{"id":232,"date":"2018-09-16T01:17:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T01:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/?p=232"},"modified":"2018-09-16T01:17:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T01:17:48","slug":"sciencemag-02018-08-31-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"@sciencemag 02018\/08\/31 highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/361\/6405\">August 31, 2018<\/a> was a good issue of Science.\u00a0 Starting with the in brief news updates &#8211; Sacha Baron Cohen tried to prank Francis Collins (NIH) &#8211; Collins realized pretty quickly but continued to engage: &#8220;&#8216;I was pretty irritated from having been misled.&#8217;\u00a0 But ever the dutiful public servant, he decided to keep going &#8212; and get across whatever public health messages would stick.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; if you are on your game and an expert, this is how you you engage..\u00a0 The piece of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/361\/6405\/830\">Can a transgenic chestnut restore a forest icon?<\/a>&#8221; is a good look at work on an engineered American chestnut.\u00a0 Lots of biotech &#8211; an interesting piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/361\/6405\/835\">using CRISPR to fix a muscular dystrophy in dogs<\/a> &#8211; wow!\u00a0 A really good analytic piece with big energy, climate, and policy implications: <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/361\/6405\/851\">Global carbon intensity of crude oil production<\/a>.\u00a0 Really good work to quantify a critical aspect of energy production.\u00a0 A great piece on a critical issue of geographic (lack of) diversity in S&amp;T investment in the U.S. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/361\/6405\/861\">Federal research funding aims to ease societal challenges<\/a> (and fantastic work Kei Koizumi!!!).\u00a0 The review on <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/361\/6405\/870\">Emerging applications for DNA writers and molecular recorders<\/a> was a good overview on key emerging tech in this area.\u00a0 Finally, the comprehensive review of a large number of datasets for <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/361\/6405\/899\">the spatial footprint of injections wells in a global compilation of induced earthquake sequences<\/a>\u00a0is impressive and good work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 31, 2018 was a good issue of Science.\u00a0 Starting with the in brief news updates &#8211; Sacha Baron Cohen tried to prank Francis Collins (NIH) &#8211; Collins realized pretty quickly but continued to engage: &#8220;&#8216;I was pretty irritated from having been misled.&#8217;\u00a0 But ever the dutiful public servant, he decided to keep going &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/?p=232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">@sciencemag 02018\/08\/31 highlights<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}