuries, such as muscle strains, ACL tears or concussions. This actionable data could be provided to athletes, coaches and parents and applied to change exercise routine and diet, and even to suggest to the student to look for alternative extracurricular activities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">Dov Greenbaum JD PhD</span><br style="word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="float: none; word-spacing: 0px;">Mark Gerstein, PhD</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><br style="word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></div>
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Unpublished letter to the editor
Letter to the Editor<br />
Anahad O’Connor’s “Should Young Athletes Be Screened for Heart Risk?”<br />
NY Times
April 30, 2012<br />
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/heart-risk-in-athletes-is-gaining-attention/rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-90126921612110621542012-07-09T06:01:00.000-07:002012-07-09T06:01:04.409-07:00Letter to theNY TIMES Fashion Editor, RE: Pamela Paul's "Don't Tell me, I Don't Want to Know" (2/10/12)<div class="MsoNormal">
Generation S (S. for sharing) has lost sight of prior
privacy norms, and now freely shares. Some,
as the title suggest, freely share all. Compounding the issue, the internet
doesn't forget: so our embarrassing antics at the last holiday party will
forever haunt us, remaining in some Google searchable archive of some Facebook
page. The problem with all this TMI, forever seared into our collective hard
drive, runs deeper than the emotional distress of seeing an ex enjoying
themselves, even as we wallow in misery.
Sharing is trending to more than just 140 character snippets of the
banality of our lives. With the advent
of digital medical files and easily available personal genomic sequencing, the ability to easily share heretofore very
private medical and/or genetic information could have serious consequences, particularly
for the relatives of sharers, who although share common genetic information, might
wisely not share this penchant for sharing.</div>
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Dov Greenbaum JD PhD</div>
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Mark Gerstein PhD</div>
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Unpublished Letter to the Editor<br />
Pamela Paul's "Don't Tell me, I Don't Want to Know" (2/10/12)<br />
NY Times, Fashion Section<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/fashion/tmi-i-dont-want-to-know.html?pagewanted=allrmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-35506241599201812262012-07-05T00:21:00.001-07:002012-07-05T00:21:28.884-07:00Letter to the WSJ Editor RE: Japan’s Nuclear Crisis<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Two words strike particularly undeserved fear in the hearts of many</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Americans: Nuclear and Genetic.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Although the current situation in Japan will likely renew recently</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">thawed nuclear anxieties, perhaps this disaster will force us to</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">overcome apprehensions regarding genetic engineering in the pursuit of</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">better biofuels.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Japan’s nuclear woes round out a demoralizing 12 months for the energy</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">industry which saw 29 coal miners lose their lives in a horrific</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">accident in West Virginia and BP's offshore drilling rig explosion</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">that resulted in the death of eleven people and the biggest oil spill</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">in the history of the industry.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Biofuels, however, remain a safe and practicable energy technology.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">No longer just rancid cooking oil in old diesel engines, current</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">efforts in the genetic engineering of non-food crops and algae hold</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">promising opportunities for biofuels as a truly feasible fossil fuel</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">alternative.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Dov Greenbaum JD PhD</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Mark Gerstein, PhD</span> <br />
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Unpublished Letter to the Editor<br />
"Japan’s Nuclear Crisis"<br />
Wall Street Journal <br />
