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Lamar,Great literary reference, I actually still haven't read that book. I should put it on my list.I counter your reference with one from the musical Chorus Line.One of the chara...
Betta feed for the cows and sheep? Gotta givitta go.
NEW HIGH ENERGY PASTURE GOES ON TRIAL Victorian Government announcement, Australia Tuesday, 28 October 2008 The Brumby Government has announced the first Australian field trials of high-energy pasture grasses are set to star...
Why do we blog?
Martin Fenner, asked some questions to science bloggers in Nature Networks that I think are interesting. Plus, the meme is going around my blogging neighbourhood so I thought I...
Why Political Corruption Matters: Dianne Wilkerson
I've been meaning to post about the corruption case involving former MA State Senator Dianne Wilkerson because it really lays out the most corrosive ef...
Journal journeys: Day 285, Relocation, relocation
So, here I am in the Boston office of Nature Publishing Group....My relocation, long foretold on our 'About the editors page', has finally happened. I've been looking forward...
Explain it to me
As we finish up our 4th volume over at Nature Chemical Biology, we've been thinking about new ideas for the journal ...
Reactions - Paul Kruger
1. What made you want to be a chemist?As a child I was intrigued with building (my father was in the building trade) so I guess in some respects I took his lead but down to the nanometric dimension. I love the definitive nature of chemi...
How to start collaborations.
Someone asked about this in a comment, implying it was something that should be taught in grad school.Here's how I think I learned:1. Panhandling from a poor lab. This was out of necessity. I used to be the kin...
Still against Larry Summers
Dear Fareed Zakaria, George Stephanopoulos and Cynthia Tucker,A lot of us blogged about Larry Summers when he blamed women for our lack of s...
Evolution of a project.
1. Pilot experimentsExpectations: noneInterpretation: Oh my god, did it actually work?2. RepetitionExpectations: I hope it work...
Interviewing my replacement
No, I haven't quit.But while my lab is, in my opinion, plenty big enough already, my advisor is always interviewing more postdocs.Sometimes they are very good, but don't end up coming.Sometimes they are mediocre or not...
Facilitated Variation: How the genetic code hedges its bets on a variable environment
Haven't had the chance to look very closely at the details, but this paper looks very interesting. Evolution thrives on variation, and according to them, the genomes of organisms can accumulate a sort of stored memory of past adaptation to varying environ...
Updated refresher course on genes
There's an article in the NYT by Carl Zimmer called "Now: The Rest of the Genome" that discusses some of the new findings about how genes work:Here ar...
