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DNA ancestry tests may look cheap. But your data is the price
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/10/dna-ancestry-tests-cheap-data-price-companies-23andme

Do customers realise that genetic genealogy companies like 23andMe profit by amassing huge biological datasets ? In 1884, at the International Health Exhibition in South Kensington, four million punters came to view the latest scientific marvels : drainage systems, flushing toilets and electrically illuminated fountains. There, the scientist Francis Galton set up the Anthropometric Laboratory, where common folk would pay 3d (around 80p today) to enter, and anonymously fill out a data card. (...)

#23andMe #algorithme #BigData #génétique #marketing

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Philippine floods a man-made disaster—experts | Inquirer News
►http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/246867/philippine-floods-a-man-made-disaster-experts

Deadly floods that have swamped nearly all of the Philippine capital are less a natural disaster and more the result of poor planning, lax enforcement and political self-interest, experts say.
 
Damaged watersheds, massive squatter colonies living in danger zones and the neglect of drainage systems are some of the factors that have made the chaotic city of 15 million people much more vulnerable to enormous floods.
 
Urban planner Nathaniel Einseidel said the Philippines had enough technical know-how and could find the necessary financing to solve the problem, but there was no vision or political will.

#catastrophes soi-disant naturelles