(3/15/2011)rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-27614876082839409652012-07-05T00:07:00.000-07:002012-07-09T23:15:37.336-07:00Letter to the NY TIMES Magazine Editor RE: Micheal Sokolove's "The Fast Life of Oscar Pistorius" January 22, 2012<div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The author noted the term "mutant" as a descriptor of Pistorius. Notwithstanding the pop-culture negative connotations, it is likely the best word to describe not only Pistorius, but also most superstar athletes today. Current efforts in trying to understand the underlying genetics of sports will eventually lead us to embrace organized sports as unfair matchups between individuals fundamentally unequal in their biology: Not to discount the incredible investments in blood sweat and tears throughout their endless hours of training, but the sooner we appreciate that nature has provided our current crop of superstars with often incredible unfair biological advantages, creating an already absurdly uneven playing field, the sooner we will accept artificially enabled but nevertheless gifted athletes like Pistorius onto that same field.</span></div>
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Unpublished Letter to the Editor </div>
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NY Times Magazine Micheal Sokolove's "The Fast Life of Oscar Pistorius" </div>
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/oscar-pistorius.html?pagewanted=all</div>rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-90762644894431827862012-07-02T06:56:00.000-07:002012-07-02T07:02:53.793-07:00RE: The Wall Street Gene What makes a top trader? Researchers point to dopamine WSJ (02/04/2012)<h2>
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Jonah Lehrer's tongue-in-cheek overtones belie the realities of genomics. As prices continue to plummet on DNA testing, science is able to correlate more of our outward traits with our inherited DNA. In particular, research currently suggests that we may be able to correlate athletic ability with particular genes. And even more valuable, we may soon be able to determine predispositions to sports injuries from genetic analysis. Successful athletes (and traders) already have a relative good understanding of their strengths; in athletes they are pretty much all we ever measure. However, the ability to prevent game, season, or even career ending injuries in professional sports will prove invaluable to those athletes that learn how to better take care of themselves and prevent those injuries. If only there was a gene that could make cats bounce higher post-mortem.<br />
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Dov Greenbaum JD PhD
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Mark Gerstein PhD
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Unpublished Letter to the Editor<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Jonah
Lehrer's "The Wall Street Gene" (02/04/2012)</span><br />
February 4, 2012<br />
Wall Street Journal<br />
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204740904577193413554397928.html">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204740904577193413554397928.html</a>rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-89896668117850574512011-05-07T23:21:00.001-07:002011-05-07T23:24:35.492-07:00The promise and peril of home genetic test kits" LA Times April 29, 2011The recent Op-Ed regarding genetic testing is right - to some degree. The main concerns however, are more nuanced than just false positives or negatives. Rather, it's that the average consumer, and often even the average physician, are not able to effectively deal with the deluge of the genetic data provided by the testing services: most of us lack the statistical proficiency to grasp the varied risks assessed to the patient, or an appreciation of the highly personal and revealing nature of genetic information. With the growing importance of genetics in our lives, efforts should be directed at introducing these concepts to undergraduates --the future patients and their doctors, in a safe and controlled environment, as we have seen in some initial forays in this direction at Berkeley and Stanford.<br />
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Dov Greenbaum JD PhD<br />
Mark Gerstein PhD<br />
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<hr>Unpublished Letter to the Editor<br />
The promise and peril of home genetic test kits<br />
April 29, 2011<br />
OpED, LA TIMES<br />
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-genetic-20110429,0,5006081.storyrmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-7802230461114782562011-02-06T03:15:00.000-08:002011-02-06T03:15:31.693-08:00Letter RE: Miguel Helft and Claire Cain Miller's "1986 Privacy Law Is Outrun by the Web" NY TIMESHelf and Miller suggest that current federal privacy laws are<br />
outdated in their lack of protection for our online communications.<br />
The laws are outdated, but not because they fail to fully protect our<br />
email, tweats, and updates. Rather, in a society where our most banal<br />
musings are instantly shared with the world, the law fails to account<br />
for the societal shift that substantially devalues the privacy of most<br />
things thought to be too personal twenty-five years ago.<br />
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Dov Greenbaum, JD MPhil PhD<br />
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Mark Gerstein, PhD<br />
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<HR>Unpublished Letter to the Editor <br />
