Are scientists afraid of blogs and tweets?
Nature has a nice wee article (no subscription required to read this one, FTW!) on the state of what one might call “informal” peer review – t...
Author: charlie
Human microbial ecology – cool study
I mentioned a few weeks back a review in Nature about a trio of scientists studying the contributions of gut microbial ecology in preemies that get necrotizing ...
links for 2011-01-23
Scientists sequence gut microbes of premature infant "Scientists have for the first time sequenced and reconstructed the genomes of most of the microbes in...
links for 2011-01-22
VEX Robotics Design System from the makers of HEXBUGs (tags: robotics robots electronics robot hardware diy design tech cool) HEXBUG Micro Robotic Creatures ...
Doing stand-up at IgniteAmherst Feb 8th
Just a note that I'll be doing a 5-minute stand-up act at IngiteAmherst at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (125 West Bay Road, Amherst, MA). Link...
links for 2011-01-21
Hawk in Library of Congress – Wash Post "What appears to be a Cooper's Hawk has taken shelter inside the Main Reading Room of the Library of Con...
links for 2011-01-20
Fall of Rome Recorded in Trees – ScienceNOW (tags: history dendrochronology science trends weather climate cool) Race against time for raiders of the lost...
Functional roles for noise in genetic circuits
I have a thing about noise (see my ramblings here). And as folks try to turn elements of biological circuits into well-behaving engineered parts, I’ve been tryi...
links for 2011-01-17
Revealing the Dark Matter of the Genome | Science/AAAS "It is not currently possible to compute an organism from its genome, performing the transformation ...
The subtlety of life – clever codon usage
Here’s a paper from September I haven’t had a chance to comment on. Zhang et al reported in Science (review, paper – subscription required) how two almost...