We cleaned Ana's room...

[conuly]

And found her winter homework packet. She says she brought a second copy with her, I sure hope that's the case.

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Be sure you read this article if you read nothing else, my sister insists it not get buried!

This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/elizabeth-holmes-theranos/

Body bacteria: Can your gut bugs make you smarter?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140221-can-gut-bugs-make-you-smarter

Don’t panic. But there’s a global coffee shortage.

http://wapo.st/1byXNVe

Here’s why the unemployment rate doesn’t matter anymore

http://wapo.st/1g6GRF2

Ukrainians gawp as Yanukovich's luxury estate is opened to public

http://reut.rs/1flVo12

Comments

[andrewducker]

Good article last year on the blood testing people:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324123004579055003869574012?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424127887324123004579055003869574012.html

[waterfall8484]

It's amazing what surfaces when you're tidying. :~D Is this homework she should have handed back already, or is it just too dishevelled to use now?

This time I'm actually reading all the articles! \o/

[crystalpyramid]

Interesting!

It makes me wonder, though — how uniform is blood? If it's totally uniform, a tiny sample should be fine, but if there's variation, tiny samples are going to be more subject to that variation. I know when they prick your finger to test your hemoglobin (before you donate blood, to make sure you're not anemic) there can be a big difference between one test and the next. Maybe it's a problem with the test itself, and a more accurate test would avoid that, but my impression had been that there's variation between those tiny blood samples.

[waterfall8484]

Thanks, I read this one too. :~)

[conuly]

It was her vacation packet, due back today. Turns out that EVA had two packets, and Ana did Eva's second one.

But she was a trooper, and got it all done in a few hours.

[waterfall8484]

Whoops. Well done her for doing it anyway!