http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:15:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2008/07/circos-genetic-mapping.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:24:43 +0000 While the majority of Western medicine remains staunchly in the hands of the medical professional community, new tools designed to empower patients are causing real shifts in this power dynamic. Physicians are being increasingly challenged by patient self-diagnosis via websites like Wikipedia and WebMD. And on an even more personal level, researchers are now providing ways for us to see and ‘read’ our individual genomes. Your personal genome is incredibly useful for understanding your genetic predispositions, while at the same time incredibly difficult for someone without medical training to approach. The work of Martin Wrzywinski out of Vancouver’s Genome SciencesRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/07/netbooks-for-simpler-computing.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:44:05 +0000 An article in yesterday’s New York Times talks about the recent phenomenon of netbooks and the challenge they pose to the traditional PC manufacturers and outmoded ways of thinking about computers. For as long as personal computers have been around, the push has always been toward faster, more energy-consuming processors and larger amounts of hard drive space. Bucking this tread are netbooks, or much lighter laptops that employ much more energy efficient processors and trade the 250 GB hard drive for a more appropriate sub-100 GB flash-based hard drive. And while this device won’t cut it for energy-intensive processes likeRead more...]]>