Miguel Helft and Claire Cain Miller's "1986 Privacy Law Is Outrun by the Web" <br />
NY TIMES(1/10/2011)<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/technology/10privacy.htmlrmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-34617351852773852252011-02-06T03:09:00.000-08:002011-02-06T03:13:14.222-08:00Letter RE: John Tierney's "Heavy Doses of DNA Data, With Few Side Effects" NY TIMES 1/17/20The lack of response by consumers to their genetic tests, as reported<br />
by John Tierney, is disconcerting. Rather than signifying admirable<br />
levelheadedness, the fact that people neither worried about results<br />
nor were spurred to take up preventive measures suggests that the<br />
general public has yet to become sufficiently engaged in genetic<br />
information to the extent hoped for by the genetic testing industry --<br />
or to the extent necessary to make testing effective on a large-scale.<br />
It is also symptomatic of the public's general disengagement from<br />
numerical and statistical findings.<br />
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Dov Greenbaum, JD PhD<br />
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Mark Gerstein, PhD<br />
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<hr>Unpublished letter in response to <br />
John Tierney's "Heavy Doses of DNA Data, With Few Side Effects"<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/science/18tier.html<br />
NY TIMES 1/17/20<br />
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Similar post in response to <br />
Eryn Brown's "Genetic testing doesn't spook patients, study finds" <br />
LA TIMES (1/16/2011)<br />
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/16/health/la-he-dtc-gene-tests-20110113 <br />
Xrmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-60080832126325504692011-01-27T06:27:00.001-08:002011-01-27T06:28:33.950-08:00Word Cloud of this Blog<!--
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Starting out, right before junction with I-95; closest lane going South on I-91 towards I-95; this spot often gets lots of traffic!<br />
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* New Haven: I-95 s/o Long Wharf Dr</B><br />
Leaving New Haven. However, view is approaching New Haven, with bottom lane (to left) going N. <br />
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* New Haven: I-95 @ 1st Ave (CT-122)</B><br />
One camera South from above, right after small "bridge" on N. Haven outskirts. Traffic to right is now going S.<br />
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* Bridgeport: I-95 @ River St</B><br />
Right before turnoff to Merritt. Traffic closest to camera is going S. <br />
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<HR>Traffic on <A HREF=http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=266+Whitney+Ave,+New+Haven,+CT+06511&daddr=I-95+S&hl=en&geocode=FYx2dgIdqU6n-ylHe-p2x9nniTGbKPwyEfc2Tg%3BFU9McgIdt7Sd-w&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=13&sll=41.034823,-73.536472&sspn=0.116796,0.159473&layer=t&ie=UTF8&ll=41.047253,-73.309021&spn=0.934192,1.275787&z=10>Google Maps</A>rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-169423954694667422011-01-27T04:18:00.001-08:002011-01-27T08:44:09.309-08:00Trafficcams Merritt Parkway to Stamford<b>* Bridgeport: I-95 @ Myrtle Ave</B><br />
Traffic closest to camera is traveling North<br />
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* Southport: I-95 s/o Mill Hill Rd</B><br />
Traffic closest to camera (on right) is traveling South<br />
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* Westport: I-95 @ Hales Rd</B><br />
Traffic closest to camera (on right) is traveling South. Right before Saugatuck river. <br />
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* Norwalk: I-95 @ East Ave</B><br />
Traffic closest to camera (on right) is traveling South. Right before turnoff to US-7. <br />
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* I-95 s/o Tokeneke Rd (CT-136)</B><br />
Camera is facing S. Traffic closest to camera (on left) is traveling North. Just south of Darien. <br />
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* I-95 n/o Elm St</B><br />
Traffic closest to camera is traveling South. Near train station in Stamford. Right before "narrowing" of road. <br />
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<HR>Traffic on <A HREF=http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=266+Whitney+Ave,+New+Haven,+CT+06511&daddr=I-95+S&hl=en&geocode=FYx2dgIdqU6n-ylHe-p2x9nniTGbKPwyEfc2Tg%3BFU9McgIdt7Sd-w&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=13&sll=41.034823,-73.536472&sspn=0.116796,0.159473&layer=t&ie=UTF8&ll=41.047253,-73.309021&spn=0.934192,1.275787&z=10>Google Maps</A>rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-91489933991171789142011-01-27T04:05:00.000-08:002011-01-27T04:05:58.570-08:00Trafficcams South of Stamford into the City<B>* Hutchinson River Pkwy @ Purchase St (Exit 27)</B><br />
Right before (i.e. North of) junction with i-684 and weave under I-287. <br />
Traffic closest to camera (on left) is traveling South (looking towards Southbound traffic). <br />
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* I-95 n/o Delavan Ave</B><br />
