But let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil

A reminescense of opening hours

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Saturday, January 31st

La gaya scienza

Dieter Hattrup pointed me today to Nietzsche

Der tolle Mensch sprang mitten unter sie und durchbohrte sie mit seinen Blicken. Wohin ist Gott? rief er, ich will es euch sagen! Wir haben ihn getödtet, ihr und ich! Wir alle sind sein Mörder! Aber wie haben wir diess gemacht? Wie vermochten wir das Meer auszutrinken? Wer gab uns den Schwamm, um den ganzen Horizint wegzuwischen? Was thaten wir, als wir diese Erde von ihrer Sonne losketteten?

as well as Nietzsche’s account to all (Show me more…)

Wednesday, January 21st

Cargo Cult Science

Robert Feynman introduced that term 1974 in his Caltech commencement – an analogy to natives to Samoa who created mock airports (Show me more…)

Wednesday, January 21st

Heritability not limited to DNA sequence differences

It has been our gut feeling for many years – first with candidate gene studies, then with the large scale GWAs that show ridiculous low effect sizes.
A new Canadian study now reports DNA methylation at 12 K sites in dizygotic twins. Although they may not have always tested the right spots (see the CpG island shore! paper in the same issue) they were attributing discordances mainly to zygote differences (Show me more…)

Wednesday, January 21st
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