Maybe you discovered also this nifty little arrow that appears in OS X Snow Leopard Mail indicating that a date is being recognized (and can be moved to ical) or an address (ready for transfer into the address book). (Show me more…)
I confess, yea, there is a misunderstanding (sometimes) between generations. A new mindset list like the Beloit College List is therefore very handy as it explains
Most students entering college for the first time this fall [...] were born in 1992.
2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail. [...]
7. “Caramel macchiato†and “venti half-caf vanilla latte†have always been street corner lingo. [...]
20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed. [...]
46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station. [...]
52. There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church. [...]
65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus. [...]
Maybe I should reserve some time to rewrite that in German with my children, yea, yea.
I have no idea where genetics is heading now. A Nature paper last week on the “population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids” at least ends somewhere in the nowhere. Take not only 100 thousand participants but 100 million participants and you will get 95,000 loci – sorry to all my friends on the author list – that’s crap. Another, more interesting development during my recent absence in the Alpes comes by the Royal Society
In 1993 the world’s population was 5.5 billion; it is now 6.8 billion and is due to hit 7 billion by early 2012. A major new study looking at the implications of the changes in global population is being launched by the Royal Society with an expected conclusion in early 2012. [...] (Show me more…)
von Robert Gernhardt (Heine Gastprofessur 1986 in Düsseldorf – einer der wenigen wirklichen Virtuosen der deutschen Sprache) erschienen in “Gedichte 1954-1994″, Haffmanns Verlag, ISBN 3-251-00254-6. (Show me more…)
During my recent lecture series on science and religion, I tried to make clear that science includes many beliefs in addition to hard facts while religions encompasses hard facts in addition to many beliefs. So what about the fuzzy approach of intuition or educated guess in a prototypical biological experiment? If this is not just [...]
Mutation accumulation in the human genome is a largely neglected research field. Most mutations have a very small effect (if any) and may be compensated by environmental improvements. I have already argued in that way in the 2003 Triple T paper and will reiterate it soon in PLOS medicine (just found that James Crow 1997 [...]
A decade ago Karen Hunter (at that time Senior Vice President of Elsevier) did a brilliant analysis why scientists publish: For academic scientists, the research paradigm is the experiment and the publication output is a journal article. Academic science researchers publish to establish their claim at a specific time to a specific result. They publish [...]
I do not want to discuss here the rather polemic view of Daniel Dennetts “Breaking the spell” and other books as the new secularism is “suddenly hip” as the Guardian digital edition writes on 29th Oct 2006 Secularism is suddenly hip, at least in the publishing world. A glut of popular science books making a [...]
Is there any sense of genetic studies aiming at an association with body mass index? Will there ever be a public health strategy or any medical intervention based on a genetic marker? I am recalling what Christoph – a friend of mine at medical school and a now professor for child psychiatry – once told [...]