Right before (i.e. North of) junction with I-287. <br />
Traffic closest to camera (on right) is traveling South<br />
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* Hutchinson River Pkwy s/o I-287 (Mobil Gas Station)</b><br />
Camera is located in Median. It appears to be looking South, so that more prominent Northbound traffic is to the left of the picture. <br />
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* Hutchinson River Pkwy @ Cross County Pkwy</B><br />
Traffic closest to camera is traveling North. View appears to be just South and East of where Cross county joins to Hutch, so closer cars are going North. There are two streams of Northward-going cars, those from the Hutch (closer) and the CC (farther). Southward-going cars are at the back. <br />
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* New England Thwy @ East Tremont Ave</B><br />
Right before (i.e. N of) junction with Bruckner. Traffic closest to camera (to the right) is traveling North<br />
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* Triborough Bridges @ Manhattan Bound</B><br />
Traffic closest to camera is traveling West<br />
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* FDR Dr @ 78th St</B><br />
Camera located Median. Traffic to Right is going South. <br />
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Perhaps we need to first reassess our shifting perceptions of privacy before we look to our slow moving legislatures and even slower to evolve laws.<br />
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Dov Greenbaum, JD MPhil PhD<br />
Mark Gerstein, PhD<br />
<hr />Unpublished letter in response to <br />
Natasha Singer's "Technology Outpaces Privacy (Yet Again)" (12/12/2010)<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/business/12stream.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/business/12stream.html</a>rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-43882068883074010562010-11-16T01:21:00.000-08:002011-01-27T01:08:00.400-08:00Letter to the Editor RE: "Rare Hits and Heaps of Misses to Pay For" -- NY TimesMr. Wade criticizes California for placing such a large bet on stem cell research at the potential expense of other research efforts. Government regulation and funding are, to some extent, tied to the public's understanding of science, including their misconceptions and/or misapprehensions. These errors in conventional wisdom are often fueled by instances of misrepresentation or unwarranted hyperbole in the news and entertainment media. The Science TImes however, and Wade in particular, more often than not reflect a more balanced science journalism. Rather than tout every preliminary result as a monumental breakthrough, as many of his colleagues might do, Mr. Wade has consistently tamped down the hype, particularly when reporting on stem cells. Perhaps with better communication between science and the media, and more journalists like Mr. Wade, we might have less egregious use of funds and better regulatory oversight of basic science research.<br />
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Dov Greenbaum JD PhD & Mark Gerstein, PhD<br />
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<hr />Unpublished letter in response to:<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/science/09wade.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/science/09wade.html</a><br />
"Rare Hits and Heaps of Misses to Pay For" <br />
BY Nicholas Wade, November 9, 2010, New York Timesrmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-8927404279800455702010-11-16T01:18:00.000-08:002011-01-27T00:48:25.281-08:00Letter RE: "Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure” -- Wired MagazineSergey Brin’s quest to find a cure for Parkinson’s disease represents the confluence of two relatively recent trends: the internet’s ability to create extraordinary wealth for young technically minded individuals, and the introduction of personal genomics and its potential to forecast future illnesses many decades in advance.<br />
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As a medical scientists we can attest to the substantial costs involved in collecting large amounts of high-quality data; Sergey’s attempt to develop large-scal<a class="cssButton" href="javascript:void(0)" id="publishButton" onclick="if (this.className.indexOf("ubtn-disabled") == -1) {var e = document['postingForm'].publish;(e.length) ? e[0].click() : e.click(); if (window.event) window.event.cancelBubble = true; return false;}" target=""><div class="cssButtonOuter"><div class="cssButtonMiddle"><div class="cssButtonInner">Publish Post</div></div></div></a>e datasets in his quest for a cure, at a comparatively low price, will be a boon to science. However, perhaps Parkinson’s disease is not the correct place to beta-test this new methodology for collecting large amounts of data.<br />
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Notwithstanding the obvious benefits to society, Sergey’s large-scale survey type of methodology might be better deployed initially on more innocuous ailments, such as headaches or the common cold. These and other less severe maladies have fewer external costs and repercussions: they do not require genetic counseling, obtaining informed consent is more straightforward, and the privacy issues are not as serious.<br />
