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April 30, 2006
Category: Retrospective
(I'm still on my little trip - but I'll be back soon. Here's what I wrote when I came back from Spain last summer) Is this entry about the eventual fall of the west? Perhaps not directly. Although wedding plans...
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April 29, 2006
Category: Retrospective
(from my old blog) While my column is washing, and my brain is fried, I should finally write this entry ... A while back, right around the time of Katrina, I read a spectacular book, The Control of Nature by John McAfee (Amazon site). When man's interests conflict with an ever changing environment, what does man do? He/she fights change.
(All images were hijacked from maps.google.com.)
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April 28, 2006
Category: Retrospective
(two entries from my old blog) I've been reading Ernst Mayr's This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World. In it there is this great quote: It is often asked why we do science? Or, what is science good...
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April 27, 2006
Category: Retrospective
(from my old blog) Every subject has its lingo and its share of strange terms. Add abbreviations and acronyms, and certain areas of expertise can be almost incomprehensible. Then there is Biology. Life has a diversification machine, evolution. Thus those...
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April 26, 2006
Category: Retrospective
(from my old blog)
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April 25, 2006
Category: Retrospective
(from my old blog) About a month ago I had a conversation with my thesis advisor about the h-index. It is a new method, proposed by Jorge E. Hirsch of UCSD to quantitatively measure a scientist's influence. His proposal was published in PNAS and Nature had a little report on it. Here's a publically available link to the paper (for those who don't have institutional access to PNAS) ...
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April 24, 2006
Category: Retrospective
(from my old blog) OK here's a post geared mostly to cell biologists. My big pet peeve about reading the scientific literature is ... colored fluorescent images. Why do people insist on pseudo-coloring their images? I know that you want...
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April 23, 2006
Category: Retrospective
(from my old blog) OK this week I've been obsessed with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). This organelle is comprised of a continuous network of membranous tubes (and sheets) that extends to the cell periphery. In addition ER sheets also envelopes...
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Category: Retrospective
Non-cell biologists have often viewed the cell as a bag of molecules. Over the years as cell-biology has developed, it became clear that this was a simplistic generalization. Cells are organized by a dynamic cytoskeletal network that can organize the...
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April 22, 2006
Category: Retrospective
(from my old blog) Portuguese (tissue) culture: Looks like she's mouth pipetting, or drinking (we're not sure) some yummy tissue culture media. I hope that this newspaper clipping won't spark riots....
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