Google is now indexing Life Magazine and allows the viewing of many Lambarene photos. For example this nice photo of Schweitzer at his 90th birthday is just one click away.
There is also a new biography (that I haven’t read yet).
Two days ago I heard an interesting by Andreas Beyer about using wiring diagrams as a bioinformatics tool box for simulating complex biological relationships. This is something that can be found also in this recent nat gen review but even more detailed in new work on eQTLs. So far, however, there is not proof that any of these methods behave much better than others in the absence of a gold standard in bioinformatics, yea, yea.
Adorno in Minima Moralia: “Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im Falschen” (No true life in the wrong one).
or any patent from oblivion, in preservations below the moon – the predicament of Sir Thomas Browne in Cyril Connolly’s “Enemies of Promise”, a book just recently recommended to me. My pidgin science is certainly not good enough to appreciate enough to wonderful descriptions like on page 30 “look on my works ye mortals and despair”. The scientist (Show me more…)
… also for some people in the field the main paradigma in science. To cite Wikipedia
Bush’s assertion — and the sign itself — became controversial after guerilla warfare in Iraq increased during the Iraqi insurgency. The vast majority of casualties, among both coalition (approximately 98.3% as of October 2008) and Iraqi combatants, and among Iraqi civilians, have occurred after the speech. Due to this fact, “Mission Accomplished” is now a winged word for uncompleted operations with an unclear ending.
goodbye GB!
Another one of my favorites, this morning on BR2 when driving to Gauting, entrainment (Show me more…)