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Dov Greenbaum, JD MPhil PhD<br />
Mark Gerstein, PhD<br />
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<hr />Unpublished letter in response to: <br />
“Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure” <br />
<a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff_sergeys_search">http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff_sergeys_search</a><br />
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BY Thomas Goetz<br />
Features Section, <br />
Issue 18.07<br />
Published June 22, 2010<br />
Wired Magazinermhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-37421543484256079292010-11-14T22:57:00.000-08:002011-01-27T00:55:48.390-08:00Letter Re "The Web Means the End of Forgetting" -- NY TimesIn “The Web Means the End of Forgetting,” Jeffery Rosen focuses on the emerging realization that it is nearly impossible to erase the information that we post about ourselves on the Internet. While the article focused on the obvious concerns, bits of information put on the Internet that in hindsight we regret posting --that drunken party picture, the problem is even more serious when we consider how the internet allows even comparatively innocuous information to more seriously compromise our privacy.<br />
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Imagine, for example, collecting the times of blog posts to learn someone’s free time schedule, or triangulating the coordinates of geotaged locations in an online photo gallery to get a sense of where someone lives. Technological advances in aggregating and mining large amounts of data coupled with robust statistical correlations can render even relatively benign facts revealing and actually prove as problematic as that persistent drunken party picture.<br />
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Dov Greenbaum, JD MPhil PhD<br />
Mark Gerstein, PhD<br />
<hr />Unpublished letter in response to:<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html</a><br />
Jeffrey Rosen's "The Web Means the End of Forgetting," NY Times 7/19/2010rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-40539622880161815252010-11-05T02:34:00.000-07:002011-01-27T01:12:47.112-08:00Letter Re: Berekley DTC Genomics -- USA TodayUC Berkeley's distribution of genetic tests to incoming freshmen follows recent industry scrutiny by the FDA and Congress. The current media focus on Direct-to-consumer genetic testing will foster a robust dialogue at Berkeley. However, while the genes tested are thought to be relatively innocuous, the results anonymous, and the test intended to be partially educational --preparing students for a personal-genomic future -- we fear it may be anything but. It may lull students into a false sense of security, both in the absoluteness of the results relationship to their lifestyle and the risk-free sharing of those results with friends. Unlike the genes tested by Berkeley, most gene-disease relationships are complex and couched in terms of complicated statistical probabilities Further, many of the student's future genetic tests will involve serious and potentially upsetting personal medical and health information that will affect not only themselves but family members that share their genes.<br />
<br />
Dov Greenbaum & Mark Gerstein<br />
<hr />Unpublished letter in response to various articles:<br />
UC Berkeley plan to test freshmen DNA criticized, USA Today<br />
(<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-05-21-berkeley-dna_N.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-05-21-berkeley-dna_N.htm</a>)<br />
and<br />
SF Chronicle, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/20/BAIS1DI09I.DTL">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/20/BAIS1DI09I.DTL</a>rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-37040203610076965092010-11-05T02:22:00.000-07:002011-01-27T00:58:18.989-08:00Letter RE: “Web Photos That Reveal Secrets, Like Where You Live" -- NY TIMESIn “Web Photos That Reveal Secrets, Like Where You Live” Kate Murphy focuses on the use of geotags –encoded geographical coordinates in pictures – to find hidden personal information. Geotags, represent only one of many privacy concerns rising out of the use of social networking websites. With the emerging realization that it is nearly impossible to erase information that we post about ourselves on the Internet, and with technological advances and robust statistical correlations for aggregating and mining large amounts of data, even comparatively innocuous facts or pictures can seriously compromise our privacy.<br />
<br />
Dov Greenbaum, JD PhD & Mark Gerstein, PhD<br />
