Thursday, November 15, 2012
I have been paying attention to the ongoing discussion on open access to scientific research in the news media and have collected a number of interesting articles. Here I will keep a record of a few interesting ones 2012-11-08 From the Guardian: “Open Access: ‘we no longer need expensive publishing networks‘” 2012-06-19 From the New […]
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
A colleague at Purdue puts it in perspective in a Bloomberg News article: College Costs Rise With $250,000-a-Year Bureaucrats
Saturday, November 10, 2012
This is an interesting story that I came across last week. It started with a guy playing with his ex-girlfriend’s pregnancy test… and the result was positive! He told his friend about it and he made a rage comic and posted it on reddit. Several users pointed out that he should check with his oncologist, […]
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Just come across this interesting video the other day.. which is an except from this TED talk : Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals
Saturday, October 6, 2012
This is not related to biology but is a question that is in my mind for a while….
It is interesting that I come across this article about a robot that can conduct research and the article about the lack of jobs for scientists at the same time. A group of Japanese scientists have built a robot for conducting research experiments that may be too dangerous for human. From the cnet.com by Tim […]
Having a good science education is essential for all of us, because that trains one’s critical thinking; while asking a lot more students to join the field is a whole different issue. A number of factors comes into play for one to decide whether he would want to pursue this career, including one’s personality, dedication, […]
Since our lab is studying retina, I am intrigued in reading this article about the limitation of retina display by Apple, how we see and the future of developing better displays. From cultofmac by John Brownlee: Why Retina Isn’t Enough Apple’s new MacBook Pro follows the fine tradition of the iPhone 4 and third-gen iPad […]
An interesting study have reported a way that may potential help people who suffer from spinal cord injury. From the New York Times, “In Rat Experiment, New Hope for Spine Injuries“: Rats with a spinal cord injury that left their hind legs completely paralyzed learned to walk again on their own after an intensive training […]
Dr. Winston Hide decides to resigns from his associate editor position of Genomics because of the expensive subscription rate of the journal precludes many in accessing important articles that are important for public health. From The Guardian: Today I resigned from the editorial board of a well respected journal in my field – Genomics. No […]