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Why do American politician always use wrong statistics when they want to bash Holland….

Why do American politician always use wrong statistics when they want to bash Holland….

Why do American politician always use wrong statistics when they want to bash Holland. Is this from the statistics agency from FOX news again?!

According to Rick Santorum is 10% of deaths "caused" by euthanasia, while the proper statistics say it's only 2%. He's make the statement that 50% of these euthanasia cases is not out of free will (something that is simply illegal and I cannot imagine that GPs all over the country are evil killing machines).

Because of this all old Dutch people are afraid of the hospital and take their care in another country…. So how come that the health care system is stretched to the max with the current after war generation, aren't they suppose to get their healthcare somewhere in Europe without euthanasia rights?!

"Obamacare leads America down the same road" – a right, of course, free (or accessibel to all) healthcare is evil and leads to killing sprees under the patients.

What a joke if this is the only way you can win elections….

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Santorum Nostalgic for Abortions "in the Shadows," Warns of Euthanasia Increase

Santorum Nostalgic for Abortions "in the Shadows," Warns of Euthanasia Increase
Rick Santorum fabricates statistics about euthanasia in the US and Netherlands, appears nostalgic for days when abortions "were in the shadows."

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Erik Meijer prof in cloud programming at +TU Delft: University of Technology (And you might know him from +Lambda Lecture Series) gave his opinion about our current usage of techniques. According to him we still live in the stone ages and are to afraid to really adopt to new technologies available.

Another interesting statement: books are gone within 5 years!

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Erik Meijer: we leven in het stenen tijdperk | Pro | Tweakers.net Video's
Met veel bombarie kondigde de TU Delft aan dat Erik Meijer, onder meer grondlegger van de LINQ-taal, deeltijdhoogleraar 'cloud programming' werd. Tweakers.net bezocht een van zijn eerste hoorcolleges …

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Really awesome new DNA sequencers from Oxford Nanopore

Really awesome new DNA sequencers from Oxford Nanopore

1 machine that can sequence a human genome in 15 minutes but the real eye catcher is a sequencer the size of a USB thumbdrive. Pure awesomeness!

Like the quotes from the article:

“It sent shock waves through this meeting,” says Chad Nusbaum of the Broad Institute, who saw the machine presented at the #AGBT genomics meeting in Marco Island, Fl. “No one is talking about much else right now.

+New Scientist article: http://goo.gl/n8InJ

+Forbes article: http://goo.gl/pxbKw

/update. +Nature News & Comment article with a bit more technical background about these 2 new devices: http://goo.gl/GjrI9

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The Next DNA Disruptor? - Forbes

The Next DNA Disruptor? – Forbes
My Twitter feed just exploded. Oxford Nanopore, long the sleeper project to watch in the field of mapping DNA, just announced two products that could dramatically change the field of DNA sequencing: a…

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Thanks to +Albert Vilella one day I'll be a GNU Screen hero as well but for now…

Thanks to +Albert Vilella one day I'll be a GNU Screen hero as well but for now…

Thanks to +Albert Vilella one day I'll be a GNU Screen hero as well but for now I'm still doing small babysteps and I'm sometimes lost in between a mixture of tabs/sessions/terminals….

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GNU Screen – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation
GNU Screen. Introduction to GNU Screen. Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. Each virtual terminal provi…

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How many people do wear this kind of T-shirts designed by +Michael B

How many people do wear this kind of T-shirts designed by +Michael B

How many people do wear this kind of T-shirts designed by +Michael B. Eisen in the "fight" against Elsevier and the Research Works Act (#RWA)

http://goo.gl/H3XPg

Better version of “Boycott Elsevier” t-shirt
a blog about genomes, DNA, evolution, open science, baseball and other important things

Great to read how fast animals can adjust and adopt to a new environment and switch…

Great to read how fast animals can adjust and adopt to a new environment and switch…

Great to read how fast animals can adjust and adopt to a new environment and switch to a totally different eating strategy.

Reshared post from +Nature News & Comment

The arrival of an alien species can turn an ecosystem on its head. Researchers have found an invasive mussel that has caused a complete ecological role reversal, turning a host into a parasite and vice versa.

Invasive species turns parasites into hosts : Nature News & Comment
Asian mussels take the advantage from European bitterling fish.