Big Genomic Promise of Big Data
The combination of "big data" and genomics allow medical professionals to diagnose patients genetically at risk for disease, but there are some serious hurdles to surmount before we can sequence ourselves.
The Birth of The Coolth
Americans were more fully aware that modern life, urban life in the late nineteenth century, made heat more unbearable than ever. As Salvatore Basile writes in Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything: “America was realizing that a heat wave was much more unpleasant in cities than in rural areas: the larger the city, the more brick and stone and human bodies, the more hellishly hot it felt." A man-made heat was being created that could only be controlled, ultimately, by man-made cooling. Slowly, inchoately, but tenaciously, the quest for coolth had begun.
