Let's talk about facts this election - Part V - Science Funding
Category: Election '08
Governmental funding of science is fundamentally important to our economic future.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:41 AM • 4 Comments •
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August 30, 2008
Saturday Morning Video
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
This one is dedicated to the residents of New Orleans who for the past three years have been rebuilding that beautiful city. Long live The Big Easy....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:18 AM • 1 Comments •
August 29, 2008
Let's talk about facts this election - Part IV - Soft Power
Category: Election '08
One of America's strengths was that people looked up to the US. In WWII soldiers would give up to the US on purpose, because they knew that they would be treated fairly. How do I know this - my grandfather...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 2:59 PM • 3 Comments •
Let's talk about facts this election - Part III - Health Insurance
Category: Election '08
A closer look at the facts.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:30 AM • 9 Comments •
August 28, 2008
Let's talk about facts this election - Part II - The Federal Budget Deficit
Category: Election '08
Again here's a simple graph that says it all. And they say that Democrats are fiscally irresponsible....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:46 PM • 5 Comments •
Bill Clinton tells America to look at the facts
Category: Election '08
Instead of vague platitudes, Clinton uses empiricism to make his points.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:56 AM • 0 Comments •
August 27, 2008
Let's talk about facts this election - Part I - Taxes
Category: Election '08
One graph says it all.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 4:37 PM • 8 Comments •
Political Check In: Kucinich and Clinton Hit Homeruns
Category: Election '08
Now will the Democrats unite behind Obama? I hope so.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:30 AM • 1 Comments •
August 24, 2008
Tired of all the crap from the tube
Category: Election '08
Another rant on the latest in presidential politicking.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:44 PM • 11 Comments •
Summer reading edition: Great cell biology papers that I've read but haven't blogged about
1) TOR signaling and amino acid starvation, 2) mRNA export and mRNA translation, and 3) nuiclear envelope proteins link the cytoskeleton and certain DNA elements.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 3:27 PM • 0 Comments •
August 22, 2008
Lab Artifact
Category: Lab Life
Maybe this will become the new Friday feature at The Daily Transcript ......
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 3:15 PM • 3 Comments •
August 18, 2008
MUST LISTEN: Robert Krulwich on Science for the Masses
Category: Science & Society
If you are a scientist, I urge you to listen to the commencement speech that Krulwich gave to the Cal Tech graduates earlier this year....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:31 AM • 0 Comments •
August 14, 2008
VADLO - Google for Scientists?
Category: Lab Life
Check it out.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:23 AM • 2 Comments •
August 12, 2008
On using "information processing" as a metaphor for biological processes
Category: Pure Biology
Sorry, I've been busy these past few days. I want to respond to a comment posted by Dan and take this opportunity to broaden the discussion about how we use language to construct models. Dan's concerns about information and life...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:52 PM • 9 Comments •
August 7, 2008
Want To Popularize Science? Here's the gadget for you!
Category: Science & Society
A pocket-size lensless microscope that uses on-chip optofluidic microscopy (OFM).
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:12 PM • 0 Comments •
A way to break out of the pyramid scheme
Category: Lab Life
Boom-bust cycles of NIH funding have caused many hardships especially within the lowest ranks of biomedical academia.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:30 AM • 0 Comments •
August 5, 2008
Eye Candy - Nuclear Blebs
Category: Pure Biology
I'm sure that others have seen similar nuclear morphologies, yet no one knows how such structures could form.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:37 PM • 6 Comments •
August 3, 2008
New Understanding of Biology
Category: Pure Biology
According to Paul Nurse, if we wish to understand biological complexity, we need to rethink how signaling cascades work.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:00 PM • 7 Comments •
