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The mathematics and geometry in John Hejduck
http://t.co/b67NmBNDzW about #JohnHejduck #mathematics #geometry #architecture In the Diamond project he articulates his idea of the architect's plan as perpendicular to the observer's frontality. This...
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Thermodynamics in drug discovery: A Faustian bargain cooked in a devil's stew?
The binding of analogs of the anticoagulant melagatranto thrombin demonstrates intricate water network and protein conformation differences masked by similar binding modesDriving drug design by...
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FieldNotes: Seductive Allure of Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations
The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations by Simon Oxenham at Neurobonkers: .........As I so enjoy discussing at length on this blog, the evidence that people seem to fail to apply basic...
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Rhubarb delights
Rhubarb is one of the true delights of spring. It's fairly easy to grow, a dependable, non-fussy perennial. However it's amazing how many times people say they don't particularly care for rhubarb....
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MMR vaccine (still) doesn't cause autism, new study finds
Nope.We’re still spending vast amounts of time and money trying to counter the ill effects of a discredited, retracted paper from 1998 that claimed to find a link between the MMR (measles, mumps, and...
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A review of Marcia Bartusiak's "Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by...
Black holes are unusual objects. They are now recognized as some of the most important cosmic laboratories for studying all kinds of physics phenomena, from general relativity to quantum mechanics. And...
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Finally the final RNA-seq steps
Yesterday I did the Ribo-Zero treatment of the 24 samples for our final RNA-seq analysis. It was a bit complicated to plan because I was using a kit designed for only 6 samples (because the kits are...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - Silverbell tree
Oooo, TPP's yellow tree peonies are in flower, but maybe he doesn't want to over do the peony thing (but here and here anyways) . No problem; this time of year lots of things are in flower. At the...
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Is mathematics necessary for doing great science?
Derek has a post on the value of mathematics for chemists in Chemistry World. As he says in there, while formal mathematics may not be necessary at all in a chemist or biologist's day to day work, the...
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Let's You and Me Enter Syzygy
Finally, you and your beloved are together. For the two of you, there are no others; all the world is yours alone. You gaze into each other's eyes, and then you pull your beloved into an embrace. Your...
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The Problem with Sacesphorus
Probably not the subject of today's post: an unidentified assamiid from Thailand, from here.One of the most frustrating things about many older taxonomic resources can be the shortage of illustrations....
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A review of David McCullough's "The Wright Brothers"
David McCullough is one of the preeminent American historians of our times, the deft biographer of John Adams and Harry Truman, and in this book he brings his wonderful historical exposition and...
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Nobelist John Pople on using theories and models the right way
John Pople was a towering figure in theoretical and computational chemistry. He contributed to several aspects of the field, meticulously consolidated those aspects into rigorous computer algorithms...
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Any help with apple experiment?
TPP is ready to begin a new apple experiment; the last one was a failure. With limited space, TPP has been looking at the columnar dwarf apple trees, basically a central shoot with lots of flowering...
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An eerie quiet spread across the land
It was an exceptionally quiet Monday morning. TPP did not see a single other person while walking to the coffee shoppe. It had been raining for hours, and it was still a light drizzle. Things were wet,...
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We do not need to discard old scientific role models in order to embrace new...
Historian of science Steven Shapin has a review of Steven Gimbel's new capsule biography of Einstein in which he holds forth with some of his more general thoughts on the art of scientific biography...
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Orioles: The Genuine Article
Eurasian golden oriole Oriolus oriolus, copyright Crusier.It is widely appreciated that the British during the age of exploration were probably not the most imaginative of baptisers. Thanks to their...
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Melastomes and Pals
Princess flower Tibouchina heteromalla, copyright João Medeiros.For most botanists currently working on flowering plants, the default taxonomic framework for their studies is the classification...
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Let's You and Me Enter Syzygy
Finally, you and your beloved are together. For the two of you, there are no others; all the world is yours alone. You gaze into each other's eyes, and then you pull your beloved into an embrace. Your...
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The Problem with Sacesphorus
Probably not the subject of today's post: an unidentified assamiid from Thailand, from here.One of the most frustrating things about many older taxonomic resources can be the shortage of illustrations....
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