Warning: frivolously geeky and technical post, which can be best defined as “science methodology esoterica”, and from which you can learn absolutely nothing useful. If you don’t get what’s going on, then it’s probably for the best, because this is a complete waste of time. Specific Aim 1: find the longest word in English composed [...]
Sooo… NIH and NSF started Tweeting. Nice. A good way to keep up with grant programs, funding opportunities, yadda yadda. Here’s my @ tweet : @NIH protein catalytic site evolution health implic: good for drug design. Young scientist, need $0.7M 2010-2013, 2xpostdocs+cluster+travel. Prev pubs: http://is.gd/vnPN; kthxbi I hope I won’t get killed at the renewal…
Short quiz and a movie for DNA day. 1) We celebrate DNA day because: a) Congress said so b) Francis Collins said so c) I said so 2) Who has DNA? a) CSI Miami b) James Watson c) Please, please, PLEASE let the paternity test comes back negative… 3) Nature vs. Nurture: which is more [...]
…Your Brain Will Fall Out.
From Abstruse Goose
When the Moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, a bunch of people gather for their “Bioinformaticians anonymous” group therapy. There they metaphorically gather, commiserating about how bioinformatics is dead (or was it bioinformaticians?), just smells funny or suffers from identity theft, probably because it got drunk at the last ISMB, [...]
These two have great chemistry, and the video captures the raw and gritty quality of a small club appearance.
Almost every time you read an interview with a scientist, the subject turns invariably to their sense of accomplishment and awe when they finally discover something new. Somehow, I never could quite identify with this sentiment entirely. Research is excruciatingly hard, laborious, frustrating and accomplishing anything always takes longer than I thought. I always keep [...]
Note the bass player. Hang around past 1:10 and you are in for a treat.
XKCD appeals to my geeky humor side. Also, as a staunch Pythoneer, I cherish the occasional Python reference. To complete the trifecta, I just saw T2 for the umptieth time two days ago.
