Cambridge Science Festival
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Lots to do, lots to see ... including a giant model of the human genome (scale=24kb/inch).
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April 27, 2007
April 26, 2007
To write or not to write
Category: Lab Life
When should bloggers post data? We need to consider what is fair & what is unfair.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:38 AM • 8 Comments •
Boston RNA Club - Delayed until May 15th
It looks like I'll be giving a talk at our inaugural meeting on May 15th. More details to come shortly. See this previous post....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:19 AM • 0 Comments •
"Remember that a liberal atheist has forgiven you today"
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
The comedian/monologist Mike Daisey confronts a religious man who vandalized his show.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:16 AM • 4 Comments •
April 24, 2007
Earth Day with the birds
Category: Misc
This past weekend was gorgeous. Sunday we were hanging out at Plum Island taking in the sun, when a pair of Piping Plovers, an endangered species, came near our beach towel. Here are some pics: I also shot some interesting...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:37 PM • 0 Comments •
What's Up, Postdoc?
Category: Lab Life
The third instalment of this postdoc carnival is available here....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:13 AM • 0 Comments •
April 23, 2007
Disruption at the American Repertory Theatre
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Yes that's right, in the middle of the performance a group of protesters got up and stormed the stage. One guy poured water all over Daisey's notes and then the bandits left the show. Video here.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:57 PM • 7 Comments •
Organize your PDFs with iTunes
Category: Lab Life
Want to manage all those scientific articles that you've downloaded over the years? Evil Gomez at ScienceSampler shows you how (link)....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:58 AM • 7 Comments •
April 21, 2007
Upcoming Postdoc Carnival
Category: Lab Life
Support the What's Up, Postdoc? carnival by submitting a post on postdoc-hood or any other related subject. You've got just 2 days left so send it TODAY. Click here for details....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:03 AM • 0 Comments •
Soccer Saturday
Category: Misc
A phenocopy of Maradona's great goal by Lionel Messi. Here is Messi's recent goal: Here is Maradona's famous goal: And now here ther are, side by side:...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:00 AM • 3 Comments •
April 19, 2007
Nurse, Varmus & others discus cancer on Charlie Rose
Category: Science & Society
Some topics from the video: tobacco in Asia, cervical cancer in India, cancer stemcells, cancer gene addiction, collaborative research, and a case for increasing the NIH budget.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:38 PM • 0 Comments •
Scientific Fraud
Category: Lab Life
It looks like the paper that describes the FT mRNA as a messenger molecule that is transported between plant cells is fraudulent. FT mRNA is a transcript that regulates flowering in plants. Damn, that was a cool paper. Read about...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:49 PM • 2 Comments •
April 18, 2007
Foreign Postdocs and Wages
Category: Lab Life
From the latest issue of Science, a study on foreign postdocs and he effects on salaries.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:54 AM • 17 Comments •
April 17, 2007
A Passage from Plato's Republic
Category: Misc
This is for all you libertarians who think that laws and government are shackles. Just remember that society is a contract. Now that those who practise justice do so involuntarily and because they have not the power to be unjust...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:19 AM • 4 Comments •
Guns, guns, guns ... let's have a REAL discussion
Category: Misc
I left this comment on Rob Knop's site: I read this post, and then the comments, and I thought to my self, it would be nice if both sides engage in a discourse. The "anti-gun" side asks for a balance...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:46 AM • 31 Comments •
Virginia Tech Massacre
Category: Misc
Sad, very sad. 32 dead. Reading about it ... how the killings came in several waves, hours apart ... I wonder why didn't they stop the guy. I guess that unlike Dawson, which is located in downtown Montreal, V Tech...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:03 AM • 4 Comments •
April 16, 2007
Boston RNA Data Club
Category: Lab Life
We finally got this off the ground, email me if you are interested....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:07 AM • 2 Comments •
April 13, 2007
Quantum Photosynthesis
Category: Science & Society
Look at this catchy title: Quantum secrets of photosynthesis revealed. Hmm.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:47 PM • 1 Comments •
New Record for Mass Spec
Category: Pure Biology
T. rex proteins sequenced. Wow.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:52 AM • 3 Comments •
April 9, 2007
STRING - Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Proteins
Category: Pure Biology
How come no one told me about this site? STRING is a database of known and predicted protein-protein interactions. The interactions include direct (physical) and indirect (functional) associations; they are derived from four sources: -Genomic Context -High-throughput Experiments -(Conserved) Coexpression...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:36 AM • 5 Comments •
April 6, 2007
Explorers & Crusaders
Category: Retrospective
Which are you?
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 3:55 PM • 2 Comments •
April 4, 2007
Elsevier & Arms Exhibitions
Category: Science & Society
Apparently Reed Elsevier, publisher of countless academic journals such as Cell, Neuron, Current Biology and the Lancet, is also organizing arms exhibition shows. In a bizarre development, the editors of the Lancet agreed with researchers who want to start a...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:02 AM • 1 Comments •
April 3, 2007
Cellular Torture
Category: Pure Biology
What happens when you inject fluorescent DNA into cells? Psychedelic micrographs.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 6:23 PM • 9 Comments •
String Theory Kerfuffle
Category: Science & Society
Sean Carrol makes a case for his favorite paradigm.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:35 AM • 10 Comments •
April 2, 2007
PBS is Getting Web Friendly
Category: Science & Society
NOVA and Charlie Rose on the web for free.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 12:51 PM • 0 Comments •
Changing Translation in Mitosis
Category: Pure Biology
How the expression of a single protein can profoundly alter the types of proteins synthesized during mitosis.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 12:04 PM • 3 Comments •
Mendel's Garden #13
Category: Pure Biology
The latest in Genetics Blogging. Come take a look.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:35 AM • 2 Comments •
April 1, 2007
More Science Graffiti
Category: Lab Life
I have to admit this one is better than last week's post. Yo, TCA man, T-C-A. [HT:Dario]...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 6:27 PM • 4 Comments •
Chun-ying Motion
Category: Science & Society
I believe that PZ Myers wrote his undergraduate thesis on this fascinating subject. Here's a video of this bizarre phenomenon
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:51 AM • 2 Comments •
