A recap of the past day: 23andme has stopped including the health reports section of the test because apparently people are not smart enough to understand the results as presented: High, Low, and Typical risk category. The FDA is…
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More thinking on this subject. Over on The Economist website someone wrote in that United Healthcare is behind the FDA’s attack on 23andme. Apparently they have a long history of complaints about 23. And they have friends at the…
People have a right to all information about their bodies and health. Real stats, genetics, risks, things that can be done that don’t require paying someone in a white coat to do. It belongs to us. “They” can medicalize…
Homebrew Computer Club had a reunion, Wozniak included, at the Computer HIstory Museum November 11, 2013…
The Palo Alto Daily Post reports that the incredible Roth building on Homer Ave. that formerly housed The Palo Alto Medical Foundation (prior to its incarnation in a building that looks like a minimum security prison), is finally coming…
A big and great reunion is in the works from the founders, great and small, known and unknown, of the computer industry. November 11, 2013 is the next Homebrew Computer Club Reunion at the Computer History Museum in Mountain…
We like big data here. We apply metrics and massage it for messages. Here’s some big data of an unsettling sort. I visited El Palo Alto the other day. It’s 1073 years old. That’s an impressive number. Kind of…
Philz coffee, downtown Palo Alto, where people speak in code.…
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The Military and Theranos: Call it Blood Money?
The Board of Palo Alto start up Theranos is military. …
Yesterday I found out the CIA hangs around in unmarked cars by Philz Coffee in downtown Palo Alto. Philz is on the same block as Palantir on the Alma Street side. See my post on Palantir, the CIA funded start…