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The Nobels are coming up. Here is last year's prediction (note that I had listed Mello and Fire).Who will win this year? You tell me. Some guesses for the Medicine & Physiology (or perhaps Chemistry) below the fold. Warning - the predictions presented here are highly biased towards cellular…
With the election nearly upon us, I've started regularly following Talking Points Memo again. Late last night, Josh Marshall wrote about the early voting results: Among those who've already voted, it's Obama 57%, McCain 38%. And that number is not inconsistent with numbers coming out of a lot of…
So, the rumours are true, the USS Enterprise is scooting back to the Persian Gulf - usual game issue - could be regular rotation, with one of the two carriers already there going home (Stennis should head back in August if they stick to the six month rotation), but it will provide a window with…
In a comment on the FutureBaby betting thread, Rivka writes: (I'm laughing at all these people who are predicting early. The average gestation for a first time mother is 41 weeks, 1 day.) Of course, as a physical scientist, my immediate reaction to that is "If they know that, then shouldn't that…