<hr /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.0001pt;">Unpublished letter in response to:<span class="hP" id=":1wf" style="padding-right: 10px;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.0001pt;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/technology/personaltech/12basics.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/technology/personaltech/12basics.html</a><span class="hP" id=":1wf" style="padding-right: 10px;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.0001pt;"><span class="hP" id=":1wf" style="padding-right: 10px;">Web Photos That Reveal Secrets, Like Where You Live" </span></div>By Kate Murphy <br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #444444; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.0001pt;">Published: August 11, 2010</div></span></span>rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-64431909751842380992010-11-05T02:15:00.000-07:002010-11-05T02:28:05.443-07:00Letter Re: " Scientists create synthetic life form with a computer and four bottles of chemicals" -- FT Times<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #444444; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Often described metaphorically as the development of interchangeable biological parts and carrying out man-made designs with them, Synthetic Biology has promised to change science paradigms since its inception around a decade ago. Developing useful complex systems however, was thought to be currently too difficult given existing biological knowledge. Craig Venter's recent success in developing a synthetic bacterial cell is a promising proof of concept. Of particular interest might be the ability to develop affordable and eco-friendly biofuels that rely on waste biomass or novel enzymes, instead of the current biofuel supply supported substantially by government subsidies and relying mostly on the inefficient use of food crops. This idea, of course, has not escaped notice by Venter and colleagues who carried out their cell design within the context of large biofuels alliance with Exxon-Mobile.</span></span><br />
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Unpublished letter in response to:<br />
<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3dbad5ca-6431-11df-8618-00144feab49a.html">http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3dbad5ca-6431-11df-8618-00144feab49a.html</a><span class="hP" id=":1wf" style="padding-right: 10px;"></span><br />
<span class="hP" id=":1wf" style="padding-right: 10px;">Scientist<wbr></wbr>s create synthetic life form with a computer and four bottles of chemicals"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #444444; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<span class="hP" id=":1wf" style="padding-right: 10px;">Clive Cookson</span><br />
<span class="hP" id=":1wf" style="padding-right: 10px;">May 21, 2010 </span><br />
The Financial Times <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #444444; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span></span>rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-84763447936164746452010-11-03T01:48:00.001-07:002010-11-03T01:59:57.759-07:00Letter Re "Where Scott Brown Is Coming From" -- NY TimesI found the magazine article on the new Massachusetts senator Scott Brown highly entertaining. A comparison that immediately came to mind, which surprising wasn't mentioned in the article, was the Senator as an East Coast version of Arnold. The similarities are obvious: a moderate republican in a blue state, screen-worthy good looks and a widespread regular-guy appeal to Joe the plumber.<br />
<br />
Mark Gerstein <br />
<hr />Unpublished letter in response to:<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28Brown-t.html<br />
Where Scott Brown Is Coming From<br />
By FRANK BRUNI<br />
Published: February 22, 2010<br />
The New York Timesrmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-83768714641648439222010-11-03T01:46:00.000-07:002010-11-03T01:46:34.714-07:00Letter Re "How Privacy Vanishes Online" -- NY TimesSteve Lohr's recent article on the privacy implications of data mining<br />
social networks points out how social connections can be mined to find<br />
out non-trivial and very private information. Taken to the<br />
extreme we could imagine that a person's social connections or other<br />
bits of information revealed<br />
on-line could be correlated with other data and eventually lead to the<br />
divulgence of "inappropriate" information: for instance, a seemingly benign stock<br />
question might actually be perfectly correlated with say political<br />
affiliation or sexual orientation. In the near future common<br />
situations like job interviews may represent a moral minefield<br />
in the nature and type of unintentional information disclosure.<br />
<br />
Dov Greenbaum<br />
Mark Gerstein<br />
<HR>Unpublished letter in response to:<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/technology/17privacy.html<br />
How Privacy Vanishes Online<br />
By STEVE LOHR<br />
Published: March 16, 2010rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-23468833827328535022010-11-03T01:39:00.000-07:002010-11-03T01:41:39.148-07:00Letter Re "In Bid to Sway Sales, Cameras Track Shoppers" -- NY TimesMs. Rosenblum's recent article regarding the tracking of consumers by<br />
store cameras represents only the latest blow to the erosion of<br />
privacy in our culture. With the cost of genomic sequencing and<br />
analysis plummeting one could imagine stores eventually tracking the<br />
genes of their customers as well: collecting latent DNA on shopping<br />
