August 2010
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“Everything I love. The room behind me. A...
April 2010
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March 2010
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Just finished Acquiring Genomes. I feel so alive. The fibers of so-called organic and inorganic essence vibrating exquisitely in my every cell. Our potentially thermodynamic imperative. Our microbial antecedents. Can hardly contain my own spirit with its heart pounding so forcefully. A soul provoked.
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An existential itch to scratch … scratch scratch claw claw rub rub
February 2010
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I met a kind man today.
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A bedfellow with Fiction
January 2010
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Boston co. has a mail microbe crusher →
Interesting. This company, BioDefender, has a product that uses electromagnetic waves to kill pathogens. Curious to learn more about it. Here’s some more 411:
Currently, the MailDefender is designed to neutralize any bio-agents inside any of the envelopes placed in the basket, but the device does not contain any detection or alert system that would notify the operator that a bio-agent...
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Eukaryosis on my mind … with Scramble 2 betwixt :)
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When I am aged, I will perch, and remember the tumultuousness when our hearts were lions.
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Me: So then I realized how little I know of the Kantian vocabulary used to describe his metaphysical world.
Fitz: Man, how do you wake up every morning?
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And I, a Californian, hiding in the warmth of the cold.
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Year End Reviews Begin . . . →
This is the first primary literature end-of-the-year review I’ve come upon. I am perched and eager to tear into the diverse set of reviews being discharged from various journals. In particular, I am curious about the perspectives held by certain journals outside of the Nature/Science mainstream, including the Journal of Biology and the PLoS series.
What’s interesting in the review...
October 2009
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September 2009
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August 2009
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arXiv for the Biology Primary Literature? →
Today, PLoS has launched PLoS Currents, a non-peer reviewed resource of preliminary findings, all hosted by Google Knol (Google’s Wikipedia). The first theme to be given treatment? Influenza. Namely H1N1. The intent of PLoS Currents is the rapid dissemination of research ideas. For those of you familiar with arXive (pronounced “archive”), PLoS Currents may seem a familiar...
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walking away, looking back, smiling …
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Too Much Optimism at the NIH? →
Neil Greenspan’s argument that Collins is too extreme in optimism is fallacious. The examples given do not paint a picture of an unsound scientist. Frankly, the examples are weak. To suggest, as this article does, that Collins does not understand the current limitations of personalized medicine is laughable.
Greenspan provides as an “illustrative” example the case of...
June 2009
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A letter to Paris …
May 2009
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a magnificent grey …
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April 2009
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“Over 40% of the journals in the bundle had no hits at all from the University in...”
– A Challenge to Goliath
Wow, that is a lot of journals unread.
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the finishing game …
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“If I had my way, I’d destroy all the mosques and spread the whores around a...”
– New York Times
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