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...
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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...
Co-operative evolution of the immune system in humans?
Lee and Mazmanian, from Caltech, published this great review in Science on microbes in the gut and how different bacteria might have been involved in the evolut...
links for 2011-01-13
Polaroid chairman pictures a bright future – The Boston Globe Analyst says, "“If someone is taking pictures at a party, those are almost immediately ...
More on bacteria and asthma
There’s a theory going around to explain the rise in asthma: we’re too clean. Research in the past 5 years has slowly been teasing out how this might be. Link (...
links for 2011-01-12
Social Cruft "I think we’re in the awkward, adolescent stage of Mass Media adoption of social media. Eventually more sane minds will prevail and attention ...