carts to determine how many of their customers are lactose intolerant,<br />
potentially diabetic, or have a gluten intolerance, and stocking their<br />
shelves appropriately.<br />
<br />
One could even imagine correlating the genes with camera images to<br />
give a simple form of gene association study.<br />
<br />
A less benign example might include shopkeepers collecting, cataloging<br />
and subsequently selling a host of genomic information to the highest<br />
bidder.<br />
<br />
Mark Gerstein<br />
Dov Greenbaum<br />
<hr />Unpublished letter in response to:<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/business/20surveillance.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/business/20surveillance.html</a><br />
Stephanie Rosenblum's 3/19/20 "In Bid to Sway Sales, Cameras Track Shoppers," <br />
NY Timesrmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-31425965094299227422010-11-03T01:37:00.000-07:002010-11-03T01:42:37.123-07:00Letter Re "Google Says It Collected Private Data by Mistake" -- NY TimesWe read with great interest Mr. Stone's article regarding Google's<br />
admission that it inadvertently collected private data as part of its<br />
Street View project in Europe. We disagree, however with the<br />
article's condemning tone; Google should be commended for its efforts.<br />
In an age of corporate cover-ups Google's actions stand out: it did<br />
not try to collect private data, it publicly reported the<br />
unintentional collection without prodding, and it is purging<br />
information already collected. Moreover, the information collected<br />
(random bits of unencrypted Internet traffic) is overtly less<br />
problematic than the health or financial records that many already<br />
unashamedly share online. The fact that Google itself was stymied in<br />
dealing with this information underscores how difficult it is to<br />
grapple with private data. It also highlights just how much<br />
technological and legal effort we as a society will have to put into<br />
safeguarding privacy.<br />
<br />
Dov Greenbaum, JD MPhil PhD<br />
Mark Gerstein, PhD<br />
<hr />Unpublished letter in response to:<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/business/15google.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/business/15google.html</a><br />
Brad Stone's "Google Says It Collected Private Data by Mistake," <br />
NY Times (5/14/2010)rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-90536263984573258882010-11-03T01:34:00.000-07:002010-11-03T01:34:31.939-07:00Letter Re "Where’d You Go With My DNA?" -- NY TimesWe read with great interest Ms. Harmon's Week In Review article about informed consent relating to DNA samples. One issue that the article hinted at, but did not directly address, was how technology has changed the game. Because of the rapid pace of DNA sequencing, it is now possible to read the entire genome of the individual from which a biological sample was taken. While a given sample may end up being used for a limitless number of different disease correlations and studies, this valuable information remains highly personal in nature: each unique sample from say, a diabetic patient, is fundamentally from -- and can be traced back to via the deciphered genetic sequence -- a unique individual. It can never be completely anonymized. This reality necessitates that we fundamentally rethink the entire issue of informed consent.<br />
Dov Greenbaum, JD PhD<br />
Mark Gerstein, PhD<br />
Yale University<br />
<HR>Unpublished letter <br />
Letter to the Editor in response to <br />
Amy Harmon's "‘Informed Consent’ and the Ethics of DNA Research" <br />
NY Times, 4/25/2010<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/weekinreview/25harmon.html<br />
Where’d You Go With My DNA?rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973163287660132985.post-71599930308527514272010-11-03T01:21:00.000-07:002011-01-27T01:06:31.319-08:00Letter Re "Genesis redux" -- EconomistCraig Venter's recent success in developing a synthetic bacterial cell<br />
is a promising proof of concept for Synthetic Biology. Of particular<br />
interest might be the ability to develop affordable and eco-friendly<br />
biofuels that rely on waste biomass or novel enzymes, instead of the<br />
current biofuel supply supported by government subsidies and relying<br />
mostly on the inefficient use of food crops. Venter's watermarking<br />
and attempt to patent the new cell however, may raise concerns as to<br />
ownership of novel synthetic biology tools. In contrast to other<br />
clean energy sources --where public domain technology suffices in<br />
providing clean energy -- the necessary synthetic biology technology<br />
for feasible biofuels will likely be, like Venter's cell, someone's<br />
intellectual property.<br />
Dov Greenbaum & Mark Gerstein<br />
<hr />Unpublished letter in response to:<br />
<a href="http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16163006">http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16163006</a><br />
Genesis redux, Economist, 20 May 2010rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634812974647704610noreply@blogger.com0