3 questions. 3 hints. 3 answers. Every Tuesday.
Question: what has increased 24% since 2010?
Hint: you can touch it, feel it but you can’t see it…
Answer: the updated Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory contains 1,628 consumer products – up 24% since 2010. The inventory has been enhanced and now includes greater scientific data,” including qualitative and quantitative descriptors, such as size, concentration and potential exposure routes for the nanomaterials contained in consumer products.” Read the story here.
Question: What disorder is the focus of recent promising and predictive study results, using a genetic diagnostic classifier, that have been called into question?
Hint: it is often in the form of a puzzle piece.
Answer: The findings of Stan Skafidas et. al., essentially that a simple genetic test, via a saliva sample, could predict autism from birth, have been rebutted by another group of researchers whose analysis indicates that there is no clear correlation between autism and the set of genetic markers or bio-pathways established by Skafidas and his team. Read the controversial details here.
Question: Hmmmm. What IS Google up to?
Hint: it floats.
Answer: it appears that Google is behind the assembly and set up of a top-secret, floating, four-story structure in San Francisco Bay. It is not certain what the facility is intended for, whether an educational facility, data center, retail store or otherwise. All one knows right now is that it’s all hush hush. Read about it here.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN – COURTESY OF THE BT BRINJAL EGGPLANT TRIO!
