Postings under ( science )

18. July 2011
Intuition arises out of Mathematical Intractability
2. June 2011
The Pain: Installing Matplotlib in Snow Leopard on a Mac
22. May 2011
Jargon: The Art of Naming Things
3. March 2011
Solving the Commenting Problem for Science Articles
21. February 2011
The Reification of Data: from the Printing Press to the Web-centric API
21. December 2010
Amateur hour on Jolecule is over
13. December 2010
New journal "Open Research Computation" fuses open-access publishing with open-source programming
2. December 2010
Darwinian Evolution versus Neo-Darwinian Evolution
8. November 2010
The Minimal Set of Equipment to do Computational Biology
28. October 2010
The End of Natural Evolution
10. July 2010
We should retire the term "Postdoc"
27. May 2010
Beautiful arguments: Linus Pauling's triumphal calculation of the chemical bond
15. April 2010
The Religious Enclave in the House of Science
20. February 2010
Conference survival guide in downtown San Francisco
21. December 2009
You're Just Not that into Science
26. August 2009
The Lumpy Shape of Science Publishing in the not too Distant Future
14. July 2009
Releasing Scientific Software, Some Website Basics
29. May 2009
Final Figure Blues
18. April 2009
The attempt to reduce the Scientific Process to Computation
15. April 2009
Why I think the Plos Commenting System kinda sucks
13. March 2009
What our advisors do to us
13. March 2009
The social duty of tenure
11. December 2008
Some reflections on the tapping of Steven Chu for US Secretary of Energy
25. November 2008
Rainbow color spectrum in 2dplots considered useless
3. November 2008
First new particle in decades
22. October 2008
The Historical Mix of Tenure, Academic Freedom and Torture
17. October 2008
The Joy of a Citation Manager
16. September 2008
Dolphin birthing
17. July 2008
Science journal web design, done right
14. June 2008
Longevity in science
22. April 2008
Essential Computational Biology Clothing
17. April 2008
The business of drugs
14. April 2008
Academic Confidential
4. April 2008
On The Tacit Process of (Scientific) Discovery
30. March 2008
The Great Depression: college professors are up 33%
8. March 2008
Is there a physicist in the House?
29. February 2008
Fermilab physicist running for Congress in Dennis Hastert's old seat
21. February 2008
On the Visualization of Huge Chunks of Data
18. February 2008
Save your ass with a USB portble hard drive
17. January 2008
Retracing the ghost of Research Past
11. January 2008
Big Pharma fronts Anonymous Blog to Defend Big Pharma
11. January 2008
Nature in all its naked aged Glory
21. December 2007
Random nostalgic Science article
19. December 2007
Lifestyles of the Code and the Dutiful
5. December 2007
Oddee.com's list of 10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers
15. October 2007
The Plasticity of the Human Face
14. October 2007
How the Scientific Publishing Industry Began to Eat Itself
10. October 2007
Overthinking, the curse of the rank beginner
11. September 2007
Translation of the PRISM press release
25. August 2007
This is Integrity in Science
23. August 2007
Accidentally kills circus elephant, gets published in Science
8. August 2007
How to Motivate Yourself towards Sex
26. July 2007
It is logically possible for science and celebrity-cool to commute
20. July 2007
Quick and dirty minimization
11. May 2007
Best way to control your Linux Cluster on a Mac
1. May 2007
Our Parallel future: an introduction to functional programming
28. April 2007
Extinct Rhinoceros in Borneo, but alive
18. April 2007
Visiting labs: Fake it until you Make it
31. March 2007
Why I think Python is good (as in granola) for the scientist who programs.
16. March 2007
How to do Great Science, by the great Richard Hamming
25. February 2007
Peer-review 2.0
24. February 2007
Our simian heritage
18. February 2007
Flow-chart: the seminar's kiss of death
3. January 2007
DecapiCones®: The economical mouse and rodent restrainer
3. January 2007
The Thoren 308 Caging System
11. December 2006
Credentials to run a South American country
30. September 2006
Art Schools versus Science Schools
20. September 2006
Self-referential promotion letter
16. September 2006
Best title in a Science magazine article, ever
15. September 2006
Glimpse into the glorious past (1665) of science
4. August 2006
Taxonomy of Exam Papers
2. November 2005
Cutting someone down with a smile
2. August 2005
You can't handle the truth
29. July 2005
Pop-sci tripe
30. April 2005
First glimpse of another planet
14. April 2005
The Wolf is really the friend of Tree
14. April 2005
Publishing Contract Land Mines
14. April 2005
Tourniqueting the financial bleeding at the NIH
14. April 2005
More Classic Science Done on Rats
4. April 2005
Hispanic high-school kids kicks MIT's ass
24. March 2005
Open access is spreading
19. March 2005
Classic Elephant Science Paper
19. March 2005
Classic Rat Science Paper
18. March 2005
Scientific Self-abnegation
15. March 2005
The Mr Tompkins Quantum Mechanics Assignment
14. March 2005
Science Pays, For Journal Publishers
2. March 2005
Romancing the Grad Student
15. January 2005
Cosmology or You're an Insignificant Dot in a Very Large Universe
20. May 2004
We're Number Two
9. May 2004
Drugs drugs drugs
15. January 2002
theory vs experiment
4. February 2012
Gang signs for Science