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…)